Swami Veda Bharati
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The Yoga-Sutra is a significant landmark in the protracted evolution of the yogic for an extensive commentarial literature stretching from the Yoga-Bhasya of Vyasa (c. 450 C.E.) to modern traditionalist interpretation in Hindi and other Indic vernaculars as well as various European languages, notably English.
The present volume by Swami Veda Bharti provides a learned commentary on the second chapter of the Yoga Sutra, i.e., Sadhana Pada. This contains the core of ...
Arjuna s predicament of fighting and killing his own kinsmen and gurus in the Mahabharata War, and Lord Krishna s advice and thus the former s enlightenment are well known. Moving away from the traditional Mahabharata narration, Yoga-Vasishtha presents a different narrative approach by the Vedic seer, Vasishtha about the Krishna Arjuna dialogue to his pupil Rama as if it would happen eventually in the remote future.
While the Bhagavad-Gita accounts for Krishna s ...
Tantra, an exposition of Sri-vidya, is a thread of Vedic tantu. This ray of the light of consciousness folds upon itself as a coil (kundala) forming the coiled energies of the conscious universe, thus becoming kundalini.
This book looks at Tantra from a different perspective against the common view of it being more associated with its carnal/sexual nature. Tantra is the “art of celibacy”. Human beings are a wave in the ocean of Consciousness and this ...
Contrary to popular opinion in Western Yoga circles, Patanjali was not the “father†of Yoga. He was a preceptor who, looking back on a long line of teachers and teachings, undertook the systematization of the yogic path in the light of his own experience and understanding of Yoga theory and practice. He encoded his ideas in concise form in the Yoga sutras. With the passage of time Patanjali’s Yoga system came to be considered as one of the six classical ...
This scholarly, insightful work integrates history and philosophical wisdom to span the gap between life and death. It introduces the meditative art to Eastern and western sages who have transcended the fear of death. The inspiring examples cited from various cultural traditions will draw youaway from preoccupation with your own mortality toward a deeper enjoyment of life itself. It you have been touched by the realism of death. This book will help you look for ...
This extraordinary introduction to the philosophy of hatha yoga is indispensable. Clear and easy to follow, Philosophy of Hatha Yoga views hatha within the framework of raja yoga, as promulgated by Patanjali, in the Yoga Sutra, the most authoritative text on the science of yoga. Because hatha is not merely a system of physical experience, this book emphasizes the paramount role that the mind plays in the posture; it demonstrates how to elevate the practices of ...