Krishna's Song
Krishna's Song

Author: Steven J. Rosen

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2007-09-30

Total Pages: 191

ISBN-13: 0313345546

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Rosen offers Westerners an easy-to-read introduction to a sacred text, demystifying its considerable philosophy in a user-friendly way. This is not yet another translation, merely reiterating what the Gita itself has to say. It is rather an attempt to culturally translate the text, making use of concepts and categories to which Western readers are accustomed. By engaging familiar motifs—such as issues of modernity, pop-culture icons, and well-known philosophers in the West—the author brings the Gita into focus for non-specialists and scholars alike. Through a series of contemporary news references and insightful summaries, readers will finally understand the facts and personalities that make up the Bhagavad Gita. Using his many years of Gita-centered research, Rosen unlocks the mysteries of the text's spiritual underpinnings. He provides an overview of the Gita's narrative and teachings alongside documentation of its traditional application and more modern ways in which the text can be understood. Students and scholars alike will rejoice in how well this book lays bare the culture and the context of the Gita, resulting in a reader's deep familiarity with this most sacred of all the world's wisdom texts.

Krishna's Other Song
Krishna's Other Song

Author: Steven Rosen

Publisher: Praeger

Published: 2010-04-09

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 031338326X

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Students of religion and Eastern thought will welcome this readable translation and practical commentary on the Uddhava Gita, a Hindu text in which Krishna's teachings introduced in the Bhagavad Gita are extended and nuanced. Krishna's Other Song: A New Look at the Uddhava Gita examines the entire Uddhava Gita in relation to other Hindu scriptures, especially the Bhagavad Gita, and shares its teachings in light of interreligious understanding and nonsectarian spirituality. This edition's elaborate commentary, written by a prominent American scholar of Hindu studies, who is also a practitioner, opens up the text's esoteric teaching to a Western audience for the first time, adding context and relevance that make the book accessible and its teachings practicable for a Western readership. A foreword, written by prominent Hinduism scholar Charles S. J. White joins the author's own introduction to lay out the Uddhava Gita's background, philosophical dimensions, and religious significance. This edition does not include the original Sanskrit, nor does it labor to translate each word verbatim. Rather, it gives the reader all 1,030 verses in plain English, offering accessible commentary that allows the meaning and relevance of the Uddhava Gita to unfold to one and all.

Chants of a Lifetime
Chants of a Lifetime

Author: Krishna Das

Publisher: Hay House, Inc

Published: 2018-01-23

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 1401955932

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Chants of a Lifetime offers an intimate collection of stories, teachings, and insights from Krishna Das, who has been called "the chant master of American yoga" by the New York Times. Since 1994, the sound of his voice singing traditional Indian chants with a Western flavor has brought the spiritual experience of chanting to audiences all over the world. He has previously shared some of his spiritual journey through talks and workshops, but now he offers a unique book-with-audio download combination that explores his fascinating path and creates an opportunity for just about anyone to experience chanting in a unique and special way. Chants of a Lifetime includes photos from Krishna Das’s years in India and also from his life as a kirtan leader—and the audio that is offered exclusively in the book consists of a number of "private" chanting sessions with the author. Instead of just being performances of chants for listening, the recordings make it seem as if Krishna Das himself is present for a one-on-one chanting session. The idea is for the listener to explore his or her own practice of chanting and develop a deepening connection with the entire chanting experience.

Love Songs of Vidyāpati
Love Songs of Vidyāpati

Author: W.G. Archer

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-06-23

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 1000216497

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Originally published in 1963, The Love Songs of Vidyāpati explores one hundred poems by the poet Vidyāpati. The book opens with an extensive introduction providing an overview into the life of Vidyāpati and offering a wealth of information relating to the themes, development, and significance of his poetry. The poems are accompanied by detailed notes and enhanced further by a selection of illustrations. The Love Songs of Vidyāpati will appeal to anyone with an interest in poetry, literary history, and Indian cultural history.

Krishna
Krishna

Author: Edwin F. Bryant

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2007-06-18

Total Pages: 590

ISBN-13: 0199724318

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In the West Krishna is primarily known as the speaker of the Bhagavad Gita. But it is the stories of Krishna's childhood and his later exploits that have provided some of the most important and widespread sources of religious narrative in the Hindu religious landscape. This volume brings together new translations of representative samples of Krishna religious literature from a variety of genres -- classical, popular, regional, sectarian, poetic, literary, and philosophical.

Narasinha Mehta of Gujarat
Narasinha Mehta of Gujarat

Author: Neelima Shukla-Bhatt

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 0199976422

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Neelima Shukla-Bhatt offers an illuminating study of Narsinha Mehta, one of the most renowned saint-poets of medieval India and the most celebrated bhakti (devotion) poet from Gujarat, and shows how the songs and sacred narratives associated with the saint-poet have been sculpted into a popular source of moral inspiration by performers and audiences.

Alternative Krishnas
Alternative Krishnas

Author: Guy L. Beck

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2012-02-01

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 079148341X

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Krishna—widely venerated and adored in the Hindu tradition—is a deity of many aspects. An ancient manifestation of the Supreme God Vishnu, or the Godhead itself, Krishna is the bringer of Yoga philosophy and the creator of the universe, the destroyer of evil tyrants, and the hero of the epic Mahabharata. He is also described in classical Sanskrit texts as having human characteristics and enjoying very human pursuits: Krishna is the butter thief, cowherd, philanderer, and flute player. Yet even these playful depictions are based upon descriptions found in the Sanskrit canon, and mostly reflect familiar, classical Pan-Indian images. In this book, contributors examine the alternative, or unconventional, Krishnas, offering examples from more localized Krishna traditions found in different regions among various ethnic groups, vernacular language traditions, and remote branches of Indian religions. These wide-ranging, alternative visions of Krishna include the Tantric Krishna of Bengal, Krishna in urban women's rituals, Krishna as monogamous husband and younger brother in Braj, Krishna in Jainism, Krishna in Marathi tradition, Krishna in South India, and the Krishna of nineteenth-century reformed Hinduism.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Jiddu Krishnamurti

Author: C. V. Williams

Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 626

ISBN-13: 9788120820326

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One of the most extraordinary lives ever imagined was actually lived over most of last century by Jiddu Krishnamurti a poor dreamy south Indain boy who was adopted by the by the english aristocracy and became the darling of california spiritual seeker.The enigma of his life is explore and exposed from the death of his mother when he was young to the adulation he received as a guru figure from abject poverty to luxuries comfort from cultish repression to absolute freedom.

The Politics of Musical Time
The Politics of Musical Time

Author: Eben Graves

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2022-10-04

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 0253064406

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How do the temporal features of sacred music affect social life in South Asia? Due to new time constraints in commercial contexts, devotional musicians in Bengal have adapted longstanding features of musical time linked with religious practice to promote their own musical careers. The Politics of Musical Time traces a lineage of singers performing a Hindu devotional song known as kīrtan in the Bengal region of India over the past century to demonstrate the shifting meanings and practices of devotional performance. Focusing on padābalī kīrtan, a type of devotional sung poetry that uses long-duration forms and combines song and storytelling, Eben Graves examines how expressions of religious affect and political belonging linked with the genre become strained in contemporary, shortened performance time frames. To illustrate the political economy of performance in South Asia, Graves also explores how religious performances and texts interact with issues of nationalism, gender, and economic exchange. Combining ethnography, history, and performance analysis, including videos from the author's fieldwork, The Politics of Musical Time reveals how ideas about the sacred and the modern have been expressed and contested through features of musical time found in devotional performance.

Vidyāpati: Bangīya padābali; songs of the love of Rādhā and Krishna
Vidyāpati: Bangīya padābali; songs of the love of Rādhā and Krishna

Author: Active 15th century Vidyāpati Thākura

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-05-28

Total Pages: 114

ISBN-13:

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Vidyapati, also known as Maithil Kavi Kokil (the poet cuckoo of Maithili), was a Maithili and Sanskrit poet, composer, writer, courtier, and royal priest. Vidyapati was a devotee of Shiva but also wrote love songs and devotional Vaishnava songs. These works present the collection of the best of his works inspired by Indian folklore.