Hinduism: sacred texts and revered writings

Holy Quran is the most-read book in the world.

A verse-by-verse examination of the guide to self-transformation presented in the Bhagavad Gita *; Reveals the scientific approach to personal development and spiritual enlightenment laid out in Krishna's advice to Arjuna *; Shows how the Gita prepares you to work with a guru, advocating authenticity and skepticism rather than blind devotion and obedience *; Explores Krishna's advice on which societal limitations to reject to overcome your fears and reconnect with the suppressed parts of your inner being Drawing on his more than 40 years of in-depth study of Indian Philosophy under the tutelage of his guru, Nitya Chaitanya Yati, author Scott Teitsworth explores the scientific approach to self-transformation and spiritual enlightenment encoded in Krishna's advice to Arjuna in the Bhagavad Gita.

This book, first published in 1957, was the first in English to provide a full and clear introduction to one of the most significant of Indian gods, and stresses his supreme role in Indian religion and art.

Holy Quran is the most-read book in the world.

This book provides a rigorously researched, critically comparative introduction to yoga.

Hinduism in America: An Introduction is a concise introduction to the long history of religion in the encounter between America and India.

Holy Quran is the most-read book in the world.

Hinduism in America: An Introduction is a concise introduction to the long history of religion in the encounter between America and India.

Within the broad Hindu religious tradition, there have been for millennia many subtraditions generically called Vaisnava, who insist that the most appropriate mode of religious faith and experience is bhakti, or devotion, to the supreme personal deity, Visnu.

This volume is a systematic and comprehensive introduction to one of the most read texts in South Asia, the Bhagavad-gita.

Purana enjoins several rites of worship and acts of homage comprising a series, of physical and spiritual practices in accompaniment to the Tantra, Yantra and Mantra appliances.

In analyzing the parallels between myths glorifying the Indian Great Goddess, Durga, and those glorifying the Sun, Surya, found in the Markandeya Purana, this book argues for an ideological ecosystem at work in the Markandeya Purana privileging worldly values, of which Indian kings, the Goddess (Devi), the Sun (Surya), Manu and Markandeya himself are paragons.

';One who sings and chants these supremely confidential teachings to My devotees will attain supreme devotion for Me and will attain Me.

The Rigveda is a monumental text in both world religion and world literature, yet outside a small band of specialists it is little known.

Indian art, increasingly popular in the west, cannot be fully appreciated without some knowledge of the religious and philosophical background.

Holy Quran is the most-read book in the world.

Holy Quran is the most-read book in the world.

This book offers a comprehensive description of the 'doctrine of salvation' (nihsreyasa/ moksa) and Vaisesika, one of the oldest philosophical systems of Indian philosophy and provides an overview of theories in other related Indian philosophical systems and classical doctrines of salvation.

The thousand-year-old Sanskrit classic the Bhagavatapurana, or "e;Stories of the Lord,"e; is the foundational source of narratives concerning the beloved Hindu deity Krishna.

This book provides a rigorously researched, critically comparative introduction to yoga.

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Holy Quran is the most-read book in the world.

This book, first published in 1968, comprises five articles on the immortality of the soul.

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Winner of the Best Book in Hindu-Christian Studies Prize (2013/2014) from the Society for Hindu-Christian Studies.

Die Upanishaden, die als die Essenz der vedischen Weisheit gelten, bieten tiefe Einblicke in die spirituelle und philosophische Grundlage des Hinduismus.

Through pointed studies of important aspects and topics of dharma in Dharmasastra, this comprehensive collection shows that the history of Hinduism cannot be written without the history of Hindu law.

This book, first published in 1968, comprises five articles on the immortality of the soul.

This book is an engaging introduction to the complex religious tradition of Hinduism.

The Samkhyayoga institution of Kapil Math is a religious organisation with a small tradition of followers which emerged in the last decade of the nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth century in Bengal in India around the renunciant and yogin Hariharananda Aranya.

Holy Quran is the most-read book in the world.

Cross Channel Currents explores the understandings and misunderstandings that make up the Entente Cordiale - the hundred-year relationship between Britain and France, as well as the everyday common interests and shared pleasures that give it substance.

Holy Quran is the most-read book in the world.

Bhagvad Geeta is a part of epic Mahabharata.

The idea of Maya pervades Indian philosophy.

The Bhagavata Purana is one of the most important, central and popular scriptures of Hinduism.

Holy Quran is the most-read book in the world.

Holy Quran is the most-read book in the world.

The rise, fall, and modern resurgence of an enigmatic book revered by yoga enthusiasts around the worldConsisting of fewer than two hundred verses written in an obscure if not impenetrable language and style, Patanjali's Yoga Sutra is today extolled by the yoga establishment as a perennial classic and guide to yoga practice.

The Bhagavad-Gita is probably the most popular - and certainly the most frequently quoted and widely studied - work of the Hindu scriptures.

This book presents an original and comprehensive overview of the transformation of Mauritian Hinduism against the backdrop of globalisation.

This book, first published in 1933, was the first text on the general Hindu attitude to art.

The Katha Upanishad embraces the key ideas of Indian mysticism in a mythic story we can all relate to the quest of a young hero, Nachiketa, who ventures into the land of death in search of immortality.

Sarasvati assumes different roles, a physical river and a river goddess, then as a goddess of speech and finally that of a goddess of learning, knowledge, arts and music.

Holy Quran is the most-read book in the world.

Within the broad Hindu religious tradition, there have been for millennia many subtraditions generically called Vaisnava, who insist that the most appropriate mode of religious faith and experience is bhakti, or devotion, to the supreme personal deity, Visnu.

The Purana is one of the two most important and popular Hindu texts, the other being the Ramayana.

Holy Quran is the most-read book in the world.