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Author: Steven Rosen
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2023-03-15
Total Pages: 283
ISBN-13: 166693027X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The first book of its kind, Forms of Krishna: Collected Essays on Vaishnava Murtis is an exotic journey into the heart of Indian spirituality, explaining the entire esoteric tradition, including yoga and meditation, through a sampling of revered Vaishnava icons, Deities worship in temples throughout the world.
Author: John Stratton Hawley
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2019-11-30
Total Pages: 456
ISBN-13: 0190991348
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is a book about a deeply beloved place—many call it the spiritual capital of India. Located at a dramatic bend in the River Yamuna, a hundred miles from the center of Delhi, Vrindavan is the spot where the god Krishna is believed to have spent his childhood and youth. For Hindus it has always stood for youth writ large—a realm of love and beauty that enables one to retreat from the weight and harshness of the world. Now, though, the world is gobbling up Vrindavan. Delhi’s megalopolitan sprawl inches closer day by day—half the town is a vast real-estate development—and the waters of the Yamuna are too polluted to drink or even bathe in. Temples now style themselves as theme parks, and the world’s tallest religious building is under construction in Krishna’s pastoral paradise. What happens when the Anthropocene Age makes everything virtual? What happens when heaven gets plowed under? Like our age as a whole, Vrindavan throbs with feisty energy, but is it the religious canary in our collective coal mine?
Author: Mahendranath Gupta
Publisher: SRI MA TRUST
Published: 2008-10-07
Total Pages: 671
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book is a word-by-word translation of the original Bengali Edition of the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna. It contains the dialogues of the Bengali saint Ramakrishna written in almost stenographic accuracy. This edition is different translation of the Swami Nikhilananda Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna which was published in the forties and showed the restraint of that era.
Author: ARUN KUMAR MUKHERJEE
Publisher: Publications Division Ministry of Information & Broadcasting
Published: 2017-08-29
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ISBN-13: 8123024797
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book portrays Keshub Chunder Sen as one of the makers of modern India. The six chapters in the book depicts Keshub Sen as a philosopher and thinker, a journalist and a prose-maker. The book also describes Keshub's role as a social reformer and spokesman of India. Keshub Chunder's contribution to India's Renaissance in the nineteenth century is also detailed in this book.
Author: Ernest Philip Horrwitz
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Published: 1912
Total Pages: 224
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Publisher: Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math, India)
Published: 2017-09-28
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ISBN-13: 8175058129
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Streams of multi-branched sadhanas found an appropriate confluence in Sri Ramakrishna and the extent and depth of his spiritual realizations beggar description. The ablest biographer may find it difficult to comprehend the evolution of the Master’s inmost self and episodes of his divine transformation. Therefore the story of his unique life is best told by himself. This book published by Advaita Ashrama (Publication House of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math, India) is an attempt to form an autobiography of Sri Ramakrishna from his utterances about his life.
Author: Anna McDowell
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Published: 1987
Total Pages: 188
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Travel impressions of foreign visitors to a Hindu pilgrimage center in India.
Author: Kenneth Russell Valpey
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006-04-18
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 1134175450
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →There is a steady and growing scholarly, as well as popular interest in Hindu religion – especially devotional (bhakti) traditions as forms of spiritual practice and expressions of divine embodiment. Associated with this is the attention to sacred images and their worship. Attending Krishna's Image extends the discussion on Indian images and their worship, bringing historical and comparative dimensions and considering Krishna worship in the context of modernity, both in India and the West. It focuses on one specific worship tradition, the Chaitanya Vaishnava tradition of the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries, as it develops and sustains itself in two specific locales. By applying the comparative category of ‘religious truth’, the book provides a comprehensive understanding of a living religious tradition. It successfully demonstrates the understanding of devotion as a process of participation with divine embodiment in which worship of Krishna’s image is integral.
Author: Panchugopal Baksi
Publisher: Allied Publishers
Published: 2022-11-16
Total Pages: 716
ISBN-13: 9390951224
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Swami Vivekananda the matchless personality of the second millennium emphasized the word ‘Original’ while describing the unfathomable uniqueness and greatness of his master Sri Ramakrishna the greatest incarnation and embodiment of renunciation, austerity, and love. Swamiji wished that his brother-disciples should also possess originality of their own. An extensive research has been carried out to find out the testimonies of originality of not only the Master but of Holy Mother and their sixteen monastic disciples also. A painstaking attempt has been made to focus on the contribution of the illuminated souls to the history of genesis of the Ramakrishna order along with its multifaceted non-political, global philanthropic movement in this magnum opus. Once Swami Vivekananda said to his disciple Sharat Chandra Chakraborty: “Do you think these Sannyasin Children of Sri Ramakrishna are born simply to sit for meditation under trees lighting dhuni-fires? Whenever any of them will take up some work, people will be astonished to see their energy. Learn from them how to work.’’ Sri Ramakrishna’s teachings are very useful and relevant to people of all ages. The world heard the short but significant utterances—‘As many faiths so many paths.’, ‘To serve jiva as Shiva’; first from his lips. Swamiji a leading exponent of fearlessness and positive thinking, introduced ‘man-making religion’—a universal religion. He said,’’ The first of all worship is the worship of the Virat—of those all around us….These are all our gods—men and animals, and the first gods we have to worship are our countrymen.’’ In this age of the ‘the fret and the fever’ these historic proclamations are the antidote to fanaticism, intolerance towards different religions and pessimism. The author has meticulously discussed how the direct monastic disciples of Sri Ramakrishna had made Vedanta an organized religion that does not stress rituals, a rigid set of practices, theory, dogma or doctrine and the living being and its reason is the centre of the religion and how they had shown quite apart from their scrupulous honesty and unfailing dedication—a degree of organizational, managerial and administrative ability that could be the envy of professional specialists in different spheres of activity. This glorious history deserves wide circulation for the promotion of religious tolerance, catholic outlook and the ideals of equality and fraternity. Target Readers: People interested in spirituality, researchers, people fond of thought-provoking repository articles and curious book-lovers.
