A crisp clean softcover, no markings throughout: Why couldn't we be as detached from the thoughts that come and go in the mind as we are from the clouds that come and go in the sky? Clouds are many. They come and go. The sky is one, and remains unchanged. In the same way, thoughts are many; they come and go. There Witness is one and remains unchanged. The fact that we are not as detached from our thoughts as we are from the clouds is a habit of perception, not a necessity. The yogis tell us, change your perception, then you'll be free. View More...
Few works in world literature have inspired so vast an audience, in nations with radically different languages and cultures, as the Ramayana and Mahab harata, two Sanskrit verse epics written some 2,000 years ago. In Ramayana (written by a poet known to us as Valmiki), William Buck has re told the story of Prince Rama--with all its nobility of spirit, courtly int rigue, heroic renunciation, fierce battles, and triumph of good over evil-- in a length and manner that will make the great Indian epics accessible to the contemporary reader. The same is true for the Mahabharata--in its original Sans... View More...
In excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlig hting. The spine remains undamaged. Based on the author's ethnographic research in India, the book explores the psychology of Hinduism, and offers an innovative synthesis of psychoanylsi s with modern anthropological theories of cultural difference. Stanley N. K urtz offers a new interpretation of the multiple "mother goddesses" of Hind uism, and explores how this multiplicity is key to understanding early chil dhood experience in which a child is raised by many "mothers" in the Hindu joint family. Arguing that traditi... View More...
The Seven Steps to Awakening is the most powerful collection of quotes ever assembled on the subject of how to directly experience the true Self whose nature is Infinite-Eternal-Awareness-Love-Bliss and how to bring the impos tor self, its tricks and all suffering to a final end in this lifetime. Mos t books on the subject of Self-realization are written by those who have on ly conceptual knowledge and no direct experience of the infinite Self. All seven of the sages quoted in The Seven Steps to Awakening lived in the infi nite and their knowledge came from their direct experience of the infin... View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. A guide to changing negative emotions and promoting happiness using traditi onal Tantric and Ayurvedic practices ? Details the 9 Rasas that represent our basic emotions ? Offers emotional fasting exercises and daily routines for emotional well- being ? Shows how Rasa Sadhana can be integrated with other yoga practices ? Based on the teachings of Harish Johari Rasas are the essence of our emotions that exist in both the body and the m ind. The Tantric ... View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. The author reveals his passionate experiences with a female Tantric master who taught him the suppressed practices of her ancient order. In 1968 Daniel Odier left Europe for the Himalayas, searching for a master who could help him go where texts and intellectual searching could no longe r take him. He wanted everything: the wisdom and spirituality gained from t he life of an ascetic and the beauty, love, and sensuality of a life of pas sion. He found ... View More...
Ordained a monk at a young age by a great sage of the Himalayas, Swami Rama was involved in a learning journey from monasteries to caves, studying and living with more than a hundred sages in the solitude of the Himalaya Moun tains and the plains of India. Among those with whom he studied were Tagore , Mahatma Gandhi, Sri Aurobindo, and Ramana Maharshi. In this collection of stories, Swami Rama relates his experiences with the great teachers who gu ided his life. Editorial Reviews. View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. View More...
