This book describes detachment techniques that help in detachment from unpleasant emotions and attachment techniques that help in gaining motivation and joy.
The true nature of self (soul) is bliss. It is not affected by any suffering. We suffer because we wrongly identify ourselves with thoughts and emotions. If the thought or emotion is pleasant we feel pleasure. If the emotion or thought is unpleasant we feel sadness. Thus when we falsely identify ourselves with thoughts or emotions we get carried away in this duality of pleasure and pain. True bliss is beyond this duality. Bliss is different from pleasure. When you are moved by pleasure. You are also affected by the opposite quality of pain. Only when you center yourself in your soul (true state) does you become free from this duality of pleasure and pain and experience infinite bliss beyond any duality.
The classical Vedic texts that deal with large-scale sacrificial ritual and those writings that deal with domestic ritual have traditionally been treated as unrelated. The former are devoted to the explication of rituals that are dominated by wealthy male elites; the latter concern humble private ceremonies more open to famale participation. Reflections on Resemblance, Ritual and Religion argues that there is in fact, a fundamental connection between these two large and important bodies of Indic religious literature.
The society of traditional India is frequently characterized as static and dominated by caste. This study challenges older interpretations, arguing that medieval India was actually a time of dynamic change and fluid social identities. Using records of religious endowments from Andhra Pradesh, author Cynthia Talbot reconstructs a regional society of the precolonial past as it existed in practice.