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This book is a collection of 32 papers written over a period of more than ten years and for different kinds of audience. It includes papers such as Traditional Biography of the Buddha, Development of his ideas, his discovery of vipassana-a great improvement on Samatha type of meditation, its importance in personal as well as social life, and its role in the development of panna (wisdom) that purifies and liberates one. One papergives an outlines of how ...
As mentioned in the title of the present work, this book which is mainly based on the Sigalovada Sutta of the Pali literature with a brief historical formation and development deals with the importance of socio-economic philosophy of the Buddha. The problems of society related to the formation and relations of society have been pointed out and highlighted the important significance of six social relationships respectively. Furthermore, various aspects of the ...
The present work is a critical and comprehensive study of four valuable philosophical works written in Navya-Nyaya style and method viz., Nyayamakaranda, Pramanamala, Nyayadipavali and Nyayadipika of Anandabodha Yati, a celebrated Advaita dialectician (1150 A.D.), who has made substantial contribution to Advaitisim of Post-Sankara period. As Anandabodha has carved a niche for himself as one of the early path-finders in the field of Vedantic dialectics and it is ...
Buddhism is a religion of Compassion and Philosophy of Being and Existence. Animal does occupy an important position in Buddhism. Animal maintains a delicate balance between delicate balance between eschatology and utopia on which depends the very survival of mankind. The book deals with this complex problem from Buddhist philosophical perspective. The examination and analysis of this complex problem reveals and unfolds the new religion philosophical dimensions ...
Sacchidanandendra Saraswathi Swamiji (1880-1975) is one of the greatest Advaitins of The Twentieth Century. He was known as "Abhinava Shankara" Karnataka Shankara" And so on in spite on writing more than 150 works in Kannada, English and Sanskrit his contribution to advaita has gone unnoticed. Hence the book makers a systematic and a comprehensive surety of his contribution along with some biographical details. It is the first of its kind in ...
This book of Asvalayana, the pupil of Saunaka, pertains to the Vedic Samskaras that are obligatory for man's purification. The elaborate ritual and the manner it is performed indicate the extent to which the life of a Vedic Aryan was involved in ceremonial acts.
The book is an embodiment of result emerging from the practical study of the Aorist system of the Veda, one of the most Complicated parts of the Vedic language, in a comparative manner : the way it is taught by Panini and the way its formation is explained by the modern Western scholars like Whitney, Macdonell. This work, it is hoped, will clearly bring out the difference between the two methods. It will be shown that while Panini has successfully described the ...
Aum occupies a significant place in Indian tradition. An attempt is made in this book to trace the significance of Aum in Vedas, Upanishad, Ramayana, Mahabharta, Tantric literature, and soon right from Vedic literature till modern times.
The book deals with the different aspects of Jatavedas which come as an epithet of the firegod Agni in the Vedic Mantras. The present work has been divided into six chapters. In the Introductory Chapter a brief account of all the important epithets of Agni, Viz. Yaisvanara. Narasamsa, Tanunapat etc. has been given. Chapter 11 treats various derivations, etymologies and meanings of Jatavedas, Chapter III expounds the spiritual concept of Jatavedas studying him as ...
The tenth incarnation of Lord Visnu in the form of Kalki has delineated in Kalkipurana. Kali was born after the departure of Lord Visnu for his heavenly abode Vaikuntha whence the whole populace became immoral, corrupt and incorrigible. All the gods with Earth in forefront and Lord Brahma went to the abode of Visnu and brifed Hin about the avils of Kali.
On hearing this Lord Visnu incanated in the form of Lalki to annihilate Kali, establish Krtayuga and promote ...