Hinduism

In this Very Short Introduction, Kim Knott offers a succinct and authoritative overview of Hinduism and its key beliefs. In this second edition she considers new issues facing Hindus such as the politicization of Hinduism in India, the increasing ...

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Considered a classic in its field since it was first published in 1946, this perennial bestseller has introduced countless readers to the science and philosophy of yoga meditation. This edition includes a final chapter on the closing years of Yoga...

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En bok med forntida visdom - för den moderna människan. His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada presenterar Indiens andliga juvel, som den är - med dess ursprungliga klarhet och innebörd bevarad. "När besvikelsen stirrar mig i an...

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NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER From a renowned Vedic scholar, leader of the Maharishi Foundations, and Harvard-trained neuroscientist: a radical new paradigm for understanding Consciousness and finding enlightenment, peace, and fulfillmen...

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Upanisadernas många anonyma författare levde under de sju sista århundradena före vår tideräkning en tid av dramatiska förändringar i norra Indien, då nya läror som buddhismen och jainismen uppstod. Deras verk ger oss en fascinerande inblick i män...

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A Lama Foundation Book. Describes one man's transformation upon his acceptance of the principles of Yoga and gives a modern restatement of the importance of the spiritual side of man's nature. Illustrated.

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Enlighten yourself in 2019 with the simple but powerful teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi - one of India's most revered spiritual masters. 'Our own Self-realization is the greatest service we can render the world' _________ Be As You...

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The tradition of Tantra or Tantric Buddhism is known to have existed in India as early as the 5th century AD. In this book Osho talks about the mystical insight of Tantra that is to be found in these ancient writings. Mining these ancient Tantric ...

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"Kundalini yoga presented Jung with a model of something that was almost completely lacking in Western psychology - an account of the development phases of higher consciousness...Jung's insistence on the psychogenic and symbolic significance ...

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Tantra originated in India many centuries ago but it's uniquely placed to help people use real life as grist to the mill for spiritual transformation. The purpose of the book is to articulate what Tantra can be in our modern times and how it can b...

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Among the oldest of India's spiritual texts, the Upanishads are records of intensive question-and-answer sessions given by illumined sages to their students - in ashrams, at family gatherings, in a royal court, and in the kingdom of Death. Th...

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How do you live a life of spiritual awakening as well as outer abundance, inner freedom as well as deep intimacy? How do you serve the world selflessly, yet passionately celebrate your life? The sages of Tantra have known for centuries that when y...

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"The Life of Hinduism" brings together a series of essays - many recognized as classics in the field - that present Hinduism as a vibrant, truly 'lived' religion. Celebrating the diversity for which Hinduism is known, this volu...

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If you think that you have to retreat to a cave in the Himalayas to find the enlightenment that yoga promises, think again. In this second edition of Living Your Yoga, Judith Hanson Lasater stretches the meaning of yoga beyond its familiar poses a...

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Provides a road map to help experience divinity in everyday life. This book brings the Gita to light for a Western audience and translates its principles for life. With a series of reflections, anecdotes, stories, and exercises, this companion gui...

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A complex body of religious practices that spread throughout the Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain traditions; a form of spirituality that seemingly combines sexuality, sensual pleasure, and the full range of physical experience with the religious life - ...

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The Bhagavad Gita, "The Song of the Lord," is probably the best known of all the Indian scriptures, and Easwaran's clear, accessible translation is the best-selling edition. The Gita opens dramatically, with prince Arjuna collapsing...

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The Kamasutra is the oldest extant Hindu textbook of erotic love. About the art of living as well as about the positions in sexual intercourse, it is here newly translated into clear, vivid, sexually frank English together with three commentaries:...

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The West has drawn upon Hinduism on a wide scale, from hatha yoga and meditation techniques, to popular culture in music and fashion, yet the contribution of Hinduism to the counter-culture of the 1960s has not been analysed in full. Hinduism and ...

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The Ramayana is, quite simply, the greatest of Indian epics - and one of the world's supreme masterpieces of storytelling 'Almost every individual living in India,' writes R. K. Narayan in the Introduction to this new interpretation...

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In this first volume of the collected talks and essays of Paramahansa Yogananda, readers will journey through some little-known and seldom-explained aspects of meditation, life after death, healing, and the power of the mind.

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The Bhagavad Gita is the best known of all the Indian scriptures, and Eknath Easwarans best-selling translation is reliable, readable, and profound. Easwaran's 55-page introduction places the Bhagavad Gita in its historical setting, and bring...

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This extraordinary treatise explores parallel passages from the Bible and the Hindu scriptures to reveal the essential unity of all religions. Swami Sri Yukteswar is renowned as the revered guru of the great pioneer of yoga in the West, Paramahans...

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This Element explores the relation between monotheism and fundamentalism. It does so from both an empirical perspective and a more theoretical one that combines theological and philosophical insights. The empirical part addresses how as a matter o...

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The Bhagavad Gita is one of a small number of revered wisdom texts that transcend their faith traditions, such as the Bible, the Quran and the Dao De Ching. Einstein, Emerson, Thoreau, Jung, and others have celebrated the Bhagavad Gita as a book o...

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An engrossing and definitive narrative account of history and myth that offers a new way of understanding one of the world's oldest major religions from one of the world's foremost scholars on Hinduism.

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BKS Iyengars translation and commentary on these ancient yoga sutras has been described as the bible of yoga. This new edition of the classic text contains a new introduction by BKS Iyengar, as well as a foreword by Godfrey Devereux, author of Dyn...

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ÄNTLIGEN NYUTGÅVA PÅ SVENSKA! Bhagavad-Gita, Herrens sång, är en av världens mest älskade böcker. Genom århundraden har Krishnas ord till den förtvivlade Arjuna väglett villrådiga sökare med sin tidlösa visdom. Bhagavad-Gita visar vägen till ljuse...

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The Bhagavad Gita is the best known and most widely read Hindu religious text in the Western world. This new translation is ideal for the non-specialist as well as for students of Indian religions, providing a full cultural and historical context ...

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