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Mysticism in India

Author : Ramchandra Dattatraya Ranade
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780873956697
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (566 download)

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Download or read book Mysticism in India written by Ramchandra Dattatraya Ranade and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mysticism in India is a complete and informative description of the teachings, works, and lives of the great poet-saints of Maharashtra written by a scholar and professor who was also a mystic. Jnaneshwar, Namadev, Tukaram, Eknath, Ramdas, and the other saints discussed belonged to the great devotional religious movement that spread through medieval India. With the exception of Ramdas, they all belonged to the tradition of the Varkaris, the most popular sect in contemporary Maharashtra. Their compositions exemplify the universality of their faith and practice, and are recognized as literary treasures. Ranade was primarily interested in the poet-saints as mystics--teachers of the perennial philosophy--whose experiences have general metaphysical and religious implications. At the heart of his classic is a comprehensive, objective presentation of the thought of these saints, augmented by a deep appreciation of their value and relevance to present-day scholars and seekers. Mysticism in India is the only major study in English of medieval Indian religious literature. The book's enduring value has been enhanced by the addition of a foreword by a scholar currently working in Marathi literature, and a preface by a present-day poet-saint of Maharashtra.

Hypnotism and Mysticism of India

Author : Ormond McGill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780930298012
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Hypnotism and Mysticism of India written by Ormond McGill and published by . This book was released on 1979-01-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

101 Mystics of India

Author : V. K. Subramanian
Publisher : Abhinav Publications
ISBN 13 : 8170174716
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book 101 Mystics of India written by V. K. Subramanian and published by Abhinav Publications. This book was released on 2006 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 101 Mystics Of India Is A Valuable Compilation By The Scholar-Artist-Author V. K. Subramanian, Whose Ten-Volume Series Sacred Songs Of India- The Result Of Loving And Laborious Research Spread Over Several Years Is Already Before The Discerning Public. 101 Mystic Of India Will Be An Invaluable Reference Book To Scholars Of Indiloogy And To All Those Sons And Daughters Of India Who Live Scattered Across The Globe A Precious Reminder Of Their Spiritual Heritage.

The Yogi and the Mystic

Author : Karel Werner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135799202
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)

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Download or read book The Yogi and the Mystic written by Karel Werner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-04 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embraces a wide range of aspects of Indian mysticism, displaying the structural patterns in mystical experiences and the mystic paths in different traditions and schools, while there are also significant contributions to comparative mysticism, Eastern and Western. First published in 1989.

Autobiography of a Sadhu

Author : Rampuri
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1594779716
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (947 download)

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Download or read book Autobiography of a Sadhu written by Rampuri and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-02-22 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first insider account of an ancient and secretive tradition • By the first foreigner to become a member, and later an elder, of the Juna Akhara, the oldest and largest grouping of Naga Babas • Filled with true accounts of magic, miracles, ghosts, and austerities • With lessons on Hindu gods, ayurveda, and Indian culture woven throughout After traveling at age 18 from his native California to India in 1969, Rampuri was drawn to the Naga Babas, an ancient and wild order of naked yogis whom he calls the “Hell’s Angels of Indian Spirituality.” Organized into a sect by Adi Shankara in the 5th century BC, the Naga Babas see themselves as the ultimate protectors of the Sanatan Dharma, or what we call the Hindu religion. Rampuri became a disciple of a Naga Baba--a master shaman sadhu--from Rajasthan and, as foretold by astrological prophecy, soon found himself the first foreigner to become an initiate of the Juna Akhara, the oldest and largest grouping of Naga Babas with more than 50,000 sadhu members. From drinking the “Nectar of Immortality” at the source of the Ganges River to allegations of tantric murder, this autobiography is filled with true accounts of magic, miracles, ghosts, and austerities, with lessons on Hindu gods, ayurveda, mantra, and Indian culture woven throughout. Through his journey of extremes, Rampuri takes us into the mystic heart of India.

Mysticism in Maharashtra

Author : R. D. Ranade
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN 13 : 9788120805767
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Mysticism in Maharashtra written by R. D. Ranade and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. This book was released on 1982 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book analyses and evaluates the mystical trends observable in the writings of mystics in Medieval India with particular emphasis on the mystics of Maharashtra. We get a fair idea of the spiritual heaven introduced into Indian thought by the writers such as Ramananda, Kabir, Gauranga, Jnanesvara, Namadeva, Ekanatha, Tukarama, Ramadasa and others. The list exhausts all types of mysticism that are known to exist. The book is rather a study of comparative mysticism and it draws striking parallelism between the mystics of Maharashtra and the Western mystics like Plotinus, Eckhart, Dante and others."

Sufism and Indian Mysticism

Author : Akhtarul Wasey
Publisher : Readworthy
ISBN 13 : 9789350180815
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Sufism and Indian Mysticism written by Akhtarul Wasey and published by Readworthy. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributed articles.

Orientalism and Religion

Author : Richard King
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134632347
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book Orientalism and Religion written by Richard King and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-03 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Orientalism and Religion offers us a timely discussion of the implications of contemporary post-colonial theory for the study of religion. Richard King examines the way in which notions such as mysticism, religion, Hinduism and Buddhism are taken for granted. He shows us how religion needs to be reinterpreted along the lines of cultural studies. Drawing on a variety of post-structuralist and post-colonial thinkers, such as Foucault, Gadamer, Said, and Spivak, King provides us with a challenging series of reflections on the nature of Religious Studies and Indology.

Women Mystics and Sufi Shrines in India

Author : Kelly Pemberton
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 1611172322
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (111 download)

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Download or read book Women Mystics and Sufi Shrines in India written by Kelly Pemberton and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2013-02-19 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women Mystics and Sufi Shrines in India combines historical data with years of ethnographic fieldwork to investigate women's participation in the culture of Sufi shrines in India and the manner in which this participation both complicates and sustains traditional conceptions of Islamic womanhood. Kelly Pemberton grounds her firsthand research into India's Sufi shrines and saints by setting her observations against the historical backdrop of colonial-era discourses by British civil servants, Orientalist scholars, and Muslim reformists and the assumptive portrayals of women's activities in the milieu of Sufi orders and shrines inherent in these accounts. These early narratives, Pemberton holds, are driven by social, economic, intellectual, and political undercurrents of self-interest that shaped Western understanding of Indian Muslims and, in particular, of women's participation in the institutions of Sufism. Pemberton's research offers a corrective by assessing the contemporary circumstances under which a woman may be recognized as a spiritual authority or guide—despite official denial of such status—and by examining the discrepancies between the commonly held belief that women cannot perform in the public setting of shrines and her own observations of women doing precisely that. She demonstrates that the existence of multiple models of master and disciple relationships have opened avenues for women to be recognized as spiritual authorities in their own right. Specifically Pemberton explores the work of performance, recitation, and ritual mediation carried out by women connected with Sufi orders through kinship and spiritual ties, and she maps shifting ideas about women's involvement in public ritual events in a variety of contexts, circumstances, and genres of performance. She also highlights the private petitioning of saints, the Prophet, and God performed by poor women of low social standing in Bihar Sharif. These women are often perceived as being exceptionally close to God yet are compelled to operate outside the public sphere of major shrines. Throughout this groundbreaking study, Pemberton sets observed practices of lived religious experiences against the boundaries established by prescriptive behavioral models of Islam to illustrate how the varied reasons given for why women cannot become spiritual masters conflict with the need in Sufi circles for them to do exactly that. Thus this work also invites further inquiry into the ambiguities to be found in Islam's foundational framework for belief and practice.

India My Love

Author : Osho
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312288242
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (882 download)

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Download or read book India My Love written by Osho and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-01-23 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: India is not just a geography or history. It is not only a nation, a country, a mere piece of land. It is something more: it is a metaphor, poetry, something invisible but very tangible. It is vibrating with certain energy fields that no other country can claim. For almost ten thousand years, thousands of people have reached to the ultimate explosion of consciousness. Their vibration is still alive, their impact is in the very air; you just need a certain perceptivity, a certain capacity to receive the invisible that surrounds this strange land. It is strange because it has renounced everything for a single search, the search for the truth. In these pages, we are treated to a spellbinding vision of what Osho calls "the real India," the India that has given birth to enlightened mystics and master musicians, to the inspired poetry of the Upanishads and the breathtaking architecture of the Taj Mahal. We travel through the landscape of India's golden past with Alexander the Great and meet the strange people he met along the way. We are given a front-row seat in the proceedings of the legendary court of the Moghul Emperor Akbar, and an insider's view of the assemblies of Gautama the Buddha and his disciples. In the process, we discover just what it is about India that has made it a magnet for seekers for centuries, and the importance of India's unique contribution to our human search for truth.

Hindu Mysticism (Classic Reprint)

Author : Surendranath Dasgupta
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780265385821
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (858 download)

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Download or read book Hindu Mysticism (Classic Reprint) written by Surendranath Dasgupta and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Hindu Mysticism I have defined mysticism as a belief or a view, but in reality it means much more than that. In the life of the true mystics, beliefs exert a great formative in ﬂuence. They are no mere intellectual registrations of opinions or temporary experiences, but represent the dynamic, the dominant tone of their personality as it develops and perfects itself. Mysticism is not an intellectual theory; it is fundamentally an active, for mative, creative, elevating and ennobling principle of life. I have not here taken note of poems or thoughts involving merely mystical beliefs but have touched only upon those which are the outward expressions of a real inner ﬂowering of life in the persons of those who have tried to live a saintly life of mysticism. (mysticism means a spiritual grasp of the aims and problems of life in a 'much more real and ultimate manner than is possible to mere reason.>a developing life of mysticism means a gradual ascent in the scale About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Mystics, Ascetics, and Saints of India

Author : John Campbell Oman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mystics, Ascetics, and Saints of India written by John Campbell Oman and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Mystic Test Book of "The Hindu Occult Chambers"

Author : Lauron William De Laurence
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mystic Test Book of "The Hindu Occult Chambers" written by Lauron William De Laurence and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Shamans, Mystics, and Doctors

Author : Sudhir Kakar
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307831795
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Shamans, Mystics, and Doctors written by Sudhir Kakar and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2013-04-03 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shamans, Mystics and Doctors is a detailed and thoroughly fascinating account of the many ways in which the ancient healing traditions of India—embodied in the rituals of shamans, the teachings of gurus and the precepts of the school of medicine known as Ayurveda—diagnose and treat emotional disorder. Drawing on three years of intensive fieldwork and his own psychoanalytic training and experience, Sudhir Kakar takes us into a world of Islamic mosques and Hindu temples, of assembled multitudes, and dingy, out-of-the-way consultation rooms… a world where patients and healers blame evil spirits for emotional disturbances… where dreams and symptoms that would be familiar to Freud are interpreted in terms of a myriad of deities and legends… where trance-like “dissociation states” are induced to bring out and resolve the conflicts of repressed anger, lust and envy… where proper grooming, diet, exercise and conduct are (and have been for centuries) seen as essential to the preservation of a healthy mind and body. As he witnesses the practitioners and their patients, as he elucidates the therapeutic systems on which their encounters are based, as he contrasts his own Western training and biases with evidence of his eyes (and the sympathies of his heart), Kakar reveals the universal concerns of these individuals and their admittedly foreign cultures—people we can recognize and feel for, people (like their Western counterparts) trying to find some balance between the pressures and rewards of the external world and the fantasies and desires of the internal. This is a major work of cultural interpretation, a book that challenges (and should enhance) our understanding of therapy, mental health and individual freedom.

India, Mystic, Complex, and Real

Author : Adwaita P. Ganguly
Publisher : VRC Publications
ISBN 13 : 9788120806283
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book India, Mystic, Complex, and Real written by Adwaita P. Ganguly and published by VRC Publications. This book was released on 1990 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book contains the role of the Ramacaritamanasa in the lives of

Sadhus

Author : Dolf Hartsuiker
Publisher : Inner Traditions
ISBN 13 : 9780892814541
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (145 download)

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Download or read book Sadhus written by Dolf Hartsuiker and published by Inner Traditions. This book was released on 1993-09-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liberated from earthly concerns and living beyond the limits of space and time, these mystics form a vital and unbroken link between the birth of yoga millenia ago and its present-day expression. Spectacular color photos and evocative text trace the historical roots of the Sādhus and illuminate their beliefs and behaviors.

Disenchanting India

Author : Johannes Quack
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0199812608
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book Disenchanting India written by Johannes Quack and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2011-11-22 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: India is frequently represented as the quintessential land of religion. Johannes Quack challenges this representation through an examination of the contemporary Indian rationalist organizations: groups who affirm the values and attitudes of atheism, humanism, or free-thinking. Quack shows the rationalists' emphasis on maintaining links to atheism and materialism in ancient India and outlines their strong ties to the intellectual currents of modern European history. At the heart of Disenchanting India is an ethnographic study of the organization ''Andhashraddha Nirmulan Samiti'' (Organization for the Eradication of Superstition), based in the Indian State of Maharashtra. Quack gives a nuanced account of the Organization's specific "mode of unbelief." He describes the group's efforts to encourage a scientific temper and to combat beliefs and practices that it regards as superstitious. Quack also shows the role played by rationalism in the day-to-day lives of the Organization's members, as well as the Organization's controversial position within Indian society. Disenchanting India contributes crucial insight into the nature of rationalism in the intellectual life and cultural politics of India.