Speaking of Śiva - 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 Speaking of Śiva write by A. K. Ramanujan. This book was released on 1973. Speaking of Śiva available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Vacanas Or Free-Verse Lyrics Written By Four Major Saints Of The Great Bhakti Protest Movement Which Originated In The Tenth Century Ad. Composed In Kannada, A Dravidian Language Of South India, The Poems Are Lyrical Expressions Of Love For The God Siva. They Mirror The Urge To Bypass Tradition And Ritual, To Concentrate On The Subject Rather Than The Object Of Worship, And To Express Kinship With All Living Things In Moving Terms. Passionate, Personal, Fiercely Monotheistic, These Free Verses Possess An Appeal, Which Is Timeless And Universal.
Siva
Siva - 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 Siva write by Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty. This book was released on 1981-05-28. Siva available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Originally published under the title Asceticism and Eroticism in the Mythology of Siva, this book traces the development of an Indian approach to an enduring human dilemma: the conflict between spiritual aspirations and human desires. The work examines hundreds of related myths and a wide range of Indian texts--Vedic, Puranic, classical, modern, and tribal--centering on the stories of the great ascetic, Siva, and his erotic alter ego, Kama.
The Age of Shiva
The Age of Shiva - 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 Age of Shiva write by Manil Suri. This book was released on 2009-08-17. The Age of Shiva available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. India, 1955. As the scars of Partition are beginning to heal, seventeen-year-old Meera sits enraptured: in the spotlight is Dev, singing a song so infused with passion that it arouses in her the first flush of erotic longing. But when Meera's reverie comes true, it does not lead to the fairy-tale marriage she imagined. Meera has no choice but to obey her in-laws, tolerate Dev's drunken night-time fumblings, even observe the most arduous of Hindu fasts for his longevity. A move to Bombay seems at first like a fresh start, but soon that dream turns to ashes. It is only when their son is born that things change and Meera is ready to unleash the passion she has suppressed for so long.
Speaking of Siva
Speaking of Siva - 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 Speaking of Siva write by . This book was released on 2014-02-01. Speaking of Siva available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Speaking of Siva is a selection of vacanas or free-verse sayings from the Virasaiva religious movement, dedicated to Siva as the supreme god. Written by four major saints, the greatest exponents of this poetic form, between the tenth and twelfth centuries, they are passionate lyrical expressions of the search for an unpredictable and spontaneous spiritual vision of 'now'. Here, yogic and tantric symbols, riddles and enigmas subvert the language of ordinary experience, as references to night and day, sex and family relationships take on new mystical meanings. These intense poems of personal devotion to a single deity also question traditional belief systems, customs, superstitions, image worship and even moral strictures, in verse that speaks to all men and women regardless of class and caste.
Songs for Siva
Songs for Siva - 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 Songs for Siva write by Vinaya Chaitanya. This book was released on 2017-03-24. Songs for Siva available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. '[Vinaya Chaitanya shows] an acute awareness of textual issues that never bothered earlier translators.' - From the foreword by H.S. Shivaprakash Hailed as an early feminist literary voice, Akka Mahadevi was born in twelfth-century Karnataka. As a child she was initiated into the worship of Channamallikarjuna, her village's version of Siva. She was forced to marry her region's ruler, but because she had become so ardently devoted to the god, Akka abandoned her husband and all her possessions and wandered alone - a naked poet-saint covered only by her long hair. Her vacanas, a new populist literary form meaning literally 'to give one's word' - demonstrate both her radical devotion to Siva and the commitment to equality her Virasaiva poetry embodied.
