A Study of the Bhagavata Purana - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Study of the Bhagavata Purana write by Purnendu Narayana Sinha. This book was released on 2020-09-28. A Study of the Bhagavata Purana available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
A Study of the Bhagavata Purana
A Study of the Bhagavata Purana - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Study of the Bhagavata Purana write by Pürnendu Narayana Sinha. This book was released on 1901. A Study of the Bhagavata Purana available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Bhakti Yoga
Bhakti Yoga - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bhakti Yoga write by Edwin F. Bryant. This book was released on 2017-07-11. Bhakti Yoga available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the author of what has become the standard edition of The Yoga Sutras of Patañjali, an exploration of probably the most significant tradition in Hinduism, along with a rendering of key texts and parables from that tradition Bhakti Yoga explores one of the eight “limbs” of yoga. In the simplest terms, bhakti yoga is the practice of devotion, which is the essential heart of yoga and of Hinduism in general. In recent times, the term has come to be used in a rather simplistic way to refer to the increasingly popular practice of kirtan, or chanting in a group or at large gatherings. But bhakti yoga is far more complex and ancient than today’s growing kirtan audiences are aware, and embraces many strands and practices. Edwin F. Bryant focuses on one famous and important school of bhakti and explores it in depth to show what bhakti is and how it is expressed. And he supplies his own renderings of central texts from that tradition in the form of “tales and teachings” from an important work called the Bhagavata Purana, or “The Beautiful Legend of God.” This clarifying work establishes a baseline for understanding, and will be welcomed by all serious students of the spiritual heritage of India.
Tales for the Dying
Tales for the Dying - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tales for the Dying write by E. H. Rick Jarow. This book was released on 2012-02-01. Tales for the Dying available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Tales for the Dying explores the centrality of death and dying in the narrative of the Bhāgavata-Purāna, India's great text of devotional theism, canonized as an integral part of the Vaisnava bhakti tradition. The text grapples with death through an imaginative meditation, one that works through the presence and power of narrative. The story of the Bhāgavata-Purāna is spoken to a king who is about to die, and it enables him to come to terms with his own passing. The work does not isolate dying as an issue; it treats it on many levels. This book discusses how images of dying in the Bhāgavata-Purāna relate to issues of language and love in the religious imagination of India. Drawing on insights from studies in myth, literary semiotics, and depth psychology, as well as from Indian commentarial and aesthetic traditions, the author examines the power of myth and narrative (storytelling or hari katha) and shows how a detailed awareness of the Puranic imagination may lead to a revisioning of some long-held presuppositions around Indian religious attitudes toward dying. By casting Vaisnava bhakti traditions and Puranic narrative in a fresh light, the mythic imagination of the Purānas takes its place on the stage of contemporary discourse on comparative mythology and literature.
The Great Mysore Bhāgavata
The Great Mysore Bhāgavata - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Great Mysore Bhāgavata write by B. N. Goswamy. This book was released on 2019. The Great Mysore Bhāgavata available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An in-depth analysis of the great and sacred text, the Bhagavata Purana This work focuses on the second half of the Tenth Book of the Purana Includes over 200 images of the exquisite paintings in this splendid manuscript This book from Mysore, stands out, not only because of the splendor of its illustrations but also because it engages with that great and sacred text, the Bhagavata Purana, in a manner that is completely different from almost anything else that one sees. There are leaps of imagination here that take one's breath away, and the episodes picked up by its great but unnamed illustrators are explored in dense, brilliant detail. At each step the painters seem to have been aware of the importance of the text itself. For the Purana they were engaging with has a very special place in the heart of devotees, there being the belief that the Bhagavata 'is equal in status to the Veda'. The scope of the volume is restricted to the second half of the Tenth Book of the Purana. Here the city of Dwarka is founded, a fierce contest with the bear king Jambavana is fought; the Khandava forest is burnt down, the great fortress of Narakasura is vanquished, the city of Hastinapura is dragged to the waters, great pilgrimages are undertaken, hordes of enslaved princes are freed, Shishupala is slain, Jarasandha is riven. Wide-eyed, one sees wonders piling upon majestic wonders.
