Introduction to Tantra Sastra

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Tantra Sastra is not understood and practiced with ease.Sir John Woodroffe (Arthur Avalon),by his contributions on the subject,has brought this subject to everyone's door step of knowledge.

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Born on December 15th, 1865,John Woodroffe was educated at Woburn Park School and University College, Oxford, where he graduated in jurisprudence and the Bachelor of Civil Law examinations. In 1890, He moved to India and enrolled as an advocate in Calcutta High Court. He was soon made a Fellow of the Calcutta University and appointed Law Professor there.He was appointed Standing Counsel to the Government of India in 1902 and two years later was raised to the High Court Bench.After serving for eighteen years in the bench, he became Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court in 1915.After retiring to England he became Reader in Indian Law at the University of Oxford, and finally moved to France in his retirement, where he died in 1936. Alongside his judicial duties he studied Sanskrit and Hindu philosophy and was especially interested in the esoteric Hindu Tantric Shakti system. He translated some twenty original Sanskrit texts, and under his pseudonym Arthur Avalon.He published and lectured prolifically and authoritatively on Indian philosophy and a wide range of Yoga and Tantra topics. His most popular and influential book, a major contribution to the appreciation of Indian philosophy and spirituality, is The Serpent Power The Secrets of Tantric and Shaktic Yoga ,which is the source of many modern Western appropriations of Kundalini practice. Other writings (published under his own name, as well as Arthur Avalon include: Shakti and Shakta Principles of Tantra (2 vols) Great Liberation) Hymns to the Goddess and Hymn to Kali The World as Power The Garland of Letters

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Sri Sankara Bhagavatpadacarya's Saundaryalahari =: Saundaryalahari (Bhavan's book university) (Bhavan's book university)

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About the book:The Saundaryalahari is by Sri Sankara Bhagavatpada (Adi Sankara) and its exposition is by Pujyasri Chandrasekharendra Sarasvati Svami (the Sage of Kanchi, widely known as Mahaswami). Saundaryalahari is indeed an inspired and inspiring work, a classic in its own right. More details: There is poetry in this exposition; there is the fervour of devotion as well as profundity of thought that is oceanic in its vastness and depth. There is a synthesis of bhakti and jnana, of Advaita and the Sakta doctrine. When the Sage of Kanchi speaks of beauty he takes you to the sublime realm of aesthetic delight. He speaks of many laharis, many waves, and his own bhasya of the Saundaryalahari is a flood of beauty that traverses various systems of thought: he harmonizes them as only he can, proving again that he is an acharya with rare insights and with an original and creative mind. Saundaryalahari is a great hymn composed by the Bhagavatpada and the expositioni in the present form is an inspired and inspiring work,a classic in it s own right.A synthesis of Bhakti and Jnana,of Advaita and the Sakta doctrine,a great hymn by a great spiritual master interpreted by a great sage par excellence

 

 

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Yoga, Tantra and Meditation in Daily Life

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The author demonstrates how you can practice Tantric Yoga and go on living your life as you usually do, adding another habit to the ones you already have. The step-by-step, well-illustrated instructions in this book take you from beginners' exercises to those for advanced students. You will learn how to meditate easily, breathe correctly during yoga or meditation, and how to do easy yoga poses and exercises, such as the back program to improve posture and maintain youthfulness, and a great deal more!

 

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Turning Toward the Mystery: A Seeker's Journey

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"I was born a hungry ghost," is the opening line of renowned Buddhist teacher Stephen Levine's memoir Turning Toward the Mystery. By the time Levine was 2 years old he was starving to death because of a doctor's bungled attempt to treat a digestive problem in infancy. This early starvation prepared Levine for stealing candy bars at age 4, toting a gun in his teenage years, and eventually turning his hunger toward the sacred journey into the unknown--that which he calls the mystery. When the drama of Levine's life story (heroin addiction, a stint at Riker's Island penitentiary for drug possession) falls away, we are left with the universal story of human longing. In this way Levine continues to be a teacher, using his life story to speak to the constant desire that feeds addictions, materialism, envy, and self-pity, to name a few collective demons. "The more we want food, love, sex, courage, the greater the feeling of not having them," he writes. "I saw desire as an undulating nausea in the pit of the hungry ghost's belly." Levine, who has devoted much of his life work to the care of the dying (A Year to Live, Who Dies?), teaches the path of compassion, how suffering is caused by attachment, and how pleasure is the absence of desire. Because of his leanings toward poetry and Buddhism, Levine's writing is vivid, clean, and filled with lots of white space. The layering between personal story and spiritual teaching is well separated on the page, and yet the beauty of this memoir is that they unfold together so perfectly, not unlike the petal-by-petal opening of the lotus. --Gail Hudson --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Levine, a Buddhist teacher, bestselling author and caregiver for the dying, reviews the circumstances and events in his life as one long, ongoing lesson in "the process of opening," as fellow Buddhist teacher Sharon Salzberg notes in her endorsement. Levine has his spiritual roots in the contemporary flowering of Eastern spirituality in America; he also has his roots in the Rikers Island Penitentiary, where he spent time in the spiritually fermented 1960s for drug possession. This is a man who has known fear, craving and fire in the belly and learned bravery and transcendence of self. Also a poet, Levine is able to convey his unfolding insights in fresh language that breathes unique vitality into the sometimes cool idiom of American Buddhist writers. The book is marred at times by a tendency toward sentence fragments, a literary tic that makes meaning murky. Still, he knows his way around, literarily and spiritually, having stumbled there with innate persistence, a beloved spiritual guide, some famous friends along the path and many lessons from the dying, whom he and his wife, Ondrea a soul mate found after a few tries have served and consoled for years. The book has some excesses "mystery" as central concept and conceit is amply ambiguous but less than fresh but it offers an affecting case study in the lotus-flowering of truth rooted in sentient life and death. (Apr.) Forecast: Levine's Gradual Awakening has sold more than half a million copies, so this should easily sell through its first printing of 50,000. Advertising is planned in periodicals such as Body and Spirit, Tricycle and Shambhala Sun.