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During the goddess Gangamma’s festival in the town of Tirupati, lower-caste men take guises of the goddess, and the streets are filled with men wearing saris, braids, and female jewelry. By contrast, women participate by intensifying the rituals they perform for Gangamma throughout the year, such...

With over four million copies in print, Paramahansa Yogananda's autobiography has served as a gateway into yoga and alternative spirituality for North American practitioners since 1946. Balancing traditional yoga, metaphysical spirituality, and a flair for the stage, Yogananda inspired countless people...

Atma Bhog contains more than 900 bhajans, chants and songs from all major spiritual traditions and encompasses one of the largest and at the same time widest collection of bhajans and spiritual songs from all over the world. With chords and translations provided it becomes a treasury that brings great...

Strange are the ways of life. We so often see instances where virtuous persons suffer endlessly while sinners lead pleasurable lives; indolent achieve success while hard-working persons fail repeatedly, the wise face adversity while fools live in prosperity; the egoists are held in high esteem while...

Valmikiya Ramayana cites the appearance of swastika symbol as that of the bluish line-design seen on the crest of the cobra - king of snakes. This simile indicates a deeper meaning - conveying the importance of swastika in tantra as well. The matrikas - special sounds or 'packets' of eternal sonic...

This famous and marvellous Sanskrit poem occurs as an episode of the Mahabharata, in the sixth-or "Bhishma"-Parva of the great Hindu epic. It enjoys immense popularity and authority in India, where it is reckoned as one of the "Five Jewels," -pancharatnani- of Devanagiri literature....

The purpose of this transliteration is to help people become familiar with the pronunciation and chanting style of the Satyachetana Movement. For the sake of simplifying the pronunciation, Sanskrit grammar rules were temporarily left aside—-not out of disrespect, but rather to enable a wider group to participate in chanting this sacred scripture.

Widely respected yoga teacher and author Richard Rosen draws on ancient yoga encyclopedias to explain how yoga was practiced before it became popular in the West. He compares the three main existing sources known to yoga scholars to describe how complex and rich the practice of yoga once was. It included...

Ganga Chalisa In English Rhyme along with the original text

"Baba's quotes have been the source of inspiration to his numerous devotees. His sayings have touched every aspect of our daily lives and show us the right path to achieve self-realisation. These thoughts embalm his followers from worldly sufferings and provide solace to the distressed. Laid out in the...

Introduction Though the old literature of the Hindoos is deficient in the department of politics—it has no history, no orators, no Demosthenes, no Polybius, no Aristotle; for the dialectic of politics appears to have been invented by the divinely discontented Greek—though, I say, it has no politics, it is permeated with policy. The ancients, says Aristotle, wrote politically

Ananda Vrindavan Champu on Kavi Karnapuran keskiaikainen, sanskritinkielinen runouden mestariteos. Teos kuvailee Bhagavan Sri Krishnan kauniita leikkejä Vrindavanassa. Kirja on täynnä rikasta metaforista kieltä ja kirjailija oli uniikilla tavallaan Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhun siunaama.

Ananda Vrindavan Champu on Kavi Karnapuran keskiaikainen, sanskritinkielinen runouden mestariteos. Teos kuvailee Bhagavan Sri Krishnan kauniita leikkejä Vrindavanassa. Kirja on täynnä rikasta metaforista kieltä ja kirjailija oli uniikilla tavallaan Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhun siunaama.

The Transmigration of the Seven Brahmans By Henry David Thoreau "This is a short translation from the Harivamsa, a Sanskrit text which is techncially a Purana. This translation is notable because the translation is by Henry David Thoreau, the prominent 19th century American philosopher and writer."