Roar of the Ganges
Author: Swami Tadatmananda
Publisher:
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAbout the transformation of a young and successful American computer engineer into a Hindu monk.
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Meditation, A Practical Guidebook
Author: Swami Tadatmananda
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass
Published: 2014-01-01
Total Pages: 275
ISBN-13: 8178224240
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTo ask, "What is meditation?" is like asking, "What is music?" No simple answer can even hope to convey the breadth and richness of this subject. Meditation is a contemplative art, a mental discipline, and a sacred journey. Meditation is a reflective practice, a tranquil retreat, and a joyous excursion. Meditation is simultaneously an aesthetic pursuit, a scientific investigation, and a spiritual path. You could say that meditation is a rainbow of many hues. But to describe meditation with fancy words and elegant expressions is like trying to describe the flavour of a ripe peach. Meditation, like the peach, must be experienced to be understood. Words can never suffice. Yet words of description and explanation are not useless. Words can tell you how to select the ripest fruit from a bushel of peaches. And words can tell you how to meditate, leading you to develop a powerful, rewarding practice. This book provides practical, methodical guidance for all who want to develop a powerful and rewarding practice of meditation. It begins with basic principles and proceeds step by step to more advanced topics while exploring a wide range of meditation techniques. Though the subject is vast attempt has been under to create a concise and user-friendly guidebook.
River of Gods
Author: Ian McDonald
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Published: 2009-09-18
Total Pages: 658
ISBN-13: 1591028116
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs Mother India approaches her centenary, nine people are going about their business — a gangster, a cop, his wife, a politician, a stand-up comic, a set designer, a journalist, a scientist, and a dropout. And so is Aj — the waif, the mind-reader, the prophet — when she one day finds a man who wants to stay hidden. In the next few weeks, they will all be swept together to decide the fate of the nation. River of Gods teems with the life of a country choked with peoples and cultures — one and a half billion people, twelve semi-independent nations, nine million gods. Ian McDonald has written the great Indian novel of the new millennium, in which a war is fought, a love betrayed, a message from a different world decoded, as the great river Ganges flows on.
The Attacking Ocean
Author: Brian Fagan
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2014-08-19
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 1608196941
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA history of climate change describes the dramatic evolution and stabilization of the oceans before the rise of humans approximately 6,000 years ago, tracing a significant rise in global temperatures since 1860 and how a rising sea level is affecting world populations.
View from the Summit
Author: Edmund Hillary
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2000-05
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 0743400674
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn a memoir by the first man to reach the peak of Everest, Hillary discusses the adventures that shaped his life, from the South Pole to the Ganges River.
Living with the Himalayan Masters
Author: Swami Rama
Publisher: Himalayan Institute Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 488
ISBN-13: 0893891568
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInspirational stories of Swama Rama's experiences and lessons learned with the great teachers who guided his life including Mahatma Gandhi, Tagore, and more.
Ganges
Author: Sudipta Sen
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2019-01-08
Total Pages: 460
ISBN-13: 0300242670
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA sweeping, interdisciplinary history of the world’s third-largest river, a potent symbol across South Asia and the Hindu diaspora Originating in the Himalayas and flowing into the Bay of Bengal, the Ganges is India’s most important and sacred river. In this unprecedented work, historian Sudipta Sen tells the story of the Ganges, from the communities that arose on its banks to the merchants that navigated its waters, and the way it came to occupy center stage in the history and culture of the subcontinent. Sen begins his chronicle in prehistoric India, tracing the river’s first settlers, its myths of origin in the Hindu tradition, and its significance during the ascendancy of popular Buddhism. In the following centuries, Indian empires, Central Asian regimes, European merchants, the British Empire, and the Indian nation-state all shaped the identity and ecology of the river. Weaving together geography, environmental politics, and religious history, Sen offers in this lavishly illustrated volume a remarkable portrait of one of the world’s largest and most densely populated river basins.
Sinful Crossroads
Author: Gaurav Tanwar
Publisher: Sristhi Publishers & Distributors
Published: 2017-02
Total Pages: 99
ISBN-13: 938266582X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTwo college friends are gearing up for their first outstation trip together, but the adventure starts much before the journey. One of them seems to be getting it all – he meets his ex in an auto, makes out on a train, becomes the love interest of another guy on a ropeway, and ends up in the arms of a stranger – while the other is left wondering why. Come, travel with two immature friends whose casual trip turns into an experience of a lifetime. They lie to their parents, make friends on the way, get stuck in a haunted building, meet beautiful girls and spend their evenings listening to breathtaking experiences of strangers. But when they finally breathe after a series of adventures, they aren't the same anymore. Sinful Crossroads is a story of how random things sometimes add up to make for the most important life-lessons.
Sundial
Author: Colette Nic Aodha
Publisher:
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 76
ISBN-13:
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