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Author: Steven Rosen
Publisher: Chakra Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780892133512
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA reference book on Hindu spirituality includes information on the ancient texts of India, the power of mantras, Ayurveda, karma and reincarnation, deities, mythological figures, festivals, yoga, and more.
Author: Diana L Eck
Publisher: Harmony
Published: 2012-03-27
Total Pages: 578
ISBN-13: 0385531915
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn India: A Sacred Geography, renowned Harvard scholar Diana Eck offers an extraordinary spiritual journey through the pilgrimage places of the world's most religiously vibrant culture and reveals that it is, in fact, through these sacred pilgrimages that India’s very sense of nation has emerged. No matter where one goes in India, one will find a landscape in which mountains, rivers, forests, and villages are elaborately linked to the stories of the gods and heroes of Indian culture. Every place in this vast landscape has its story, and conversely, every story of Hindu myth and legend has its place. Likewise, these places are inextricably tied to one another—not simply in the past, but in the present—through the local, regional, and transregional practices of pilgrimage. India: A Sacred Geography tells the story of the pilgrim’s India. In these pages, Diana Eck takes the reader on an extraordinary spiritual journey through the living landscape of this fascinating country –its mountains, rivers, and seacoasts, its ancient and powerful temples and shrines. Seeking to fully understand the sacred places of pilgrimage from the ground up, with their stories, connections and layers of meaning, she acutely examines Hindu religious ideas and narratives and shows how they have been deeply inscribed in the land itself. Ultimately, Eck shows us that from these networks of pilgrimage places, India’s very sense of region and nation has emerged. This is the astonishing and fascinating picture of a land linked for centuries not by the power of kings and governments, but by the footsteps of pilgrims. India: A Sacred Geography offers a unique perspective on India, both as a complex religious culture and as a nation. Based on her extensive knowledge and her many decades of wide-ranging travel and research, Eck's piercing insights and a sweeping grasp of history ensure that this work will be in demand for many years to come.
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Publisher: Ramakrishna Math, Hyderabad
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Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9383142340
DOWNLOAD EBOOK108 Facts that narrate India’s greatness. Many of the current generation may not know that India had excelled in many fields like Science, Mathematics, Medicine, Astronomy, Engineering etc., in the past when many of the western civilizations did not even had basic ideas in these fields. Unfortunately, many of the findings by great Indian scientists and thinkers were articulated to the western world either knowingly or unknowingly. This book corrects these notions and describes the excellence of our motherland in both the ancient times and also in the current times.
Author: Kyle C. Strobel
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Published: 2013-05-02
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 0830856536
DOWNLOAD EBOOKKyle Strobel mines the work of Jonathan Edwards in search of the Puritan minister?s personal vision for spiritual development. "In Edwards," Strobel writes, "we find a grasp of spiritual formation that tries to balance deep thought with deep passion . . . a life of love with the contemplation of divine things."
Author: Stephen Knapp
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2008-05-29
Total Pages: 879
ISBN-13: 0595614523
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is for anyone who wants to know of the many holy sites that you can visit while traveling within India, how to reach them, and what is the history and significance of these most spiritual of sacred sites, temples, and festivals. It also provides a deeper understanding of the mysteries and spiritual traditions of India. This book includes: Descriptions of the temples and their architecture, and what you will see at each place. Explanations of holy places of Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs, Jains, Parsis, and Muslims. The spiritual benefits a person acquires by visiting them. Convenient itineraries to take to see the most of each area of India, which is divided into East, Central, South, North, West, the Far Northeast, and Nepal. Packing list suggestions and how to prepare for your trip, and problems to avoid. How to get the best experience you can from your visit to India. How the spiritual side of India can positively change you forever. This book goes beyond the usual descriptions of the typical tourist attractions and opens up the spiritual venue waiting to be revealed for a far deeper experience on every level.
Author: David Legge
Publisher: Ambassador-Emerald International
Published: 2008-03
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781840301922
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Raja Ram Mehrotra
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 1998-03-15
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9027275548
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIndian English, or rather, the forms of English used in India, have long been a topic of interest for laymen and scholars. For generations, the ‘exotic’ nature of the transplanted language was commented on, often ridiculed as a matter of unintentional comic. It was only from the 1960s onwards that the local forms of English were recognized for what they are — adaptations of the world language to local needs, and varying to an enormous degree, depending on the speakers’ (and writers’) education and the uses they make of the language. This acknowledgement came mainly from abroad (and still does); Indians are much less willing to admit to the variation and its communicative functions in the country. Therefore, standard English (if possible in its classical British form) is generally favoured, together with formal written uses often based on the stylistic models provided by English literature from Shakespeare to Dickens. R.R. Mehrotra was one of the first to see the need for a proper sociolinguistic description of the Indian situation, and the forms and functions of English in this complex set-up. He has for a long time collected and analysed the huge range of English around him, with the aim of publishing a collection of texts that reflects the variation within the country along various dimensions, historical, regional, ethnic, social and stylistic. The present collection of texts is typical in many ways, evoking in the content, style and grammatical forms the contexts in which English functions; notes help to put the excerpts into the proper frame to make them intelligible to outsiders.
Author: Swami Prabhavananda
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-04-09
Total Pages: 341
ISBN-13: 0429627556
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book, first published in 1962, is an analysis of the history of the philosophy of a country that has never distinguished philosophy from religion. Indian philosophy is not merely metaphysical speculation, but has its foundation in immediate perception. This insistence upon immediate perception rather than abstract reasoning is what distinguishes the Indian philosophy of religion from philosophy as Western nations know it.
Author: Raghupati Bhatt
Publisher: Manticore Press
Published: 2014-09-22
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9780987559869
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSpanning the history of India from the times of Alexander the Great through to Gandhi, India's Glory encompasses the unique points of Indian history and the strong characters that created and inspired these events.
