The Rig Veda
Author | : Ralph T. H. Griffith, Translator |
Publisher | : Library of Alexandria |
Total Pages | : 1187 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1465579494 |
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Author | : Ralph T. H. Griffith, Translator |
Publisher | : Library of Alexandria |
Total Pages | : 1187 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1465579494 |
Author | : Philip Goldberg |
Publisher | : Harmony |
Total Pages | : 427 |
Release | : 2010-11-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0307719618 |
A fascinating look at India’s remarkable impact on Western culture, this eye-opening popular history shows how the ancient philosophy of Vedanta and the mind-body methods of Yoga have profoundly affected the worldview of millions of Americans and radically altered the religious landscape. What exploded in the 1960s, following the Beatles trip to India for an extended stay with their new guru, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, actually began more than two hundred years earlier, when the United States started importing knowledge--as well as tangy spices and colorful fabrics--from Asia. The first translations of Hindu texts found their way into the libraries of John Adams and Ralph Waldo Emerson. From there the ideas spread to Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, and succeeding generations of receptive Americans, who absorbed India’s “science of consciousness” and wove it into the fabric of their lives. Charismatic teachers like Swami Vivekananda and Paramahansa Yogananda came west in waves, prompting leading intellectuals, artists, and scientists such as Aldous Huxley, Joseph Campbell, Allen Ginsberg, J. D. Salinger, John Coltrane, Dean Ornish, and Richard Alpert, aka Ram Dass, to adapt and disseminate what they learned from them. The impact has been enormous, enlarging our current understanding of the mind and body and dramatically changing how we view ourselves and our place in the cosmos. Goldberg paints a compelling picture of this remarkable East-to-West transmission, showing how it accelerated through the decades and eventually moved from the counterculture into our laboratories, libraries, and living rooms. Now physicians and therapists routinely recommend meditation, words like karma and mantra are part of our everyday vocabulary, and Yoga studios are as ubiquitous as Starbuckses. The insights of India’s sages permeate so much of what we think, believe, and do that they have redefined the meaning of life for millions of Americans—and continue to do so every day. Rich in detail and expansive in scope, American Veda shows how we have come to accept and live by the central teaching of Vedic wisdom: “Truth is one, the wise call it by many names.”
Author | : Kenneth G. Zysk |
Publisher | : Motilal Banarsidass Publishe |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Healing |
ISBN | : 9788120814011 |
Author | : Satyakam Vidyalankar |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Hindu hymns, Sanskrit |
ISBN | : 9788185120546 |
Author | : Wendy Doniger |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2005-03-31 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0141923989 |
The earliest of the four Hindu religious scriptures known as the Vedas, and the first extensive composition to survive in any Indo-European language, the Rig Veda (c. 1200-900 BC) is a collection of over 1,000 individual Sanskrit hymns. A work of intricate beauty, it provides a unique insight into early Indian mythology, religion and culture. This selection of 108 of the hymns, chosen for their eloquence and wisdom, focuses on the enduring themes of creation, sacrifice, death, women, the sacred plant soma and the gods. Inspirational and profound, it provides a fascinating introduction to one of the founding texts of Hindu scripture - an awesome and venerable ancient work of Vedic ritual, prayer, philosophy, legend and faith.
Author | : Dipavali Debroy |
Publisher | : Low Price Publications |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2003-12-31 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9788173860270 |
Retold in simple language, underlining importance of each Purana, with a lucid summary.
Author | : Barbara A. Holdrege |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 784 |
Release | : 2012-02-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1438406959 |
Enlarges our understanding of the term "scripture" through a comparative study of Veda and Torah.
Author | : Padma Venkatraman |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2014-05-01 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 0698158261 |
Padma Venkatraman’s inspiring story of a young girl’s struggle to regain her passion and find a new peace is told lyrically through verse that captures the beauty and mystery of India and the ancient bharatanatyam dance form. This is a stunning novel about spiritual awakening, the power of art, and above all, the courage and resilience of the human spirit. Veda, a classical dance prodigy in India, lives and breathes dance—so when an accident leaves her a below-knee amputee, her dreams are shattered. For a girl who’s grown used to receiving applause for her dance prowess and flexibility, adjusting to a prosthetic leg is painful and humbling. But Veda refuses to let her disability rob her of her dreams, and she starts all over again, taking beginner classes with the youngest dancers. Then Veda meets Govinda, a young man who approaches dance as a spiritual pursuit. As their relationship deepens, Veda reconnects with the world around her, and begins to discover who she is and what dance truly means to her.
Author | : Arthur Anthony Macdonell |
Publisher | : Vijaya Publishing |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : |
Select Hymns devoted to various deities, with descriptive notes, transliteration and translated into English by an authority on the subject. Perhaps the best book about the Vedas for the lay educated reader-Hymns of Agni, Indra, Varuna, Soma, Ashvins, Ushas, Yama, Mandukas, Pitaras, Purusha Sukta, Creation, Gambler etc.