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Economy & Society in Early India
This book is a refreshing study of some of the basic issues in the current historiographical debate on early Indian economy and society. It identifies major trends in the writings on early Indian economic history, and analyses the increasingly oppressive nature of ancient Indian land revenue system and the economic role of early medieval south Indian temples.
The Soul of India
Tantric Visions of The Divine Feminine
Tantric Visions of the Divine Feminine deals with a group of ten Hindu tantric goddesses, the Mahavidyas, who embody habits, attributes, or identities, usually considered repulsive or socially subversive. It is within the context of tantric worship that devotees seek to identify themselves with these forbidding goddesses.
Ancient Indian Massage
Massage, done according to the natural laws of human anatomy and energy flow, offers the most pleasurable benefit of all daily practices. Regular massage vibrates and energizes the skin, muscles and nerves simultaneously and helps the body become light, active and full of vitality. Body heat and vitality increase as the heart and circulatory system open up to provide fresh oxygen and energy to all parts of the system while simultaneously flushing out waste gases and chemicals.
Siva Sutras
Siva Sutras : The Supreme Awakening, is revealed by the twentieth century's great philosopher saint Swami Lakshmanjoo. This spiritual treasure, gifted by God to the sage Vasugupta for the upliftment of humankind, is considered to be one of Kashmir Shaivism's most important scriptures. Here, Swami Lakshmanjoo gives the reader a penetrating vision of the glorious journey of the Supreme Awakening; the traveling from limited individuality to absolute oneness with God.
On Yuan Chwang’s Travels in India
Yuan Chwang or Hiuen Tsiang, the famous Chinese traveller, commands such a high seat of eminence that he is styled as ''one of the three mirrors that reflect Indian Buddhism'' in the country of his birth. To us in India too, he is no ordinary mirror, for had it not been for the records which he so diligently maintained of his visit to India during AD 629 to 645, a good part of our past, of our history, that too of one of the golden periods of this land, would have been lost in the limbo of oblivion. To Yuan Chwang goes the gratitude of all Indians as well as Indian historians.
Hinduism and Buddhism
Ananda Coomaraswamy's Hinduism and Buddhism, like all his writings, is a masterpiece. In this work he sets forth his ideas with his usual depth and insight to discard the wrong notions about the divergence in the basic philosophies of these two major religions that have been propounded by 'European scholars and by Indians trained in our modern sceptical and evolutionary modes of thought.
The Indian Craftsman
This book The Indian Craftsman, by Ananda K. Coomaraswamy is a study of the second type of genius, the Indian Craftsman. The author has treated his subject from three points of view : the village, the town and the palace or temple, i.e. where the craftsman lived, worked and had their patrons. He has also minutely examined how the caste system, religion and the guild set up standards of quality and enforced their strict adherence.
Phenomenal Consciousness and Mind-Body Problem
The problem of explanatory gap in the phenomenal consciousness has rises in the Western philosophy mainly because the consciousness itself and its manifestations or reflections are treated separately. Whereas, according to the Vedanta school of India, the phenomenal consciousness is merely manifestations of self-consciousness which is embodied in the human beings. In this approach, the phenomenal consciousness and self-consciousness are one and the same thing because the former depends upon the latter.
Lalita-Sahasranama
Sanskrit language indisputably occupies the stage of sanctity among the language used the world over. There are works in this language pertaining to innumerable branches of knowledge that are so varied and rich that they can only be tasted and not studied in detail in a single effort. 'Sanskrit Literature' is vast and engrossing in its variety and form. Of the many great Sanskrit literary works that have come down to us, one is the classic Lalita-sahasranama, the magnum opus of an anonymous writer.
Vedantasara of Sadananda
The achievements of the Indians in the field of Philosophy are really great and outstanding. Results being varied in nature and diverse in outlook, they have been classified under different heads. Each is known as a system of thaught but the term quite popular to refer to each one is a darsana. This term conveys the sense of intuition, that a seer had and hence was responsible for the development of the system besed on that particular intution, which may concern with truth or knowledge of soul.
Subaltern Saints in India
The present era of complexity, anxiety and moral turpitude is in need of spiritual solace and God's grace more than ever before. The established frameworks of religion have not entirely been successful in streamlining the rapport between the marker and the creation. The emergence and progression of bhakti saints is a significant pointer in this direction. Living exemplary, realized lives on their own terms mostly in opposition to the given frame of life, the bhakti saints heralded a new possibility of the egalitarian order without any bigotry or dogmatism.