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At last, an edition of the Bhagavad Gita that speaks with unprecedented fidelity and clarity, letting the profound beauty and depth of this classic shine through. It contains an unusually informative introduction, the Sanskrit text of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute's critical edition, an accurate and accessible English translation, a comprehensive glossary of names and epithets and a thorough index. From the Introduction:You are about to have the profound pleasure of reading one of the truly great books in the history of the world. Not only is it a spiritual monument-an essential scripture of Hinduism, recited daily for two millennia and to this very day, whose teachings have spread throughout Asia and around the globe-it is also a literary masterpiece, the linchpin of a great epic of war and peace, honor and disgrace, loyalty and betrayal. It is a book people everywhere in the world return to again and again throughout their lives for insight into the nature of reality. "e;This is a luminous translation that performs the exceptional feat of bringing the Gita fully alive in a Western language, combining accuracy with accessibility. In our troubled times, humanity needs the message of this sacred scripture as never before."e;--Karen Armstrong, Author of The Great Transformation and A History of GodTable of Contents:IntroductionArjuna's DespairTheoryActionKnowledge, Action and RenunciationRenunciationMeditationKnowledge and DiscernmentThe Liberating BrahmanThe Royal SciencePowerHis Cosmic FormDevotionThe Field and Its KnowerThe Three PropertiesThe Supreme SpiritThe Divine and the DemonicThe Three Kinds of FaithLiberation and RenunciationNames and NicknamesContributorsIndex

This affordable, authoritative edition of the Shiva Samhita contains a new introduction, the original Sanskrit, a new English translation, nine full-page photographs, and an index. It includes beautiful teachings found nowhere else. This is the first edition of this classic Yoga text to meet both high academic and literary standards, the first to be based on a truly critical study of the Sanskrit manuscripts. It's for people who practice Yoga, and for anyone with an interest in health and fitness, philosophy, religion, spirituality, mysticism, or meditation. From the IntroductionComposed over five centuries ago, the Shiva Samhita is one of the most celebrated root texts of Hatha Yoga. It includes beautiful teachings found nowhere else. This edition contains the original Sanskrit, properly edited and printed for the first time, and a new, accurate translation thereof. It also features photographs of the asanas and mudras described therein. "e;James Mallinson has just produced the most reliable Sanskrit edition and English translation of the Shiva Samhita available. I praise his painstaking and learned work, which is well complemented by a crisp, informative, no-nonsense introduction. The accuracy and readability of this book make it of great interest to anyone working on Yoga and related disciplines."e;--Elizabeth De Michelis, Oxford University, Author of A History of Modern YogaTable of Contents:IntroductionThe Vital PrincipleKnowledgePracticeMudrasMeditationContributorsIndex

This affordable, definitive edition of the Gheranda Samhita contains a new introduction, the original Sanskrit, a new English translation, and 39 full-page photographs. It's the most encyclopedic of the classic Yoga texts and teaches a unique sevenfold path to perfection of the person. This is the first edition to meet high academic, literary, and production standards. It's for people who practice Yoga and for anyone with an interest in health and fitness, philosophy, religion, spirituality, mysticism, or meditation. From the IntroductionThe book you are about to read, a manual of Yoga taught by Gheranda to Chanda, is the most encyclopedic of all the root texts of Hatha Yoga. At the beginning of the book, Chanda asks Gheranda to tell him about the Yoga of the body, which is the cause of knowledge of the Ultimate Reality. Gheranda assents and the book is thus called the Gheranda Samhita, or "e;The Collection [of Verses] of Gheranda."e;It sets itself apart from other books on Hatha Yoga in two notable ways. Firstly, it calls its Yoga "e;ghata Yoga"e; or "e;ghatastha Yoga"e; and not Hatha Yoga. The usual meaning of ghata is "e;pot,"e; but here it refers to the body, or rather the person, since the techniques taught by Gheranda work on both the body and the mind. Secondly, it is unique in teaching a sevenfold path to perfection of the person. Table of Contents:IntroductionPurificationAsanasMudrasPratyaharaPranayamaDhyanaSamadhi

The first complete edition of the Kamasutra. It contains a crisp introduction; the original Sanskrit; a new, accurate and readable English translation; fifty full-page illustrations using period clothing, jewelry, and settings; and a thorough index.Table of ContentsIntroduction xiPart One: General Matters 1One: Summary of the Guide 3Two: The Three Aims of Life 10Three: Exposition of the Skills 18Four: Lifestyle of the Elegant Man 25Five: The Lover and His Companions 38Part Two: Sexual Intercourse 47One: Sexual Unions 49Sexual Intercourse with Regard to Size, Endurance and Temperament 49The Variations of Love 58Two: Embraces 61Three: Ways of Kissing 77Four: Forms of Scratching 85Five: Biting and Behaviors 92Ways of Biting 92Behavior Typical of Women from Different Provinces 95Six: Positions and Unusual Acts 100Different Sexual Positions 100Unusual Sexual Acts 118Seven: Slapping and Moaning 130Eight: Imitation and Techniques 138Imitating the Sexual Role of a Man 138Sexual Techniques of a Man 141Nine: Oral Sex 151Ten: Sex: Beginning, Ending, Types, Quarrels 165The Beginning and Conclusion of Sexual Intercourse 165Different Kinds of Sex 172The Lovers’ Quarrel 175Part Three: Young Women 181One: Choosing a Bride 183Rules of Courtship 183Deciding a Match 188Two: Winning Her Confidence 191Three: Approaches and Gestures 200Approaching a Young Woman 200Indications through Gestures and Facial Expressions 209Four: Advances 213Advances a Man Can Make on His Own 213Approaching a Man One Desires 219Winning a Young Woman by Advances 222Five: Stratagems for Weddings 225Part Four: The Wife 233One: The Only Wife 235Conduct of an Only Wife 235Conduct of a Wife Whose Husband is Abroad 244Two: The Other Wives 248Conduct of the Senior Wife to the Co-Wives 248Conduct of the Junior Wife 251Conduct of the Remarried Woman 253Conduct of an Unloved Wife 256Matters Pertaining to the Harem 258Conduct of a Man with Several Wives 261Part Five: Other Men’s Wives 265One: Seducing Successfully 267Exposing the Nature of Men and Women 267Causes of Resistance 270Men Who Have Success with Women 275Women Who are Easily Won 276Two: Intimacy and Advances 279Ways to Intimacy 279Making Advances 284Three: Examination of Inclinations 287Four: Tasks of the Female Messenger 294Five: The Erotic Desire of Rulers 309Six: Harems and Wives 320Life in the Harem 320Guarding One’s Wives 329Part Six: Courtesans 333One: Friends and Lovers 335The Appraisal of a Friend, Suitable and Unsuitable Lovers, and Reasons for Approaching a Lover 335How to Acquire One 341Two: Compliance with the Lover 345Three: Money, Indifference and Disposal 358Ways to Make Money 358Signs and Recognition of Indifference 362Methods for Driving the Lover Away 364Four: Restoring a Broken Relationship 368Five: Types of Profit 378Six: Profit, Loss, Risk and Types of Available Women 388Considering Profit and Loss, and their Consequences and Risks 388Types of Available Women 400Part Seven: Advanced Methods 403One: Luck, Spellbinding and Aphrodisiacs 405Achieving Luck in Love 405Spellbinding Someone 410Aphrodisiacs 413Two: Passion, Enlargement and Techniques 419Recovery of Lost Passion 419Enlarging the Male Organ 423Unusual Techniques 425Contributors 433Index 435About the TranslatorResiding in Oslo, Norway, Lars Martin Fosse holds a master’s and doctorate from the University of Oslo, and also studied at the Universities of Heidelberg, Bonn, and Cologne. He is one of Europe’s most experienced translators.

From the IntroductionOver the last half millennium, one book has established itself as the classic work on Hatha Yoga--the book you are holding in your hands. An Indian yogi named Svatmarama wrote the Hatha Yoga Pradipika in the fifteenth century C.E. Drawing on his own experience and older works now lost, he wrote this book for the student of Yoga. He wrote this book for you.Table of ContentsIntroductionAsanasPranayamaMudrasSamadhiContributorsAbout the AuthorNow living in Woodstock, New York, Brian Dana Akers began practicing Yoga at age twelve, learning Sanskrit at seventeen, and working in publishing at twenty-three.Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.Eight Sample VersesYoga succeeds by these six: enthusiasm, openness, courage, knowledge of the truth, determination, and solitude.Success is achieved neither by wearing the right clothes nor by talking about it. Practice alone brings success. This is the truth, without a doubt.When the breath is unsteady, the mind is unsteady. When the breath is steady, the mind is steady, and the yogi becomes steady. Therefore one should restrain the breath.As salt and water become one when mixed, so the unity of self and mind is called samadhi.He who binds the breath, binds the mind. He who binds the mind, binds the breath.Center the self in space and space in the self. Make everything space, then don''t think of anything.Empty within, empty without, empty like a pot in space. Full within, full without, full like a pot in the ocean.Don''t think of external things and don''t think of internal things. Abandon all thoughts, then don''t think of anything.

SummarySeventeen prescient tales of the near future: from global chaos to our obsession with celebrities, from virtual reality to the final flooding of Calcutta, from genetic engineering to the future of the Internet. A truly perceptive mind sized it all up decades before most people realized what was going down.Table of ContentsImages 1Island Vacation 13Arm of Decision 21The Jewelry Shop 31Helpful Harry 39Career Fair 51Death Looked Down 61Older Patterns 99Online 109Her Big Chance 129Rollout! 147Djinnetic Code 155Job Fair 175The Ascension of Saint Susan 187May/December at the Mall 203Continuing Ed 213Falling Forward 219About the Author 227About the AuthorBrian Dana Akers grew up in Kalamazoo, Michigan and spent his teenage years building telescopes, reading science fiction, and practicing Yoga. He started six years of undergraduate and graduate studies at the University of Michigan in 1975, with his senior year abroad in India. His studies included Sanskrit and Indian history.Brian then left for the San Francisco Bay Area and worked as a typographer and network manager. In July of 1991—with sun, moon, and earth aligned in the Golfo de California—he met Loretta, moved to New York, and married her.

Yoga''s glorious past, astonishing present—and breathtaking future.The Yoga Manifesto answers two questions: Why Yoga? Why now?It summarizes the very long and remarkable history of Yoga from its Indian origins to its global present, its entanglement with money, where it fits in the constellation of religions, its dialectic with science, its place in today''s society, and the bright future of Yoga.Table of ContentsIntroductionYoga and HistoryYoga and MoneyYoga and ReligionYoga and Science Yoga and SocietyYoga and the FutureAuthor