Download or read book Gaya Assorted Paranormal Stories from the Ancient Indian City written by Payal Sinha and published by Payal Sinha. This book was released on 2019-08-11 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book contains paranormal in various forms and flavors. We find a mother who sacrifices her tastebuds for the love of her children, a man who is possessed by an evil spirit, a woman who encounters an unknown lady on her terrace, and a small mud dollhouse that remains intact while other parts of the house go into decay. The stories range in theme from sacrifice, horror, mystery, to greed and are suitable to be read by all ages.

Download or read book Ancient Indian Magic and Folklore written by Margaret Stutley and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrations: 9 B/w Illustrations Description: Margaret Stutley is the author, with her husband, of A Dictionary of Hinduism, an indispensable reference work based on many years of research. In the present volume she draws on her study of religious cults and folklore to provide an introduction to the ancient magic and folklore of India. But the main source is the Atharvaveda, compiled about 1400 BC and containing much earlier lore, some of it originating in Sumeria, Babylonia, Iran and ancient Egypt. The book demonstrates that there are many parallels between Indian and European folklore, since both Europeans and the north-western Indian peoples are of Caucasian origin. The wearing of lucky charms, talismans and amulets is common to both, as well as the belief in lucky and unlucky days, birds and animals, the fear of curses and of the evil eye-still common in Africa, the Mediterranean countries and the east. Another common element is the fear of demonic possession, which has increased so much in the west that in 1972 the Bishop of Exeter set up a commission to devise the ritual for the exorcizing of evil spirits from people and haunted places. Margaret Stutley points out that magical elements exist in every religion since it is their presence that makes a system of beliefs into a religion. Thus magic and cult are essentially the same, all rites being basically magical. She also shows that in all societies different stages of belief exist side by side, and range from naïve magico-religious beliefs to the most advanced spiritual and philosophical views.

Download or read book Fear written by Saptarshi Bhattacharyya and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-10 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are five blood chilling ghost stories that will leave you with an unadulterated fear long after you finish them. The Village: A small village in Assam has a closely guarded secret.Hotel: A hotel in Maharashtra provided more than just lodging to its out-of-town visitors. Barren: A farmland in rural India became barren, but why?Basement: The underground basement of a commercial high-rise in downtown Mumbai was not a place you would like to venture alone after dark.The Book: An ancient book brought in immeasurable misery to a small family in upstate Bengal.

Download or read book Dearest George written by Alicia Souza and published by Penguin Enterprise. This book was released on 2020-02-17 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yes. I admit. I'm in love. (Ugh!) But let's be realistic- I'm married and when that happens, realism sets in pretty quick. Those recurring used socks on the floor make sure of it! But I'm in love with being in love. The comfort of their human-ness, the warmth of their voice and even the sweatiness of hand-holding of someone you adore. Dearest George hopefully captures that. The everyday kinda love an infinite number of kisses, huge doses of longing when they're away, just a wee bit of creepy stalking, lots of chips eating (one needs special nutrition) & the occasional banter about who made the first move. He DID. (I need this in print so this debate ends once & for all.) PS: He'll tell you some story about a bus and all. DO NOT listen. Close your ears and hum. Trust me.

Download or read book Book of Amusing Anecdotes Real Life Amusing Incidents written by Payal Sinha and published by Payal Sinha. This book was released on 2019-05-23 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book of Amusing Anecdotes is filled with real-life amusing incidents centred around children. The book is simple, refreshing, and easy-to-read, which you can connect with your own life.

Download or read book Truths Untruths written by Payal Sinha and published by Payal Sinha. This book was released on 2019-12-17 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gazal shifts with her family to a developing mountain town, only to fall in love with a quaint hilltop house. The house is beautiful but full of secrets and unusual happenings. At first, Gazal thinks she's losing her mind, but some incidents jolt her back to reality and she sets about seeking the truths, only to be confronted with the biggest truth of her life.....

Download or read book Forever and Ever written by Payal Sinha and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-27 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is about a mother's constant love that embraces her child even after her death. Rupali lost her parent at an early age but, her mother Lakshmi continues to be at her side all through the different phases of her life sometimes in anger, sometimes in joy, and sometimes as a guardian angel who protects her and her family.

Download or read book In This Very Life written by U Pandita and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-01-30 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Burmese meditation master Sayadaw U Pandita shows us that freedom is as immediate as breathing, as fundamental as a footstep. In this book he describes the path of the Buddha and calls all of us to that heroic journey of liberation. Enlivened by numerous case histories and anecdotes, In This Very Life is a matchless guide to the inner territory of meditation - as described by the Buddha.

Download or read book India s Most Haunted written by K. Hari Kumar and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2019-10-25 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are places where the past lingers, making shapes in the moonlight and blowing in the curtains even as the air goes suddenly still. K. Hari Kumar, bestselling author of spine-chilling horror fiction, brings you the terrifying tales of some of India's most haunted places -- including Bhangarh Fort, Malabar Hill's Tower of Silence and Jammu and Kashmir's notorious Khooni Nala.Whether you read them at night or in daylight, these stories will remain with you long after you've turned the last page.

Download or read book The Disguises of the Demon written by Gail Hinich Sutherland and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1991-07-03 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the most ancient deities of South Asia, the yaksha straddle the boundaries between popular and textual traditions in both Hinduism and Buddhism and both benevolent and malevolent facets. As a figure of material plenty, the yaksis epitomized as Kubera, god of wealth and king of the yaks In demonic guise, the yaksis related to a large family of demonic and quasi-demonic beings, such as nagas, gandharvas, raks, and the man-eating pisaacas. Translating and interpreting texts and passages from the Vedic literature, the Hindu epics, the Puranas, Kālidāsa's Meghadūta, and the Buddhist Jātaka Tales, Sutherland traces the development and transformation of the elusive yaksfrom an early identification with the impersonal absolute itself to a progressively more demonic and diminished terrestrial characterization. Her investigation is set within the framework of a larger inquiry into the nature of evil, misfortune, and causation in Indian myth and religion.

Download or read book The Gospel of Buddha written by Paul Carus and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Buddha in Sri Lanka written by Swarna Wickremeratne and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides both an erudite and intimate look at how Buddhism is lived in Sri Lanka. While India is known as the birthplace of Buddhism, Sri Lanka is its other home; Buddhism extends back over twenty-five hundred years on the island and remains at the center of its spiritual traditions and culture. Throughout the book, author Swarna Wickremeratne incorporates a personal view, sharing stories of herself, her family, friends, and acquaintances as they "lived Buddhism" both during her Sri Lankan girlhood and during more recent times. This personal view makes the traditions come alive as Wickremeratne details Buddhist beliefs, customs, rituals and ceremonies, and folklore. She also provides a fascinating discussion of the Sangha, the institutional monkhood in Sri Lanka, including its history, codes of conduct, and evolution and resilience over time. Wickremeratne explores the recent attempts by many monks to reinvent themselves in a society characterized by secularization, globalization, and a tide of aggressive Christian evangelization.

Download or read book Magic and Mystery in Tibet written by Madame Alexandra David-Neel and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-27 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practicing Buddhist and Oriental linguist recounts supernatural events she witnessed in Tibet during the 1920s. Intelligent and witty, she describes the fantastic effects of meditation and shamanic magic — levitation, telepathy, more. 32 photographs.

Download or read book The Red Thread written by Bernard Faure and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1998-10-26 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is there a Buddhist discourse on sex? In this innovative study, Bernard Faure reveals Buddhism's paradoxical attitudes toward sexuality. His remarkably broad range covers the entire geography of this religion, and its long evolution from the time of its founder, Xvkyamuni, to the premodern age. The author's anthropological approach uncovers the inherent discrepancies between the normative teachings of Buddhism and what its followers practice. Framing his discussion on some of the most prominent Western thinkers of sexuality--Georges Bataille and Michel Foucault--Faure draws from different reservoirs of writings, such as the orthodox and heterodox "doctrines" of Buddhism, and its monastic codes. Virtually untapped mythological as well as legal sources are also used. The dialectics inherent in Mahvyvna Buddhism, in particular in the Tantric and Chan/Zen traditions, seemed to allow for greater laxity and even encouraged breaking of taboos. Faure also offers a history of Buddhist monastic life, which has been buffeted by anticlerical attitudes, and by attempts to regulate sexual behavior from both within and beyond the monastery. In two chapters devoted to Buddhist homosexuality, he examines the way in which this sexual behavior was simultaneously condemned and idealized in medieval Japan. This book will appeal especially to those interested in the cultural history of Buddhism and in premodern Japanese culture. But the story of how one of the world's oldest religions has faced one of life's greatest problems makes fascinating reading for all.

Download or read book The Ancient Language of Sacred Sound written by David Elkington and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • Details how sacred sites resonate at the same frequencies as both the Earth and the alpha waves of the human brain • Shows how human writing in its original hieroglyphic form was a direct response to the divine sound patterns of sacred sites • Explains how ancient hero myths from around the world relate to divine acoustic science and formed the source of religion The Earth resonates at an extremely low frequency. Known as “the Schumann Resonance,” this natural rhythm of the Earth precisely corresponds with the human brain’s alpha wave frequencies--the frequency at which we enter into and come out of sleep as well as the frequency of deep meditation, inspiration, and problem solving. Sound experiments reveal that sacred sites and structures like stupas, pyramids, and cathedrals also resonate at these special frequencies when activated by chanting and singing. Did our ancestors build their sacred sites according to the rhythms of the Earth? Exploring the acoustic connections between the Earth, the human brain, and sacred spaces, David Elkington shows how humanity maintained a direct line of communication with Mother Earth and the Divine through the construction of sacred sites, such as Stonehenge, Newgrange, Machu Picchu, Chartres Cathedral, and the pyramids of both Egypt and Mexico. He reveals how human writing in its original hieroglyphic form was a direct response to the divine sound patterns of sacred sites, showing how, for example, recognizable hieroglyphs appear in sand patterns when the sacred frequencies of the Great Pyramid are activated. Looking at ancient hero legends--those about the bringers of important knowledge or language--Elkington explains how these myths form the source of ancient religion and have a unique mythological resonance, as do the sites associated with them. The author then reveals how religion, including Christianity, is an ancient language of acoustic science given expression by the world’s sacred sites and shows that power places played a profound role in the development of human civilization.

Download or read book Unclean Spirits written by Velox Books and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-21 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before you is a tome of twisted tales that will tug on your heartstrings... while ripping them to shreds! Play a game where you bet your life on an unimaginable fortune. Visit a neighborhood that is suspiciously unwelcoming of outsiders. Watch as terrifying unwanted visitors stalk through apartment buildings and family homes. Blending the fantastic with the frantic and the macabre with the mundane, Bikram Mann, India's foremost NoSleep author, builds amazing worlds then fills them with nightmares.

Download or read book Anagram Solver written by Bloomsbury Publishing and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 719 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anagram Solver is the essential guide to cracking all types of quiz and crossword featuring anagrams. Containing over 200,000 words and phrases, Anagram Solver includes plural noun forms, palindromes, idioms, first names and all parts of speech. Anagrams are grouped by the number of letters they contain with the letters set out in alphabetical order so that once the letters of an anagram are arranged alphabetically, finding the solution is as easy as locating the word in a dictionary.