Download or read book Extracting the Essence of the Sruti written by Toṭakācārya and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. This book was released on 1996 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Srutisarasamuddharanam (Extracting the Essence of the Sruti) is the major work of Totakacarya who is regarded by tradition as one of the four-principle disciples of Adi Sankara. Composed in Sanskrit, the work consists of one hundred and seventy-nine verses. The aim of these verses is to bring out the essential meaning of the Upanisads. Through an analysis of various Upanisad statements, as well by compatible reasoning, Sri Totaka shows that the Upanisads teach that Brahman is real, the world is mithya and that the essential nature of the jiva is none other than Brahman. The teaching is presented in the form of a dialogue between a student and a guru. Totaka skilfully manages to bring out the main Advaita teachings while maintaining the context of a discussion. These verses are not only valuable for what they teach, but in them we also find an accurate account of the tradition of Advaita as it existed at the time of Sankaracarya himself. Accompanying the Devanagari text of the verses is an English translation of each verse followed by a brief commentary in English to assist in understanding the verses.
Download or read book The Vedanta Kesari written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Redefining Family Law in India written by Archana Parashar and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2020-11-29 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a collection of articles by scholars across disciplines to create a discourse of family law independent of Religious Personal Law, whilst striving for fairness and justice to all. It demonstrates the artificiality of the public–private divide and seeks the systematic development of ideas for a fair and just family law in contemporary India. The book does not merely document the pathologies of power within the family but also makes proposals for remedying these inequities. It is not confined to considering what changes need to be inducted into existing family law to make it more just, but also strategises on the means and methods of effecting the change. It lifts the familial veil and scrutinises the status, rights and disabilities of some of the subordinated members of the family. The volume is an invitation to redefine family law with the twin tools of reflection and responsibility. It will interest those in law judges, legislators, law reformers as well as those in women and family studies, policy makers and policy analysts, apart from the general reader.
Download or read book The Upanisads written by N. Jayashanmugam and published by Motilal Banarsidass. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are twelve authoritative Upanisads. This study covers the eight out of the twelve- Isa, Kena, Katha, Mundaka, Svetasvatara, Chandoogya and Brhadarabyaka. This book intends to offer a new perspective to the Upanisads. It will surely be helpful to all the students of Indian Philosophy.
Download or read book Mysticism and Sacred Scripture written by Steven T. Katz and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000-11-02 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the fourth volume in an influential series that presents a basic revaluation of the nature of mysticism. Each provides a collection of solicited papers by noted experts in the study of religion. This new volume will explore how the great mystics and mystical traditions use, interpret, and reconstruct the sacred scriptures of their traditions.
Download or read book Prabuddha Bharata written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nectar 10 written by Babaji Bob Kindler and published by Sarada Ramakrishna Vivekananda Associations. This book was released on 2003-01-31 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Islam, Vedanta, Yoga, Zen, Tibetan Buddhism, Christianity, Judaism — one finds all these and more represented in Nectar of Nondual Truth. And never mind that there are points of difference with regard to practice and approach. You will find a nearly unanimous agreement around the Essence. On the cover, in the scriptural quote for this issue, we find the rishis of ancient India referring to this nondual Reality in terms of “something hidden.” It is indicated by religious traditions as the Pearl of Great Price, the White Dove Ascending, the Bourne of Freedom from Fear, the Ultimate Quest and other expressions which indicate both the beauty of and the difficulty involved in finding this Treasure, and infer the huge amount of self-effort that will have to be undertaken to succeed in this most excellent endeavor. But purity, practice, patience and perseverance — what can stymie the aspiring soul who approaches Divine Reality with such resolve? If one wants to see patina exude from a copper penny, one places it in a damp atmosphere and watches for days, weeks, even months, until that green substance finally issues forth. What a huge amount of work and effort is involved in gaining a few drops sesame oil from hundreds of seeds! Reality is “hidden,” then. Nature is Its sporting-ground, the universe Its Cosmic Mind, thought-force is Its power to create, revealed scripture is Its revelation, and forms and objects are solid reminders of both Its power to create and Its transcendent and unlimited nature. Yet, all of these are reflections, are insentient material principles. The one Spirit, though It pervades them, is independent of them, and they all get their existence and their ability to shine with reflected light from That. It is Svarupa, to quote the ancients, Essential Being, and everything, everyone else, is Svarupavishranti — always resting in this one essential Being.
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Download or read book Guide to Indian Periodical Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays on Violence written by Priyadarshini Vijaisri and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-08-30 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on Violence: Pollution, Sacrifice and Madness is an exploration of the intersecting histories of caste and violence in the Indian context foregrounding ideational and temporal continuities and deep linkages between ideas, processes and events by combing historical sources with ethnographic data. Traversing the diverse and conflicting strands in Indian traditions, it traces the centrality of the idea of violence in discourses on sacrificial violence, self, body, evil and danger and their reverberations in critical moments of Indian history. The discourse on caste violence is unpacked through analysis of concepts like danda, matsyanyaya and vadhoavadha, religious and textual exegesis of negation and demonization and historical sites to locate processes of transitions in cultures of violence via the Telangana armed uprising and imagined cartography of the incipient nation. By drawing attention to the nature of caste violence in postcolonial Andhra, the book offers glimpses into the emergence of contradictory pulls in the forging of caste identities, nationhood and the shifts in the subjectivity of outcastes within the context of repressive political culture of postcolonial democratic experience.
Download or read book Karma and Rebirth in Classical Indian Traditions written by Wendy Doniger and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Fundamentals of Advaita Ved nta written by K. Narain and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Book Is A Reliable Compendium Covering The Whole Gamut Of Philosophical Problems And Metaphysical Issues Concerning The System Of Sri Shankaracharya`S Advaita Vedanta. Besides Referring To The Philosophical Conceptions And Arguments As Available In Shankara`S Works, It Also Attempts The Exposition Of The Arguments And Ideas Of The Eminent Post-Shankarite Philosophers. This Work Is A Thorough Exposition, Based On Original Sanskrit Sources, Of The Fundamentals Of Advaita Vedanta As A Whole, Distributing The Book In Chapters Related To Different Philosophical Topics. The Author Also Refers To Some Of The Modern Criticism Against Advaita Vedanta By The Protagonists Of Dvaita Vedanta And Buddhism.
Download or read book International Bibliography of Book Reviews of Scholarly Literature Chiefly in the Fields of Arts and Humanities and the Social Sciences written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Two Brahmanical Institutions Gotra and Charana written by Govind Sadashiv Ghurye and published by Bombay : Popular Prakashan. This book was released on 1972 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Introduction to the P car tra and the Ahirbudhnya Sa hit written by Friedrich Otto Schrader and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
