Download or read book Varuna Vayu written by Dr. A. S. Venugopal Rao and published by Bharatha Samskruthi Prakashana. This book was released on 2019-03-06 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Varuna is the god of Divyaloka, the lord of days and nights and is kind and considerate. He is the creator of the earth, the sky and of the laws of Nature. Surya is his eye and air is his breath. It is Varuna who has placed Surya, Agni and Soma in their positions. With time, Varuna’s unchallenged position changed as Devendra became the chief of Gods. However, he remained the same – compassionate and benevolent. Varuna is sage Kashyapa’s son and his son is sage Bhrigu. He is one of the ashtadikpalakas, being the Lord of the west. He was one of the Gods who vouched for Sita’s fidelity. Once he violated the tenets of dharma when he kidnapped Bhadra, Soma’s daughter, Sage Atri’s grand daughter and Uthathya’s wife. With the power of his tapas, Uthathya drained the waters of seas and oceans. Varuna got scared , restored Bhadra to him and begged his pardon. Vayu is one of the panchabhootas, the cause of daily yajnas. As he has five forms, he’s called Panchapraana. He has two basic qualities – sound and sense of feel. As long as he dwells in our body, we live. In the Chandogya Upanishad, we are told how Vayu is crucial for the survival of all the organs of the body. Vayudeva’s pride took a test at the hands of a yaksha when the former couldn’t lift a blade of grass. Anjaneya and Bhima were born of his blessings. The entire sky is his living place and he is the soul of the Devas. He preached dharma and was successful in correcting Karthaveeryarjuna. Along with Indra and Varuna, he also convinced Rama of Sita’s fidelity. Our other books here can be searched using #BharathaSamskruthiPrakashana

Download or read book Dhantasura written by Jayanth Dev and published by Jayanth Dev. B. K. This book was released on 2023-04-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When injustice threatens Dharma, the Lord himself will come to set things straight. But what if God himself violates Dharma? That is when Dhantasura crossed the threshold. He was a monster endowed with the abilities of every living thing. Dhantasura journeyed across boundaries and mental landscapes, moving from naiveté to wisdom as he developed his perceptual powers. Despite the gods, the politics, and the odds, he had to come to face the injustice head-on. He goes up against the potent deities, fully armed with his grief and desire for vengeance. Thrilling and fast-paced, Dhantasura - War of Justice against the Gods, Book 1 of the Dhantasura trilogy, sets the stage for the action of epic proportions.

Download or read book The Reign of the Vedic Gods written by Swami Achuthananda and published by Relianz Communications Pty Ltd. This book was released on 2018-06-06 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Home to one of the ancient civilizations of the world, India is also the birthplace of a dizzying array of gods worshipped by millions of Hindus living in India and across the globe. Over the centuries many of these gods rose to power and became the object of utmost devotion, only to fall from grace and lose their standing. These deities shared a peculiar trait: they were never perfect. In this multivolume series entitled, The Galaxy of Hindu Gods, Sach takes you on an extended journey to meet with the gods and share their tales with you. Among the multitude of deities, the most ancient are the Vedic gods, which include luminaries like Indra, Surya, Varuna, Agni, and others. Today a minor deity, the Vedic Indra was once the ruler of the three worlds who, under the influence of a mysterious power drink, fought with the demons and vanquished them. His reign did not last long. His comrades Surya and Varuna also had their glory days but were overthrown by other gods of the pantheon. Yet, after thousands of years, gods like Indra, Surya, and Varuna are still household names and honored in Hindu rituals and traditions. If you know little or nothing about Hindu mythology, this is your ideal starting point where you will meet the overwhelming array of Hindu gods and learn about their wonderful stories.

Download or read book Essence Of Vedas written by Dr. Brij Raj Kishore and published by Diamond Pocket Books (P) Ltd.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Essays in Hindu Theology written by Anantanand Rambachan and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work offers a series of theological explorations of themes not usually addressed in standard treatments of the Hindu tradition. RambachanÂs retrieval of these distinctive insights of Hindu theology has implications that extend across the world's religions, and that touches upon key areas of mutual interest and concern. Beginning with a general introduction to the Hindu theological tradition, the book examines several key issues in Hindu theology and its engagement with contemporary religious, social, political, and inter-faith questions, including the theological methods employed in the study of Hinduism, the discernment of vocation, the theological grounds for social justice in the Hindu tradition, religion and nationalism, violence and non-violence, theological resources for interreligious dialogue (especially among Hindus and Christians), hospitality and openness to the stranger, and spirituality and holiness. In exploring these issues, this study draws deeply from Hindu authoritative sources, but does not limit itself to description. Each chapter is also a work in constructive theology, offering an interpretation of the Hindu tradition appropriate for life in our contemporary world. Essays in Hindu Theology will be of great interest not only to theologians and scholars, but to all who are invested in interreligious understanding and theological engagements with modern challenges.

Download or read book Shiva Purana written by Bibek Debroy and published by Penguin Random House India Private Limited. This book was released on 2023-05-29 with total page 725 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Shiva Purana is the fifth book in an eighteen-part series on the sacred Hindu texts known collectively as the Puranas. Translated with great rigor and precision, Bibek Debroy recounts the tales of creation and the many myths that surround Lord Shiva in twenty-four thousand shlokas and an introduction that simplifies the myth and history of the Puranas. Brimming with insight and clarity, this translation presents readers with an opportunity to truly understand classical Indian texts. Previous translations by Bibek Debroy include the Bhagavata Purana, the Markandeya Purana, the Brahma Purana, and the Vishnu Purana.

Download or read book Comparative Religious And Philosophies Anthropomorphlsm And Divinity written by Mahinder N. Gulati and published by Atlantic Publishers & Dist. This book was released on 2008 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An Anthology of Essays on Vedanta written by Prof. V. Krishnamurthy and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2023-11-18 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a modest compilation of 8 essays in Vedanta and around 40 summaries of speeches given by experts in Global Festival of Oneness 2021. Among the first 8 essays the eighth one is what is called Vedanta Sopanam in 27 shlokas; this constitutes the crux of the book as indicated by the design of the cover. These give you spiritually graded levels of shlokas from various scriptures. They take you from rock bottom to the highest spiritual level catering to successive age levels 20, 40, 60 and 80. The other forty summaries by me provide a wide supplement under various headings. Each of these stands on its own and can be enjoyed individually also.

Download or read book Orientalia Rheno traiectina written by Hendrik Willem Obbink and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Narmada Parikrama written by Vivek Ji and published by DK Printworld (P) Ltd. This book was released on 2024-09-11 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book recounts the journey of Vivek ji and numerous others during the years 2022-23 along the revered banks of the Narmada river. The book is not just a travelogue of the author’s journey along the banks of the river, but also a documentation of the numerous ancient teerthas that are scattered along the holy banks of Narmada, which have been mostly forgotten by everyone. The teerthas are the starting point of the Narmada Parikrama, playing a crucial role in shaping this tradition. Vivek ji’s Narmada parikrama was a journey undertaken with the purpose of immersing oneself in the spiritual landscapes of the sacred Narmada river. However, it was the parikrama that ultimately uncovered and drew attention to the Teerthas.

Download or read book The Sculpture of Early Medieval Rajasthan written by Cynthia Packert Atherton and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-07-31 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A survey of artistic, religious, and historical developments in early medieval Rajasthan. It analyzes patterns of change in temple sculpture and architecture, and argues for a reinterpretation of the relationship between art, religion, and politics.

Download or read book Indian Architectural Theory and Practice written by Vibhuti Chakrabarti and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this ground-breaking study the traditional Indian science of architecture and house-building,Vastu Vidya, is explored in terms of its secular uses, at the levels of both theory and contemporary practice. Vastu Vidya is treated as constituting a coherent and complete architectural programme, still of great relevance today. Chakrabarti draws on an impressive amount of textual material, much of it only available in Sanskrit, and presents several extremely valuable illustrations in support of the theories expounded. Each chapter deals with one architectural aspect, and chapters are divided into three sections. For each aspect, the first section explains the prescriptions of the traditional texts; the second section deals with the rather arbitrary use of that aspect by contemporary Indian architects trained in the western manner but striving to relate to Indian roots; while the last section in each chapter explores the selected use of that particular aspect by contemporary Vastu pundits, with their disregard for architectural idiom.

Download or read book Studies in Saiva Siddhanta written by J. M. NALLASVĀMI PIḶḶAI and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sanity and Solitude written by Bob Spencer and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world is a mad place and the various vicissitudes of life appear to make it more so. The inherent mutability in nature can swing from the serendipitous to surreal malignity within a matter of moments. In this day and age, events can be ephemeral or appear so prolonged we are left, agonisingly, to wonder if they will ever terminate at all. To be lost in such a bewildering universe, when it feels impossible to gather oneself, to take stock of the changeability or to bear the interminable, we feel impotent, overwhelmed and wrongfully abused. Sanity and Solitude is one mans ramble through these frightful absurdities and contradictions that appear to confront us at every turn. To understand insanity one has to travel oneself to the very fringes of insanity itself for better or for worse. We are the clouds that veil the midnight moon; How restlessly they speed, and gleam, and quiver, Streaking the darkness radiantly!--yet soon Night closes round, and they are lost forever. (Percy Bysshe Shelley)

Download or read book Satsang written by Swami Shashwat Ji and published by Motilal Banarsidass. This book was released on 2024-09-01 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "To know the Self is the birth right of every individual. If you do not know who you are even after knowing everything, then what do you really know? The ultimate peace you are looking for lies within you. You are the very truth that you wish to discover. Stop wandering, rest in yourself, keep quiet, and listen to the sacred Silence behind all thoughts, words, experiences, states, sounds, and actions. Recognize the eternal Bliss that you are, in which everything happens spontaneously and without effort." For over a decade, people from different countries around the world have been meeting with Swami Shashwat Ji and seeking his wisdom on life and spirituality. These enlightening Satsangs were meticulously recorded and transcribed, then carefully edited and compiled into a book to allow readers to enjoy Swamiji's unadulterated words on various subjects. After reading Swamiji's teachings, one can easily know one's true Self because he not only answers all questions in a frank and direct manner, but under his loving guidance, the seeker's questions simply fall away. In the end, only Silence and Bliss remain and reveal themselves as our true nature, which does not go anywhere and does not come from anywhere, for it has always been there. Swamiji awakens us to this essential Truth and invites us to embark on the journey to Self-discovery and inner peace. About the Author Swamiji was born in 1985 in a small village in Madhya Pradesh in central India, on the banks of the river Narmada. As a child, he was curious by nature, eager to know about the lives and sadhana or spiritual practices of saints like Dhruv and Prahlad, about snature, about life and death. At the tender age of five, he began chanting Lord Rama’s name for several hours daily. At the time, he did no other practice and knew nothing else except that he wanted to unite with the Lord. His thirst for the Truth led him to leave his home at the age of fourteen, and he started visiting different places of pilgrimage and meeting different saints along the way. Occasionally, he would stay with his guru, Baba Shri Gajanand Ji Maharaj, and serve him with love and devotion.

Download or read book The Hymns of the Rigveda written by Ralph T. H. Griffith and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 1920 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the dim twilight preceding the dawn of Indian literature the historical imagination can perceive the forms of Aryan warriors, the first Western conquerors of Hindustan, issuing from those passes in the north-west through which the tide of invasion has in successive ages rolled to sweep over the plains of India. The earliest poetry of this invading race, whose language and culture ultimately overspread the whole continent, was composed while its tribes still occupied the territories on both sides of the Indus now known as Eastern Kabulistan and the Panjab. That ancient poetry has come down to us in the form of a collection of hymns called the Rigveda. The cause which gathered the poems it contains into a single book was scientific and historical. The number of hymns comprised in the Rigveda, in the only recension which has been preserved, that of the Çakala school, is 1017, or, if the eleven supplementary hymns (called Valakhilya) which are inserted in the middle of the eighth book are added, 1028. These hymns are grouped in ten books, called mandalas, or "cycles," which vary in length, except that the tenth contains the same number of hymns as the first. In bulk the hymns of the Rigveda equal, it has been calculated, the surviving poems of Homer.

Download or read book The Yajur Veda Taittiriya Sanhita written by Arthur Berriedale Keith and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: