Showing posts with label gems. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gems. Show all posts
Sunday, November 6, 2011
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Thursday, October 27, 2011
Monday, September 19, 2011
24 K. Gold Plated Durga Bisa Yantra
Product Description
Durga Bisa Yantra is of Shri Durga Ambe Maa. Durga Bisa Yantra is most famous Yantra in different forms and is very effective, provided it is energized and Pooja is performed with flowers and put in the smoke of lamp lighted with black agar with rituals and full faith. Durga Bisa Yantra bestows wealth and property and protects the person from all sorts of dangers
Yantras are usually used for counteracting the harmful effects of planets. Besides countering negative effects, Yantras also increase the planets' beneficial aspects in our lives. Yantras and mantras are connected together since each Yantra has a corresponding mantra. The yantras are also representative of different deities. According to Ayurveda, there is also a definite relationship between Vedic talisman and the elements of Earth, Water, Fire, Air and Ether.
By proper prayers and perfect recitation of specific mantras, the material elements can be invoked to move in the way desired by the worshiper.
Yantras are usually used for counteracting the harmful effects of planets. Besides countering negative effects, Yantras also increase the planets' beneficial aspects in our lives. Yantras and mantras are connected together since each Yantra has a corresponding mantra. The yantras are also representative of different deities. According to Ayurveda, there is also a definite relationship between Vedic talisman and the elements of Earth, Water, Fire, Air and Ether.
By proper prayers and perfect recitation of specific mantras, the material elements can be invoked to move in the way desired by the worshiper.
Vajrayogini Yantra Inlay Pendant with Central The Ten Powerful Syllables of The Kalachakra Mantra -
Product Description
Dimensions: 1.2" Height
1.1" Width
This pendant shows the ten interlocking or stacked syllables of the Kalachakra mantra (Om Ham Ksha Ma La Va Ra Ya Sva Ha), commonly known as the 'all-powerful ten'. The interlocking body of this mystical monogram is composed of the seven syllables Ham Ksha Ma La Va Ra Ya written in Lantsa characters. Lantsa is an Indian Buddhist script, probably of late Pala origin although certain scholars date it as late as the seventeenth century. It is specifically used for mantra syllables and the titles of sacred texts. This stylized and beautifully ornate script was devised from the Sanskrit alphabet and used extensively in Nepali Buddhism. Above the broad horizontal bar which crowns these seven interlocking consonant syllables is a crescent moon, a sun disc (or dot), and a dissolving flame-tip which completes the ten stacked syllables. An eleventh syllable, the vowel syllable A - representing the element of space - is not depicted, but it merges with all of the consonant sounds as the musical drone of the tonic note gives life to the melodic structure of a musical composition.The entire symbolism of these stacked syllables is extremely complex, encapsulating meanings which relate to all the three aspects of the Kalachakra tantra - the external, internal, and alternative. The external aspect deals with cosmology, astronomy, and astrology; the internal aspect deals with the subtle energy systems of the individuals mind and body interrelationships; and the alternative aspect deals with the actual deity practice of Kalachakra. However the main symbolism of the 'all-powerful ten' relates to the cosmology of Mt. Meru and its surrounding universe according to the Kalachakra, and to the complex geometrical mandala palace of the deity Kalachakra.
1.1" Width
This pendant shows the ten interlocking or stacked syllables of the Kalachakra mantra (Om Ham Ksha Ma La Va Ra Ya Sva Ha), commonly known as the 'all-powerful ten'. The interlocking body of this mystical monogram is composed of the seven syllables Ham Ksha Ma La Va Ra Ya written in Lantsa characters. Lantsa is an Indian Buddhist script, probably of late Pala origin although certain scholars date it as late as the seventeenth century. It is specifically used for mantra syllables and the titles of sacred texts. This stylized and beautifully ornate script was devised from the Sanskrit alphabet and used extensively in Nepali Buddhism. Above the broad horizontal bar which crowns these seven interlocking consonant syllables is a crescent moon, a sun disc (or dot), and a dissolving flame-tip which completes the ten stacked syllables. An eleventh syllable, the vowel syllable A - representing the element of space - is not depicted, but it merges with all of the consonant sounds as the musical drone of the tonic note gives life to the melodic structure of a musical composition.The entire symbolism of these stacked syllables is extremely complex, encapsulating meanings which relate to all the three aspects of the Kalachakra tantra - the external, internal, and alternative. The external aspect deals with cosmology, astronomy, and astrology; the internal aspect deals with the subtle energy systems of the individuals mind and body interrelationships; and the alternative aspect deals with the actual deity practice of Kalachakra. However the main symbolism of the 'all-powerful ten' relates to the cosmology of Mt. Meru and its surrounding universe according to the Kalachakra, and to the complex geometrical mandala palace of the deity Kalachakra.
Sunday, September 18, 2011
Secretos sexuales
Review
". . . a remarkably complete book stocked with the knowledge of esoteric Asian traditions, never before seen by Western eyes."
(The Village Voice )
"Opulent cocktailable sexbiggies."
(The Village Voice )
"For twenty years Sexual Secrets has been the spiritual person's guide to celestial copulation. Flesh meets faith inside this book and each is the better for it."
( Foreword)
(The Village Voice )
"Opulent cocktailable sexbiggies."
(The Village Voice )
"For twenty years Sexual Secrets has been the spiritual person's guide to celestial copulation. Flesh meets faith inside this book and each is the better for it."
( Foreword)
Product Description
La obra más completa sobre sexo y misticismo publicada hasta hoy. Más de dos mil años de conocimientos sexuales.
Hasta ahora, los secretos para llegar a nuevas cotas de éxtasis habían permanecido ocultos en los textos y en el arte del Oriente. En este libro se revelan por primera vez esos misterios. Secretos sexuales está basado en textos orientales--incluidos el Kama Sutra, el Ananga Ranga y los principales tratados eróticos taoístas--muchos de los cuales nunca han sido vistos, y much menos traducidos, en Occidente así como en los primeros textos mágicos de los antiguos egipcios, griegos, hebreos y árabes, llegando incluso a los libros de alquimia de la Europa medieval.
La primera parte del libro trata del tema del Creativo y tiene como finalidad abrir posibilidades superiores. Se describen las preparaciones y actitutes mentales. En la segunda parte, que trata el tema del Trascendental, se explora la sexualidad de la pareja y se aborda el significado de la sexualidad y el poder de la trascendencia. La tercera y última parte trata el tema del Conservador, y en ella se considera el camino del amor en todas sus múltiples actividades y se explora el deleite de la consciencia sexual, describiendo las aplicaciones de las técnicas secretas y analizando en detalle todo el repertorio de posiciones para realizar el coito.
Secretos sexuales revela conocimientos que han resistido el paso de los siglos. Y lo hace de una forma vital y practicable, desde las técnicas corporales hasta las formas de utilizar el acto sexual como una terapéutica. Un libro que muestra cómo el amor físico puede conducirnos a la liberación activa de la sexualidad.
Hasta ahora, los secretos para llegar a nuevas cotas de éxtasis habían permanecido ocultos en los textos y en el arte del Oriente. En este libro se revelan por primera vez esos misterios. Secretos sexuales está basado en textos orientales--incluidos el Kama Sutra, el Ananga Ranga y los principales tratados eróticos taoístas--muchos de los cuales nunca han sido vistos, y much menos traducidos, en Occidente así como en los primeros textos mágicos de los antiguos egipcios, griegos, hebreos y árabes, llegando incluso a los libros de alquimia de la Europa medieval.
La primera parte del libro trata del tema del Creativo y tiene como finalidad abrir posibilidades superiores. Se describen las preparaciones y actitutes mentales. En la segunda parte, que trata el tema del Trascendental, se explora la sexualidad de la pareja y se aborda el significado de la sexualidad y el poder de la trascendencia. La tercera y última parte trata el tema del Conservador, y en ella se considera el camino del amor en todas sus múltiples actividades y se explora el deleite de la consciencia sexual, describiendo las aplicaciones de las técnicas secretas y analizando en detalle todo el repertorio de posiciones para realizar el coito.
Secretos sexuales revela conocimientos que han resistido el paso de los siglos. Y lo hace de una forma vital y practicable, desde las técnicas corporales hasta las formas de utilizar el acto sexual como una terapéutica. Un libro que muestra cómo el amor físico puede conducirnos a la liberación activa de la sexualidad.
The Chakra Workbook: A Step-by Step Guide to Realigning Your Body's Vital Energies (Divination and Energy Workbooks)
Product Description
Chakras are psychic centers of subtle energy in the human body, and doorways to a powerful process of transformation. Knowledge of the chakra system comes from the ancient Indian practice of Tantra Yoga. Until modern times, this knowledge was largely transmitted orally from teacher to student. The Chakra Workbook offers a practical and fascinating overview of this ancient spiritual science of physical rejuvenation and spiritual awakening for beginners as well as for devotees wishing to expand their understanding of this subject. With a primary focus on learning by experience, this fully illustrated book features interactive exercises and suggested meditations that help create a more personal approach. The abundance of traditionally based practices will help to strengthen the body, calm the mind, and cleanse the chakra system to promote vitality and well-being.
Deconstructing Derrida: Tasks for the New Humanities
Review
'...Trifonas and Peters are to be commended for putting together a vital collection that speaks directly to the crisis of the modern university in general and to the future of the humanities in particular. Deconstructing Derrida should be requried reading for all academics'. - Kevin A. Aho - The European Legacy
Product Description
Responding to Jacques Derrida's vision for what a "new" humanities should strive toward, Peter Trifonas and Michael Peters gather together in a single volume original essays by major scholars in the humanities today. Using Derrida's seven programmatic theses as a springboard, the contributors aim to reimagine, as Derrida did, the tasks for the new humanities in such areas as history of literature, history of democracy, history of profession, idea of sovereignty, and history of man.
Friday, September 16, 2011
Karunamayi: A Biography
Editorial Reviews
Sri Karunamayi s biography provides rare glimpses into several key times in her life, including her childhood and her time in the sacred Penusila Forest. A number of devotees experiences have been included in the volume as well. Spiritual traditions from around the world emphasize the importance of reading the life stories of great saints and incarnations. Simply to read such holy life stories is like taking a dip in the all-purifying river Ganga. Reading about the sacred, tender and touching events of Amma's life carries us to a different realm--an enchanting realm of purity, noble selflessness, and absolute divinity. From the Back Cover: "Sri Karunamayi is a modern Indian miracle, a human who lives divinely, a woman whose words and actions embody the blessing power of the Mother of the Universe. This enlightening book introduces one of hte great saints of our time, and transports us into the living presence of limitless spirit." --Linda Johnsen, Author, "Daughters of the Goddess: The Women Saints of India" From this Book: "On one Sankranti, varieties of food had been made to offer to God. Meanwhile, Sri Vijayeswari Devi [Sri Karunamayi] realized that a few poor harijans who had come had eaten no food for the past two days. Therefore, she carried the food which was in a big vessel, ready for worship, and distributed it among those people. Then she addressed her grandmother and said, 'Grandma, today you have done a very good thing. This is how the food so nicely prepared by you has been accepted by the Lord.'"
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Vedic Symbols
Editorial Reviews
This book is a compilation of articles written by the Author. These articles explain the meaning of Om and Swastik, benifits of Shankh, significance of Kalash and Deepak, Yantras and the foundation emblems of Indian culture.
Amulets & Talismans for Beginners: How to Choose, Make & Use Magical Objects (For Beginners (Llewellyn's))
Product Description
Richard Webster shows you step-by-step how to make and use the most effective talismans. He provides a dictionary of lucky charms from acorns to wishbones. He discusses protective amulets from around the world, particularly those that ward off the evil eye. Then he shows you how to create, charge, purify and empower your own personal talismans for a variety of purposes from attracting love to winning a court case.
About the Author
Richard Webster was born and raised in New Zealand. He has been interested in the psychic world since he was nine years old. As a teenager, he became involved in hypnotism and later became a professional stage hypnotist. After school, he worked in the publishing business and purchased a bookstore. The concept of reincarnation played a significant role in his decision to become a past-life specialist. Richard has also taught psychic development classes, which are based on many of his books.
Richard's first book was published in 1972, fulfilling a childhood dream of becoming an author. Richard is now the author of over a hundred books, and is still writing today. His best-selling books include Spirit Guides & Angel Guardians and Creative Visualization for Beginners.
Richard has appeared on several radio and TV programs in the United States and abroad including guest spots on Hard Copy, WMAQ-TV (Chicago), KTLA-TV (Los Angeles), KSTW-TV (Seattle) and the Mike and Matty Show (ABC). He currently resides in New Zealand with his wife and three children. He regularly travels the world to give lectures, workshops and to continue his research.
Richard's first book was published in 1972, fulfilling a childhood dream of becoming an author. Richard is now the author of over a hundred books, and is still writing today. His best-selling books include Spirit Guides & Angel Guardians and Creative Visualization for Beginners.
Richard has appeared on several radio and TV programs in the United States and abroad including guest spots on Hard Copy, WMAQ-TV (Chicago), KTLA-TV (Los Angeles), KSTW-TV (Seattle) and the Mike and Matty Show (ABC). He currently resides in New Zealand with his wife and three children. He regularly travels the world to give lectures, workshops and to continue his research.
Myth of Invariance: The Origin of the Gods, Mathematics and Music from the RG Veda to Plato
McClain begins with the interesting thesis: for "ancient" civilizations music was a science through which the intersection between this world and the divine could be expressed and understood. The invariability (or permanence) of music standing in sharp contrast to the impermanence of the world.
In this context music is properly understood as an expression of and the motive for mathematical study. The "key" to unlocking this science comes from a study of the mathematical relationships between various musical notes. McClain analyzes the Rg Veda, Babylonian, Greek (Plato), and New Testatment (Revelations) using this key, along with ancient definitions of numbers as "male", "female". The point here being that this "Pythagorean" analysis was fairly common and underlies much of literature of these and other cultures.
While McClain's analysis alone is worth at least a "4", I have given this book a lower grade.
The analysis is very detailed and heavily dependent on a knowledge of music, scales, etc. I found it difficult to follow in many parts.
The book's intended audience seems not to be the general public (like me) but rather a more learned audience. My guess is that this work either is his Ph D thesis or was based on it.
It's a pity that the work is not more accessible.
For those with an appropriate background, the book will yield a great deal more than I was able to wring from it.
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Yantra Yoga: The Tibetan Yoga of Movement
Let me start by saying that I own hundreds of books on yoga. About half of these are on Tibetan yoga and about half are on the yoga of the Natha-Sampradaya or its modern derivatives (like Hatha-yoga and Kundalini practices). This book is simply the most interesting treatment of asanas (or "yantras" which are movements often containing asanas) and related pranayamas available, whether we are talking about Indian or Tibetan yoga.
This book covers a system of yoga originally recorded in writing in the 8th CE in a cycle of teachings by the Tibetan translator Vairochana. This cycle contains three works, one of which is fully translated (and commented upon at length) and another on the "elimination of obstacles" is quoted from extensively. The third work on tummo practice is not dealt with at all in this text.
I have only rarely seen such a comprehensive treatment of physical yoga. The text starts with a treatment of the preliminaries (sngon `gro) including two forms of pranayama and eighteen yantras for basic "body training" (lus sbyong). The yantras are yogic movements, many of which include the asanas familiar in Hatha-yoga.
This is followed by the main practices (dngos gzhi), which include five main series of techniques. Each of these five cycles has a method of pranayama, five basic yantras (dngos gzhi) and two variations of these yantras for training (rtsal `don) and progressing (bogs `don).
Thus there are five main pranayamas and seventy-five main yantras. These are followed by seven movements utilizing the lotus posture and a concluding section (rje kyi rim pa) with a method for clearing obstacles called the "vajra-wave".
So the text covers a total of 108 methods. The illustrations and descriptions of the yantras are very detailed, as are the explanations of the methods and rhythms of breathing while doing each yantra. Another important aspect is a detailed traditional description of the benefits of these yantras/asanas.
The pranayama is very advanced and I was astonished to find such methods described so plainly and in such detail. The methods for causing the prana to enter the central-channel (which have long been carefully guarded secrets) are explained in an unexpectedly thorough manner and the texts has a wealth of practical information, such as the progressive timetable for lengthening the practice of kumbhaka. The book has also answered a host of obscure questions that I have wondered about, such as if there is a relationship between madhyama, vama, and dakshina "nauli" and the three main nadis of the body.
From a historical perspective, the root-text (which is older than any of the extant texts on Hatha-yoga) is probably the most interesting document on physical yoga ever published. Many of the yantras are extremely similar to the asanas of Hatha-yoga in both name and appearance.
This illustrates that the yoga methods preserved in Tibet and the methods of the Hatha-yoga tradition (of the Nathas) were once deeply connected. This is particularly true of the abhyantaravarga of ati-yoga (especially the rdo rje zam pa) and the sampannakrama of anuttara-yoga-tantra (especially of Heruka Bhagavan Shri mngon rdzogs rgyal po). The lists of "great adepts" or mahasiddhas preserved in both the Tibetan and Indian traditions reinforce this connection. Many of the same adepts appear in the lineages of both traditions
This is now the most valued text in my collection, and I am deeply grateful to Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche and the translators for making it available to students in the West.
This book covers a system of yoga originally recorded in writing in the 8th CE in a cycle of teachings by the Tibetan translator Vairochana. This cycle contains three works, one of which is fully translated (and commented upon at length) and another on the "elimination of obstacles" is quoted from extensively. The third work on tummo practice is not dealt with at all in this text.
I have only rarely seen such a comprehensive treatment of physical yoga. The text starts with a treatment of the preliminaries (sngon `gro) including two forms of pranayama and eighteen yantras for basic "body training" (lus sbyong). The yantras are yogic movements, many of which include the asanas familiar in Hatha-yoga.
This is followed by the main practices (dngos gzhi), which include five main series of techniques. Each of these five cycles has a method of pranayama, five basic yantras (dngos gzhi) and two variations of these yantras for training (rtsal `don) and progressing (bogs `don).
Thus there are five main pranayamas and seventy-five main yantras. These are followed by seven movements utilizing the lotus posture and a concluding section (rje kyi rim pa) with a method for clearing obstacles called the "vajra-wave".
So the text covers a total of 108 methods. The illustrations and descriptions of the yantras are very detailed, as are the explanations of the methods and rhythms of breathing while doing each yantra. Another important aspect is a detailed traditional description of the benefits of these yantras/asanas.
The pranayama is very advanced and I was astonished to find such methods described so plainly and in such detail. The methods for causing the prana to enter the central-channel (which have long been carefully guarded secrets) are explained in an unexpectedly thorough manner and the texts has a wealth of practical information, such as the progressive timetable for lengthening the practice of kumbhaka. The book has also answered a host of obscure questions that I have wondered about, such as if there is a relationship between madhyama, vama, and dakshina "nauli" and the three main nadis of the body.
From a historical perspective, the root-text (which is older than any of the extant texts on Hatha-yoga) is probably the most interesting document on physical yoga ever published. Many of the yantras are extremely similar to the asanas of Hatha-yoga in both name and appearance.
This illustrates that the yoga methods preserved in Tibet and the methods of the Hatha-yoga tradition (of the Nathas) were once deeply connected. This is particularly true of the abhyantaravarga of ati-yoga (especially the rdo rje zam pa) and the sampannakrama of anuttara-yoga-tantra (especially of Heruka Bhagavan Shri mngon rdzogs rgyal po). The lists of "great adepts" or mahasiddhas preserved in both the Tibetan and Indian traditions reinforce this connection. Many of the same adepts appear in the lineages of both traditions
This is now the most valued text in my collection, and I am deeply grateful to Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche and the translators for making it available to students in the West.
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