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It is compilation form the Vedas-the objective and subjective meditation (saguna and nirguna), strewn throughout the Upanisads-Vedas, mainly the ten Upnisads, commented by Sri Sankaracarya – a beautiful garland of wonderful flowers. It is a hand book of Vedic legends and analogies to read again and again, to tell others and quote them appropriately to assimilate in our life style, as the function of the meditation is constant remembrance. Other external ...
The Veda (Sruti) is the most comprehensive doctrine on religion ever revealed to mankind that answers all man's queries on the here and now and the hereafter. Human objectives can be broadly grouped under four categories: desire (kama), material gain (artha), religious merits (dharma) and liberation (moksha). The Veda holds the key to fulfill all these aspirations. But the Veda simply reveals the Truth, never pressurizing anyone to follow a particular path to ...
Like the proverbial fish that has heard a lot about the Great Ocean and spends an entire lifetime searching for it, not realising it has always been an inseparable part of the ocean, man spends his lifetime searching all around for God. All man has to do, in fact, is simply turn his gaze inwards to realise that God or the Self has always been an inseparable part of him. The Upanishads tell man that he is not a mere mortal, but a part of the Immortal One. This ...
In fact the word Purana in Hindi, meaning `old`, owes its origin to The Puranas. There are ancient scriptures - 18 in all,with 18 Upapuranas - which are the guidelines to life in the form of ancient tales and instructions, and show us the true path of devotion to the duties, discipline and identity with the Lord. They are basically classified into three categories: Sattavic, Rajasic and Tamasic.
Vedanta is the end of Vedas-- Veda meaning knowledge(to know), and anta means the end. What is life? What is death? What is the reality of pain and pleasure, truth and God. This book reveals the vedantic truth in a simple, lucid manner - educating us on how we can transcend our senses and comprehend the cosmic reality. This book serves as a wake-up call to all those who wish to cast away the falsehood? These eternal questions that have intrigued mankind since ...
What happens to our body after death? Do we go into another body, or simply cease to exist? How our body is different from the soul? If our soul is immortal, then does it go into another human body, or an animal body after our death? The questions have been debated over and over again since the advent of human civilisations. In this book Shri Ramanuj Prasad, a renowned vedic scholar offers enlightenend views on the subject. Basing his arguments on the Vedic ...