Books

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• Publisher : Indica Books
• By : H.H. Shankaracharya Swami Swarupananda Sarasvati
• Cover : Hardcover
• Edition :  2009
• Pages : 368
• Weight : 650 g.
• Size : 8.5 x 5.6 x 1 inches
• Language : English
• ISBN-13 : 978-8186569887
• ISBN-10 : 818656988X
• Product Code : BK14261

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Swami Karpatri (1907-82), a revered contemporary sannyasin of exceptional personality, was renowned for his deep scriptural knowledge, which he used in his many writings and speeches to light up the Hindu orthodox point of view. The two significant articles presented here deal with the meaning of the Linga and the nature of the Great Goddess. Besides doctrinal and mythological clarifications, we find a sophisticated debate about the nature of Sakti between two traditional schools: Nyaya and Mimamsa, which could be compared with those held in the times of Adi Sankara.
This bilingual edition (Hindi–English) presents a new translation — the fruit of a collective work — besides the original text in Devanagari, in the first book by Svami Karpatri published in English. The notes explain the philosophical parts or reveal misleading interpolations and omissions commited by the first translator of these articles, Alain Daniélou.
Prefaced by His Holiness Jagadguru Shankaracarya of Dvarakapitha and Jyotispitha, Svami Svarupananda Sarasvati, who was a close companion of Svami Karpatri, this book clarifies many fundamental thoughts of Sanatana Dharma related to Siva and Sakti.

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• Publisher : Indica Books
• By : James Mallinson
• Cover : Paperback
• Edition : January 1, 2001
• Pages : 80
• Weight : 100 g.
• Size : 6.8 x 4.6 x 0.3 inches
• Language : English
• ISBN-10 : 8186569227
• ISBN-13 : 978-8186569221
• Product Code : BK14260

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Where the Ganges and the Jamna meet people from many, many, different traditions of Hinduism come together. There will be many genuinely holy men, some charlatans, and some obscurantists. But the majority of those who come to bathe in the Sangam will be villagers. The Kumbh is an awe-inspiring demonstration of simple piety and a clear example of the power of myth.
Of course, the Kumbh Mela is a magnificent spectacle too. Millions of people gathered in one place, colourful holy men, naked sadhus, wondrous feats of asceticism, piety on a scale unparalleled anywhere else. But much more than a spectacle, the Kumbh Mela is an experience, an experience for which we have to shed our certainties and our self-confidence to be able to capture its meaning through the power of the imagination.

About Author:

Mark Tully was born in Calcutta and educated in England. He spent over twenty years of his life as BBC Delhi Correspondent and covered many of the major events in South Asia, including the 1971 Bangladesh War, the Indian Emergency, the trial and hanging of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, Operation Blue Star, the assassinations of Indira and Rajiv Gandhi, the destruction of the Ayodhya Mosque, and the Bhopal gas disaster. After leaving the BBC he continued to live in Delhi with his partner Gillian Wright and work as a freelance broadcaster, journalist, and writer. He has now written four books on India.

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• Publisher : Indica Books
• By : James Mallinson
• Cover : Paperback
• Edition : 2017
• Pages : 399
• Weight : 350 g.
• Size : 
• Language : English
• ISBN-10 : 8186569936
• ISBN-1 3: 978-8186569931
• Product Code : BK14259

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The Khecharividya of Adinatha, a Sanskrit text dated to pre-1400 ce, teaches khechari-mudra, one of the most important exercises of hatha-yoga, in which the tongue is inserted above the palate in order to drink the amrita or nectar of immortality dripping from the top of the skull. It is said to bestow immortality, the ability to remain in deep meditation for long periods and the power of flight upon its practitioners. The text has been edited for the first time and has never before been accessible to an English-speaking readership. It is accompanied by an introduction and an extensively annotated translation. The author has drawn on twenty-seven Sanskrit manuscripts and original fieldwork amongst yogins in India to demonstrate how earlier tantric yogic techniques developed and mutated into the practices of hatha-yoga. The work sheds new light on the development of hatha-yoga and explains its practices.

About Author:

James Mallinson has a BA and DPhil in Sanskrit from Oxford and an MA in South Asian ethnography from the School of Oriental and African Studies. He has spent several years living with sadhus and yogins in India, has translated five volumes of Sanskrit poetry for the Clay Sanskrit Library and two yoga texts for YogaVidya.com. He is currently teaching Sanskrit at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, and preparing a monograph on the texts and practitioners of traditional hatha-yoga.

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• Publisher : Indica Books
• By : Rudrani Fakir
• Cover : Paperback
• Edition : May 30, 2005
• Pages : 534
• Weight : 750 gm.
• Size : 8.5 x 5.1 x 1.1 inches
• Language : English
• ISBN-10 : 818656957X
• ISBN-13 : 978-8186569573
• Product Code : BK14258

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The reality of modernization and globalization has produced rapid and major changes on the physical and mental landscapes of everyone — often, those most affected see the most deleterious effects. The Goddess and the Slave stands amidst such a people, informed by their age-old wisdoms, and examines the reality of these changes from this grass-roots perspective.
Drawing upon the rich inter-connected levels of meaning within the Fakir culture, especially with respect to the living, breathing paradigmatic Mother — as Nature, as the Goddess to be worshipped and as the mother whose service is her identity — The Goddess and the Slave demonstrates the crisis faced by the unique Baul-Fakir sadhana, by the non-urban Bengali, and by Indian society itself. Standing within the Fakir knowledge paradigm, it examines the effects of development and modernization, of changing identities and realities, of the distortions caused by new needs and attitudes infused into traditional lifestyles and social structures. Rudrani Fakir, as an anthropologist and as a practitioner, uses the Fakir shadhona as a critical tool of understanding, and thereby gives an informed voice to a rich culture within a society in the throes of transition, presenting this objective study through her highly engaged subjective perspective. The result is a cohesive insight into the paradoxical roles of the Mother, and, thereby, into our societies and environments.
The first part of this book outlines the Fakir society and esoteric shadhona, and describes the reception of diverse modern influences into the lives and practices of Fakir men and women. The second part delves into the decline and decay of the eality of the Goddess, the changing status of women and of the true nature of wealth, and draws together the threads of the old knowledge paradigms — esoteric and modern, spoken and wordless, powerless and empowered. Finally, it offers heuristic paradigms, in the form of the Goddess herself, for a different type of thought, wherein the lethal results of fragmented discourse make way for a fruitful engagement — a utopia of realism — of humanity both of and within nature.

About Author:

Rudrani Fakir, born in Ottawa, Canada, in 1955, studied Medical Anthropology at the Bobigny School of Medicine (1997) and received her Ph.D. in Social and Cultural Anthropology on intersecting economic-religious problems of gender in rural Bengal (EHESS, Paris, April 2004). Before engaging herself in a decade of fieldwork in rural Bengal and Bangladesh, she worked as a UN interpreter as well as a consultant for local development missions with the OECD. She has also been professionally active as a musician, as well as with the promotion of early musical traditions in Europe. Her previous publications include Fakir, la quite dun Baul musulman (Paris, 2000).

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• Publisher : Indica Books
• By : Panditaraja Jagannatha
• Cover : Paperback
• Edition : July 2, 2007
• Pages : 130
• Size : 6.9 x 4.8 x 0.3 inches
• Language : English
• Weight : 120 gm.
• ISBN-10 : 8186569626
• ISBN-13 : 978-8186569627
• Product Code : BK14256

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Ganga signifies not just a mere stream of water but it stands for the numerous streams of Indian culture, the evolution and the eternal continuity of Indian civilization and the power to redeem the fallen. The visible Ganga is a flow of water, from the point of view of faith and philosophy she is the Goddess Makarasanastha, and at the transcendental level she is considered to be Saccidananda-svarupa Brahmadravarupini
Ganga Lahari is the most known poem in praise of Ganga. Panditaraja Jagannatha, displaying his immense scholarship and mastery of Sanskrit, wrote this stotra, presented here in Sanskrit, English and Hindi, which has become a symbol of the love of Indian culture for this river-goddess.

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• Publisher : Indica Books
• By : Selina Thielemann
• Cover : Paperback
• Edition : 1 January 1997
• Pages : 290
• Weight : 600 gm.
• Size : 8.7 x 5.8 x 1 inches
• Language : English
• ISBN-13 : 978-8186569016
• ISBN-10 : 8186569014
• Product Code : BK14255

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Dhrupada is the oldest genre of north Indian vocal music, referred to by Indian musicians and music scholars with high respect as the fundamental style, the ancient and most sacred genre — the quintessence of north Indian art music. Despite its key function in the music history, dhrupada has assumed the role of a museum piece within the rich and colourful tradition of Hindustani classical music. Having been the predominant style at the Mughal court of Akbar in the second half of the sixteenth century, dhrupada suffered continuous decline from the seventeenth century onwards. The tendency started changing only by the middle of the present century when musicians, music scholars and other responsible individuals in India and abroad initiated various activities for the revival of the dhrupada genre. One of the few family traditions who maintained the art of dhrupada singing to the present day is the Mallik tradition associated with the royal court of Darbhanga in northern Bihar. It was founded by two brothers named Radhakrisna and Karttarama around the middle of the eighteenth century. Being among the main exponents of dhrupada of the present, along with the Dagars, the Darbhanga tradition is continued today in two lineages. The most senior living musician of the Darbhanga gharana is Pandit Vidur Mallik of Vrindaban.
The present book offers insights into a variety of aspects of dhrupada performance in Darbhanga style, with focus on the branch of Pandit Vidur Mallik, and including research papers, interviews, and transcriptions of both traditional and modern dhrupada compositions of this tradition. After Indurama Srivastava’s book Dhrupada: A Study of Its Origin, Historical Development, Structure and Present State (published in 1980), the present account is the second book on the subject of dhrupada to be published in English, and it is at the same time the first comprehensive account of dhrupada in the Darbhanga tradition. With the publication of this book, the author wishes to pay tribute to her musical teacher Pt. Vidur Mallik, and to pay her respects to Shri Shrivatsa Goswami, the academic director of Sri Caitanya Prema Sansthana in Vrindaban, for his tireless support for the promotion of dhrupada.

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• Publisher : Indica Books
• By : Rene Guenon
• Cover : Paperback
• Edition : November 1, 2007
• Pages : 142
• Weight : 300 g.
• Size : 5.4 x 0.4 x 8.5 inches
• Language : English
• ISBN-13 : 978-8186569115
• ISBN-10 : 8186569111
• Product Code : BK14254

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“Guénon is not an ‘orientalist’ but what the Hindus would call a guru.”
—Ananda K. Coomaraswamy
In the first half of the twenteeth century, a French man, René Guénon (1886–1951), struck the conscience of the Western world by reminding it about the spiritual knowledge that was at the heart of all traditional civilizations but that the modern Western world had completely lost sight of, and urged it earnestly to recover it before it would be too late. A profound knower of Hindu, Islamic, Taoist and other traditions, Guénon expounded, in the same way as A.K. Coomaraswamy with whom he regularly corresponded, the traditional metaphysics which gave a unity beyond the forms to the apparently different traditions of mankind. Though completely ignored by the official academic world, his message inspired quite a few seekers, and more than 50 years after his death his books are regularly republished and his influence grows steadily.
In The Crisis of the Modern World, published for the first time in 1927, Guénon writes a relentless and radical criticism of the modern world, revealing its shallowness and its spiritual destitution when confronted with the traditional civilizations. Eighty years later, his words are still amazingly present and fully valid, but there is something that has definitely changed: the traditional East that Guénon sets against the modern West has disappeared in a great measure as Asia has taken, by its own choice or by the force of circumstances, to the same road than the West. The reflexions of Guenon about the modern world are thus in a big extent applicable to the India of today, in danger of being submerged by the strong flow of modern ways and conceptions and of forgetting the spiritual base that was always the foundation of its civilization and that was the main cause for its unique survival through so many centuries.

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• Publisher : Indica Books
• By : Mahaprabhu Aghoreshwar Baba Bhagwan Ram
• Cover : Paperback
• Edition : January 1, 2012
• Pages : 413
• Weight : 450 gm.
• Size : 8.4 x 5.8 x 0.8 inches
• Language : English
• ISBN-10 : 8186569669
• ISBN-13 : 978-8186569665
• Product Code : BK14253

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The Aghoris believe that their tradition was started by Shiva himself, and was propounded further by Jagadguru Dattatreya. Baba Kinaram (1563-1714), a very renowned saint in Banaras, revived the tradition.
The followers of the Aghora path try to cultivate a state of mind and social practice totally non-discriminatory. Seeing the Divine in everything and everybody, they transcend all category distinctions, all prescriptions and proscriptions of the “normal” social structure such as high and low, purity and pollution, pure and impure, or male and female.
In the twentieth century, Aghoreshwar Mahaprabhu Baba Bhagwan Ram (1937-92) was the greatest avadhut in the Aghora tradition. He had an overwhelming spiritual quest ever since his infancy, and attained enlightenment at the age of fourteen or fifteen. He thus became an Aghoreshwar, the highest of all spiritually realized saints in the Aghora tradition, a walking, talking deity, Shiva incarnate. People felt that Baba truly loved everyone who went to him. His life was no longer for his own self; he lived for those who came to him. Hundreds of thousands of devotees, simple villagers, spiritual seekers and high dignitaries would flock around him.
In the holy city of Banaras Baba laid the foundation of Shri Sarveshwari Samooh in 1961, an organization to fight social evils like leprosy, dowry and illiteracy. To fulfil hese goals, Baba started an ashram and a leprosy hospital by the name of Awadhut Bhagwan Ram Kusht Sewa Ashram (The Awadhut Bhagwan Ram Leprosy Service Ashram) at Parao, Varanasi.
Baba’s teachings were imparted more through everyday conversations rather than through sermons. On his advice, his words were compiled into a book that will have the essence of all his messages. Thus was written Aghor Vachan Shastra in Hindi and the present book, its English translation.
Baba Bhagwan Ram is credited to have changed the place that Aughar ascetics occupy in society. While earlier they were regarded as being, literally, on the social fringe, inhabiting cremation grounds, today they have become a part of the mainstream of religious life in Banaras and elsewhere, using the powers of their spiritual practices for social benefit.

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• Publisher : Indica Books
• By : MARK S.G. (Translated with exposition and notes by) DYCZKOWSKI 
• Cover : Paperback
• Edition : 1998
• Pages : 248
• Weight : 500 gm.
• Size : 
• Language : English
• ISBN-13 : 9788186569078
• Product Code : BK14251

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The Shiva Sutra was revealed to Vasugupta by Shiva in order to counter the effects of dualism. This revelation initiated the hermeneutics of syntheses and exegesis climaxed by the great Abhinavagupta. The Shiva Sutara is the most important scripture in the Trika system of Kashmir Shaivism. As a book on yoga, it explains the nature and cause of bondage and the means to liberation from bondage.
Bhaskara is in the direct lineage of Vasugupta. To Bhaskara’s commentary, Mark Dyczkowski has added his translation of an anonymous commentary as an aid to understanding Bhaskara’s interpretation. This anonymous writer also serves as a bridge between Kshemaraja’s and Bhaskara’s commentaries, drawing from both. The commentary on each sutra is thus in three layers. Bhaskara’s commentary is first, followed by the anonymous commentary; after which Dyczkowski adds his own exposition and compares Bhaskara and Kshemaraja.

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• Publisher : Indica Books
• By : Krishna Manu
• Cover : Hardcover
• Edition : June 15, 2004
• Pages : 607
• Weight : 2.700 kg.
• Size : 10.9 x 9 x 1.6 inches
• Language : English
• ISBN-10 : 8186569480
• ISBN-13 : 978-8186569481
• Product Code : BK14251

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Prof: (Rtd.) Dr. Rai Anand Krishna needs no introduction to the world of Indian Art and Culture. On his father Rai Krishnadasa’s rich foundation, he structured his own creativity, experience of study, research and publication in this field. His creativity goes back to 1944 (a long span of six decades); his tradition continues even to the next generation. His accessible and kind personality makes him a standing humanist dear to a whole generation of Indian art students (who consider him his guru) as well as his scholar friends.
These students and friends, now an intimate part of the “Krishna family”, have in course of time carved for themselves a niche in their respective fields and are today among the outstanding scholars of Indian Art around the world.
This unique volume is a compilation of articles contributed by these colleagues, friends and students — all Indian art specialists from the length and breadth of the world. They have come together by contributing interesting finds of their fields to form this book-offering which constitutes a landmark in this Ananda-Vana of Indian Art, that is “The Forest of Bliss of Indian Art”.
Covering a time span from centuries prior to the beginning of Christian Era to the modern times, i.e. almost 2,000 years, this book embraces almost every facet of Indian Art, such as architecture, sculpture, textile, decorative arts, folk and modern art, sociology and culture.
Enriched with over 500 spectacular colour and black & white relevant illustrations, this scholarly book, unprecedented in style, will not only be a source of information both textually and visually for the academics, but will also be of great interest to every person fascinated by the general or specialized study of Indian Art.

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• Publisher : Indica Books
• By : Tarannum Fatma Lari
• Cover : Hardcover
• Edition : July 1, 2010
• Pages : 257
• Weight : 1.35 kg.
• Size : 11 x 8.5 x 0.9 inches
• Language : English
• ISBN-10 : 8186569901
• ISBN-13 : 978-8186569900
• Product Code : BK14250

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Banaras, usually known as a religious and cultural centre, is also famous since antiquity for its textile industry. Banaras textiles and the designs produced there were sold throughout India and exported to many foreign countries. The Buddha was shrouded in a fine Banaras cloth, and kings and queens all over India used to dress with its more exquisite brocades. All foreign visitors to the city commented on this textile art, in which Banaras traditionally excelled.
Textiles of Bananas: Yesterday and Today is the product of a deep research on this textile industry since the distant past up to our times. The book explains in detail the different designs used and their conception, the various types of cloth weaving and the techniques employed (making of the threads, dyeing, stretching the warp, polishing, tools used, etc.), and handicrafts such as embroideries (karchobi, zardozi, etc.). It also studies the socio-economic condition of the artisans.
Illustrated with many colour and black and white pictures showing old and new designs, this book is the more complete book on this subject up to date, and will be invaluable for researchers, designers, and art lovers.

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• Publisher : Indica Books
• By : Anuradha Banarji
• Cover : Paperback
• Edition : 2010
• Pages : 138
• Weight : 200 gm.
• Size : 
• Language : Hindi
• ISBN-10 : 8186569979
• ISBN-13 : 978-8186569979
• Product Code : BK14249

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• Publisher : Indica Books
• By : Kesava Misra
• Cover : Paperback
• Edition : January 1, 2006
• Pages : 114
• Weight : 150 gm.
• Size : 7 x 4.6 x 0.3 inches
• Language : English
• ISBN-10 : 8186569588
• ISBN-13 : 978-8186569580
• Product Code : BK14248

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The Tarkabhasa or “Exposition of Reasoning” of Keshava Mishra is an elementary treatise on the Nyaya system. It explains, in brief, the main tenets peculiar to that system, along with certain other details which that system subsequently borrowed from the sister system of the Vaisheshikas. Pt. Ganganatha Jha chose this work for translation because of its freedom from the intricate polemics that make many Nyaya works repellent to the ordinary student. This translation will serve as an introduction to the study of more abstruse works: the Bhashya of Vatsyayana and the Varttika of Udyotakara, which constitute the chief and original authority for the Nyaya.

About Author:

Keshava Mishra, the writer of this work, is believed to have lived between ce 1344 and 1419 in Mithila (north Bihar).

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• Publisher : Indica Books
• By : Gol
• Cover : Paperback
• Edition : December 31, 2003
• Pages : 58
• Weight : 150 gm.
• Size : 10.9 x 8.2 x 0.2 inches
• Language : English
• ISBN-13 : 978-8186569344
• ISBN-10 : 8186569340
• Product Code : BK14247

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The Mughal dynasty of India began in the first half of the 16th century after the conquest of Delhi by Babar. After the death of Emperor Aurangzeb in 1707, the immense empire began to fall apart, while small hindu and muslim kingdoms came into ascendacy. Thus, speaking of the Mughals means speaking about that period of two scarce centuries that left a precious artistic and architectonic legacy for humanity, out of which the Taj Mahal stands out by its own right. Based on the history of the Mughal dynasty and the building of their most knowned monument, the Taj Mahal the imaginative artist Gol, specialist of historical comic and author of the comic book "A pilgrimage to Kashi" has created this great comic, mixing history and imagination. This comic book is not exclusively meant for children.

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• Publisher : Indica Books
• By : Bithika Mukerji
• Cover : Paperback
• Edition : January 1, 2009
• Pages : 126
• Weight : 150 gm.
• Size : 6.9 x 4.3 x 0.3 inches
• Language : English
• ISBN-10 : 8186569847
• ISBN-13 : 978-8186569849
• Product Code : BK14246

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The “commentary” on the Taittiriyopanishad is entitled Taittiriyaka-vidya-prakashah, that is “the exposition of the teaching of the Taittiriyopanishad” . It is to be seen that almost all Upanishads propound the unity of the Self with Brahman in two ways, first, by negation and second, by the mode of indicative descriptions. Both these methods are to be met with in the Taittiriyopanishad. Indeed this Upanishad is the fountainhead for both methods which converge to the same point in the famous declaration: brahmavidyapnotiparam (the knower of Brahman attains the supreme). What Vidyaranya has accomplished in this independent work is best described as a “meta-commentary”, being not a mere gloss on the existing commentary, but an independent exercise in interpretation of the Upanishads themselves guided at every step by the turns in the commentary of Sankaracharya. In sum it may be viewed as the medieval counterpart of modern academic interpretations of the Upanishads vis-a-vis the exegesis of Sankaracharya.
The prevalent view is that Vidyaranya and the Vedic commentator Sayana were brothers. It is further believed that “Vidyaranya” (lit. forest of learning) is the ascetic name of Madhavacharya, the very powerful minister in the Kingdom of Vijayanagar which came into existence under his aegis in ce1336. He renounced the world when yet at the height of his worldly powers and became an ascetic, who was the thirty-third occupant of the prestigious seat of Sankaracharya at Sringeri.

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• Publisher : Indica Books
• By : IP-Meera Grimes
• Cover : Paperback
• Edition : October 31, 2011
• Pages : 268
• Weight : 270 gm.
• Size : 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.7 inches
• Language : English
• ISBN-13 : 978-9381120019
• ISBN-10 : 9381120013
• Product Code : BK14245

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Swami Vaidyanathan (1913-90) was an awakened and extraordinary individual of the modern age; a rare combination: master of music (both Indian and Western), science, and philosophy. True to the wisdom of the Upanishads, he was awakened by the sheer questioning of the meaning of the word “young”. He pondered, “What is young?” He looked at the photo of his childhood in his mind and then looked at his present body and questioned, “Who is me, this or that?” His deep deliberation took his mind backwards in time and at one point he went beyond where there was no sun, or moon. This happened when he was 23 years old, studying the atom under Lord Rutherford in Cambridge, England. Later, overpowered by compassion at seeing the world’s suffering, he dedicated his life to assuage the suffering of people and unite humanity. He found a solution and called his thesis, Masquism. He did not compromise on his principles even in trying circumstances. He lived as a walking messenger of God with the message that made him a world Guru. He loved humanity as a father would love his family, leaving his message as his offering and contribution to human welfare and unity. This book gives an overall biography of Remaji with his insight, struggles, and his last two years of letters to the author.

About Author:

Meera Grimes is a disciple of Swami Vaidyanathan and the custodian of all his writings. She was awarded the prestigious title Kalaimamani by the Tamil Nadu Government in 1983 for her outstanding performances on Harikatha. She is the author of two books: Harikatha and Offspring of God and the Play of God. Nowadays she spends all her time is preserving and editing Swami Vaidyanathan’s writings.

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• Publisher : Indica Books
• By : Stuart Rose 
• Cover : Hardcover
• Edition :  2007
• Pages : 338
• Weight : 350 gm.
• Size : 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.7 inches
• Language : English
• ISBN-13 : 978-8186569689
• ISBN-10 : 8186569685
• Product Code : BK14244

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Sublime Love is an enquiry into the heart of all religions and spiritualities, into that which gives them their meaningfulness. In two parts, Sublime Love first meets with and illuminates spiritual love from every angle, and seeks to establish much more precisely than hitherto what spiritual love is, and what it entails. The second part is a comprehensive collection of this love’s most important non-mystical writings, which seeks to broaden and extend what has been found in the first part.
In the essay, first many questions are raised and responses given from a personal perspective — the only possible primary “evidence”. Then three well-known scriptural accounts of spiritual love are given in full with discussion: Krishna, Jesus, and the Buddha. Questions were put to authorities on spiritual love (priests, rabbis, monks, and the like), including: Are all neighbours to be loved? Does love always entail suffering? Through literature analysis and more questions, six nuances are explained. Is the experience the same for women and men? Is spiritual love unconditional? And what is the relationship between spiritual love and sexuality? Finally, four vital elements are met: Self, peace, beauty, and bliss. The essay ends with two parts illuminating spiritual love at its very highest.
After a short context-setting introduction to each entry, the Anthology presents substantial extracts from 36 writings, including: Aquinas, Aurobindo, Bahya, Dionysius, Fromm, al Ghazzali, Gibran, Gurdjieff, Kierkegaard, Lewis, Maslow, Merton, Mo-tse, Plato, Plotinus, Tolstoy, and Vivekananda.

About Author:

Stuart Rose has a Ph.D. in Religious Studies, and has lived, travelled, and worked in many countries and organizations. He now lives simply, away from the world.

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• Publisher : Indica Books
• By : Boris Marjanovic
• Cover : Hardcover
• Edition : April 1, 2011
• Pages : 284
• Weight : 500 gm.
• Size : 8.7 x 5.8 x 0.9 inches
• Language : English
• ISBN-13 : 978-8186569986
• ISBN-10 : 8186569987
• Product Code : BK14243

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The Stavacintamani of Bhatta Narayana (late ninth-early tenth century ce) is a devotional stotra dedicated to the praise and worship of Shiva and his power (shakti), who is responsible for creation, maintenance, and dissolution. The stotra is an outpouring of the state of the mature mind of one who practised, experienced, internalized, and lived this system of monistic Shaivism. The quality of the verses and author’s personal fame suggest that Bhatta Narayana was not merely an ardent devotee, but a learned scholar, familiar with the esoteric secrets of the Shaiva philosophy and practice. Khsemaraja’s commentary is intended to reveal the esoteric meanings of the original devotional text while simultaneously integrating this work into the canon of non-dual Shaivism. His lucid commentarial style primarily focuses on translating Bhatta Narayana’s poetic devotional verses into the terminology of yogic states and experiences based on the Pratyabhina monistic philosophy. For example, in verse 4 he states: “The praise of the Lord is nothing but the realization that the Lord, who is identical with this universe—but appears in diversity — is in reality non-dual.”
In his Foreword to this book, Professor Rastogi observes “Marjanovic’s approach is constructive, at times comparative and felicity of language renders the overall presentation very lucid, more particularly some of his renderings of Sanskrit terms into English impress at the first sight. In his treatment of the philosophical and doctrinal issues he appears authentic and tries to articulate the inherent intend of Khsemaraja. This work fulfils a long-cherished need and serves as a welcome addition to the literature of Kashmir Shaivism in English. I am sure it will benefit not only students of Kashmir Shaivism but those of Indian spiritual traditions as well. With these words I commend this work to the readers for a rewarding trip to the Stavacintamani’s universe of devotion as understood and interpreted by Kshemaraja.”

Specification:

• Publisher : Indica Books
• By : Dr Ashok Kumar Chattopadhyaya
• Cover : Paperback
• Edition : January 1, 2005
• Pages : 223
• Weight : 350 gm.
• Size : 8.4 x 5.8 x 0.7 inches
• Language : English
• ISBN-1 3: 978-8186569542
• ISBN-10 : 8186569545
• Product Code : BK14241

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 Spiritual Education is meant for parents, teachers, and all who are interested in education based on spiritual values.
Included in the book are the views of Swami Sivananda, Mata Amritanandamayi, Krishnamurti, Aurobindo and other great spiritual masters on education. Also included are many practical examples using mandalas, meditation, different yogas and storytelling as aids to spiritually value-based education. The author gives a detailed description of schools based on spiritual ideals in the West as well as in the East.
Born and trained as a social worker and a teacher in Holland, Purnima Zweers has lived many years in India, where she has studied with many great spiritual masters. Her great dedication to her own personal spiritual journey led her to write her graduate thesis on spiritual education. That paper has been greatly expanded to create this book.
Purnima’s experience of India’s ashrams and spiritual traditions, as well as her awareness of the importance of value-based education, makes her feel very strongly that no effort should be spared to build up a generation with strong character, ethical values and moral principles. The well-being of the world depends on the education of our children.
Purnima has exhibited an exceptional skill in translating her years of experience into an easily readable format. Anyone interested in spiritually-based education will surely appreciate this book.

Specification:

• Publisher : Indica Books
• By : Dr Ashok Kumar Chattopadhyaya
• Cover : Paperback
• Edition : 2016
• Pages : 259
• Weight : 360 gm.
• Size : 8.4 x 5.3 x 0.8 inches
• Language : English
• ISBN-13 : 979-8190038187
• Product Code : BK14240

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Specification:

• Publisher : Indica Books
• By : Gautam Chatterjee
• Cover : Hardcover
• Edition : April 1, 2011
• Pages : 192
• Weight : 500 gm.
• Size : 
• Language  : English
• ISBN-13 : 978-8186117088
• ISBN-10 : 8186117083
• Product Code : BK14239

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Tantraloka is a magnum opus in the horizon of Indian philosophy. This great work, created by the well-known polymath Acharya Abhinavaguptapada (tenth century ce), is a compendium of all Tantrika rituals and essence drawn from the light of all pre-treatises on Indian Tantra till the time of the creator. This text consists of thirty-seven chapters. It reflects on Tantra from the background of Kashmir Shaivism which is known as the monistic philosophy of Pratyabhijna. Abhinavagupta explains here at length the ways to worship the Supreme Consciousness in order to attain this state of Absolute ecstasy and liberation in one single life of mankind. This work is before the English-speaking world for the first time in a hermeneutic way.

About Author:

Gautam Chatterjee is an aspirant of Kashmir Shaivism through Consciousness studies. An oft-quoted author of various books and President of Abhinavagupta Academy, Prof. Chatterjee has a lineage of Pt. Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar with deep Sanskrit tradition and has been a close associate of Thakur Jaidev Singh. After completing his study on the inter-influence of Indian classical music and Agama, his two books Consciousness : Re-cognition of the Actor  and  Jnanaganja (English translation of the work by Pt. Gopinath Kaviraj direct from Bengali) are now in press. At present, teaches in Banaras Hindu University.

Specification:

• Publisher : Indica Books
• By : Abhinavagupta And Gautam Chatterjee
• Cover : Paperback
• Edition : 3 February 2014
• Pages : 146
• Weight : 500 gm.
• Size : 
• Language : English
• ISBN-1 3: 978-8186117200
• ISBN-10 : 8186117202
• Product Code : BK14238

Description:

Tantraloka is a magnum opus in the horizon of Indian philosophy. This great work, created by the well-known polymath Acharya Abhinavaguptapada (tenth century ce), is a compendium of all Tantrika rituals and essence drawn from the light of all pre-treatises on Indian Tantra till the time of the creator. This text consists of thirty- seven chapters. It reflects on Tantra from the background of Kashmir Shaivism which is known as the monistic philosophy of Pratyabhijna. Abhinavagupta explains here at length about the ways to worship the Supreme Consciousness in order to attain this state of Absolute ecstasy and liberation in one single life of mankind. This work is before the English-speaking world for the first time in a hermeneutic way.

About Author:

Gautam Chatterjee, well-known writer, has a lineage of Pt. Ishwarachandra Vidyasagar, with deep Sanskrit tradition and has been a close associate of Thakur Jaidev Singh. His two books (collection of plays), related to Kashmir Shaivism, have already been published. At present, working on the inter-influence of Indian Classical Music and Agama. “Re-cognition of an Actor” is his forthcoming book.

Specification:

• Publisher : Indica Books
• By : Abhinava Gupta
• Cover : Hardcover
• Edition : December 1, 2008
• Pages : 124
• Weight : 210 gm.
• Size : 8.6 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches
• Language : English
• ISBN-10 : 8186117059
• ISBN-13 : 978-8186117057
• Product Code : BK14237

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For this Translation, the Sanskrit text is selected from “The Kashmir Series of Text & Studies” (n. 23 to 58, ahnika one to ahnika thirty-seven), edited with notes by Mahamahopadhyaya Pandit Mukund Ram Shastri and Pt. Madhasudan Kaul Shastri, Printed at the Indian Press, Allahabad and Nirnaya Sagar Press, Bombay, published in 1918, 1933 respectively. We have three other versions of the same work available in the market but, (1) we do not find verse 76 (of ahnika one) in the precept pub. from ChowkhambaVidyabhawan,Varanasi 2002, (2) we don’t find verse 58 (of ahnika one) in the precept pub. by Acharya Krisnanand Sagar, Gujarat, 1984 and (3) this is one complete verse:
vishvakrititvaccidcittadvaicitryavabhasakah.
tato ’sya bahurupatvamuktam dikshottaradike.
But in the precept pub. from Sampurnanand Sanskrit University, Varanasi, 1992, 2000, this verse is presented in two verses — verse 61 and 62, with two doubtful verses, verse 56 and verse 223.

About Author:

Gautam Chatterjee, well-known writer, has a lineage of Pt. Ishwarachandra Vidyasagar, with deep Sanskrit tradition and has been a close associate of Thakur Jaidev Singh. His two books (collection of plays), related to Kashmir Shaivism, have already been published. At present, working on the inter-influence of Indian Classical Music and Agama. “Re-cognition of an Actor” is his forthcoming book.

Specification:

• Publisher : Indica Books
• By : Sri Abhinavagupta
• Cover : Hardcover
• Edition : December 1, 2008
• Pages : 158
• Weight : 360 gm.
• Size : 8.6 x 5.6 x 0.8 inches
• Language : English
• ISBN-13 : 978-8186117064
• ISBN-10 : 8186117067
• Product Code : BK14236

Description:

Tantraloka is a magnum opus in the horizon of Indian philosophy. This great work, created by the well-known polymath Acharya Abhinavaguptapada (tenth century ce), is a compendium of all Tantrika rituals and essence drawn from the light of all pre-treatises on Indian Tantra till the time of the creator. This text consists of thirty- seven chapters. It reflects on Tantra from the background of Kashmir Shaivism which is known as the monistic philosophy of Pratyabhijna. Abhinavagupta explains here at length about the ways to worship the Supreme Consciousness in order to attain this state of Absolute ecstasy and liberation in one single life of mankind. This work is before the English-speaking world for the first time in a hermeneutic way. With a great lineage of Pandit Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar and Pandit Suniti Kumar Chaturjya, Gautam Chatterjee is initiated by Pt. Gopinath Kaviraj, and has been a close associate of Thakur Jaidev Singh and Pt. Vraj Vallabh Dwivedi in the discipline of Kashmir Shaivism. Graduated in Mathematics, Gautam is now the founder president of Abhinavagupta Academy, a centre for consciousness studies in Banaras, developed a lucid way to yoga practices to enrich the richest Tantric tradition of monistic Shaivism in Kashi, spiritually and ontologically, and also metaphysically. Author of his oft-quoted book White Shadow of Consciousness, Shree Gautam teaches in Banaras Hindu University.