Download or read book The Dev G t written by C. Mackenzie Brown and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1998-09-11 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a translation, with introduction, commentary, and annotation, of the medieval Hindu Sanskrit text the Devi Gita (Song of the Goddess). It is an important but not well-known text from the rich SAakta (Goddess) tradition of India. The Devi Gita was composed about the fifteenth century C.E., in partial imitation of the famous Bhagavad Gita (Song of the Lord), composed some fifteen centuries earlier. Around the sixth century C.E., following the rise of several male deities to prominence, a new theistic movement began in which the supreme being was envisioned as female, known as the Great Goddess (Maha-Devi). Appearing first as a violent and blood-loving deity, this Goddess gradually evolved into a more benign figure, a compassionate World-Mother and bestower of salvific wisdom. It is in this beneficent mode that the Goddess appears in the Devi Gita. This work makes available an up-to-date translation of the Devi Gita, along with a historical and theological analysis of the text. The book is divided into sections of verses, and each section is followed by a comment explaining key terms, concepts, ritual procedures, and mythic themes. The comments also offer comparisons with related schools of thought, indicate parallel texts and textual sources of verses in the Devi Gita, and briefly elucidate the historical and religious background, supplementing the remarks of the introduction.

Download or read book The Song of the Goddess written by and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Devi Gita, literally the "Song of the Goddess," is an Eastern spiritual classic that appeared around the fifteenth century C.E. C. Mackenzie Brown provides a reader-friendly English translation of this sacred text taken from his well-regarded previous book The Devi Gita: The Song of the Goddess, A Translation, Annotation, and Commentary. Here the translation is presented uninterrupted, without the scholarly annotations of the original version, and in its entirety for the pleasure of all readers who wish to encounter this treasure from the world's sacred literature. Often neglected, the Devi Gita deserves to be better known for its presentations of one of the great Hindu visions of the divine conceived in feminine terms. The work depicts the universe as created, pervaded, and protected by a supremely powerful, all-knowing, and wholly compassionate divine female. It also describes the various spiritual paths leading to realization of unity with the Goddess. The author of the Devi Gita intended for the work to supplant the famous teachings of Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita (the "Song of the Lord") from a goddess-inspired perspective.

Download or read book The Dev Gita Song of the Goddess written by Unknown and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Dev i G it a written by Cheever Mackenzie Brown and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Devi Gita written by Cheever Mackenzie Brown and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This translation and commentary on an important Hindu text on the Great Goddess envisions a universe created and protected by a compassionate female deity.

Download or read book The Song of God Bhagavad Gita written by Swami Prabhavananda and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Devi Gita written by Veda Vyasa and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-06-04 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Devi Gita is a dialogue between Parvati and her father Himavat. It deals with the universal form of the Devi, meditations on the major texts of Upanishads, ashtanga-yoga, the yogas of jnana, karma and bhakti, locations of the temples dedicated to the Devi and the rituals pertaining to her worship.

Download or read book Bhagavad Gita written by and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book THE SONG CELESTIAL written by EDWIN ARNOLD and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Song of God written by Eugene E. Whitworth and published by Delhi : Gita Ashram. This book was released on 1972 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Hindu Goddesses written by Lynn Foulston and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-03 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the diversity of Hindu goddesses and the variety of ways in which they are worshipped. Although they undoubtedly have ancient origins, Hindu goddesses and their worship is still very much a part of the fabric of religious engagement in India today. This book offers an introduction to a complex and often baffling field of study.

Download or read book The Song of God written by and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Lord S Song Gita written by Dr.Sant K.Bhatnagar and published by Pustak Mahal. This book was released on 2009-01-27 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gita is the grand repository of spiritual knowledge. the Mahabharata says, "Gita comprises all the scriptures as it has emerged directly from God himself." This unique bouquet of heavenly flowers has passed through the hands of millions of readers, but its freshness, beauty and fragrance has not wilted wee-bit, its liveliness has rather increased with every passing moment. It is an unfathomable ocean of knowledge and wisdom; the more we explore the more remains to be explored. Its casts an undying spiritual spell on its votaries. Its keynote is to perform one's duty as duty, and offer all its actions to the lord without attachment to their fruits like a true devotee. This rare bouquet of divine knowledge consists of 700 couplets (shlokas) in Sanskrit language and every shloka radiates divine fragrance and beauty, which is infinite, deathless and imperishable.

Download or read book Bhagavad Gita written by Veda Vyasa and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bhagavad Gita, or the song of God, was revealed by Lord Shree Krishna to Arjun on the threshold of the epic war of Mahabharata. A decisive battle between two sets of cousins, the Kauravas and the Pandavas, was just about to commence on the battlefield of Kurukshetra. A detailed account of the reasons that led to such a colossal war is given under Introduction-The Setting of the Bhagavad Gita. The Bhagavad Gita is primarily a conversation between Lord Shree Krishna and Arjun. Yet, the first chapter begins with a dialogue between King Dhritarashtra and his minister Sanjay. Dhritarashtra being blind, could not leave his palace in Hastinapur but was eager to know the ongoings of the battlefield. Sanjay was a disciple of Sage Ved Vyas, the author of the epic Mahabharata and several other Hindu scriptures. Sage Ved Vyas possessed a mystic ability to see and hear events occurring in distant places. He had bestowed upon Sanjay the miraculous power of distant vision. Therefore, Sanjay could see and hear what transpired on the battleground of Kurukshetra, and gave a first-hand account to King Dhritarashtra, while still being in his palace.

Download or read book The Goddess in Hindu Tantric Traditions written by Anway Mukhopadhyay and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-20 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Goddess, in her various puranic and tantric forms, is often figured as sitting on a corpse which is identified as Shiva-as-shava (God Shiva, the consort of the Devi and an iconic representation of the Absolute without attributes, the Nirguna Brahman). Hence, most of the existing critical works and ethnographic studies on Shaktism and the tantras have focused on the theological and symbolic paraphernalia of the corpses which operate as the asanas (seats) of the Devi in her various iconographies. This book explores the figurations of the Goddess as corpse in several Hindu puranic and Shakta-tantric texts, popular practices, folk belief systems, legends and various other cultural phenomena based on this motif. It deals with a more intricate and fundamental issue than existing works on the subject: how and why is the Devi – herself - figured as a corpse in the Shakta texts, belief systems and folk practices associated with the tantras? The issues which have been raised in this book include: how does death become a complement to life within this religious epistemology? How does one learn to live with death, thereby lending new definitions and new epistemic and existential dimensions to life and death? And what is the relation between death and gender within this kind of figuration of the Goddess as death and dead body? Analysing multiple mythic narratives, hymns and scriptural texts where the Devi herself is said to take the form of the Shava (the corpse) as well as the Shakti who animates dead matter, this book focuses not only on the concept of the theological equivalence of the Shava (Shiva as corpse) and the Shakti (Energy) in tantras but also on the status of the Divine Mother as the Great Bridge between the apparently irreconcilable opposites, the mediatrix between Spirit and Matter, death and life, existence-in-stasis and existence-in-kinesis. This book makes an important contribution to the fields of Hindu Studies, Goddess Spirituality, South Asian Religions, Women and Religion, India, Studies in Shaktism and Tantra, Cross-cultural Religious Studies, Gender Studies, Postcolonial Spirituality and Ecofeminism.

Download or read book The Lord s Song written by Rory J Colgan and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2020-12-18 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most often called The Bhagavad Gita, The Lord's Song captures a conversation with the Lord God, known as Krishna, and Arjuna, a prince of the Pandus, an ancient Indian tribe. Metaphysically, the story is about you and your relationship to God, often called the Real Self. Who or what is the Real Self? How do we connect with it? What does it mean to live for the Real Self and the Real Self alone? Perhaps this story will give you some answers that you seek, and perhaps remind you of the truth that you know deeply within. Perhaps this story, presented as a conversation between any human and the divine, will be exactly what you need.