Hinduism category: 1323 books

Every mortal creature is fraught with the fear of death. Even man thinks he shall disappear into the abyss of nothingness. But the Godheads all beg to differ: Krishna, Jesus, Buddha et all. They unequivocally declared death as the staircase to heaven. Raj yoga though confers upon man an even higher...

The book attempts for the first time in the world to give an insightful perspective of this festival of the Goddesses. Its Spiritual significance and various celebrations in India and Overseas. The book portrays the blissful joy of playing Raas and Garba and synchronizes it with the beautiful explanation...

Dialogue is a recurring and significant component of Indian religious and philosophical literature. Whether it be as a narrative account of a conversation between characters within a text, as an implied response or provocation towards an interlocutor outside the text, or as a hermeneutical lens through...

The debates between various Buddhist and Hindu philosophical systems about the existence, definition and nature of self, occupy a central place in the history of Indian philosophy and religion. These debates concern various issues: what 'self' means, whether the self can be said to exist at all, arguments...

While Indian visual culture and Tantric images have drawn wide attention, the culture of images, particularly that of the divine images, is broadly misunderstood. This book is the first to systematically address the hermeneutic and philosophical aspects of visualizing images in Tantric practices....

The violent partitioning of British India along religious lines and ongoing communalist aggression have compelled Indian citizens to contend with the notion that an exclusive, fixed religious identity is fundamental to selfhood. Even so, Muslim saint shrines known as dargahs attract a religiously...

The first book on hymns, mantras and stotras is well known since time immemorial. An attempt was made a decade back to connect the dots. They spoke about mysticism and its impact on our day-to-day life. Over time, we are slowly and gradually drifting towards the outer world with little focus on the...

India, beyond all other countries on the face of the earth, is pre-eminently the home of the worship of the Phallus-the Linga puja; it has been so for ages and remains so still. This adoration is said to be one of the chief, if not the leading dogma of the Hindu religion, and there is scarcely a temple...

Nesse livro, o educador, psicanalista e teólogo Rubem Alves se confunde com Gandhi. Ao contar, em primeira pessoa, um pouco sobre a impressionante vida desse grande personagem histórico, ele aproxima uma realidade distante no tempo e no espaço do nosso momento, seja no que se refere à política,...

Nisargadatta Maharaj est un guru indien de la doctrine de l'advaita vedanta ou non-dualité qui vécut de mars 1897 à septembre 1981. Son enseignement se fit connaître en Occident notamment au travers du livre intitulé Je suis vendu à plusieurs milliers d'exemplaires en France. Il est considéré...

This book captures the essence of ancient Indian scriptures, analyzing them from today’s point of view. The scriptures selected are mainly the eleven Upanishads (parts of Vedic literature), Bhagavad Geetha (most important book of Indian philosophy) and the Manu Smrthi (one of the most ancient law...

This book presents iconographic studies of the Eight Mother-Goddesses in the Kathmandu Valley. The Kathmandu Valley contains over one thousand historical monuments and can be regarded as a huge museum. Niche-shrines, which house popular deities, are found in almost every corner of all the towns in the valley.

Formalized by the tenth century, the expansive Bhagavata Purana resists easy categorization. While the narrative holds together as a coherent literary work, its language and expression compete with the best of Sanskrit poetry. The text's theological message focuses on devotion to Krishna or Vishnu,...

We are constantly feeding and dressing and indulging our bodies, but how often do we nourish our soul? Shwetaashwatara Upanishad, the rare gem amongst the Upanishads, teaches us just how to do that. Indeed, it is the priceless oyster in which the pearl of Vaidika philosophy glows with an ethereal...