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This book is about devotion to holy names-names such as Rama, Krishna or Devi-in India, especially in the Kaveri delta from 1650-1850 A.D. During that time leaders such as Venkatesa Ayyaval, Dodhendra, Sadasiva Brahmendra, Narayana Tirtha and Sadgurusvami sang, repeated and taught about the holy names as a Hindu way of religious life leading ultimately to the moksa. These Namasiddhanta leaders practised revolving the name in their minds and singing holy names ...
Tyagaraja (1767-1847) is the most celebrated of South Indian musician- saints. This book explores some of the growth processes, the transmission patterns and the cultural creativity involved in South Indian bhakti traditions, using examples of Tyagaraja's life story, songs and social significance as case studies.
Opening with a translation of Tyagaraja's masterpiece, Nauka Caritram, the author delves into its links with earlier bhakti literary traditions.
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The following passage from the last chapter of Hindu Soul Traditions by william J. Jackson expresses one of the book's main themes: "To explore evolution, cultural viability, the longevity of tradition, fitness in the universe, not avoiding dominant paradigms of our age, seems necessary now. The alternative, to pretend we are independent of a matrix, to act as if we’re not interwoven in the universe, seems false and foolish, Science and wisdom call out to ...
Many of the twenty-three short stories which make up this collection are set in India, and a few are set in places such as Tibet, Korea, Japan, China, and Alaska. This collection of stories vividly reflects today's multi cultural world. The characters are immigrants and world travellers, people who are bridges between cultures, wanderers and searchers who are almost at home in both of the cultures they span. A Brahmin boy loses an earring and long years and ...
Each civilization has visions at its roots. The Indic Civilization is partly rooted in the worldview sung by the Rishis in the Vedas. Focusing on the importance of seeing the sacred forms of the Divine in Bhakti, Vijayanagara Visions explores new ideas about religious imagination. By considering the visual images which the South Indian singer-saints, poets, and others left recorded in their lyrics, verses, stone carvings, and stories, the author explores the ...