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Why is religious commitment important? Aren’t all religions really one? How does one choose a name? Do you have to be born a Hindu to be a Hindu? Never have such questions been so boldly addressed as in this book about how anyone can honorably enter the world’s oldest faith. It records the conclusions of over fifty years of work and research in the field of personal belief and religious conviction which occasionally culminate in the need to transcend the ...
Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami, a living legend, yoga master and author of Merging with Siva, recognized the immense value of the Tirukural in 1949 as a young seeker in Sri Lanka. Decades later he instructed two of his swamis to translate it from classical Tamil into American English and had a renowned artist in South India illustrate the 108 chapters. For the first time, a long-neglected and much -needed rendering into modern Tamil is included, making the ...
South Indian Ashrams serve the finest cruelty free meals enjoyed anywhere, and Kauai’s Hindu monastery carries on the 6,000 year-old tradition. The believe good food is humankind’s best medicine, and there is an energy in their culinary contemplations, called prana, that nourished body and soul alike. Now the monks have shared their secret collection of recipes, gathered over the year and perfected in the Island.