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The book GITAGOVINDAM: Sacred Profanities: A Study Jayadeva’s it Gitagovinda purports to study issues relating to Jayadeva and Gz`tag0vz'ndam in a historical perspective. Translating yet again the author tries to put Jayadeva’s Gitagovindam in a refreshingly new perspective. In order to prepare the readers to read and enjoy the classic work (Gitagovindam) in translation, the book tries to highlight all related aspects — cultural and historical ...
The hallmark of India was the power and profundity of her mind the purity of her soul. Indian sages have already designed a perfect way to attain elevation of mind & move towards truth through a comprehensive system of Yoga. Yoga offers a methodology to understand our self better on all levels. Including our physical well being, the thought process, emotions & desires. The Yoga aspirant can bring out the best in his personally by creating unison in ...
Stavacintamani is a composition of hymnal verses authored by Bhattanarayana, the great Siva-devotee of Kashmir. The Kashmiri Saivite writer Ksemaraja wrote a commentary on this book bringing out the philosophical, devotional and literary characteristics of the verses. The philosophical thoughts and the concept of devotion permeating within the verses follow the line of monistic Saivism of Kashmir also known as Pratyabhijna or Trik Philosophy. The Stavacintamani ...
The Mystique of the Love of Divine consisting of (1) Tiruppavai (Lyric of the Sacred Vow), (2) Tiruppaliyezhucci (The Song of Awakening), (3) Tiruppallandu (Blessing the Lord) is a selection from extensive devotional hymnal literature of South Indian saints, of great antiquity, known as Azhwars. They were deeply inspired by the Vedic literature and the Epics, Ramayana, Mahabharata and Bhagavat Purana. As the Azhwars lived in times of great antiquity, the theory ...
‘A Comprehensive Dictionary of Terms in Anthropology, Sociology and Allied Disciplines’ is a unique attempt to define terms used not merely in Anthropology and Sociology but to provide a wealth of useful knowledge about the terms currently popular in related disciplines like Cultural Anthropology, Demoraphy, Ecology, Economics, Human Biology, Palaeobotany, Pelaeontology, Philosophy, Political Sociology, Social Psychology, and Statistics. More than 4000 terms, ...
‘Dharma’ is the law of existence codified by the vast ancient Scriptures; the spiritual revelations of the Master Minds; the great Vedic seers, the pious savants, who followed them, and the ancient Acharyas, have explained these Scriptures so as to enable comprehension by common minds. Sanatana Dharma is the ancient Vedic discipline which remains ever fresh and immutable. Civilized world is aware that the great Indian philosophical tradition is contained in ...
The poet Bhartrihari probably flourished in the first century B.C. His Three Shatakas maps the journey of the human mind through different stages of growth and maturity: from the pleasures of erotic love and ecstatic celebration of senses through an indignant rejection of earthly pleasures to an equanimity, a calm attained by the taming of the temptations through meditation and philosophical contemplation on the nature of things. In keeping with Hindu view of ...