Thsi book teaches how to develop compassion, wisdom and spiritual strength and to overcome obstacles and difficulties on por spiritual path. It presents two essential practices revealed by Manjushri, the wisdom Buddha. The first is a special guru yoga in which we visualize our spiritual guide as Je tsongkhapa, who himself is an emanation of Manjushri. In this way we shall naturally accomplish ...

Argues for the ethical turn in Derrida's work and shows how deconstruction has persuasive ethical consequences that were vital to our thinking through questions of politics and democracy.

Proposes to bring astrology within the grasp of the layman.

Consciousness is the greatest unexplored aspect of life. This book investigates and aims to deepen your own consciousness.

The book ambitiously traverses a wide range of themes pertaining to art, creativity, knowledge and theory. Its unique perspective lies in its exposition of Vedic Science as brought to light by His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and in the application of the principles of this science to preliminary analysis of the Vastusutra Upanishad. No other publication has examined art and theory with the ...

The author describes worship in its familial and temple contexts, demonstrating the aim of worship as unbroken awareness of God in all of life.

The Vhoga Karika is a collection of Sanskrit verses by the renowned Saivite teacher and writer, Sadyojyoti, of the eighth century A.D. This translation of the Bhoga Karika also includes a short commentary by the similarly renowned Aghora Siva of the twelfth century. In a lively and engaging manner, the Bhoga Karika defends the Agamic Saivite theology, epistemology and ontology of bhoga or ...

The present book is of the supreme significance from four points of view. Firstly, it breaks a new ground in Indian philosophy. According to it, the Self is not simply witnessing consciousness as maintained by Sankhya, Patanjala Yoga, Vedanta, but an active force of Spanda. Secondly, the ultimate reality is not simply a logical system, a mysterious background of bloodless categories, but spanda ..

The Mystery of Art lets the forms of art tell their own tale. Instead of analyzing the art expressions this narrative work invites the reader to re-discover the functions of art. The observation of the art-scenes starts with the present and winds its way backward through time and history. In the course of this journey the different art-expressions reveal themselves in a novel light.

The bases of selection of dohas from the Sakhi are: 1 Kabir's proverbial and worldly wisdom, 2 analogy- finding gift, 3 richness and variety of imagery 4 recurrent theme of death, 5 gift for satire, and 6 rhetorical powers. This book focuses on Kabir as poet, which is his real estimate. With the Hindi version and notes, will it be a valuable reading especially for the English speaking readers.

The Buddhist school Madhyamika is one of the most important philosophical schools in India. The present edition contains four fundamental texts of this school, three by Nagarjuna and one by his disciple Aryadeva. Among the selected texts there is the famous Catuhstava. They give a clear idea of the essential ideas of Nagarjuna and his school. The book presents the texts in their original versions

Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda devoted his life to helping people of all races and creeds to realize and express more fully in their lives the beauty, nobility and true divinity of the human spirit. This is his autobiography.

In India philosophy is the basis of some pathway to liberation and so is Pratyabhijna, 'recognition'. This is an historical account and explains how Pratyabhijna system was formulated and developed. It also reviews the Pratyabhijna doctrine by the great Vedanta scholar Madhavacarya.

The religious tradition of the Jainas, unique in many respects, presents an array of doctrinal and social structures that stem from the anti-Vedic movements of ancient times. Drawing extensively on primary sources, Professor Jaini provides a comprehensive introduction to the Jaina experience.

This book is a collection of texts by the author on various subjects covering both inner life and life in the world. Many of these may serve as an informal guidebook through one's life. Altough both spiritual and realistic, the philosophy of life presented in this book has a wide scope. It is a wonderful opportunity for human beings to be in a position to actively contribute to this evolution.

This volume describes the Buddhism of India on the basis of the comparison of all the available sources in various languages. Particular attention is paid to the social teaching of Buddhism, the part that relates to the world rather than to nirvana.

Alchemy is a science through which the higher states of being revealed themselves with the matrix of spatio temporal world. It is a perspective which the author has applied to the study of the Rasayana which is sees essentially as geriatric and closely bound to the life of ascetics in the wilderness and elderly people left by themselves in remote places. This material brings a great deal of new

The book is based on foreign and western Tibetan sources of information which are records on stones and on paper. Records on stones cover the period 200 B.C. to 1900 A.D. records on paper are the chronicles of the Kings of Leh (or Ladakh). Francke's own pioneering reseaches into the dialects, customs, folk-lore, ethnology, and archaeology of western tibet are widely known.

Yoga and Ayurveda together form a complete approach for optimal health, vitality and higher awareness. Yoga and Ayurveda reveals to us the secret powers of the body, mind, breath and senses, and it unfolds transformational methods to work on them through diet, herbs, asana, pranayana and meditation

In this study, philosopher and hatha practitioner Mikel Burley places the soteriological system of hatha-yoga within its proper context, drawing attention to its continuity with Vedic religion, its initiatory pedagogical structure, and to the theoretical underpinnings of hatha practice. In particular, he examines the complex notion of a 'subtle bodily matrix'--comprising vital channels (nadis), ..