F Max Muller
40 books
Ramakrishna Paramahamsa was an Indian mystic and yogi during the 19th-century. Ramakrishna was given to spiritual ecstasies from a young age, and was influenced by several religious traditions, including devotion toward the goddess Kali, Tantra and Vaishnava Bhakti and Advaita Vedanta.
The name of Ramakrishna has lately been so often mentioned in Indian, American and English newspapers that a fuller account of his life and doctrine seemed to the author likely to ...
The Six Systems of Indian Philosophy by Friedrich Max Muller is a goldmine of comprehensive account of six major systems of Indian philosophical thought. It addresses descriptively the key thoughts in Vedanta, Uttara-Mimamsa and Purva-Mimamsa, Samkhya, Yoga, Nyaya-Vaisesika, and Vaisesika systems.
The book seriously focuses on one major finding that Indian religion and the major philosophies of the land are well connected with character of the inhabitants of ...
Max Muller's fascination for India is well-known. This book was intended to familiarise the western world with the vastness and depth of Indian philosophy. Metrical translations of ancient hymns, Vedanta philosophy, reformist, religious movements, an in-depth study of the doctrines of Ramakrishna Paramahamsa - strands of thought blend seamlessly in this work of erudition. Dedicated to his 'Indian friends', it is also rich in personal memories-of Dwarkanath Tagore ...
The classic discourse on Indian culture reissued for the first time with the original notes and annotations. To read these lectures today is to encounter afresh the range of responses that were evoked by the Indian subcontinent: from the baffled incomprehension of the public school-educated ‘pucca’ Englishman to the awed reverence of the dedicated Indophile. The rational approach of Max Muller, grounded on years of observation and study, did more in this ...
In this book F. Max Muller offers a survey of Indian philosophy and a historical perspective on the different schools of philosophy which emerged in ancient India. This edition, abridged and greatly enriched with a scholarly introduction by Heeraman Tiwari, enables us to appreciate and evaluate a fundamental contribution to Indology by an acknowledged authority on the subject.
According to Prof. A.L. Basham's celebrated The Wonder That Was India- The Regveda is the oldest religious text in the world. It is a collection of hymns for use at the Yajnas, sacrifices, of the Aryans. The Sama Veda is a collection of certain verses of the Rigveda arranged for liturgical purposes. The Yajur Veda contains sacrificial formulae to be pronounced by the priest during the Yajna. The Atharva Veda consists chiefly of magic spells and incantations, but ...
This is the kind of book that should be in the possession of all Indians and India-lovers, travelers to India, or those wanting to understand this ancient and mystical land. Why? Read this extract from F. Max Muller, one of the foremost foreign scholars who ever worked on Indic studies- If I were to look over the whole world to find out the country most richly endowed with all the wealth, power, and beauty that nature can bestow—in some parts a very paradise on ...