Download or read book Maharasa Manjusa written by Prakriti Goswami and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-08 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An annotated translation of Nandadasa’s poetic rendition of the five chapters of rasa-lila in the Bhagavata, highlighting the text’s musical legacy, devotional worship, and Vedantic foundations. Maharasa Manjusa: Sacred Poetry of the Divine Dance provides translation and scholarly commentary of Nandadasa’s five chapters of rasa-lila, collectively known as the rasapancadhyayi. In the Vaisnava tradition propounded by Vallabhacarya, Nandadasa is considered to be one of the eight devotional poets, whose compositions are exquisitely detailed with description of both Krsna’s cosmic form and his divine play. This gradually developed into a distinctive style of performing art, haveli-sangita, which is practiced even today. Maharasa Manjusa: Sacred Poetry of the Divine Dance brings out the poetics, narrative style, and idiosyncrasies of the recitation of devotional poems from the region of Vraja in the 16th Century. An exquisite specimen of devotional poetics, Nandadasa’s Rasapancadhyayi is a Braja-Bhasa rendition of the Bhagavata’s quintet of Maharasa written in Sanskrit verse. The Bhagavata is one of the most beloved texts of Krsna-devotional traditions and the foundational scripture of Braja Vaisnavism and its five chapters describing the divine dance illustrate the ecstatic fruit of devotion. Presenting a devotee’s execution of the Maharasa while examining its interpretative themes underpinned in the epistemology of Vallabhacarya, Maharasa Manjusa: Sacred Poetry of the Divine Dance offers an intensive view of the musical legacy, a devotee’s worshipful interactions, and Vedantic foundations of the ecstatic devotion expressed by Nandada¯sa. The introductory chapters provide first compendious study of the theo-aesthetic, epistemic, and liturgical framework of Pustimarga’s orthopraxis that have fuelled this lyrical delivery. Enriched with annotations, the translations are literal while offering nuanced insights into the colloquial intricacies of Braja-Bhasa poetics and the cultural expressions of the Braja region. EXPERT SCHOLARLY ANALYSIS: Prakriti Goswami is a doctoral candidate at Indiana University who studies the role of poetics, music, and aesthetics within Hinduism. Foreword author David Haberman is a professor of religious studies at Indiana University who has written multiple books on northern Indian religious traditions. EDUCATION AID: Maharasa Manjusa: Sacred Poetry of the Divine Dance is a rich source of knowledge which can supplement academic coursework or provide guidance for independent study of Hinduism. FIRST BOOK IN SERIES: This book is the first in a series of academic texts by the Bhaktivedanta Research Center, an academic institute which offers forums, conferences, courses, and other resources on Vaishnavism.

Download or read book Studying Hinduism written by Sushil Mittal and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-01-19 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an indispensable resource for students and researchers wishing to develop a deeper understanding of one of the world's oldest and most multifaceted religious traditions. Sushil Mittal and Gene Thursby, leading scholars in the field, have brought together a rich variety of perspectives which reflect the current lively state of the field. Studying Hinduism is the result of cooperative work by accomplished specialists in several fields that include anthropology, art, comparative literature, history, philosophy, religious studies, and sociology. Through these complementary and exciting approaches, students will gain a greater understanding of India's culture and traditions, to which Hinduism is integral. The book uses key critical terms and topics as points of entry into the subject, revealing that although Hinduism can be interpreted in sharply contrasting ways and set in widely varying contexts, it is endlessly fascinating and intriguing.

Download or read book World Soul written by James Wilberding and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many philosophers and scientists over the course of history have held that the world is alive. It has a soul, which governs it and binds it together. This suggestion, once so wide-spread, may strike many of us today as strange and antiquated--in fact, there are few other concepts that, on their face, so capture the sheer distance between us and our philosophical inheritance. But the idea of a world soul has held so strong a grip upon philosophers' imaginations for over 2,000 years, that it continues to underpin and even structure how we conceive of time and space. The concept of the world soul is difficult to understand in large part because over the course of history it has been invoked to very different ends and within the frameworks of very different ontologies and philosophical systems, with varying concepts of the world soul emerging as a result. This volume brings together eleven chapters by leading philosophers in their respective fields that collectively explore the various ways in which this concept has been understood and employed, covering the following philosophical areas: Platonism, Stoicism, Medieval, Indian or Vedântic, Kabbalah, Renaissance, Early Modern, German Romanticism, German Idealism, American Transcendentalism, and contemporary quantum mechanics and panpsychism theories. In addition, short reflections illuminate the impact the concept of the world soul has had on a small selection of areas outside of philosophy, such as harmony, the biological concept of spontaneous generation, Henry Purcell, psychoanalysis, and Gaia theories.

Download or read book Caitanya Vaisnava Philosophy written by Ravi M. Gupta and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the sixteenth century, the saint and scholar Sri Caitanya set in motion a wave of devotion to Krishna that began in eastern India and has now found its way around the world. Caitanya taught that the highest aim of life is to develop selfless love for God Krishna, the blue-hued cowherd boy who spoke the Bhagavad Gita. Although only a handful of poetry is attributed to Caitanya, his devotional theology was expounded and systematized by his followers in a vast array of poetical, philosophical, and ritual literature. This book provides a thematic study of Caitanya Vaishnava philosophy, introducing key thinkers and ideas in the early tradition, using Sanskrit and Bengali sources that have seldom been studied in English. The book addresses major areas of the tradition, including epistemology, ontology, aesthetics, ethics, and history, and every chapter includes relevant readings from primary sources.

Download or read book Free Will Agency and Selfhood in Indian Philosophy written by Matthew R. Dasti and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the rich and variegated cluster of Indic philosophical traditions as they developed from the late Vedic period up to the pre-modern period, this book offers an understanding, according to each school, of the nature of free will and agency.

Download or read book Posthumous Editing of a Great Master s Work written by Graham M. Schweig and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2024-03-15 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Posthumous Editing of a Great Master's Work: Special Focus on the Writings of A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda examines how a leading figure's hallowed written and published works, which remain so important to the religious community, should be editorially treated following the leader's departure from this world. The volume addresses the theological, ethical, social, and legal implications of posthumous editing—and even improving—a great master's works. This book focuses on the extensive posthumous editing of the works of A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, the original world-teacher of Krishna bhakti of the twentieth century. After Swami Prabhupāda departed from this world, some of his disciples, without the expressed approval of the author, attempted to improve on his authorized published work, which resulted in the publication of a continuing series of inauthentic altered editions. This extreme editing of Swami Prabhupāda's works precipitated the scholarly research and inquiry into the posthumous editing of a great master's work that forms the basis of this book.

Download or read book A Supplementary Catalogue of Sanskrit Pali and Prakrit Books in the Library of the British Museum Acquired During the Years 1892 1928 written by British Museum. Department of Oriental Printed Books and Manuscripts and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Bh gavata Pur na written by Ravi M. Gupta and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-29 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Formalized by the tenth century, the expansive Bhagavata Purana resists easy categorization. While the narrative holds together as a coherent literary work, its language and expression compete with the best of Sanskrit poetry. The text's theological message focuses on devotion to Krishna or Vishnu, and its philosophical outlook is grounded in the classical traditions of Vedanta and Samkhya. No other Purana has inspired so much commentary, imitation, and derivation. The work has grown in vibrancy through centuries of performance, interpretation, worship, and debate and has guided the actions and meditations of elite intellectuals and everyday worshippers alike. This annotated translation and detailed analysis shows how one text can have such enduring appeal. Key selections from the Bhagavata Purana are faithfully translated, while all remaining sections of the Purana are concisely summarized, providing the reader with a continuous and comprehensive narrative. Detailed endnotes explain unfamiliar concepts and several essays elucidate the rich philosophical and religious debates found in the Sanskrit commentaries. Together with the multidisciplinary readings contained in the companion volume The Bhagavata Purana: Sacred Text and Living Tradition (Columbia, 2013), this book makes a central Hindu masterpiece more accessible to English-speaking audiences and more meaningful to scholars of Hindu literature, philosophy, and religion.

Download or read book Bhakti and Embodiment written by Barbara A. Holdrege and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-14 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The historical shift from Vedic traditions to post-Vedic bhakti (devotional) traditions is accompanied by a shift from abstract, translocal notions of divinity to particularized, localized notions of divinity and a corresponding shift from aniconic to iconic traditions and from temporary sacrificial arenas to established temple sites. In Bhakti and Embodiment Barbara Holdrege argues that the various transformations that characterize this historical shift are a direct consequence of newly emerging discourses of the body in bhakti traditions in which constructions of divine embodiment proliferate, celebrating the notion that a deity, while remaining translocal, can appear in manifold corporeal forms in different times and different localities on different planes of existence. Holdrege suggests that an exploration of the connections between bhakti and embodiment is critical not only to illuminating the distinctive transformations that characterize the emergence of bhakti traditions but also to understanding the myriad forms that bhakti has historically assumed up to the present time. This study is concerned more specifically with the multileveled models of embodiment and systems of bodily practices through which divine bodies and devotional bodies are fashioned in Krsna bhakti traditions and focuses in particular on two case studies: the Bhagavata Purana, the consummate textual monument to Vaisnava bhakti, which expresses a distinctive form of passionate and ecstatic bhakti that is distinguished by its embodied nature; and the Gaudiya Vaisnava tradition, an important bhakti tradition inspired by the Bengali leader Caitanya in the sixteenth century, which articulates a robust discourse of embodiment pertaining to the divine bodies of Krsna and the devotional bodies of Krsna bhaktas that is grounded in the canonical authority of the Bhagavata Purana.

Download or read book The Fifth Veda of Hinduism written by Ithamar Theodor and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-22 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bhagavata Purana is one of the most important, central and popular scriptures of Hinduism. A medieval Sanskrit text, its influence as a religious book has been comparable only to that of the great Hindu epics, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. Ithamar Theodor here offers the first analysis for twenty years of the Bhagavata Purana (often called the Fifth Veda ) and its different layers of meaning. He addresses its lyrical meditations on the activities of Krishna (avatar of Lord Vishnu), the central place it affords to the doctrine of bhakti (religious devotion) and its treatment of older Vedic traditions of knowledge. At the same time he places this subtle, poetical book within the context of the wider Hindu scriptures and the other Puranas, including the similar but less grand and significant Vishnu Purana. The author argues that the Bhagavata Purana is a unique work which represents the meeting place of two great orthodox Hindu traditions, the Vedic-Upanishadic and the Aesthetic. As such, it is one of India s greatest theological treatises. This book illuminates its character and continuing significance."

Download or read book Tattva Sandarbha written by Jīva Gosvāmī and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-23 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sandarbhas are one of Jīva Gosvāmī's major works. Sandarbha literally means "stringing together." Baladeva explains, "The wise say a Sandarbha is that which possesses various matters of importance which should be known. Bhāgavatam verses are gathered together (sandṛbhyate)."In this case, it is a literary composition consisting of a series of prose sections mixed with verse mainly from Bhāgavatam. It is in six parts which explain Gauḍiya epistemology, theology and philosophy. Tattva Sandarbha deals with the epistemology, while Bhagavat, Paramātmā and Kṛṣṇa Sandarbhas deal with object of worship (sambandha). Bhakti Sandarbha deals with the process or abhidheya, bhakti, and Prīti Sandarbha deals with the goal or prayojana, prema.Tattva Sandarbha first explains the various pramāṇas or methods of proof and concludes that śabda or scripture is the strongest. Using scriptural proofs, finally Bhāgavatam is concluded to be the best among all scriptures. The second part of Tattva Sandarbha explains prameya--what is proved by Bhāgavatam: Kṛṣṇa as the object of worship, bhakti as the method and prema as the goal. These topics are expanded in the other Sandarbhas.

Download or read book Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute Poona written by Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With 1918/20-1921/22 are bound Its Report. 1918/19-1921/22.

Download or read book Sri Chaitanya s Life and Teachings written by Steven Rosen and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-11-08 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on one of the greatest saint/avatāras of all time: Śrī Chaitanya Mahāprabhu. This charismatic religious leader popularized song and dance as a yogic science and conveyed teachings as relevant today as they were in his native Bengal some five hundred years ago. This is the story of how his message spread throughout the world.

Download or read book r mad Bh gavatam Canto One Chapter One written by Śrīdhara Svāmī and published by Vijay Somasundaram. This book was released on with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Śrīdhara Svāmī's commentary on the Bhāgavatam is the oldest extant full and most well-known commentary that is available to us today, though there were other commentators present before him. His commentary was praised by Lord Caitanya, "One who does not accept the svāmī as an authority I consider him a prostitute. Śrīdhara Svāmī is the spiritual master of the entire world because by his mercy we can understand Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. I therefore accept him as a spiritual master. One who comments on Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam following in the footsteps of Śrīdhara Svāmī will be honored and accepted by everyone." Therefore ācāryas in Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava sampradāya follow after Śrīdhara Svāmī in their commentaries on Bhāgavatam. Viśvanatha Cakravartī writes in his commentary "My eyes are covered by ignorance, but Śrīdhara Svāmī, who wrote Bhāvārtha-dīpikā, being very merciful to me in producing this commentary, is my means to success." Śrīla Prabhupāda calls Śrīdhara Svāmī as the original commentator on the Bhāgavatam. Some say that Śrīdhara Svāmī was an advaitian and later embraced bhakti, however, Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī says that he was never an advaitian rather was always a pure devotee of the Lord and belonged to Śrī Viṣṇu Svāmī sampradāya which is Rudra sampradāya. Nevertheless, Jīva Gośvāmī says in his Sandarbha, "In order to immerse the proponents of Advaita philosophy into the glories of the Lord, Śrīdhara Svāmī the great Vaiṣṇava uses their own philosophy [at times] in his variegated colored writings." Commenting on this Baladeva Vidyābhūṣaṇa says "Śrīdhara Svāmī is actually a Vaiṣṇava and he states in his writings that the Lord’s vibhūtis, abodes, qualities and forms, as well as the bodies of his associates are eternal and that bhakti to Bhagavān is the most attractive type of liberation. Sometimes he writes māyāvāda ideas, but it should be understood that its purpose is to lure the māyāvādīs to bhakti, by offering bait on a hook." So sometimes we might encounter statements in Śrīdhara Svāmī's commentary that look as if he is advocating māyāvāda, but many a times he vehemently goes against māyāvāda and establishes bhakti. Even then many of those statements which apparently look like māyāvāda philosophy can be taken with a bhakti interpretation and on footnotes I've tried to give bhakti explanations on those points which look like māyāvāda ideas following the footsteps of previous Ācāryas. Jīva Gośvāmī further says about Śrīdhara Svāmī in his Sandarbha, "Śrīdhara Svāmī's commentaries are quoted verbatim if they follow the pure Vaiṣṇava conclusions." This shows that Jīva Gośvāmī's commentary also follows mainly Śrīdhara Svāmī. Since Śrīdhara Svāmī's commentary becomes the main pramāṇa (evidence) for our ācāryas including Prabhupāda, reading it will give further insights into the commentaries of our ācāryas.

Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the India Office pt 1 Sanskrit books by by R Rost 1897 written by Great Britain. India Office. Library and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Theistic Ved nta written by R. Balasubramanian and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 1066 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Important Message Of All Vedantic Systems Is That The Understanding Of The Nature Of Brahman As The Source And Support Of All Beings Must Culminate Not Only In A New Vision, But Also In A New Way Of Lige. This Volume On Theistic Vedanta, Which Is A Sequel To The Earlier Volume On Advaita Vedanta, Contains Three Sections: The First One Explains The Heritage Of Saivism And Vaisnavism; The Second One Highlights The God-Man-World Relation Through A Variety Of Doctrines And Arguments As Formulated By The Illustrious Preceptors Of Vaisnava And Saiva Traditions; And The Third One Gives As Account Of The Teachings And Practices Of The Mystic-Saints Who Authenticated The Heritage Through Varieties Of Spiritual Experience. This Volume Will Be Of Interest For All Those Who Are Concerned With The Vedic-Agamic Heritage Which Has Gone Through A Long Span Of Time Retaining Its Identity.