Download or read book Kentucky Swami written by Tim Skeen and published by BkMk Press of the University of Missouri-Kansas City. This book was released on 2001 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. "Tim Skeen's John Ciardi Prize-winning collection reveals a distanced compassion so keen it might draw blood from his readers. He retells our hard histories, men and women at work in dangerous and impossible circumstances--labor wars, poverty, early death, disease, and violence--to cry out to his beloved, "How can you want children/in spite of the ossuaries of this world?" KENTUCKY SWAMI answers the question by moving in close, the poems a vibrant celebration of our continuing lives. This book is marvelous!"--Hilda Raz
Download or read book Take up Serpents written by Elaine Hatfield and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2007-01-26 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no available information at this time.
Download or read book An Introduction to Swaminarayan Hinduism written by Raymond Brady Williams and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-08 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Introduction to Swaminarayan Hinduism, third edition, offers a comprehensive study of a contemporary form of Hinduism. Begun as a revival and reform movement in India 200 years ago, it has now become one of the fastest growing and most prominent forms of Hinduism. The Swaminarayan Hindu transnational network of temples and institutions is expanding in India, East Africa, the UK, USA, Australasia, and in other African and Asian cities. The devotion, rituals, and discipline taught by its founder, Sahajanand Swami (1781–1830) and elaborated by current leaders in major festivals, diverse media, and over the Internet, help preserve ethnic and religious identity in many modern cultural and political contexts. Swaminarayan Hinduism, here described through its history, divisions, leaders, theology and practices, provides valuable case studies of contemporary Hinduism, religion, migrants, and transnationalism. This new edition includes up-to-date information about growth, geographic expansion, leadership transitions, and impact of Swaminarayan institutions in India and abroad.
Download or read book Autobiography of a Yogi written by Paramhansa Yogananda and published by Crystal Clarity Publishers. This book was released on 2022-05-06 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Top 100 Spiritual Book of the Twentieth Century This is a new edition, featuring previously unavailable material, of a true spiritual classic. Autobiography of a Yogi is one of the best-selling Eastern philosophy titles of all-time, with millions of copies published. New Bonus Materials added to this edition include: a) the last chapter that Yogananda wrote in 1951 covering the years 1946–1951 that was not originally available in the first edition (and without posthumous changes), b) the eulogy that Yogananda wrote for Gandhi, and c) a new afterword by Swami Kriyananda, one of Yogananda's closest direct disciples. Yogananda's masterpiece has been named one of the greatest and most influential books of the twentieth century. This highly prized verbatim reprinting of the original 1946 edition is (unlike other publishers' editions) free from textual changes made after Yogananda's death. Yogananda was the first yoga master of India whose mission brought him to live and teach in the West. His firsthand account of his life experiences in India includes childhood revelations, stories of his visits to saints and masters in India, and long-secret teachings of yoga and Self-realization that he first made available to the Western reader.
Download or read book Poets Writers written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Swami Vivekananda and His Guru written by Swami Vivekananda and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nebraska written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Guru to the World written by Ruth Harris and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2022-10-18 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guru to the World tells the story of Swami Vivekananda, the nineteenth-century Hindu ascetic who introduced the West to yoga and to a tolerant, scientifically minded universalist conception of religion. Ruth Harris explores the many legacies of Vivekananda’s thought, including his impact on anticolonial movements and contemporary Hindu nationalism.
Download or read book Poetry written by Harriet Monroe and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Portable Famine written by Rane Arroyo and published by BkMk Press of the University of Missouri-Kansas City. This book was released on 2005 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The portable famine offers poems from Rane Arroyo's years of being an 'interior exile' as a gay, Puerto Rican, and Midwestern writer whose travels have taken him throughout American cities such as Chicago, Miami, New York, New Orleans, Pittsburgh, and Toledo; the European cities of Florence, London, and Reykjavik; and locations across the Caribbean, including Puerto Rico"--Provided by publisher.
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Download or read book Swami Vivekananda s History of Universal Religion and Its Potential for Global Reconciliation written by Sister Gayatriprana and published by Cook Communication. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents in the words of Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902) a history of Vedanta, the deep exploration of the inner human world going back to the most ancient rishis or seers whose testimony is still revered in India. He traces the tradition up to the beginning of the twentieth century, showing how the dynamics of social structures within Vedanta and the appearance from within Vedanta of traditions such as Jainism, Buddhism, Hinduism and Sikhism influenced and molded the tradition. In addition, he studies the impact of the Western, Abrahamic invasions of India that began around the eleventh century CE. These brought to bear on Vedanta a worldview which operated on the assumption that the physical world was the primary reality and that the kind of radical exploration of the inner world embraced by Vedanta was highly suspect and not valid. The Vedantic tradition adapted in many different ways, producing a variety of philosophical positions that are still extant today. Along with these traditions went various forms of yoga or self-transformation, in Vedanta the key to experiencing the inner meaning of not only philosophy, but also of our human condition, and of reality itself. This tradition presents four contexts of experience (chatushpad), suggesting the “right brain” mode of approach as described by Iain McGilchrist (2009). Under the influence of Shri Ramakrishna (1836-1886) Vivekananda gained access to vijnana or a knowledge higher than those classically described and known in the chatushpad. Vijnana permitted the acceptance of not only the traditional, deeply experiential truths of Vedanta, but also of the validity of Western materialism when seen as related to each other on a continuum of consciousness to be traversed by contemporary forms of yoga. I see the result as a resolution of “right-left” brain conflict à la McGilchrist and thereby a model for universal human understanding, conciliation and co-operation. In my introduction I attempt to show how the whole picture can be related both experientially and conceptually to matrices of consciousness developed in India as far back as the early medieval period. A large glossary and index-cum concordance indicate the various contexts and depths of thought that emerge from Vivekananda’s multi-contextual vijnana.
Download or read book The Southern Review written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Skeleton of the Crow written by Ray Ronci and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The spiritual autobiography in poems by a Zen monk.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Hinduism written by Constance Jones and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated A to Z reference containing more than 700 entries providing information on the theology, people, historical events, institutions and movements related to Hinduism.
Download or read book The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton written by Thomas Merton and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1975-02-28 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is quintessential Merton."—The Catholic Review. "The moment of takeoff was ecstatic...joy. We left the ground—I with Christian mantras and a great sense of destiny, of being at last on my true way after years of waiting and wondering..." With these words, dated October 15. 1968, the late Father Thomas Merton recorded the beginning of his fateful journey to the Orient. His travels led him from Bangkok, through India to Ceylon, and back again to Bangkok for his scheduled talk at a conference of Asian monastic orders. There he unequivocally reaffirmed his Christian vocation. His last journal entry was made on December 8, 1968, two days before his untimely, accidental death. Amply illustrated with photographs he himself took along the way and fully indexed, the book also contains a glossary of Asian religious terms, a preface by the Indian scholar Amiya Chakravarty, a foreword and postscript by Brother Patrick Hart of the Abbey of Gethsemani, as well as several appendices, among them the text of Merton's final address.
Download or read book Airs Voices written by Paula Bonnell and published by BkMk Press of the University of Missouri-Kansas City. This book was released on 2008 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. AIRS & VOICES is the winner of the John Ciardi Prize for Poetry, selected by Mark Jarman, who calls Bonnell's voice "fresh and original." Maxine Kumin writes of the book, "Bonnell's voice is low-key but full of quirky insights that keep these poems fresh and interesting." "This is an enchanting book," writes Richard Wilbur. These poems invent their own forms, with two series of voices (of people, animals, things) portraying a world of peace with varied multicultural and international connections. The shock of 9/11 opens the final section, which relates private experience to wider social healing and the ideal of one world. "'The Voices' may be one of the wisest comments on the catastrophe of 9/11 that an American poet has made," writes X. J. Kennedy.
