Sri Vallabhacharya His Life Religion and Philosophy
Sri Vallabhacharya His Life Religion and Philosophy

Author: ebooksusr

Publisher: Sri Ramakrishna Math

Published: 2023-05-02

Total Pages: 46

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Vedanta is often equated exclusively to Advaita Vedanta of Sri Sankaracharya, but there are several other acharyas who have expounded the Vedanta in quite a different way and whose status as teachers of Vedanta requires recognition. This book by Swami Tapasyananda, a scholar-monk and former vice-president of the Ramakrishna Order, expounds the life and philosophy of Sri Vallabhacharya, whose philosophy is known as Suddhadvaita. This book will help readers acquaint themselves with his great life and understand the fundamental concepts of Vedanta as elucidated by him.

Loving Stones
Loving Stones

Author: David L. Haberman

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2020-03-18

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 0190086742

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Loving Stones is a study of devotees' conceptions of and worshipful interactions with Mount Govardhan, a sacred mountain located in the Braj region of north-central India that has for centuries been considered an embodied form of Krishna. It is often said that worship of Mount Govardhan "makes the impossible possible." In this book, David L. Haberman examines the perplexing paradox of an infinite god embodied in finite form, wherein each particular form is non-different from the unlimited. He takes on the task of interpreting the worship of a mountain and its stones for a culture in which this practice is quite alien. This challenge involves exploring the interpretive strategies that may explain what seems un-understandable, and calls for theoretical considerations of incongruity, inconceivability, and other realms of the impossible. This aspect of the book includes critical consideration of the place and history of the pejorative concept of idolatry (and its twin, anthropomorphism) in the comparative study of religions. Loving Stones uses the worship of Mount Govardhan as a site to explore ways in which scholars engaged in the difficult work of representing other cultures struggle to make "the impossible possible."

Sathya Sai Vahini
Sathya Sai Vahini

Author: Sathya Sai Baba

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9788172082956

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Discourses by a Hindu spiritual leader from India.

Madhurashtakam
Madhurashtakam

Author: Swami Tejomayananda

Publisher: Central Chinmaya Mission Trust

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 66

ISBN-13: 8175974974

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Vallabhacharya, the founder of the Pushti Maarg was a poet, scholar and passionate lover of Lord Krishna. Madhurashtakam is one of the immemorial compositions of Vallabhacharya, the founder of Pusti marg. These set of eight verses talk of Shri Krishna's bewitching personality. His pastimes, and His pranks all of which make Him loving and lovable. The composition has become more popular because of its simplicity. Pujya Guruji's commentary on it gives us a sense of immediacy with highlights of episodes from the lives of recent saints. It also makes us introspect on our hypocrisies which prevent us from flowing with sweetness. It opens our eyes to the healing energies of the Divine, clothed in a name and form.

The Alternate Nation of Abanindranath Tagore
The Alternate Nation of Abanindranath Tagore

Author: Debashish Banerji

Publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited

Published: 2010-01-07

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9788132102397

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This volume provides a revisionary critique of the art of Abanindranath Tagore, the founder of the national school of Indian painting, popularly known as the Bengal School of Art. The book categorically argues that the art of Abanindranath, which developed during the Bengal Renaissance in the 19th–20th centuries, was not merely a normalization of national or oriental principle, but was a hermeneutic negotiation between modernity and community. It establishes that his form of art—embedded in communitarian practices like kirtan, alpona, pet-naming, syncretism, and storytelling through oral allegories—sought a social identity within the inter-subjective context of locality, regionality, nationality, and trans-nationality. The author presents Abanindranath as a creative agent who, through his art, conducted a critical engagement with post-Enlightenment modernity and regional subalternity.

Encyclopedia of Hinduism
Encyclopedia of Hinduism

Author: Constance Jones

Publisher: Infobase Publishing

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 593

ISBN-13: 0816075646

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An illustrated A to Z reference containing more than 700 entries providing information on the theology, people, historical events, institutions and movements related to Hinduism.