Saundaryalahari

Saundaryalahari

Author: Śaṅkarācārya

Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9788170816003

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Hymn to Tripurasundarī (Hindu deity).


Vivekananda: His Call to the Nation

Vivekananda: His Call to the Nation

Author: Swami Vivekananda

Publisher: Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

Published:

Total Pages: 65

ISBN-13: 8175059176

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In today’s India, the scene that presents itself before any impartial observer is a welter of conflicting ideologies amidst drift and restlessness. In such a situation, the youth of the country are restive. They seek an answer. Swami Vivekananda’s words, touching upon every facet of our national life, provide answers to questions that agitate both the individual and society. Vivekananda's words are as pertinent today as when they were uttered more than a hundred years ago and his words carry an appeal not just to the people of India, but to the nation of humankind. The book published by Advaita Ashrama, a publication house of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math, is a compilation of short excerpts taken from the Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda arranged under the following headings: Faith and Strength Powers of the mind Man: The Maker of his Destiny Education and Society Serve Man as God Religion and Ethics India: Our Motherland Other Exhortations The first third of the book presents a brief life of Swami Vivekananda.


Sivananda Lahari of Sri Sankaracarya

Sivananda Lahari of Sri Sankaracarya

Author: Swami Tapasyananda

Publisher: Sri Ramakrishna Math

Published: 2022-05-05

Total Pages: 65

ISBN-13:

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Sivanandalahari, the Inundation of Divine Bliss, is a work noted as much for its literary beauty as for its devotional fervour. It is traditionally attributed to Sri Shankaracharya. The text uses all devices of poetic art to depict the sentiment of devotion, and highly suggestive metaphors follow one after another in succession presenting the various aspects of devotion in a highly artistic form. Swami Tapasyananda, who was one of the Vice-Presidents of the Ramakrishna Order with sterling intellectual acumen and scholastic learning, has transliterated and translated the text with insightful notes.


Shankara's Crest-jewel of Discrimination

Shankara's Crest-jewel of Discrimination

Author: Swami Shankara

Publisher: The Teitan Press, Inc.

Published: 1978

Total Pages: 158

ISBN-13: 9780874810387

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A classic text on the path to God through knowledge. The basic teaching is that God alone is the all-pervading reality; the individual soul is none other than the universal soul. Shankara was under no illusions about this world. For this reason, he is able to describe so powerfully the complete transformation of the universe that takes place before the eyes of the illumined seer, when the world indeed becomes a paradise.


Saundaryalahari of Sankaracarya

Saundaryalahari of Sankaracarya

Author: Śaṅkarācārya

Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 138

ISBN-13: 9788120802025

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Saundaryalahari is a rare Tantric work whose authorship is attributed to Samkaracarya. It is a long poem of one hundred verses; a hymn of praise to the Divine Mother; an invocation and a prayer that awakens man from stupor to a state of effulgent energy and creativity. In this monograph the original Sanskrit text of each verse is presented in Devanagari script accompanied with its Roman transliteration. English rendering of the verses and explanatory notes are provided with an eye to modern readership. Inclusion of yantras in their pictorical symbols focus attention on underlying potencies of each verse. The possibility of attainment of power and success by single-minded recitation of the verses is stressed on. The monograph will be of special interest to mother worshippers of all denominations. Students of religion and philosophy will find it appealing. the general reader with a love for poetry and literature will also like it.


Saundarya Lahari of Sri Sankaracarya

Saundarya Lahari of Sri Sankaracarya

Author: Swami Tapasyananda

Publisher: Sri Ramakrishna Math

Published: 2020-03-07

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13:

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Saundarya Lahari the great hymn of Sri Sankara dealing with the cult of Mother worship is the most popular Sanskrit hymn of its kind. In this text the Divine Mother is adored in Her creative aspect under the name Tripura which means the Mother who embodies the three Bindus or creative stresses. The first fortyone verses which are the source of various mantras deal chiefly with the Sri-chakra which is called the Abode of Siva-Sakti and which forms the special symbol of worship for devotees of the Devi.Swami Tapasyananda has rendered a signal service to the cause of Sakti worship by bringing out this excellent edition of the famous text The Saundarya Lahari with the original in Sanskrit its transliteration English translation and elaborate notes for the benefit of the English-knowing people.


Life and Teachings of Ādi Śaṅkarācārya

Life and Teachings of Ādi Śaṅkarācārya

Author: P. George Victor

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13:

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Dr. George Victor Studies Comprehensively Sankaracarya S Teachings On Vedanta His Views On Scripture, Perception And Inference As Pramanas Or Standards Of Knowledges; His Explanations Of The Relation Between Brahman And Atman, Brahman And Äsvara, Maya And The World; And His Concepts Of Jnana Marga, Karma Marga And Moksa.


Sadhana Panchakam

Sadhana Panchakam

Author: Swami Chinmayananda

Publisher: Central Chinmaya Mission Trust

Published: 2021-12-08

Total Pages: 44

ISBN-13: 8175975385

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There is the Jiva and there is his Jivana - in and through the pleasures and pains of his life, he pines for an ideal, an anchor. Ready for a forty step journey that takes you to unimaginable heights? Each milestone helps you checkout where you have reached and what you should do next. Between the test and rest, you are guided for the glide. Bhagavan Sankaracharya's precision coupled with Swami Chinmayananda's elaborations give you illuminations.