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Seeing God Everywhere Essays on Nature and the Sacred
Light on the Doctrine of Krama A Translation of Srikramanaya-pradipika of Swami Lakshmanjoo
Swami Lakshmanjoo was born in Kashmir in 1907. He revived Kashmir Saiva Darsana through his teachings and discourses, and was the last in the unbroken lineage of Saiva masters. This book is an English translation of a short treatise on Krama written by him in 1958. Swami Lakshmanjoo brings Kalisastra to light, describing the twelve Kalis, as given in the Kramastotra and the Tantraloka. In doing so, he presents the twelve sequential states of yoga for the highest of yogis (one who is endowed with the miracle of Turiya in the three states of wakefulness, dreaming and dreamless sleep).
Prana Yoga
Dr. Nalini Sahay explains Prana Yoga Sadhana thoroughly and relates this to her own personal experiences. She has been teaching Prana Yoga Sadhana with great success in the different Yoga Vidya Centres and Ashrams in Germany. She has also successfully trained many Yoga Teachers in teaching Prana Yoga Sadhana themselves.
Ayurveda And Acupuncture
In Ayurveda and Acupuncture, Dr. Frank Ros reveals the ancient Ayurvedic system of acupuncture called Siravedhana or Marmapuncture which has remained secret for may years.
Ayurveda and Acupuncture is a comprehensive introduction for the lay-paerson to truly understand not only Ayurvedic acupuncture but Ayurveda also. On the other hand, through detailed drawings and explanations it is also an indepth instructional manual for practitioners who practice acupuncture or Ayurveda but would like to learn how to mesh these two together to form an effective, integrative, synergistic system.
Understanding The Dalai Lama
Changing Mind
Universal History of Music
Music pervades all nature. There is nothing in nature that arouses our attention of effects our feelings so quickly as a sound. The book furnishes an account of the music of various nations-civilized to uncivilized, on the faces of the habitable globe. A few facts concerning Hindu music are given a place in the Appendix.
Bharata Natyam on the Global Stage
One of the most popular and widely performed dance styles in India and around the world, bharata natyam has made the transition from its beginnings in the temples and courts of southern India to a highly respected international dance practice. In this study of a classical dance form, author Janet O'Shea tracks the choreographic transformations that accompanied the transfer of bharata natyam to the urban concert stage in the 1930s and 1940s.
Garuda : The Chariot of Vishnu
Garuda had been a powerful vehicle of Visnu, who participated in several wars fought by his master with the demons. The event of his bringing of the nectar from the heaven in order to relieve his mother of the bondage of the serpents is quite interesting, which, along with other events, has been suitably deal with in this works. Garuda not only adored the flags of the rulers but his seals were also embossed over the important documents in the past.
Gilles Deleuze’s Difference and Repetition
This is the first critical introduction to Difference and Repetition, Gilles Deleuze's most important work of philosophy and one of the most significant texts of contemporary philosophy. In offering a critical analysis of Deleuze's methods, principles and arguments, the book enables readers to engage with the revolutionary core of Deleuze's philosophy and take up favourable or critical positions with respect to its most innovative and controversial ideas. The book will also help to extend Deleuze's work to philosophers working in the analytic tradition.
The Gitagovinda of Jayadeva
It desscribes the loves of Krsna and Radha in twelve cantos containing twenty-four songs. The songs are sung by Krsna or Radha or by Radha's mind and are connected by brief narrative or descriptive passages. The appropriate musical mode and rhythm for each song are noted in the text. This poem is really a kind of drama, of the ragakavya type, since it is usually acted.
A Course in Indian Philosophy
Indian Philosophy its content is of course completely irrelevant to the world of greed and money-making which has replaced the remarkably idealistic societies emerging from the crucible of death and destruction in the Second World War. Then. the surviviors were glad to be alive and wanted to fill the mourning world with new joy, not with money.