Indica Books
TIBET’S GREAT YOGI MILAREPA
Sakta Tantrik Cult in India
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Adhyasa
The concept of Adhyasa in its three variants has to be asserted from the non-contradictory ground of Reality. In this context, there is a need to differentiate 'mere appearance' (as it appears) and 'the actual appearance' (as it is) or the unmanifest Reality. It cannot be denied that the concepts of 'Brahmatkaikya' and 'Brahmabhava' created confusion in many thinkers, but the authentic explanations by Sri Sankara steadfastly made the Advaitic perspective unchallengeable in all the times.
Death in Banaras
This book is primaryly about the priests and other kinds of 'sacred specialist' who serve them:about the way in which they organise their business,and about their representations of death and understanding of the rituals over which they preside.all three levels are informed by a common ideoligical preoccupation with controlling chaos and contingency.the anthro pologist who writes about death inevitably writes about the world of the living,and Dr Parry is centrally concerned with concepts of the body and the person in contemporary hinduism,with ideas about hierarchy,renunciation and sacrifice,and with the relationship between hierarchy and notions of complementarity and holism.
A Tantric Scholar and the British Wrath on Bastar State
The Spiritual Heritage Of Tyagaraja
Tantra
A complex body of religious practices that spread throughout the Hindu,Buddhist, and Jain traditions; a form of spirituality that seemingly combines sexuality, sensual pleasure ,and the full range of physical experience with the religious life - Tantra has played a central yet conflicted role in the Western imagination ever since the first ''discovery '' of Indian religions by European scholars. Always radical, always extremely other, Tantra has proved to be a key factor in the imagining of India. This book offers a critical account of how the phenomenon came to be.
Brahma Sutras
The present compendium in English of the Sri-Bhashya, is similar to an earlier one of Sri Shankar's commentary on the Brahma-Sutras by Swami Vireswarananda. The foreword presents a scholarly resume of the Sri-Bhashya. The Introduction contains an illuminating comparative study of the commentaries by Shankara, Ramanuja, Vallabha, Nimbarka. and Madhva. It includes with a section drawing attention to the harmony underlying these different commentaries.