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Mysticism in India

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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.

Songs of the Saints of India

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Author : John Stratton Hawley
Publisher : Oxford India Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 9780195694208
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (942 download)

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Download or read book Songs of the Saints of India written by John Stratton Hawley and published by Oxford India Paperbacks. This book was released on 2004 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume the authors present the life stories and works of Ravidas, Kabir, Nanak, Surdas, Mirabai, and Tulsidas - six well-known 'saint-poets' of northern India who have contributed more to the religious vocabulary of Hinduism in the region today than any voices before or since.

Poet Saints of India

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Author : Sumita Roy
Publisher : Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9788120718838
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (188 download)

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Download or read book Poet Saints of India written by Sumita Roy and published by Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd. This book was released on 1996 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Interpreting Devotion

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Author : Karen Pechilis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136507051
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)

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Download or read book Interpreting Devotion written by Karen Pechilis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03-22 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Devotion is a category of expression in many of the world’s religious traditions. This book looks at issues involved in academically interpreting religious devotion, as well as exploring the interpretations of religious devotion made by a sixth century poet, a twelfth century biographer, and present-day festival publics. The book focuses on the female poet-saint Kāraikkāl Ammaiyār, whose poetry is devotional in nature. It discusses the biography written on the poet six centuries after her lifetime, and suggests ways of interpreting Kāraikkāl Ammaiyār’s poetry without using the categories and events promoted by her biographer, in order to engage her own thoughts as they are communicated through the poetry attributed to her. In the same way that the biographer made the poet ‘speak’ to his present day, the book looks at how festivals held today make both the poetry and the biography relevant to the present day. By discussing how poetry, story and festival provide distinctive yet overlapping interpretations of the saint, this book reveals the selections and priorities of interpreters in the making of a living tradition. It is an accessible contribution to students and scholars of religion, Indian history and women’s studies.

Āṇṭāḷ and Her Path of Love

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Author : Vidya Dehejia
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438400756
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Āṇṭāḷ and Her Path of Love written by Vidya Dehejia and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1990-08-03 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a translation and study of the poems of a ninth-century woman saint and mystic. The Introduction is designed to make the translations accessible to a non-specialist audience, while the Notes provide insights into the poems and useful explications of allusions and convention with which readers who do not possess a specialized knowledge of Tamil Vaisnava bhakti may be unfamiliar.

For the Love of God

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Author : Sandhya Mulchandani
Publisher : Penguin Random House India Private Limited
ISBN 13 : 9353055814
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book For the Love of God written by Sandhya Mulchandani and published by Penguin Random House India Private Limited. This book was released on 2019-07-20 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between the third centuries BC and AD were written thousands of verses in Tamil that have collectively come to be known as Sangam literature. The expressions of love between a man and a woman in these love poems gave way to passionate expressions of devotional love, where the heroine became the devotee and the hero became God. Through the centuries of patriarchy, women negotiated varied levels of existence and largely went unnoticed until they found a path for self-expression through bhakti or devotion. While the dominant form of worship was to prostrate before God, women found innovative ways of personal expression, often seeing the lord as a lover, friend, husband, or even son. The individual outpourings and the unfettered voices of these women refused to be drowned in the din of patriarchy gathering momentum until this became a pan India movement. In For the Love of God, Sandhya Mulchandani delves deep into historical accounts of these women who fell in love with God.

A Poet's Glossary

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Author : Edward Hirsch
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0547737467
Total Pages : 683 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (477 download)

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Download or read book A Poet's Glossary written by Edward Hirsch and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 683 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major addition to the literature of poetry, Edward Hirsch’s sparkling new work is a compilation of forms, devices, groups, movements, isms, aesthetics, rhetorical terms, and folklore—a book that all readers, writers, teachers, and students of poetry will return to over and over. Hirsch has delved deeply into the poetic traditions of the world, returning with an inclusive, international compendium. Moving gracefully from the bards of ancient Greece to the revolutionaries of Latin America, from small formal elements to large mysteries, he provides thoughtful definitions for the most important poetic vocabulary, imbuing his work with a lifetime of scholarship and the warmth of a man devoted to his art. Knowing how a poem works is essential to unlocking its meaning. Hirsch’s entries will deepen readers’ relationships with their favorite poems and open greater levels of understanding in each new poem they encounter. Shot through with the enthusiasm, authority, and sheer delight that made How to Read a Poem so beloved, A Poet’s Glossary is a new classic.

Stories of Indian Saints

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Author : Mahīpati
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN 13 : 9788120804692
Total Pages : 1100 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Stories of Indian Saints written by Mahīpati and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. This book was released on 1988 with total page 1100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present book is an English translation of Mahipati's Marathi poem Bhakta-Vijaya which records the legends of Indian saints, irrespective of their difference in caste, community, creed, language and place of origin. Thus we have the record of different saints - Yayadeva, Jnanadeva, Namadeva, Ramananda, Tulasidasa, Kabir, Suradasa, Narsi Mehta and Guru Nanakadeva. A lot of information is available on Ekanath-the greatest scholar-philosopher-saint-poet-cum-social reformer and the towering personalities Tukaram and Ramadasa. It also records the miraculous and fascinating legends of several saints, how they spread the Bhakti cult, how they struggled against discrimination between man and man and how they tried to uproot the malpractices which prevailed in the name of Religion in those days.

A Storm of Songs

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Author : John Stratton Hawley
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674425286
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book A Storm of Songs written by John Stratton Hawley and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-09 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A widely-accepted explanation for India’s national unity is a narrative called the bhakti movement—poet-saints singing bhakti from India’s southern tip to the Himalayas between 600 and 1600. John Hawley shows that this narrative, with its political overtones, was created by the early-twentieth-century circle around Rabindranath Tagore in Bengal.

Songs of the Saints of India

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Author : John Stratton Hawley
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195668704
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (687 download)

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Download or read book Songs of the Saints of India written by John Stratton Hawley and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Book Presents The Life Stories And Poems Of Six Well-Known Saint Poets Of North India Ravidas, Kabir, Nanak, Surdas, Mirabai Abd Tulsidas-Who Have Contributed More To The Religious Vocabulary Of Hinduism In North India Today Than Any Voices Before Or Since. The Author`S Deep Knowledge Of The Bhakti Traditions Of North India Is Evident Both In Their Choice Of Representative Poetry For Each Of The Six Saints And In The Rendering Of Their Poetry, Which Are So Skilfully Fashioned That One Can Easily Hear The Naunces Of Each Poet`S Voice In Registers Of Contemporary English.

Poet-Saints of Maharashtra: Selected Poems

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Author : Paul Smith
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781493513680
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (136 download)

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Download or read book Poet-Saints of Maharashtra: Selected Poems written by Paul Smith and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: POET-SAINTS OF MAHARASHTRA: SELECTED POEMS Translations & Introductions Paul Smith From the 13th to the 17th century the state of Maharashtra in India gave birth to a number of great Poet-Saints whose lives and poetry is loved today as much as it was when they lived their lives of selfless devotion and praise of the Divine Beloved. They composed their poems in slokas and abhangs that are here in the correct form and meaning, with biographies and bibliographies. Janabai (1263-1350) was born to a couple from the lowest caste. She worked as a maidservant for the father of the Poet-Saint Namdev who she cared for throughout her life. Her poetry is replete with her love for God. Namdev (1270-1350) was born in Narasi-Bamani. Soon his family moved to Pandharpur where the temple of Lord Vithoba (Krishna as a boy) is located. He spent most his life there. He composed 2500 abhangs in Marathi. Dnyaneshwar (1275-1296) emerged as one the first original Poet-Saints to write in Marathi. He liberated 'divine knowledge' locked in Sanskrit to bring it into Marathi. At the age of 21 he entered into Sanjeevan Samadhi at Alandi. Mukta Bai (b.1279) was the younger sister of Dnyaneshwar but is a profound Poet-Saint in her own right. She wrote forty-one abhangs. Eknath (1533-1599) was a saint, scholar and poet. He is seen as a bridge between Dnyaneshwar and Namdev and Tukaram and Ramdas. Tukaram (1608-1654) was a prominent Poet-Saint during the Bhakti movement in India and is still greatly loved. Ramdas (1627-1682) was a Marathi Poet-Saint and a devotee of Lord Rama. Bahina Bai (1628-1700) was a disciple of Tukaram. Apart from her unique autobiography in verse she composed abhangs that deal with various subjects. Pages 198. COMMENTS ON PAUL SMITH'S TRANSLATION OF HAFIZ'S 'DIVAN'. "It is not a joke... the English version of ALL the ghazals of Hafiz is a great feat and of paramount importance. I am astonished. " Dr. Mir Mohammad Taghavi (Dr. of Literature) Tehran. "Superb translations. 99% Hafiz 1% Paul Smith." Ali Akbar Shapurzman, translator from English into Persian, knower of Hafiz's Divan off by heart. Paul Smith is a poet, author and translator of over 130 books of Sufi poets of the Persian, Arabic, Urdu, Turkish, Pashtu and other languages... including Hafiz, Sadi, Nizami, Rumi, 'Attar, Sana'i, Jahan Khatun, Obeyd Zakani, Mu'in, Amir Khusrau, Nesimi, Kabir, Anvari, Ansari, Jami, Omar Khayyam, Rudaki, Yunus Emre, Mahsati, Lalla Ded, Bulleh Shah, Ghalib, Iqbal and many others, as well as his own poetry, fiction, plays, biographies, children's books and a dozen screenplays.

A Hundred Measures of Time

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Author : Nammalwar
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 9351187144
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book A Hundred Measures of Time written by Nammalwar and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2014-05-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Look, my feet measure beyond earth and sky!’ he said and touched the sky. I have surrendered to my lord who glanced at me with his large radiant eyes. The Tiruviruttam is an iconic poem by Nammāḻvār (c. ninth century CE), the greatest of the āḻvār poet-saints of the Tamil Śrīvaiṣṇava tradition. Its hundred interlinked verses celebrate the love between an anonymous heroine and hero, who come to be identified with Nammāḻvār and his beloved deity, Viṣṇu. The poet masterfully weaves the erotic and esoteric to reveal both the contours of love and the never-ending cycles of separation and union, of birth and death, from which only Viṣṇu can offer release. In A Hundred Measures of Time, Archana Venkatesan has crafted a sonorous free-verse rendering and an accompanying far-ranging essay to delight poetry lovers and scholars alike.

Speaking of Śiva

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Author : A. K. Ramanujan
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780140442700
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (427 download)

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Download or read book Speaking of Śiva written by A. K. Ramanujan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1973 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Vacanas Or Free-Verse Lyrics Written By Four Major Saints Of The Great Bhakti Protest Movement Which Originated In The Tenth Century Ad. Composed In Kannada, A Dravidian Language Of South India, The Poems Are Lyrical Expressions Of Love For The God Siva. They Mirror The Urge To Bypass Tradition And Ritual, To Concentrate On The Subject Rather Than The Object Of Worship, And To Express Kinship With All Living Things In Moving Terms. Passionate, Personal, Fiercely Monotheistic, These Free Verses Possess An Appeal, Which Is Timeless And Universal.

Poems to Siva

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Author : Indira Viswanathan Peterson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400860067
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Poems to Siva written by Indira Viswanathan Peterson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Composed by three poet-saints between the sixth and eighth centuries A.D., the Tevaram hymns are the primary scripture of the Tamil Saivism, one of the first popular large-scale devotional movements within Hinduism. Indira Peterson eloquently renders into English a substantial portion of these hymns, which provide vivid and moving portraits of the images, myths, rites, and adoration of Siva and which continue to be loved and sung by the millions of followers of the Tamil Saiva tradition. Her introduction and annotations illuminate the work's literary, religious, and cultural contexts, making this anthology a rich sourcebook for the study of South Indian popular religion. Indira Peterson highlights the Tevaram as a seminal text in Tamil cultural history, a synthesis of pan-Indian and Tamil civilization, as well as a distinctly Tamil expression of the love of song, sacred landscape, and ceremonial religion. Her discussion of this work draws on her pioneering research into the performance of the hymns and their relation to the art and ritual of the South Indian temple. Originally published in 1989. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

The Book of Chocolate Saints

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Author : Jeet Thayil
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571336124
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)

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Download or read book The Book of Chocolate Saints written by Jeet Thayil and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LONGLISTED FOR THE DSC PRIZE FOR SOUTH ASIAN LITERATURE 2018 'Easily the most original and formally inventive novel to come out of India in years.' Salman Rushdie, Guardian Francis Newton Xavier has lived a wild existence of excess in pursuit of his uncompromising aesthetic vision. His paintings and poems - which embody the flamboyant and decadent jeu d'esprit of his heroes like Baudelaire - have forged his reputation, which is to be celebrated at a new show in Delhi. Approaching middle age in a body ravaged by hard-living, Xavier leaves Manhattan following the 9/11 attacks with his young girlfriend - and his journey home to India becomes a delirious voyage into the past. From his formative years with an infamous school of fin de siècle Bombay poets - as documented by his biographer, Diswas, in these pages - Xavier must move forward into an uncertain future of salvation or damnation. His story results in The Book of Chocolate Saints: an epic novel of contemporary Indian life that probes the mysterious margins where art bleeds into the occult, and celebrates the artist's life itself as a final monument. It is Jeet Thayil's spiritual, passionate, and demented masterpiece.

The Bijak of Kabir

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199882029
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book The Bijak of Kabir written by and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002-04-18 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kabir was an extraordinary oral poet whose works have been sung and recited by millions throughout North India for half a millennium. He may have been illiterate and he preached an abrasive, sometimes shocking, always uncompromising message that exhorted his audience to shed their delusions, pretentions, and empty orthodoxies in favor of an intense, direct, and personal confrontation with the truth. Thousands of poems are popularly attributed to Kabir, but only a few written collections have survived over the centuries. The Bijak is one of the most important, and is the sacred book of those who follow Kabir.

Śiva's Demon Devotee

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Author : Elaine Craddock
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438430892
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Śiva's Demon Devotee written by Elaine Craddock and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2010-04-20 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration and translation of the work of Hindu poet-saint Kāraikkāl Ammaiyār.