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Author : Swami Jyotirmayananda
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780934664585
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (645 download)
Download or read book Mysticism of the Devi Mahatmya written by Swami Jyotirmayananda and published by . This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas B. Coburn
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN 13 : 9788120805576
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (55 download)
Download or read book Devī-Māhātmya written by Thomas B. Coburn and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. This book was released on 1988 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Devi-Mahatmya is well-known to both devotees and scholars of the Indian Great Goddess. It is the first comprehensive account of the Goddess in Sanskrit, and it has maintained its centrality in the Goddess (Sakta) tradition to the present day. Like so much in that tradition, however, the text has until now resisted careful study from an historical perspective. It is this study that the present volume accomplishes.The central task here is to explore how an anonymous Sanskrit text articulates a view of ultimate reality as feminine when there is virtually no precedent in the Sanskrit tradition for such a view. To accomplish this task, an appropriate method of scriptural analysis is developed. This involves an examination of Hindu understanding of the Puranas in general, and of the Devi-Mahatmya in particular, along with consideration of several recent scholarly discussions, in India and elsewhere. Subsequently, a comprehensive inquiry into the Goddess's epithets in this text is undertaken, followed by examination of the earlier history of the myths that the Devi-Mahatmya associates with her. The study culminates in translations of the text's hymns, which are annotated so as to indicate the synthesis that is here being accomplished. The resulting illumination of Sanskritized form of Goddess worship is what Daniel H.H. Ingalls calls in his Foreword a notable scholarly achievement.
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Publisher : Nicolas-Hays, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0892546166
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (925 download)
Download or read book In Praise of the Goddess written by and published by Nicolas-Hays, Inc.. This book was released on 2003-12-01 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About 16 centuries ago, an unknown Indian author or authors gathered together the diverse threads of already ancient traditions and wove them into a verbal tapestry that today is still the central text for worshippers of the Hindu Devi, the Divine Mother. This spiritual classic, the Devimahatmya, addresses the perennial questions of the nature of the universe, humankind, and divinity. How are they related, how do we live in a world torn between good and evil, and how do we find lasting satisfaction and inner peace? These questions and their answers form the substance of the Devimahatmya. Its narrative of a dispossessed king, a merchant betrayed by the family he loves, and a seer whose teaching leads beyond existential suffering sets the stage for a trilogy of myths concerning the all-powerful Divine Mother, Durga, and the fierce battles she wages against throngs of demonic foes. In these allegories, her adversaries represent our all-too-human impulses toward power, possessions, and pleasure. The battlefields symbolize the field of human consciousness on which our lives' dramas play out in joy and sorrow, in wisdom and folly. The Devimahatmya speaks to us across the ages of the experiences and beliefs of our ancient ancestors. We sense their enchantment at nature's bounty and their terror before its destructive fury, their recognition of the good and evil in the human heart, and their understanding that everything in our experience is the expression of a greater reality, personified as the Divine Mother.
Author : Thomas B. Coburn
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Devī-māhātmya written by Thomas B. Coburn and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791488519
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)
Download or read book The Song of the Goddess written by and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Devi Gita, literally the "Song of the Goddess," is an Eastern spiritual classic that appeared around the fifteenth century C.E. C. Mackenzie Brown provides a reader-friendly English translation of this sacred text taken from his well-regarded previous book The Devi Gita: The Song of the Goddess, A Translation, Annotation, and Commentary. Here the translation is presented uninterrupted, without the scholarly annotations of the original version, and in its entirety for the pleasure of all readers who wish to encounter this treasure from the world's sacred literature. Often neglected, the Devi Gita deserves to be better known for its presentations of one of the great Hindu visions of the divine conceived in feminine terms. The work depicts the universe as created, pervaded, and protected by a supremely powerful, all-knowing, and wholly compassionate divine female. It also describes the various spiritual paths leading to realization of unity with the Goddess. The author of the Devi Gita intended for the work to supplant the famous teachings of Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita (the "Song of the Lord") from a goddess-inspired perspective.
Author : Swami Siddheswarananda
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN 13 : 9788120815100
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (151 download)
Download or read book Hindu Thought and Carmelite Mysticism written by Swami Siddheswarananda and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. This book was released on 1998 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This study in comparative mysticism (originally given as lectures at the Sorbonne) explores the relationship between Hindu mystics (notably Shankara and Sri Ramakrishna) and Christian Carmelite mystics (notably St. John of the Cross), using jnana, bhakti, and raja yogas as a basis for comparison as well as the sacred scriptures of both traditions."-- Publisher.
Author : Swami Krishnananda
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788170520931
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Spiritual Import of Religious Festivals written by Swami Krishnananda and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Swami Sivananda
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Devīmāhātmyam written by Swami Sivananda and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Esoteric rituals and hymn to glorifying Durgā (Hindu deity), with Sanskrit text and English translation.
Author : Lyndal Vercoe
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0359980619
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (599 download)
Download or read book Devi Mahatmyam – the Glory of the Goddess written by Lyndal Vercoe and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As you read this Devi Mahatmyam, you will feel the joy, the power and the wonder of the Divine Mother. At its simplest level, the Devi Mahatmyam is the battle between good and evil. But on that battlefield, the majesty of the Mother Goddess should not be underestimated. She does not wage wars with the aid of grand armies or divine allies. She alone is the source and the strength. In a new translation of this sacred text, Lyndal Vercoe offers a direct and devotional rendering. This is not just a description of Divine Power. It is a worship and a praise of God as the Mother of the Universe. Say those words to yourself and feel their meaning: the Mother of the Universe. This is not just a historical text. This is a prayer to be read aloud. It is an epic poem, a true song of praise that should echo through the days of our lives. Listen carefully and you will feel the spirit within. This is a Devi Mahatmyam for our time.
Author : Paul E. Murphy
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN 13 : 9788120800106
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Triadic Mysticism written by Paul E. Murphy and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. This book was released on 1986 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first consistent theological treatment of the subject of Hindu thought known to itself as Trika or Triadiam and popularly as Kashmir Saivism. Few Indic theologies equal it in architectonic power and mystical profundity. Its highest category and goal is consciousness or Light whose foremost characteristic is Freedom. This goal can be attained through four ways (upayas). The theology of these ways pertains to Gnostic or knowledge oriented Triadism whose prime theologian is Ahhinavagupta the emperor of Indic speculation.
Author : Tārāpraṇaba (Brahmacārī)
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ISBN 13 : 9788129504791
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Mystical Life of a Miraculous Yogi and Ten Facets of Devi Durga written by Tārāpraṇaba (Brahmacārī) and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the life story of Pranabananda Pitaji Maharaj, 1876-1976, miraculous yogi; with reference to the twin sisters Devi-Ma and Shakti-Ma, 1884-1943.
Author : Sukumari Bhattacharji
Publisher : Orient Blackswan
ISBN 13 : 9788125014386
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (143 download)
Download or read book Legends of Devi written by Sukumari Bhattacharji and published by Orient Blackswan. This book was released on 1998 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a captivating narration of the various legends and folktales that surround the revered goddesses of India. The goddesses not only epitomize the forces of good fighting over evil, but also the source of worldly wellbeing. Ramananda Bandapadhyay s illustrations are symbolically rich and they in themselves constitute a storehouse of information on mythological iconography.
Author : Som P. Ranchan
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Durga Rahasya written by Som P. Ranchan and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An initiate of the late Swami Venkatesananda, Durga Rahasya builds on the insights vouchsafed by him. It brings out the cosmological, anthropological and existential meaning of the text via the three tales. The Introduction unravels the stories syntactically together with the lauds in a relaxed semiotic rhythm, supplementing with a commentary cultural and trans-cultural in five brief chapters enabling insights on the Eternal Feminine to the contemporary reader. The transcreation in a class by itself done by a poet steeped in Durga symbology as a sahridaya reader rounds off the Durga Rahasya. The book should interest any intelligent reader in addition to indologists and psychologists and the initiates. It is a handmade book, free from needless jargon."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author : Thomas B. Coburn
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791404454
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Encountering the Goddess written by Thomas B. Coburn and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coburn provides a fresh and careful translation from the Sanskrit of this fifteen-hundred-year-old text. Drawing on field work and literary evidence, he illuminates the process by which the Devī-Māhātmya has attracted a vast number of commentaries and has become the best known Goddess-text in modern India, deeply embedded in the ritual of Goddess worship (especially in Tantra). Coburn answers the following questions among others: Is this document "scripture?" How is it that this text mediates the presence of the Goddess? What can we make of contemporary emphasis on oral recitation of the text rather than study of its written form? One comes away from Coburn's work with a sense of the historical integrity or wholeness of an extremely important religious development centered on a "text." The interaction between the text and later philosophical and religious developments such as those found in Advaita Vedanta and Tantra is quite illuminating. Relevant here are the issues of the writtenness and orality/aurality of 'scripture,' and the various ways by which a deposit of holy words such as the Devī-Māhātmya becomes effective, powerful, and inspirational in the lives of those who hold it sacred.
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ISBN 13 : 9788120829312
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (293 download)
Download or read book Devīmāhātmyam : in praise of the goddess written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas B. Coburn
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791404461
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Encountering the Goddess written by Thomas B. Coburn and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1991-04-23 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coburn provides a fresh and careful translation from the Sanskrit of this fifteen-hundred-year-old text. Drawing on field work and literary evidence, he illuminates the process by which the Devi-Mahatmya has attracted a vast number of commentaries and has become the best known Goddess-text in modern India, deeply embedded in the ritual of Goddess worship (especially in Tantra). Coburn answers the following questions among others: Is this document "scripture?" How is it that this text mediates the presence of the Goddess? What can we make of contemporary emphasis on oral recitation of the text rather than study of its written form? One comes away from Coburn’s work with a sense of the historical integrity or wholeness of an extremely important religious development centered on a “text.” The interaction between the text and later philosophical and religious developments such as those found in Advaita Vedanta and Tantra is quite illuminating. Relevant here are the issues of the writtenness and orality/aurality of 'scripture,' and the various ways by which a deposit of holy words such as the Devi-Mahatmya becomes effective, powerful, and inspirational in the lives of those who hold it sacred.
Author : Kshitimohan Sen
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781013834073
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Medieval Mysticism Of India written by Kshitimohan Sen and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
