Author: Guy Donahaye
Publisher: North Point Press
ISBN: 1429980427
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
AN UNPRECEDENTED PORTRAIT OF A GREAT YOGA TEACHER AND THE WAYS IN WHICH TEACHINGS AND TRADITIONS ARE PASSED ON It is a rare and remarkable soul who becomes legendary during the course of his life by virtue of great service to others. Sri K. Pattabhi Jois was such a soul, and through his teaching of yoga, he transformed the lives of countless people. The school in Mysore that he founded and ran for more than sixty years trained students who, through the knowledge they received and their devotion, have helped to spread the daily practice of traditional Ashtanga yoga to tens of thousands around the world. Guruji paints a unique portrait of a unique man, revealed through the accounts of his students. Among the thirty men and women interviewed here are Indian students from Jois's early teaching days; intrepid Americans and Europeans who traveled to Mysore to learn yoga in the 1970s; and important family members who studied as well as lived with Jois and continue to practice and teach abroad or run the Ashtanga Yoga Institute today. Many of the contributors (as well as the authors) are influential teachers who convey their experience of Jois every day to students in many different parts of the globe. Anyone interested in the living tradition of yoga will find Guruji richly rewarding.
Guruji
Author: Guy Donahaye
Publisher: North Point Press
ISBN: 1429980427
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
AN UNPRECEDENTED PORTRAIT OF A GREAT YOGA TEACHER AND THE WAYS IN WHICH TEACHINGS AND TRADITIONS ARE PASSED ON It is a rare and remarkable soul who becomes legendary during the course of his life by virtue of great service to others. Sri K. Pattabhi Jois was such a soul, and through his teaching of yoga, he transformed the lives of countless people. The school in Mysore that he founded and ran for more than sixty years trained students who, through the knowledge they received and their devotion, have helped to spread the daily practice of traditional Ashtanga yoga to tens of thousands around the world. Guruji paints a unique portrait of a unique man, revealed through the accounts of his students. Among the thirty men and women interviewed here are Indian students from Jois's early teaching days; intrepid Americans and Europeans who traveled to Mysore to learn yoga in the 1970s; and important family members who studied as well as lived with Jois and continue to practice and teach abroad or run the Ashtanga Yoga Institute today. Many of the contributors (as well as the authors) are influential teachers who convey their experience of Jois every day to students in many different parts of the globe. Anyone interested in the living tradition of yoga will find Guruji richly rewarding.
Publisher: North Point Press
ISBN: 1429980427
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
AN UNPRECEDENTED PORTRAIT OF A GREAT YOGA TEACHER AND THE WAYS IN WHICH TEACHINGS AND TRADITIONS ARE PASSED ON It is a rare and remarkable soul who becomes legendary during the course of his life by virtue of great service to others. Sri K. Pattabhi Jois was such a soul, and through his teaching of yoga, he transformed the lives of countless people. The school in Mysore that he founded and ran for more than sixty years trained students who, through the knowledge they received and their devotion, have helped to spread the daily practice of traditional Ashtanga yoga to tens of thousands around the world. Guruji paints a unique portrait of a unique man, revealed through the accounts of his students. Among the thirty men and women interviewed here are Indian students from Jois's early teaching days; intrepid Americans and Europeans who traveled to Mysore to learn yoga in the 1970s; and important family members who studied as well as lived with Jois and continue to practice and teach abroad or run the Ashtanga Yoga Institute today. Many of the contributors (as well as the authors) are influential teachers who convey their experience of Jois every day to students in many different parts of the globe. Anyone interested in the living tradition of yoga will find Guruji richly rewarding.
Guru Nanak and Sikh Guru
Author: M.D. Sharma
Publisher: Mahesh Dutt Sharma
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 43
Book Description
One can find a perfect combination of simplicity and spirituality in the personality of Guru Nanak Devji. He was a prophet as well as a universal chief, a devotee and a mentor, a poet and a lyricist, a singer and a composer, a wanderer and a native. It is truly said, ‘Nanak Shah Monk. Hindu’s Guru and Muslim’s sectarian leader. Around 550 years ago, on the holy land of India, an epoch-making, philosopher, revolutionary, socialist, religious, preacher of immortality and a visibility of ultimate spiritual light seen was born. This person was named as Nanak. The radiance of Allah and light of God in Nanak was recognized first by simplex daulta, Nanakji’s sister, and Nawab Rai Baular. When Pandit Hardyl saw Nanakji, at that very moment he commented that this boy was super-human from the light of God. Brother Guru Dasji also has said beautifully, “The birth of Sat Guru Nanak is like the end of sorrows in humanity. From childhood, Nanakji was a saint like nature. His mind was more on spirituality and the welfare of the society. For the welfare of the society, through his education, he had opposed the differences between Hindus and Muslims, and the false religious practices. He focused more on the sanctity of mind, simplicity, divinity, and behavior to be the only path for every human to reach God. He said, “Allah has said that all are God’s children, God has created all.” When Guru Nanakji met Siddhi, they asked him about his caste; on this, he replied, ‘Regard everyone to be of the same caste and creed, as no one is small or big, as taught by our holy books.’ Guru Nanakji had established simplicity and equality thinking amongst humans. His principle was to achieve control on the mind because the person who gets success in controlling his mind is the only one who can control the world. This success cannot be gained through weapons or bombs, rather, only through principles. After this win, it is a lifetime win. When was he questioned that under his eyes whether Hindu was bigger or Muslim? He gave a very beautiful and straight reply that, ‘Without good actions, both are useless. At the doors of God and Allah, that person is only accepted who is true by character, helpful, and follows his purpose of life. In the world, everyone bends down for selfishness, and not for others. He says very clearly that there is no sense in bending your head when your mind is not pure. He believes that just by showing off, you will not achieve anything because God is Supreme Being who can read everyone’s mind. Nanakji, in one of his teachings, has also warned us to be away from hypocrisy and falsehood because they are pervasive in humanity. He puts more emphasis on the word of God by following the directions of awaking individuals, rather than the minds of the frustrated peoples. In this E-Book, we are going to present about Nanakji’s birth, life, preaching, and messages to all.
Publisher: Mahesh Dutt Sharma
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 43
Book Description
One can find a perfect combination of simplicity and spirituality in the personality of Guru Nanak Devji. He was a prophet as well as a universal chief, a devotee and a mentor, a poet and a lyricist, a singer and a composer, a wanderer and a native. It is truly said, ‘Nanak Shah Monk. Hindu’s Guru and Muslim’s sectarian leader. Around 550 years ago, on the holy land of India, an epoch-making, philosopher, revolutionary, socialist, religious, preacher of immortality and a visibility of ultimate spiritual light seen was born. This person was named as Nanak. The radiance of Allah and light of God in Nanak was recognized first by simplex daulta, Nanakji’s sister, and Nawab Rai Baular. When Pandit Hardyl saw Nanakji, at that very moment he commented that this boy was super-human from the light of God. Brother Guru Dasji also has said beautifully, “The birth of Sat Guru Nanak is like the end of sorrows in humanity. From childhood, Nanakji was a saint like nature. His mind was more on spirituality and the welfare of the society. For the welfare of the society, through his education, he had opposed the differences between Hindus and Muslims, and the false religious practices. He focused more on the sanctity of mind, simplicity, divinity, and behavior to be the only path for every human to reach God. He said, “Allah has said that all are God’s children, God has created all.” When Guru Nanakji met Siddhi, they asked him about his caste; on this, he replied, ‘Regard everyone to be of the same caste and creed, as no one is small or big, as taught by our holy books.’ Guru Nanakji had established simplicity and equality thinking amongst humans. His principle was to achieve control on the mind because the person who gets success in controlling his mind is the only one who can control the world. This success cannot be gained through weapons or bombs, rather, only through principles. After this win, it is a lifetime win. When was he questioned that under his eyes whether Hindu was bigger or Muslim? He gave a very beautiful and straight reply that, ‘Without good actions, both are useless. At the doors of God and Allah, that person is only accepted who is true by character, helpful, and follows his purpose of life. In the world, everyone bends down for selfishness, and not for others. He says very clearly that there is no sense in bending your head when your mind is not pure. He believes that just by showing off, you will not achieve anything because God is Supreme Being who can read everyone’s mind. Nanakji, in one of his teachings, has also warned us to be away from hypocrisy and falsehood because they are pervasive in humanity. He puts more emphasis on the word of God by following the directions of awaking individuals, rather than the minds of the frustrated peoples. In this E-Book, we are going to present about Nanakji’s birth, life, preaching, and messages to all.
Stumbling Into Infinity
Author: Michael Fischman
Publisher: Morgan James Publishing
ISBN: 1600376487
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
The intimate and sometime startling account of Fischman's spiritual journey and the encounter that changed his life forever.
Publisher: Morgan James Publishing
ISBN: 1600376487
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
The intimate and sometime startling account of Fischman's spiritual journey and the encounter that changed his life forever.
Vedic Metaphysics
Author: Swami Bharati Krishna Tirtha
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN: 9788120810921
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
First time in the history of India, in 1958, a Sankaracarya visited West. The author, His Holiness Jagadguru Sankaracarya Sri Bharati Krsna Tirtha of Puri, went to America at the invitation of the Self Realization Fellowship, Los Angeles, to spread the message of Vedanta. This book is a compilation of some of his discourses delivered there. These discourses by a saint-yogi and master of ancient Indian scriptures, also well-versed in modern sciences, give the essentials of Vedanta. They combine authenticity of thought with simplicity of language. Being couched in the contemporary idiom they will be found to be particularly suited to the modern mind. Though addressed to American audiences, the discourses carry a message of eternal truth and of universal application. The steps of spiritual inquiry and the paths of God-realisation outlined in them will be of immense practical use to the readers in their quest for the Supreme.
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN: 9788120810921
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
First time in the history of India, in 1958, a Sankaracarya visited West. The author, His Holiness Jagadguru Sankaracarya Sri Bharati Krsna Tirtha of Puri, went to America at the invitation of the Self Realization Fellowship, Los Angeles, to spread the message of Vedanta. This book is a compilation of some of his discourses delivered there. These discourses by a saint-yogi and master of ancient Indian scriptures, also well-versed in modern sciences, give the essentials of Vedanta. They combine authenticity of thought with simplicity of language. Being couched in the contemporary idiom they will be found to be particularly suited to the modern mind. Though addressed to American audiences, the discourses carry a message of eternal truth and of universal application. The steps of spiritual inquiry and the paths of God-realisation outlined in them will be of immense practical use to the readers in their quest for the Supreme.
A Companion to Indian Cinema
Author: Neepa Majumdar
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119048192
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
A new collection in the Wiley Blackwell Companions to National Cinemas series, featuring the cinemas of India In A Companion to Indian Cinema, film scholars Neepa Majumdar and Ranjani Mazumdar along with 25 established and emerging scholars, deliver new research on contemporary and historical questions on Indian cinema. The collection considers Indian cinema's widespread presence both within and outside the country, and pays particular attention to regional cinemas such as Bhojpuri, Bengali, Malayalam, Manipuri, and Marathi. The volume also reflects on the changing dimensions of technology, aesthetics, and the archival impulse of film. The editors have included scholarship that discusses a range of films and film experiences that include commercial cinema, art cinema, and non-fiction film. Even as scholarship on earlier decades of Indian cinema is challenged by the absence of documentation and films, the innovative archival and field work in this Companion extends from cinema in early twentieth century India to a historicized engagement with new technologies and contemporary cinematic practices. There is a focus on production cultures and circulation, material cultures, media aesthetics, censorship, stardom, non-fiction practices, new technologies, and the transnational networks relevant to Indian cinema. Suitable for undergraduate and graduate students of film and media studies, South Asian studies, and history, A Companion to Indian Cinema is also an important new resource for scholars with an interest in the context and theoretical framework for the study of India's moving image cultures.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119048192
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
A new collection in the Wiley Blackwell Companions to National Cinemas series, featuring the cinemas of India In A Companion to Indian Cinema, film scholars Neepa Majumdar and Ranjani Mazumdar along with 25 established and emerging scholars, deliver new research on contemporary and historical questions on Indian cinema. The collection considers Indian cinema's widespread presence both within and outside the country, and pays particular attention to regional cinemas such as Bhojpuri, Bengali, Malayalam, Manipuri, and Marathi. The volume also reflects on the changing dimensions of technology, aesthetics, and the archival impulse of film. The editors have included scholarship that discusses a range of films and film experiences that include commercial cinema, art cinema, and non-fiction film. Even as scholarship on earlier decades of Indian cinema is challenged by the absence of documentation and films, the innovative archival and field work in this Companion extends from cinema in early twentieth century India to a historicized engagement with new technologies and contemporary cinematic practices. There is a focus on production cultures and circulation, material cultures, media aesthetics, censorship, stardom, non-fiction practices, new technologies, and the transnational networks relevant to Indian cinema. Suitable for undergraduate and graduate students of film and media studies, South Asian studies, and history, A Companion to Indian Cinema is also an important new resource for scholars with an interest in the context and theoretical framework for the study of India's moving image cultures.
Sliding Pause
Author: Amar Sneh
Publisher: BFC Publications
ISBN: 935992850X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 407
Book Description
The presented book is an overview of Indian life and times. There are two sections in the book. Story and satire. Through the crafts of both the genres, human life and psyche have been depicted with a creative vision. The meaningful purpose of these creations is to awaken the aesthetic sense of life along with the awareness of oppression, struggle, challenges, social inertia and the determination to make continuous efforts to restore human values. The most important thing in this world is human instinct and human nature. If our life is based on wrong beliefs, the human behavior will also be equally perverted has hypocrisy, insensitivity, discrepancy, ugliness, intolerance and irony generated by religion, politics and social system freeze our lives somewhere? Will we always remain the same as we were and will always continue to bear life as a destiny ? . Will we be able to re-establish equality, liberty and fraternity and love in our human life as per the changing phase of life or vesillate inbitween ?
Publisher: BFC Publications
ISBN: 935992850X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 407
Book Description
The presented book is an overview of Indian life and times. There are two sections in the book. Story and satire. Through the crafts of both the genres, human life and psyche have been depicted with a creative vision. The meaningful purpose of these creations is to awaken the aesthetic sense of life along with the awareness of oppression, struggle, challenges, social inertia and the determination to make continuous efforts to restore human values. The most important thing in this world is human instinct and human nature. If our life is based on wrong beliefs, the human behavior will also be equally perverted has hypocrisy, insensitivity, discrepancy, ugliness, intolerance and irony generated by religion, politics and social system freeze our lives somewhere? Will we always remain the same as we were and will always continue to bear life as a destiny ? . Will we be able to re-establish equality, liberty and fraternity and love in our human life as per the changing phase of life or vesillate inbitween ?
Journey to the Awakened Heart
Author: Robert Jacobs
Publisher: Balboa Press
ISBN: 1982215577
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 149
Book Description
Robert Jacobs has written an intriguing series about his spiritual path, Path to the Awakened Heart. His first book, Journey to the Awakened Heart, follows him as a young seeker in the 1970s, determined to discover more to life than the materialism he found in American culture. He moves to Paris and then begins to explore the world, traveling to West Africa, Morocco, Central Asia and finally to India, where he slowly finds answers to his spiritual search. Ultimately, he meets an illumined spiritual teacher from India and spends most of the next 18 years living in yoga and meditation ashrams in India and the United States, engaging himself fully in cultivating what he comes to understand is an awakened consciousness. His memoir provides an intimate picture of what it was like for a Westerner to live a traditional monastic life in an Indian ashram. More importantly, it shows how living with an enlightened spiritual master transformed the author’s life from being merely mentally spiritual to enabling spirituality to permeate his life. Finally, the book follows the author in his transition to a more normal worldly life as husband and father, applying the lessons he learned from his ashram days to the many challenges of modern life. Together the author’s two books offer a profound picture of how Eastern spirituality has developed and transformed in the past 70 years within a Western context.
Publisher: Balboa Press
ISBN: 1982215577
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 149
Book Description
Robert Jacobs has written an intriguing series about his spiritual path, Path to the Awakened Heart. His first book, Journey to the Awakened Heart, follows him as a young seeker in the 1970s, determined to discover more to life than the materialism he found in American culture. He moves to Paris and then begins to explore the world, traveling to West Africa, Morocco, Central Asia and finally to India, where he slowly finds answers to his spiritual search. Ultimately, he meets an illumined spiritual teacher from India and spends most of the next 18 years living in yoga and meditation ashrams in India and the United States, engaging himself fully in cultivating what he comes to understand is an awakened consciousness. His memoir provides an intimate picture of what it was like for a Westerner to live a traditional monastic life in an Indian ashram. More importantly, it shows how living with an enlightened spiritual master transformed the author’s life from being merely mentally spiritual to enabling spirituality to permeate his life. Finally, the book follows the author in his transition to a more normal worldly life as husband and father, applying the lessons he learned from his ashram days to the many challenges of modern life. Together the author’s two books offer a profound picture of how Eastern spirituality has developed and transformed in the past 70 years within a Western context.
Temple of Destiny
Author: Neeraj Singhvi
Publisher: Pustak Mahal
ISBN: 8122311652
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 119
Book Description
Publisher: Pustak Mahal
ISBN: 8122311652
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 119
Book Description
Thank You, Master
Author: Hare Krishna Ghosh
Publisher: Crystal Clarity Publishers
ISBN: 1565895991
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 111
Book Description
Thank You, Master Anyone who has read and loved Autobiography of a Yogiwill be delighted to find this treasure of personal experiences and heartfelt remembrances of Paramhansa Yogananda by three of his direct disciples. Stories from Yogananda's family members, Hare Krishna Ghosh and Meera Ghosh, who became disciples as teenagers, take the reader on pilgrimage to India to the sacred places and miraculous moments shared with this great yogi. The stories of Peggy Deitz transport one to Yogananda's ashram in California and his time living with devotees in America. These accounts, whether humorous or miraculous, casual or divine, bring to life the experience of being in Yogananda's presence. They give insight into the profound love with which he guided each individual. Yogananda was not only one of the greatest yoga masters of our time. He was an avatar: an incarnation of the Divine. Firsthand experiences from close disciples are a true gift that can help us tune in to his vast nature. At the same time these delightful stories will touch your heart and uplift your spirit.
Publisher: Crystal Clarity Publishers
ISBN: 1565895991
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 111
Book Description
Thank You, Master Anyone who has read and loved Autobiography of a Yogiwill be delighted to find this treasure of personal experiences and heartfelt remembrances of Paramhansa Yogananda by three of his direct disciples. Stories from Yogananda's family members, Hare Krishna Ghosh and Meera Ghosh, who became disciples as teenagers, take the reader on pilgrimage to India to the sacred places and miraculous moments shared with this great yogi. The stories of Peggy Deitz transport one to Yogananda's ashram in California and his time living with devotees in America. These accounts, whether humorous or miraculous, casual or divine, bring to life the experience of being in Yogananda's presence. They give insight into the profound love with which he guided each individual. Yogananda was not only one of the greatest yoga masters of our time. He was an avatar: an incarnation of the Divine. Firsthand experiences from close disciples are a true gift that can help us tune in to his vast nature. At the same time these delightful stories will touch your heart and uplift your spirit.
Be There for Kids
Author: Hari Prasad Bangalore, Kalpana Prasad Bangalore
Publisher: Notion Press
ISBN: 1639046798
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Book 1 There are exalted and higher purposes to parenting. Why is the Creation interested in partnering with you in parenting and in your child? What is routine parenting? What is non- existing parenting? How to avoid negative parenting, hyper parenting or blind parenting? How not to feel the stress of parenting? What is special about 21st century parenting? Become the conscious and mindful parents. All explained wonderfully. There are plenty of real-life examples. Book is filled with stories which make you understand spiritual and practical aspects of parenting and motivate yourself to take the higher path of parenting. There is a lot of parenting the parent! Book 2 This is for parents as well as for children of 12 and beyond. The parents can break the book by simply splitting the book at the end of book 1 and lo and behold! The book 2 of 130 pages is ready for children. If you already have children who are beyond 12 years, you can spiral bind book 2 separately and give it to them. There is a separate cover page for book Exclusive and Unmissables in these 2 in 1 Book: 1. Exclusive 7 stages of parenting 2. 9 point charter of parents’ daily blessings for children. The best gift you can give your children is to constantly bless them. Instead of getting very anxious with some concern, just keep BLESSING them. You will not even be aware how powerful your blessings can be. They truly work wonders and miracles happen 3. Exclusive meditation tips for children 4. Develop 3D memory with few minutes daily practice 5. Wonderful sets of practical and doable tips for parents and separately for children 6. Special 15 point attributes for building the profile of the child 7. Two separate list of more than hundred tips to empower parents and children 8. Food for soul – 24 soul stirring and motivational bed-time stories
Publisher: Notion Press
ISBN: 1639046798
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Book 1 There are exalted and higher purposes to parenting. Why is the Creation interested in partnering with you in parenting and in your child? What is routine parenting? What is non- existing parenting? How to avoid negative parenting, hyper parenting or blind parenting? How not to feel the stress of parenting? What is special about 21st century parenting? Become the conscious and mindful parents. All explained wonderfully. There are plenty of real-life examples. Book is filled with stories which make you understand spiritual and practical aspects of parenting and motivate yourself to take the higher path of parenting. There is a lot of parenting the parent! Book 2 This is for parents as well as for children of 12 and beyond. The parents can break the book by simply splitting the book at the end of book 1 and lo and behold! The book 2 of 130 pages is ready for children. If you already have children who are beyond 12 years, you can spiral bind book 2 separately and give it to them. There is a separate cover page for book Exclusive and Unmissables in these 2 in 1 Book: 1. Exclusive 7 stages of parenting 2. 9 point charter of parents’ daily blessings for children. The best gift you can give your children is to constantly bless them. Instead of getting very anxious with some concern, just keep BLESSING them. You will not even be aware how powerful your blessings can be. They truly work wonders and miracles happen 3. Exclusive meditation tips for children 4. Develop 3D memory with few minutes daily practice 5. Wonderful sets of practical and doable tips for parents and separately for children 6. Special 15 point attributes for building the profile of the child 7. Two separate list of more than hundred tips to empower parents and children 8. Food for soul – 24 soul stirring and motivational bed-time stories