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Scene from the battle field of Kurukshetra,in the forground of this picture is Lord krishna with Arjuna the archer,while in the background head of Barbareek is shown placed on a pillar.Legend is that Barbareek was the son of the great Pandava brother Bhim and Nag Kanya Ahilawati. Barbareek, from his childhood was very brave and a great warrior. He learnt the art of fighting from his mother.Lord Shiva gave Barbareek 3 infallible arrows and blessing him, said that by using these arrows he would always be victorious in the 3 worlds The battle of Mahabharata was inevitable between the Pandavas and Kauravas,Barbareek had promised his mother that he would fight the war on the side that was weaker. Sensing Barbareek’s word and power as a threat to the Pandava camp also, Krishna in the guise of a Brahman asked for the sacrifice of his head. Barbareek requested that he wanted to see the battle till its end,his wish was granted,he gave his head to Lord Krishna.The head was placed atop a hill near the battlefield from where Barbareek could watch the whole battle. Lord Krishna blessed him that he will be worshipped like Him (Lord ) in Kaliyuga,his head was buried with due ceremony in a place known as Khatu a place in North Indian state Rajastha's District Sikar,it is 63 km.from Jaipur on Jaipur-Sikar highway.On the 11th of the brighter half of the Kartik month also, Shri Shyam's birthday is celebrated with gusto and fervour in Khatu. "BOLO SHYAM PRABHU KI JAI" "LELE KE SAWAR KI JAI" "SHISH KE DANI KI JAI "

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• Publisher : Jaico Publishing House
• By :Kamla K. Kapur (Author)
• Binding : Paperback
• Language : English
• Edition : 2015
• Pages : 240 pages
• Size : 20 x 14 x 4 cm
  
• ISBN-10:  8184957521
  
• ISBN-13:  978-8184957525

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From the best-selling author of Ganesha Goes to Lunch and Rumi’s Tales from the Silk Road comes an original novel about the life and travels of Guru Nanak, a musician, enlightened thinker, and one of the most beloved figures in eastern spirituality.

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• Publisher : Indica Books
• By : Pierre-Sylvain Filliozat
• Cover : Paperback
• Edition :  2006
• Pages : 117
• Weight : 200 gm.
• Size : 8.2 x 5.4 x 0.4 inches
• Language : English
• ISBN-13 : 978-8186569610
• ISBN-10 : 8186569618
• Product Code : BK14266

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A simple and clear book for students starting to learn sitar, originally published through the initiative of the International Institute for Comparative Music Studies and Documentation, Berlin. This book explains the basics of sitar and proposes exercises to control the instrument. It contains also photos and illustrations. A very useful book for the serious student of sitar.

About Author:

Acharya Manfred M. Junius, born in Germany in 1929, studied Indian Classical Music and Musicology for eighteen years in various centres of India, and sat at the feet of great masters. He has given many recitals all over India and abroad. Though born a foreigner, he is widely recognized in India as an authority in Indian Classical Music. He is also a qualified Ayurvedic medicine practitioner and teacher.

The Siva Samhita is a Sanskrit text on yoga enumerating its concepts and cognate principles. In the five chapters are discussed and elaborated the essentials necessary for the practice of yoga, ways of attaining siddhi, the philosophy of existence, importance of yoga, the spirit, maya or illusion, the microcosm, the functions of the body, the principles of pranayama or breathing, asanas or postures, the Kundalini and its awakening, the various forms of yoga, etc. An important treatise on the subject, the present text with its translation into English should prove to be of immense value to the scholars and students, of the subject. Printed Pages: 96.

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• Publisher : Indica Books
• By : Srisa Chandra Vasu
• Cover : Paperback
• Edition : 2 February 2010
• Pages : 158
• Weight : 250 gm.
• Size : 8.5" x 5.5"
• Language : English
• ISBN-13 : 978-8186117132
• ISBN-10 : 818611713X
• Product Code : BK14232

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 The Shiva Samhita is a Sanskrit text on yoga enumerating its concepts and cognate principles. In the five chapters are discussed and elaborated the essentials necessary for the practice of yoga, ways of attaining siddhi, the philosophy of existence, importance of yoga, the spirit, maya or illusion, the microcosm, the functions of the body, the principles of pranayama or breathing, asanas or postures, the kundalini and its awakening, the various forms of yoga, etc.
An important treatise on the subject, the present edition, text with English translation will prove the immense value to the scholars, readers and the students of the subject.

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• Publisher : Rasbihari Lal & Sons
• By : Steven Rosen
• Cover : Paperback
• Language : English
• Edition : 2000
• Pages : 226
• Weight : 450 gm.
• Size : 6.8 x 4.2 inches
• ISBN-10: 8187812257
• ISBN-13: 978-8187812258

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Introduction: For the last one hundred years, technological advancement has afforded us many modern conveniences and advantages over the pre-industrial period. Man has harnessed the power of the atom. He hurls probes to photograph and map distant planets. He mines the ocean floor and continues to make significant breakthroughs in the fields of chemistry, physics, and natural biology. Man's technology is more advanced than he ever expected it to be. Yet for every disease cured a new one arises. And men and women wonder aloud about their future in a world bristling with nuclear weaponry. While we patiently wait for destruction, humans live with vermin in major inner-city areas and violent crime soars in once quiet neighborhoods. Thus, while technology may have improved, we must admit that in many ways our quality of life has not. We have inadvertently replaced tranquility with technology, and we consistently look for a viable alternative. This is not to say that technology is necessarily some vicious fiend to be avoided at all costs. There are appropriate ways to make good use of technology, which can then become an asset for the aspiring spiritual seeker. This and other similar books, for instance, could not be printed or widely circulated without the use of modern technology. In fact, the greatest religious teachers have taught that 'otherworldly' pursuits can be fully realized while existing in the here and now, making full use of material of nature. Use, but not abuse. The great sages and prophets throughout history knew that abuse of material nature engenders a concomitant self-abuse. What goes around comes around. Actions and reaction. Cause and effect. Karma. Contemporary society is a good example. The more 'advanced' we get, the more we seem to exploit our environment. And we ourselves must suffer as a result. Thus, despite access to every modern amenity, we still experience a great void, a lack, a cavity that desperately needs to be filled. A substantial 'slice of life' is missing. This can easily be attributed to our single-minded and anxious pursuit of materialism (or technology), which, incidentally, never accomplished its end – namely, to make people happy. The net result is that many have decided to pursue spirituality in earnest. Usher in the New Age. While some writers and social critics consider man's reactionary quest for spiritual knowledge to be a positive outcome of a world gone mad with secular advancement, there is another school – and rightly so! – that brings to light an inherent downside to the New Age 'enlightenment'. We are now beset, they say, with a plethora of every conceivable kind of metaphysical, mystical mumbo-jumbo, and the result is that the mind rejects spirituality in the same way that it initially rejected materialism. And so you have a sort of cat-and-mouse game, wherein one rejects material advancement for spiritual life and then rejects spiritual life for the same kind of material advancement that one had rejected in the first place. The game goes on; the chase goes back and forth; the mid is sent reeling. As a result, the mass of people settle for a sort of placated materialism. Such confusion was addressed five hundred years ago by the Six Goswamis of Vrindavan – Shri Rupa Goswami, Shri Sanatan Goswami, Shri Raghunath Bhatta Goswami, Shri Raghunath Das Goswami, Shri Jiva Goswami, and Shri Gopal Bhatta Goswami. Far from suggesting that one toss up one's hands in frustration, resigning one's fate to one of complacent materialism, they propounded a sensible doctrine of devotional practice that culminates in divine love. Scientific, calculated procedure (sadhana-bhakti) and mythical spontaneity (raganuga-bhakti) both play a part in the Goswamis' theology. In their system one does, indeed, throw up one's hands, but not in disappointment or resignation. Rather, one raise one's hands in glorification of the Supreme. But this glorification is not whimsical. It is not a concocted or sentimental philosophy propounded by conditioned souls who have imperfect senses and the tendencies to be illusioned, make mistakes, and cheat. Rather, it is an exhaustive theistic process that is deeply rooted in a time-honored scriptural tradition having as its source ancient India's divinely inspired Vedic texts. This immersion in bona-fide scriptural commentary, so characteristic of the Six Goswamis, can spare one the otherwise inevitable burden of faulty mental speculation and gross misconception. Thus, the six Goswamis sought not to invent some imaginative or novel interpretation of scripture, but rather to faithfully and clearly represent the original intent of the text itself. This was no easy task, for the Vedic scriptures represent the most vast storehouse of spiritual knowledge known to man, and the Goswamis had the laborious if also loving task of thoroughly analyzing the scriptures for the benefit of all spiritual seekers. Their endeavor was explained by Shrinivas Acharya, a great saint and scholar of the early seventeenth century. In the second stanza of his Shri Shri Shad-Goswami-ashtaka, a song in praise of the Six Goswamis, he makes clear that their most important contribution was to 'scrutinizingly study all the revealed scriptures with the aim of establishing eternal religious principles for the benefit of all human beings.' In other word, rather than contributing more speculative commentaries to an already confused religious world, they used logic and reason to scientifically analyze all existing religious scriptures. They passed down in disciplic succession the conclusions of the predecessor teaches and the compilers of the Vedic texts. In this way they sought to alleviate the suffering of mankind. People are suffering due to want of knowledge. This is clearly seen in the confusion that exists today, especially in secular Western countries. As stated previously, when one is materially exhausted, one generally turns to religion. But without proper guidance, the religious quest can also lead to confusion, and one then again takes shelter of the materialistic life that one knows so well. But the work of the Goswamis can save one form that back and forth dilemma so characteristic of today's society. When properly applied, their philosophy of yukta-vairagya, or 'practical renunciation,' solves the dichotomy between tranquility and technology. The Goswamis taught the proper utilization of material phenomena. That is, everything is meant to be used in the service of the Absolute Truth. The confidential, detailed procedure of just how to do this was revealed by the Six Goswamis.

About the Author

Steven Rosen (aka Satyaraj Das) It is free-lance writer and the author of several books. He is an initiated disciple of his Divine Grace A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada , the founder and spiritual master of ISCKON. Although Satyraj Das , was not born in India, his writing and scholarship has developed for him a reputation as an important voice in the Indian religious community. As a Vaishnava he serves as the Minister of interreligious Affairs for the New York branch of ISCOKON

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• Publisher : Jaico Publishing House
• By:Suzanne Palling (Author)
• Binding : Paperback
• Language : English
  
• Edition : 2017
• Pages :  256 pages
• Size : :20 x 14 x 4 cm
  
• ISBN-10 : 9386348764
  
• ISBN-13 : 978-9386348760

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A book to guide you in the most rewarding directions! Typically, the journey to becoming a master salesperson is long and painful, full of trial and error, requiring perseverance and constant self-motivation. But it doesn't have to be that way! While pundits may describe sales as an art form, the truth is that - like science - it is based on core principles and practices. In order to get better at sales, a salesperson need only improve on these individual building blocks. In the Science of Sales, author Pranab Bhalla builds a logical framework for budding professionals on the process of sales. Here you will find: - The right psychological approach - The building blocks of cold calling and business development - The art of questioning - The sales presentation - Understanding buying decisions - Dangling the bait And much, much more! Pranab Bhalla works in the Indian IT sales industry. Throughout his career, he has donned many roles in sales and business development. From selling insurance and telecom products door to door, to closing multimillion dollar transactions for large MNCs, Pranab has gone through the grind. He is based in Gurgaon and married with two children.

One of the outstanding storytellers in contemporary Indian writing'-Forbes India Uprooted from a bustling city, the thirteen-year-old protagonist of The Small-town Sea is replanted in his father's home town where he struggles to cope with his new life. He reluctantly makes friends with Bilal, a boy who lives in the orphanage run by the local mosque. Together, they embark on clandestine adventures while his ailing father-whose last wish is to die listening to the sea he has grown up by and written books about-rediscovers people from his childhood by accident. But his father's death unsettles the boy's life again, and he finds himself grappling with altogether unexpected challenges. Lyrical and haunting, sharply funny and achingly sad, The Small-town Sea is a masterful tale of love, friendship and family from one of our most compelling storytellers.

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• Publisher : Jaico Publishing House
• By: Tom Hopkins & Omar Periu (Author)
• Binding : Paperback
• Language : English
  
• Edition : 2019
• Pages :  204 pages
• Size : : 20 x 14 x 4 cm
  
• ISBN-10 :9388423496
  
• ISBN-13 :978-9388423496

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Fundamental strategies for beating the odds when starting a business according to a recent study, 36 percent of new businesses studied failed in the first two years. The major cause... Incompetence. Ouch! The good news is the errors that caused the business to fail can be avoided! In the smart start up dishes up insightful lessons to move business owners into the Percentage of businesses that not only succeed after two years, but thrive for years to come. Readers will: learn whether they’re really cut out to start and run a business (before investing time and money) choose the right vehicle for their business discover the single aspect of business that most start ups fail to plan for – one that makes all the difference between success and failure build a winning, powerful team set realistic, attainable business goals there will be some choppy waters ahead, but after understanding and implementing the smart start up strategies, business owners will know how to adjust the set of their sails to make the most of the prevailing winds. Whether you plan to build a business to sell or grow a business as a legacy, this book will help you begin with a stronger foundation. “Powerful, practical book.” Brian Tracy.

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• Product Code :4116
• Material :Brass Alloy
• Size :3.25" x 6" x 5"

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Here brass alloy is nicely made use of to create the snake charmer tribal lost wax craft. This is a Dhokra painting and here the snake-charmer is playing his veena on a crocodile. Dhokra, locally known as “Bharai kaam”, is the art of sculpting brass with the ancient technique of lost wax casting. Practiced in West Bengal, Orissa and Madhya Pradesh, this metal craft finds different forms of expressions with the different tribes and traditions. Although Dhokra work involves casting molten metal in moulds, each piece is unique, as for every piece its own mould is made. A mixture of natural beeswax and saras, a kind of gum, is boiled to a thick paste like consistency and pressed through a sieve, to get fine noodle like threads. The unique property of natural beeswax allows it to remain flexible even when it cools down, so it can be turned and coiled in very small shapes. A thin coat of very fine mud covers the wax, over which a final coat of mud mixed with cow dung and hay is applied. Holes for letting melted metal in and liquid wax out, are made into the mud covering.Figures of elephants, horses, cattle and peacocks, utensils and jewellery are made by the craftsman, known as “Bhareva”, or “one who fills”.

This book is a landmark in the wide panorama of Gita literature, the universal nature of which is reflected in the use-in the form of prose as well as poetry-of an increasing number of the world's languages. As the first book to utilize original verses in modern Sanskrit to convey the social message of the Gita, it not only fills a significant linguistic gap but also focuses attention on social issues which call for urgent action by karmayogins. Part one explains that Lokasamgraha or the holding together of the society and the world-exemplified by Janaka in the Gita-is the correct ideal for all human beings, particularly in times of social crisis. Part two summarizes how selected leaders-Roy, Vivekananda, Tilak, Aurobindo, Gandhi-applied the Lokasamgraha approach to tackle social, religious and political problems during the last two hundred years. Part three offers suggestions as to how the same karma yoga spirit can be not only kept alive but also further invigorated by evolving newer and newer forms of Lokasamgraha, the need for which is no less compelling now then than what was in the past.

About the Author : Dr. Satya P. Agarwal is a Social Scientist with a brilliant academic record as well as notable professional achievement as notable professional achievement, in India, United States and United Nations. His academic honours include five gold medals and numerous merit scholarships and research fellowships at various universities.

"Although the Bhagavad-gita has traditionally been regarded as a poem of primarily religious significance, Dr. Agarwal shows that with the proper interpretation its message may be ransformed into a set of practical ethical guidelines. This practical aspect of the Gita’s teaching, its insistence that involvement with the world is an ethically correct function of human behaviour, is the focus of this book. That involvement with the world’s is expressed by the term 'Lokasamgraha'. The term covers a multitude of social and political forms of behaviour and attitudes of mind and is perhaps more central to the meaning the Gita should have for modern man than its traditional other-worldly interpretation.

Dr. Agarwal has examined the various ways in which India has reacted to the impact of many powerful foreign influences over the past two centuries. He has done so by studying the lives and the activities of select Hindu thinkers who through their writings and their ways of life showed their awareness of a need to preserve an Indian identity. All of them undertook to define these differences and thus established their views on what might be acceptable alternatives for India and the Indian genius vis-a-vis those principles and customs that run counter to the Indian tradition. But they were not unanimous in either their conclusions or the strategies they devised for attaining their common goal. The author has concentrated on the role the Bhagavad-gita has played in the lives and works of these thinkers."

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• Product Code: Book636
• Edition : 2015
• Pages : 371
• Weight : 800gm
• Size : 8.5 x 5.5 x 1.2 inches
• Cover : Paperback
• Author : A.E. Powell (Author)
• Language : English
• ISBN : 8170591686, 978-8170591689
• Publisher : Theosophical Publishing House

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 About The Book

The Solar System offers a comprehensive picture of the streams of life, passing from stage to stage of development, to the level of humanity and beyond. This valuable work is the last of a series of books that present a coherent and sequential account of the finer bodies of Man and his role in the Scheme of Evolution. It was preceded by The Etheric Double, The Astral Body, The Mental Body, and The Causal Body, all of them by the same author.
Human evolution takes place as the soul experiences birth in different races and civilizations. The vast panaroma presented here and the details of the human constitution contained in the other books of the author, awaken insight into the glorious nature of the cosmic process, and the great future awaiting the human being on his pilgrimage towards the Eternal.

Introduction

Both before and since the publication in 1893 of The secret Doctrine, by H. P. Blavatsky, there has become available for students of occultism a good deal of information regarding the Solar System and the streams of life amongst which is our own humanity—which evolve in that system. In 1883 appeared Esoteric Buddhism by A. P. Sinnett, followed in 1896 by The Groth of the soul by the same author. In 1897 was published. The Ancient Wisdom by Annie Besant, and in 1903 this great student of the occult delivered an important series of lectures, afterwards published in book form, under the title The Pedigree of Man, dealing in greater detail than anything previously published with the Solar System, with its Chains, Rounds, Globes, Sib-races, etc. Further elaboration and details have been added by C. W. Leadbeater in various books, notably The Inner Life, Volumes I and II. and A textbook of Theosophy.
In 1913 appeared that monumental work, Man: whence, flow and Whither? In addition to these, two fascinating volumes, entitled The Story of Atlantis and Lost Lemuria,with maps of those continents, from the pen of W. Scott-Elliot, appeared in 1896 and 1904 respectively, describing in very full detail the races that inhabited those lands, and their civilisations.

The beautiful Kalamkari painting depicts the Son of God sacrificing His life for the welfare of the people. The Christ is being shown crucified by the soldiers as the devotees of the Christ pray for mercy. Two angels are also painted showering praises on Him. An exquisite ancient craft of painted and printed fabrics, Kalamkari derives its name from Kalam meaning Pen, and Kari meaning work, literally Pen-work. It is hand painting as well as block printing with vegetable dyes. Kalamkari art has evolved through trial and error over the last 3000 years. Techniques of craftsmanship in Kalamkari were handed down within the families from generation to generation. The enhancing effulgence of colours and the characters that emerge on cotton fabric, help create a resplendent spread.

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• Publisher : Zen Publications
  
• by : Karl Renz
  
• Cover : Paperback
  
• Language : English
  
• Edition : 2013
  
• Pages : 215
  
• Weight : 300gm.
  
• Size : 5.9 x 0.6 x 8.9 inches
  
• ISBN-10: 9382788026
  
• ISBN-13: 978-9382788027

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‘Extreme’- that’s how seasoned Advaita buffs would term the Karl Renz brand of Advaita, suggesting compromise as an option. However the option of compromising or not itself gets burnt out in the untamed fire of Karl’s living words.
‘I would rather kill myself than bullshit myself,’ says Karl, scoffing at requests to be ‘nice’ or ‘accommodating’ to listeners gasping for survival. By neither confirming nor destroying core ideas of mind, no-mind, presence, absence, real, unreal, he ends up mesmerising the intellect. ‘Oxy-moron’ Karl merrily hums his song of irrelevance without intention of teaching, sharing or clarifying - whatever. Care-freeness itself in action.
Paradoxes unlimited, neti-neti: negation-negation, then negation of the negator and finally negation of negation itself. In that, there is no ‘finally’. This seemingly is the melody of Karl’s ‘Song of Irrelevance - meditation of what you are’.
I don’t talk to ‘you’, he says. Relevance seekers can eat their hearts out. Irrelevance of irrelevance pervades here - with the flavourless flavour of nobody needing to grasp anything! And the effect? Smiles and chuckles unlimlted!
Welcome to this menu of ‘indigestible’ talks - an assortment of talks from Coimbatore, India and Koh Samui, Thailand. You may savour them, even chew on them, but digesting them could be hazardous. . . . they could well end up digesting you!

Sage Valmiki first set down the story of Rama and Sita in his epic poem, Ramayana.

Rama was the eldest son of Dasharatha, the king of Ayadhya, who had three wives – Kausalya, Kaikeyi and Sumitra. Rama was the sone of Kausalya, Bharata of Kaikeyi and Laxman and Shatrughana of Sumitra. The four princes grew up to be braveand valiant. Rama won the hand of Sita, the daughter of King Janaka. Dasharatha wanted to crown Rama as the king but Kaikeyi objected. Using boons granted to her by Dasharatha earlier, she had Rama banished to the forest. Sita and Laxmana decided to follow Rama. While in the forest, a Rakshasi, Shoorpankha, accosted Laxmana but had her nose cut off by him. In revenge, her brother Ravana, king of Lanka, carried Sita away. Rama and Laxmana set out to look for her and with the help of an army of monkeys, they defeated Ravana.

When they returned to Ayothya after fourteen years in exile, Rama banished Sita on the suspicions of his subjects. She found refuge in the ashrama of sage Valmiki where she gave birth to twin sons, Luv and Kush.

This Amar Chitra Katha title is based on Uttara-Ramacharita of Bhavabhuti.