Download or read book Hanuman Prasad Poddar An Exalted Divinity written by O.P. Gupta and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2018-08-19 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You are holding in your hands the first book containing an authentic biography of two greatest divinities of this country about which people are not well acquainted. It contains a unique account not found elsewhere about the actual meetings of Bhaijee—Shri Hanuman Prasad Poddar with Lord Vishnu in 1927 at Jasidih in front of several gentlemen and again in Gorakhpur. Second important event is the exclusive appearance of saint Narad and great sage Angira in front of Bhaijee in 1936. Conversation of Bhaijee with a Parsee ghost would certainly convince readers about the importance of Shraddh to be performed after one’s death. Bhaijee was not only a true saint and social reformer but was also involved in independence movement of India. Founder editor of famous ‘Kalyan’; Bhaijee did herculean efforts to translate rare and ancient scriptures like Ramayana & Mahabharat from Sanskrit to Hindi and made them available to everyone at very nominal price. Bhaijee showed an evidence for a brightest identity of the sweet love towards Radha-Krishna and explored its feasibility to achieve it with an utmost simplicity through his discourses and texts. He did an extraordinary campaign for divine name and religious devotion (Bhakti) amidst general public. Inclusion of a short biography of another divinity—Sethji Shri Jaidayal Goyandka is another feature of this seminal book. The credit for establishment of Gita Press in Gorakhpur; Govind Bhawan in Kolkata; Gita Bhawan of Swargashram at Rishikesh and Rishikul Ashram in Churu including a unique; authentic and excellent commentary on Gita goes to him only.
Download or read book Turn to God written by Hanuman Prasad Poddar and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Durabhisandhi Krishna Ki Atmakatha II written by Manu Sharma and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: मेरी अस्मिता दौड़ती रही; दौड़ती रही। नियति की अँगुली पकड़कर आगे बढ़ती गई-उस क्षितिज की ओर; जहाँ धरती और आकाश मिलते हैं। नियति भी मुझे उसी ओर संकेत करती रही; पर मुझे आज तक वह स्थान नहीं मिला और शायद नहीं मिलेगा।फिर भी मैं दौड़ता रहूँगा; क्योंकि यही मेरा कर्म है। मैंने युद्ध में मोहग्रस्त अर्जुन से ही यह नहीं कहा था; अपितु जीवन में बारबार स्वयं से भी कहता रहा हूँ-‘कर्मण्येवाधिकास्ते’। वस्तुतः क्षितिज मेरा गंजव्य नहीं; मेरे गंजव्य का आदर्श है। आदर्श कभी पाया नहीं जाता। यदि पा लिया गया तो वह आदर्श नहीं। इसीलिए न पाने की नििश्ंचतता के साथ भी कर्म में अटल आस्था ही मुझे दौड़ाए लिये जा रही है। यही मेरे जीवन की कला है। इसे लोग ‘लीला’ भी कह सकते हैं; क्योंकि वे मुझे भगवान् मानते हैं।... और भगवान का कर्म ही तो लीला है। कृष्ण के अनगिनत आयाम हैं। दूसरे उपन्यासों में कृष्ण के किसी विशिष्ट आयाम को लिया गया है। किंतु आठ खंडों में विभक्त इस औपन्यासिक श्रृंखला ‘कृष्ण की आत्मकथा’ में कृष्ण को उनकी संपूर्णता और समग्रता में उकेरने का सफल प्रयास किया गया है। किसी भी भाषा में कृष्णचरित को लेकर इतने विशाल और प्रशस्त कैनवस का प्रयोग नहीं किया है। यथार्थ कहा जाए तो ‘कृष्ण की आत्मकथा’ एक उपनिषदीय कृति है। ‘कृष्ण की आत्मकथा श्रृंखला के आठों ग्रंथ’ नारद की भविष्यवाणी दुरभिसंधि द्वारका की स्थापना लाक्षागृह खांडव दाह राजसूय यज्ञ संघर्ष प्रलय
Download or read book Gita Press and the Making of Hindu India written by Akshaya Mukul and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-08-16 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1920s, Jaydayal Goyandka and Hanuman Prasad Poddar, two Marwari businessmen-turned-spiritualists, set up the Gita Press and Kalyan magazine. As of early 2014, Gita Press had sold close to 72 million copies of the Gita, 70 million copies of Tulsidas's works and 19 million copies of scriptures like the Puranas and Upanishads. And while most other journals of the period, whether religious, literary or political, survive only in press archives, Kalyan now has a circulation of over 200,000, and its English counterpart, Kalyana-Kalpataru, of over 100,000. Gita Press created an empire that spoke in a militant Hindu nationalist voice and imagined a quantifiable, reward-based piety. Almost every notable leader and prominent voice, including Mahatma Gandhi, was roped in to speak for the cause. Cow slaughter, Hindi as national language and the rejection of Hindustani, the Hindu Code Bill, the creation of Pakistan, India's secular Constitution: Kalyan and Kalyana-Kalpataru were the spokespersons of the Hindu position on these and other matters. Featuring an extraordinary cast of characters - buccaneering entrepreneurs and hustling editors, nationalist ideologues and religious fanatics - this is essential (and exciting) reading for our times.
Download or read book Gopis Love for Sri Krishna written by Hanuman Prasad Poddar and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Look Beyond the Veil written by Hanuman Prasad Poddar and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Life of a Text written by Philip Lutgendorf and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1991-07-23 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Life of a Text offers a vivid portrait of one community's interaction with its favorite text—the epic Ramcaritmanas—and the way in which performances of the epic function as a flexible and evolving medium for cultural expression. Anthropologists, historians of religion, and readers interested in the culture of North India and the performance arts will find breadth of subject, careful scholarship, and engaging presentation in this unique and beautifully illustrated examination of Hindi culture. The most popular and influential text of Hindi-speaking North India, the epic Ramcaritmanas is a sixteenth century retelling of the Ramayana story by the poet Tulsidas. This masterpiece of pre-modern Hindi literature has always reached its largely illiterate audiences primarily through oral performance including ceremonial recitation, folksinging, oral exegesis, and theatrical representation. Drawing on fieldwork in Banaras, Lutgendorf breaks new ground by capturing the range of performance techniques in vivid detail and tracing the impact of the epic in its contemporary cultural context.
Download or read book Goswami Tulsidasji s Devised Sri Sankat Mochan Hanuman Charit Manas written by Mishr Harivansh Lal Sundd and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 892 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the charming narration of incarnation of 11th Ansh (constituent) of Lord Shiva as Sankat Mochan Hanuman. The contents of this book in Hindi and English are full of colourfufl illustrations. Its reading gives mental peace inspiring self-realisation and confidence.
Download or read book Grounds for Play written by Kathryn Hansen and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nautanki performances of northern India entertain their audiences with often ribald and profane stories. Rooted in the peasant society of pre-modern India, this theater vibrates with lively dancing, pulsating drumbeats, and full-throated singing. In Grounds for Play, Kathryn Hansen draws on field research to describe the different elements of nautanki performance: music, dance, poetry, popular story lines, and written texts. She traces the social history of the form and explores the play of meanings within nautanki narratives, focusing on the ways important social issues such as political authority, community identity, and gender differences are represented in these narratives. Unlike other styles of Indian theater, the nautanki does not draw on the pan-Indian religious epics such as the Ramayana or the Mahabharata for its subjects. Indeed, their storylines tend to center on the vicissitudes of stranded heroines in the throes of melodramatic romance. Whereas nautanki performers were once much in demand, live performances now are rare and nautanki increasingly reaches its audiences through electronic media—records, cassettes, films, television. In spite of this change, the theater form still functions as an effective conduit in the cultural flow that connects urban centers and the hinterland in an ongoing process of exchange.
Download or read book Language of the Snakes written by Andrew Ollett and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Language of the Snakes traces the history of the Prakrit language as a literary phenomenon, starting from its cultivation in courts of the Deccan in the first centuries of the common era. Although little studied today, Prakrit was an important vector of the kavya movement and once joined Sanskrit at the apex of classical Indian literary culture. The opposition between Prakrit and Sanskrit was at the center of an enduring “language order” in India, a set of ways of thinking about, naming, classifying, representing, and ultimately using languages. As a language of classical literature that nevertheless retained its associations with more demotic language practices, Prakrit both embodies major cultural tensions—between high and low, transregional and regional, cosmopolitan and vernacular—and provides a unique perspective onto the history of literature and culture in South Asia.
Download or read book Prashad Cooking with Indian Masters Thoroughly Revised Edition 2022 written by J. Inder Singh Kalra and published by Allied Publishers. This book was released on 2022-05-26 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a celebration of the best in Indian cooking. It is the author’s intention to introduce the foods of India through the culinary genius of some of the finest Chefs in the country. It is no secret that Indian Cuisine is “in” and the time ripe to introduce the “Grand Ol’Men” and the “Whiz Kids” of the Indian kitchen: the present day Chefs, who are inventive and daring—ready to try out anything new and different. The result is a wonderful collection of recipes—old and new—from their respective repertoires.
Download or read book The Mah bh rata and the Yugas written by Luis González Reimann and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 2002 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book questions the conventional wisdom that a fully matured theory of the yugas - Hinduism's ages of the world - is integral to the Mahābhārata, and it illustrates how traditional commentators and modern scholars have read the later Purāṇic yuga theory into the Mahābhārata, in particular when it comes to placing the action at the beginning of the current terrible Kali Yuga. Luis González-Reiman discusses the meaning of key terms in the epic by examining the text and early Buddhist sources. This book also traces the sectarian appropriation of the yuga system in later literature and documents how modern religious movements have used the system to proclaim the arrival of a new, prosperous Kṛta Yuga, a phenomenon that coincides with New Age expectations.
Download or read book Day nanda Sarasvat His Life and Ideas written by J. T. F. Jordens and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1978 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Pioneering Biography Interprets Dayanand In His Time As An Integral Part Of The Vigorouns Atmosphere Of 19Th Century India, Influencing The Ideas Of His Age And Being Influenced By Them.
Download or read book Yogis in Silence written by Rajendra Kumar Gupta and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Many Ramayanas written by Paula Richman and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout Indian history, many authors and performers have produced, and many patrons have supported, diverse tellings of the story of the exiled prince Rama, who rescues his abducted wife by battling the demon king who has imprisoned her. The contributors to this volume focus on these "many" Ramayanas. While most scholars continue to rely on Valmiki's Sanskrit Ramayana as the authoritative version of the tale, the contributors to this volume do not. Their essays demonstrate the multivocal nature of the Ramayana by highlighting its variations according to historical period, political context, regional literary tradition, religious affiliation, intended audience, and genre. Socially marginal groups in Indian society—Telugu women, for example, or Untouchables from Madhya Pradesh—have recast the Rama story to reflect their own views of the world, while in other hands the epic has become the basis for teachings about spiritual liberation or the demand for political separatism. Historians of religion, scholars of South Asia, folklorists, cultural anthropologists—all will find here refreshing perspectives on this tale.
Download or read book In Danger Remember Me written by Swami Shuddhanandaa Brahmachari and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life and teachings of Baba Lokenath Brahmachari, 1731-1890, a Himalayan yogi.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Hinduism written by Denise Cush and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 1130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of Hinduism contains over 900 entries reflecting recent advances in scholarship which have raised new theoretical and methodological issues as well as identifying new areas of study which have not been addressed previously. The debate over the term 'Hinduism' in the light of post-Orientalist critiques is just one example of how once standard academic frameworks have been called into question. Entries range from 150-word definitions of terms and concepts to 5,000-word in-depth investigations of major topics. The Encyclopedia covers all aspects of Hinduism but departs from other works in including more ethnographic and contemporary material in contrast to an exclusively textual and historical approach. It includes a broad range of subject matter such as: historical developments (among them nineteenth and twentieth century reform and revival); geographical distribution (especially the diaspora); major and minor movements; philosophies and theologies; scriptures; deities; temples and sacred sites; pilgrimages; festivals; rites of passage; worship; religious arts (sculpture, architecture, music, dance, etc.); religious sciences (e.g. astrology); biographies of leading figures; local and regional traditions; caste and untouchability; feminism and women's religion; nationalism and the Hindu radical right; and new religious movements. The history of study and the role of important scholars past and present are also discussed. Accessibility to all levels of reader has been a priority and no previous knowledge is assumed. However, the in-depth larger entries and the design of the work in line with the latest scholarly advances means that the volume will be of considerable interest to specialists. The whole is cross-referenced and bibliographies attach to the larger entries. There is a full index.
