Aghora Ii

Author : Robert E. Svoboda
Publisher : Rider
ISBN 13 : 9780914732310
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aghora II written by Robert E. Svoboda and published by Rider. This book was released on 1993 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book 2 of the trilogy explores the kundalini, the force of forces. Tantra, mantra, the sacred fire, chakras and consciousness. Written in the personable form of Vimalananda's storytelling and recounting of life's episodes we are able to truly enter the invisible realms.

Author : Robert Svoboda
Publisher : Rupa Publications India Pvt Limited
ISBN 13 : 9788171673438
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aghora II written by Robert Svoboda and published by Rupa Publications India Pvt Limited. This book was released on 1994 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aghora, described in this volume as super-tantra , is a Path of Devotion to the Great Mother Goddess Kundalini, here manifesting with the Name and Image of the Goddess Tara. This way is one of extraordinary extremes and intensities, even for tantra, and its aim is nothing less than to destroy the human limitations of the practioner, so that he or she becomes a super-human in fact, a kind of deity.

Author : Robert E. Svoboda
Publisher : Rupa Publications India Pvt Limited
ISBN 13 : 9788171673421
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aghora written by Robert E. Svoboda and published by Rupa Publications India Pvt Limited. This book was released on 1993 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Svoboda
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aghora written by Robert Svoboda and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Aghora trilogy have been embraced world-wide for their frankness in broaching subjects generally avoided and their facility for making the 'unseen' real. We enter the world of Vimalananda who teaches by story and living example.

Author : Ronald L. Barrett
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520252187
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aghor Medicine written by Ronald L. Barrett and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2008-03-04 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Aghor Medicine moves seamlessly between an ethnography of religion and medical anthropology. The stories of suffering and renunciation, of collective experience that turn Indian hierarchy and discrimination upside down are quite marvelous. The writing is clear and direct and the interpretations balanced and scrupulously documented. Barrett has written one of the best accounts on local traditions "modernizing" in ways that combine indigenous significance with globally crucial changes that react against health and social inequalities."—Arthur Kleinman, Harvard University "Ronald Barrett's fine account of aghor medicine reveals essential characteristics of India's popular culture, and, since an ashram in California has an important role in the story, of American popular culture as well."—Charles Leslie, author of Death Row Letters (forthcoming)

Author : Vanamali
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1594777853
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakti written by Vanamali and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-07-21 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the mystery of the Divine Mother in all her manifold aspects • Explores more than 30 different goddess aspects of the Shakti force, both beneficial and malefic • Includes Sanskrit hymns and classic verses by Sri Auribindo for each of the goddesses Shakti is synonymous with the Devi, the Divine Mother or divine power that manifests, sustains, and transforms the universe. She is the womb of all creatures, and it is through her that the One becomes the many. Our first and primary relationship to the world is through the mother, the source of love, security, and nourishment. Extending this relationship to worship of a cosmic being as mother was a natural step found not only in the Shakti cult of Hinduism but also in ancient Greek, Egyptian, and Babylonian cultures. Shakti presents more than 30 goddess incarnations of the Divine Mother that represent both the beneficial and malefic aspects of the Shakti force. From Lakshmi, Parvati, and Saraswati to Durga, Chandika, and Kali--each of the different functions of the female goddesses in the Hindu pantheon is revealed, accompanied by traditional Sanskrit hymns, classic verses by Sri Auribindo, and discussions of tantric philosophy. The author draws from the Devi Bhagavatham, which describes all the stories of Shakti, and the Devi Mahatmyam, the most powerful scriptural text that glorifies Shakti in her form as Durga. Using these texts she shows that through the power and grace of the Divine Mother we may be released from the darkness of ignorance and taken to the abode of knowledge, immortality, and bliss--the source from which we have come.

Author : Robert Svoboda
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780988916920
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Living with Reality written by Robert Svoboda and published by . This book was released on 2017-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "More than four decades have passed since I met the Aghori Vimalananda, and it has been thirty-three years since I last heard him speak. Happily for me he permitted me to write down many of his musings so that I would have them to remind me of the wisdom that he embodied. And, thanks to his compassion for others, he instructed me to publish some of this material after he was gone, which I did in the three Aghora books, books that I continue to regularly read and that continue to offer me thought-provoking guidance at any step along my own path.An aghori is someone who plunges so deep into dark­ness that he emerges into light. Aghora is a spiritual path that because of its extreme heterodoxy has been¿ough I cannot myself claim to be an aghori, the example that he thus set has inspired my own sophomoric attempts to transmute into equanimity all that is both gratifying and grotesque in life, focusing on the subtle world while living in mundane reality, for Vimalananda always emphasized the importance of living with reality." Dr. Robert E. Svoboda Illustrated by Satya Moses

Author : Robert Svoboda
Publisher : Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
ISBN 13 : 9780892819393
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ayurveda for Women written by Robert Svoboda and published by Inner Traditions / Bear & Co. This book was released on 2000-12 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previously published by David & Charles Publishers of the UK in 1999.

Author : Aughar Harihar Ram
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780967070100
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oasis of Stillness written by Aughar Harihar Ram and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Kinsley
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520917723
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tantric Visions of the Divine Feminine written by David Kinsley and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-07-28 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hindu pantheon is rich in images of the divine feminine—deities representing a wide range of symbolic, social, and meditative meanings. David Kinsley's new book documents a highly unusual group of ten Hindu tantric goddesses, the Mahavidyas, many of whom are strongly associated with sexuality and violence. What is one to make of a goddess who cuts her own head off, or one who prefers sex with a corpse? The Mahavidyas embody habits, attributes, or identities usually considered repulsive or socially subversive and can be viewed as "antimodels" for women. Yet it is within the context of tantric worship that devotees seek to identify themselves with these forbidding goddesses. The Mahavidyas seem to function as "awakeners"—symbols which help to project one's consciousness beyond the socially acceptable or predictable. Drawing on a broad range of Sanskrit and vernacular texts as well as extensive research in India, including written and oral interpretations of contemporary Hindu practitioners, Kinsley describes the unusual qualities of each of the Mahavidyas and traces the parallels between their underlying themes. Especially valuable are the many rare and fascinating images he presents—each important to grasping the significance of the goddesses. Written in an accessible, engaging style, Kinsley's book provides a comprehensive understanding of the Mahavidyas and is also an overview of Hindu tantric practice.