Best Hindu Rituals & Practice
If you’ve answered yes to one or more of those questions or you’re just looking for a way to spice things up in the bedroom as you deepen the connection between you and your partner, then this might be the book for you! You’ll find information as to how the tantric sex movement got started over six thousand years ago, and how you can start practicing it today with your partner without feeling the pressure of having sexual intercourse!
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I’m a self confessed moron and this book taught me everything about sensual touches that I haven’t introduced myself to previously."
"Informative."
"It has loads of good tips and traps alongside with the complete methods for whatever part of the body you're hoping to knead."
"This book is the one I look up to in learning how to perform tantric massage."
"I’m not confident and I don’t believe the people who commended this book and I thought this was just the newest non sense fad tantric massage eBook at first although when I came to actualize all tantric massage’s goodness, I had nothing but pure evidence."
"This book was a quick and dirty read some of which was already known, but there was some good info that encouraged the slowdown and enjoyment of Tantra."
"Tantric sex is about satisfying our partners, that is the thing that I cherished the most about this book, since sex is vital to make things work."
"I didn't learn anything new."
Within this extraordinary memoir, Radhanath Swami weaves a colorful tapestry of adventure, mysticism, and love. Radhanath Swami presently travels in Asia, Europe, and America teaching devotional wisdom but can often be found with his community in Mumbai, where he works tirelessly to help develop communities, food distribution initiatives, missionary hospitals, schools, ashrams, emergency relief programs, and eco-friendly farms.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"This book is a serious contender for the best book I've ever read, top 3 without question."
"The book is a treasure house for those struggling on the path of devotion and spiritual growth."
"Loved this book."
"I could not put this book down once I started reading it, fascinating and inspiring."
"Incredible Book!"
"I appreciate the author's candid account of how difficult our spiritual journey may become."
"I would recommend this book to anyone whether they do yoga or not."
Inside the Yoga Sutras presents a clear, up-to-date perspective on this classic text of Yoga theory and practice.. reverend Jaganath takes lofty principles and explains them in a clear, modern language with practical examples we can understand. You will feel the author's sincerity and dedication to insights that transcend the ages but can make a difference now."
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Find Best Price at Amazon"It's helpful to understand the sutras."
"Not an easy reading!"
"Ok its really hard but thank god i will have it explained to me through my teacher ."
"Great insights and commentary!"
"A very helpful, and down-to earth interpretation of Patanjali's sutras."
"His clarity and humor are real gems in making this text accessible for the modern day yogi (yogini)."
"Prepare to have your mind blown."
"I love the way Rev."
Best Hindu Rituals & Practice
It's an information packed, full color, complete training manual with 17 time tested exercises and 47 photos and illustrations to help you quickly be able to see Auras in vibrant color! It is the only full color book on auras available. "Auras: How to See, Feel & Know," goes in depth with thorough explanations and great pictures to show you all the common body language indicators used to confirm what someone's aura is showing you. See the 7 layers of the aura using Embrosewyn's pioneering technique Understand the meaning of the patterns and shadows observed in the layers Train your eyes to instantly switch back and forth from aura to normal vision Understand the meaning and nuances of every color of the rainbow in an aura Use your aura as a shield against negative energy or people Power up your aura to have greater achievement in any endeavor Interpret body language to confirm observations of the aura Cut negative energy cords to disharmonious people Understand health conditions and ailments through the aura The secret to aura sight is to retrain the focusing parts of your eyes to see things that have always been there, but you have never been able to see before. The author has been seeing brightly colored auras for over 60 years and teaching others to begin seeing auras within 5 minutes for the last 22 years. "Auras: How to See, Feel & Know," includes all the power techniques, tools and Full Color eye exercises from his popular workshops. The best value by far, packed full of fascinating, useful information, filled with dozens of original illustrations, eye exercise and pictures, all in Full Color , plus dynamic, interactive content is, "Auras: How to See, Feel & Know." "Mr. Tazkuvel does a wonderful job at making such a complicated and specific subject like auras easy to learn while entertaining the reader with his own experiences as an aura reader throughout his life. The guide is well-written, casual but informative, vivid with imagery (from pictures to illustrations), provides tips/tools for training the mind/eyes and ensures that the reader gets a comprehensive guide to auras in a real and tangible way." "Theauthor, a definitive authority on the subject, has provided the bestinsight on auras that I have found.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I freely admit that, in general, I am not a "new-agey" person and I have spent the biggest part of my adult life looking upon the various disciplines therein as little more than nonsense and "hooey". I began to read but, before my arrogant pessimism could fully kick in, the author made a bold claim right out of the starting gate: “Anyone with vision out of both eyes can begin seeing the radiating energy aura surrounding every person, usually within just 5-10 minutes of training…”. Okay, I thought. I eagerly flipped ahead to Chapter 10, "Retraining Your Eye Rods and Cones” to Exercise 7 which asked me to begin by focusing on a pencil. My mind ferried between the shock of "seeing" an aura for the first time, and the disgust of being keenly aware of the actions of a canine tongue that frequently licked my face."
"Ever since I was younger, I had always been curious about auras and the certain energies that people seem to give off. I found the color part very intriguing as it explained the meanings of colors you may see as well as the different stages of auras."
"This is an excellent book for people interested in really understanding auras and how they "work". It was awesome to have that nice storyline feeling to it going on in the background :). Overall it was a totally awesome book, for beginners or people really wanting to learn this or for those looking for an interesting way to spend the afternoon."
Best Hindu History
From one of the world?s foremost scholars on Hinduism, a vivid reinterpretation of its history 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, The Hindus elucidates the relationship between recorded history and imaginary worlds. Note that Doniger is the Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of Religions at the University of Chicago and the author of many books. Learned, fluent, and entertaining in spite of the complexity of this ambitious undertaking, Doniger is also controversial, a role she embraces, confident that fresh viewpoints are essential to understanding the worlds that shaped the Hindu tradition, and the ways Hindus shaped society. "With her vast erudition, insight, and graceful writing laced with gentle wit, there is no one better than Wendy Doniger to convey the richness, depth, and diversity of Hindu texts and traditions to international audiences.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"She has been charged with being salacious and highlighting the sexual nature of some of the characters and dramatis personae of Hindu Myth and Legend… Maybe. She could have just as easily chosen any other of the world’s faiths (Islam, Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism) to promote and champion her personal value system. Instead she chose Hinduism; one because it is her chosen field of study, but more so, I believe, was that because Hinduism afforded her an easy target."
"She effectively argues that influences from women, the lower castes and local beliefs and practices were infused into the Hindu world view and that this eclectic tradition still goes on today."
"A well-written alternative history of anything, let alone Hinduism, generally has the effect of making the reader pause and think twice about what he may have held all along as the truth. From someone of Ms. Doniger’s stature, I was hoping to hear a serious insight or two that would make me go, "Gosh, I’ve known that story all my life, but why didn’t I look at things that way before?" It’s as if someone wrote a very detailed book about the Mississippi river and Southern cuisine and called it "The Americans: An Alternative History." I realize these are harsh accusations and the burden of proof lies on me, so please allow me to present enough examples to make my case (within the space limitations of an opinion piece). When Rama hears of the king’s predicament, he abdicates his claim to the throne and leaves the city. This is a defining moment for Rama—the young man respects the king’s word (i.e., the law) enough to renounce his own claim to the throne and loves his father so much that he spares him the pain of having to enact the banishment. Indeed, this point in Rama’s life even foretells the rest of the story—that the young man would, in the years to come, make even bigger personal sacrifices for the sake of his ideals. Ms. Doniger covers this topic in excellent detail (page 223 onwards), but it’s interesting that she doesn’t bring up the king’s longstanding promise. Ms. Doniger retells the story of the ogre Shurpanakha, who approaches Rama and professes her love for him. Ms. Doniger then contrasts this story with one from the Mahabharata, where an ogre named Hidimbi professes her love for Bheema and is accepted as his wife—again underscoring the author’s point about Rama’s cruelty. Rama even says, “That ogre almost killed Sita.” One would think these details are pertinent to the discussion, but strangely enough, Ms. Doniger doesn’t bring them up. To be fair to Ms. Doniger, there are many versions of the Ramayana (and sadly enough, some scholars have received a lot of undeserved flak for pointing this out). Normally, one would expect an alternative narrative to add nuance—as if to say, “There is more to the story than what you lay people know.” But Ms. Doniger manages to do the opposite—she takes a nuanced, compelling moment in the epic and reduces it to sexual blackmail or cruelty or sexual urges, whatever her current talking point is. But it can justifiably be called a veritable catalog of all the phalluses and vaginas that ever existed in ancient India, and there is no dearth of detail in Doniger’s book when it comes to private parts. In the Mahabharata, Arjuna burns up a large forest and many creatures die; the epic even describes the animals’ pain at some length. Then the professor brings up—and this is a recurring talking point under the cruelty section—the line from Mahabharata that says, “fish eat fish.” Ms. Doniger calls it “Manu’s terror of piscine anarchy.” Oh, the humanity! But the problem is, she then proceeds to turn off many lights in the house and use a microscope to detail the bits she cares to see. She is of course free to do what she likes, but can someone please explain to me why the end result from such an approach qualifies as an “alternative” map of my home? Still on the topic of animals, let’s discuss dogs, a subject Ms. Doniger covers in great detail. That’s a very interesting trend you’ve spotted there, Ms. Doniger, but what about all those big, ugly blots of truth that don’t fit your graph? For the benefit of any kind souls from the Western world who have been patiently reading through all this, let me throw in an example from relatively recent times that involves America. No doubt you've heard what the physicist Robert Oppenheimer said while reflecting on the first nuclear blast he had helped spawn. The simplest explanation I can think of is that Oppenheimer was a well-read man, and he felt the passage was appropriate when describing the unprecedented firepower he had just witnessed. Ms. Doniger’s take: “Perhaps Oppenheimer’s inability to face his own shock and guilt directly, the full realization and acknowledgment of what he had helped create, led him to distance the experience by viewing it in terms of someone else’s myth of doomsday, as if to say: ‘This is some weird Hindu sort of doomsday, nothing we Judeo-Christian types ever imagined.’ He switched to Hinduism when he saw how awful the bomb was and that it was going to be used on the Japanese, not on the Nazis, as had been intended. And yes, left uncontested, in all likelihood these are the “insights” a whole new generation of students and researchers might learn, internalize, and cite in future scholarly works. Really, there is more to writing history (particularly the alternative kind) than looking up the reference books and throwing in all the numbers one could find. It took me all of two hours to find a very detailed account (not on the Internet though), compiled in the 11th century, putting the total at 100,500—and I’m not a researcher, not by a long shot. Ms. Doniger states, very clearly, without any ambiguity, on page 11 (footnote): “Most of India… is in the Northern Hemisphere.”. I think I’ll stop here."
Best Hindu Sutras
Each sutra is presented as Sanskrit text, transliteration, and precise English translation, and is followed by Bryant's authoritative commentary, which is grounded in the classical understanding of yoga and conveys the meaning and depth of the su-tras in a user-friendly manner for a Western readership without compromising scholarly rigor or traditional authenticity. His book will surely be welcomed by both serious scholars and responsible practitioners.” ― Gerald James Larson, Rabindranath Tagore Professor Emeritus of Indian Cultures and Civilizations, Indiana University, Bloomington, and Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara. His book is a well-rounded and inspiriting course on the real connections between ideas, practices, and direct experience. “Edwin Bryant unpacks the layers of history and traditional commentaries that are in the suitcase of the Yoga Sutras . Understanding that all religious books operate in the context of lived communities, Bryant suggests that the worship of Vishnu as taught by Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita has played an important role in how the practice of yoga has been understood and communicated, particularly for the past five hundred years. “What I like about Edwin Bryant's edition is that it serves as a concordance of commentaries, a commentary on the commentaries without which this text (or any other compendium of sutras) is unintelligible.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Arrived in perfect condition; terrific new translation!"
"It's easy enough for the novice and is full of commentary and history for those who want to dive in."
"I have read more than a couple of books on yoga sutras , I was searching for another good commentary and I found this."
"This is a beautifully written book which explain Patanjali's Yoga Sutras lucidly and also discusses subjects around it in a scholarly but interesting way."
"Prof. Bryant's comprehensive knowledge of Indian philosophy, fidelity to the intent of the text (without the usual filtering to suit various Western prejudices and agendas) and passionate fondness for this material lift this version far above any others."
"Interesting and understandable."
"I have studied these in a variety of ways, and this book is excellent."
Best Hindu Theology
The Gita opens, dramatically, on a battlefield, as the warrior Arjuna turns in anguish to his spiritual guide, Sri Krishna, for answers to the fundamental questions of life. "No one in modern times is more qualified - no, make that 'as qualified' - to translate the epochal Classics of Indian Spirituality than Eknath Easwaran."
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Very informative."
"There are many translations of the Gita but this one is a fantastic translation and very easy to read."
"Easwaran offers the best translation of this luminous text, couched in a volume replete with clear chapter discussions, and Easwaran's academic, yet heart-full, introduction."
"I feel as though it has enough information to make the epic understandable for a Westerner, without being overwhelming."
Best Sacred Hindu Writings
The Gita opens, dramatically, on a battlefield, as the warrior Arjuna turns in anguish to his spiritual guide, Sri Krishna, for answers to the fundamental questions of life. "No one in modern times is more qualified - no, make that 'as qualified' - to translate the epochal Classics of Indian Spirituality than Eknath Easwaran."
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Very informative."
"There are many translations of the Gita but this one is a fantastic translation and very easy to read."
"Easwaran offers the best translation of this luminous text, couched in a volume replete with clear chapter discussions, and Easwaran's academic, yet heart-full, introduction."
"I feel as though it has enough information to make the epic understandable for a Westerner, without being overwhelming."
Best Gandhi
Mohandas K. Gandhi is one of the most inspiring figures of our time. Gandhi's nonviolent struggles in South Africa and India had already brought him to such a level of notoriety, adulation, and controversy that when asked to write an autobiography midway through his career, he took it as an opportunity to explain himself. Although Gandhi presents his episodes chronologically, he happily leaves wide gaps, such as the entire satyagraha struggle in South Africa, for which he refers the reader to another of his books.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Very enlightening if read to the end."
"Excellent literature and grammar."
"The only thing that was disappointing is that I wish he had described his work in India more in this book."
"On reading My experiment with truth, one can see how much importance Gandiji has given for truthfulness, Ahimsa, equality, fighting to remove social evil, etc."
"I'm not qualified to comment on how representative this is of Gandhi's thought & life, nor how accurate it is as a history of India's liberation movement."
"The pervasive use of words no longer part of our common language and especially use of terms and names specific to religions and regions generally unfamiliar to us in the West make this a difficult read but still instructive."
"A deep incisive view of a human being trying to live the Dharmic life using the principles of Yama and Niyama."
"However, I found the book a bit tedious & he certainly had some bizarre ideas."
Best Chakras
Each original card connects with a major chakra and represents one of the mystical fables revealed by angels to psychic Tori Hartman following a near-death experience. It is a brilliant blend of all-inclusive spiritual values with Eastern esotericism into a powerful device for meditation and transformation. Each poignant and thought-provoking story will give you the feeling of a long lost treasure – uncovered truths just for the reader.” Mark Victor Hansen, Co-creator of The New York Times Best-selling Series, Chicken Soup for the Soul “Color is the energy vibration of the Universe.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Often we experience reality in ways that are uncomfortable or ‘not working’ right because we have energetic blockages (like in our chakras) or limiting beliefs. And the Chakra Wisdom Oracle doesn’t leave you hanging on how you can do this: each card comes with a legend, inspiration, personal inquiry, key ideas, keywords and a short meditation. So I asked on my Facebook page if anyone would like either a love or wealth intention reading (from the spreads at the back of the book) so I could test drive the oracle. So what did my Chakra Wisdom Oracle card guinea pig, the lovely Carol, have to say? The Chakra Wisdom Oracle cards are perfect if you want to really make changes in your life and are willing to work on blockages and beliefs."
"I was immediately intrigued and read all the reviews which indicated that these cards are fairly new on the scene. The complex depth of what each chakra stands for and holds is so simply and thoroughly acknowledged through the Legends, keywords, inspirations and meditations given for each card of each chakra. The packaging is also great though I agree with one other reviewer who said that the stack of cards, which 'nest' in a cut out area of the box, slip under the frame of the cut out, so like her, I tied my cards (with a gold elastic band) to keep them from slipping under the frame. I highly recommend these cards- without a doubt, they can help define, guide and analyze our state of mind and being."
"My favorite part is the different color cards and how it is all is explained very well. The set up is like a book you can read by each "chapter" but also can be a quick summary and reference guide."
"Good size, quality cards."
"I know art is subjective, but I like folk style art and even so these drawings are weak and elementary looking. For example "prayer" goes along with an image of a glass of lemonade on top of a table which overlooks high-rise city buildings and "Passion" is illustrated by a Disney-looking princess serving an elderly woman(???)."