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Ganesh Baba (1895-1987) knew Lahiri Mahasaya, became a swami under Sivananda, and was the head of a sect whose followers consider entheogens to be the gift of the gods. This book contains the core of Ganesh Baba's teachings.
The core teachings and riotous life of the psychedelic yogi Ganesh Baba • Presents the teachings of Ganesh Baba’s “Crea” Yoga, which he derived from the tantric practices of traditional Kriya Yoga • Explains the basic exercises for following the Crea (creative) Yoga practice • Includes many anecdotes from the colorful life of this “psychedelic” baba Shri Mahant Swami Ganeshanand Saraswati Giri (ca. 1895-1987) was known to all who loved and studied with him simply as Ganesh Baba. At the age of four, he was brought back from death through an initiation by Lahiri Mahasaya and through this initiation descends from the same Kriya Yoga lineage as Paramahansa Yogananda. He became a ...
Now available as both a printed large format paperback and an ebook this is an updated and expanded edition of the pioneering guide to India by David Stuart Ryan which proved an eye-opener for many people about the tourist potential of India. Over 100 color photographs and 30 highly detailed chapters give you a unique taste of the Indian experience in all its endless variety. For both short term visitors and longer stay tourists there is all the information you need to stay safe and enjoy your stay in what is the most fascinating country on earth, a future powerhouse of financial growth and scientific discovery, and a repository of much of the ancient world's wisdom. Now this wisdom is being made available to the world at large, what was previously heavily guarded can now be made known.
This book would be ideal for anyone interested in Hindu festivals, mythology, and devotional stories. It would also be a treasured resource for families who celebrate Sankashti Chaturthi and want to introduce the younger generation to its traditions through engaging stories and poems.
It has been a long time in the making but now the illustrated poems of David Stuart Ryan are being made available, just as they were created on a year long overland journey to India and then return to London.The poems and original illustrations in vivid entrancing colours reveal the full magic and mystery of the East as you join the poet on his travels to Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal, Kashmir,Varanasi, Bihar, Mumbai and Goa in India.The 120 pictures in the book bring the poemsunforgettably alive as you visit the strange and mysterious places the poet selects to set down in the book which accompanies him, and which is faithfully reproduced now using the latest computer technologies.'The Sphere of the Moon Goddess' is your introduction to 'The Seven Worlds' that this US prize-winning poet reveals in the course of his travels.'The Sphere of the Moon Goddess' begins a journey that will take you into the mysteries of life, not least from the influences of India which permeate this first book in 'The Seven Worlds'.Extraordinary discoveries await you.
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The yoga and classical dance traditions of India have been inextricably entwined for millennia. The exacting hand gestures, postures and movements of Indian classical dance can only be achieved through yogic concentration. Conversely, the esthetics, symmetry, and dynamism of dance enhance the practice of yoga. These two traditions, so complementary and essential to one another, are united and explicated for the first time in A Yoga of Indian Classical Dance. Twenty-five years ago Roxanne Kamayani Gupta embarked on a journey of dance and yoga, yearning to unlock their mysteries and discover their common origins. As a twenty-year-old student from America she was miraculously and mysteriously a...
Kartikeya from India and Kadira from Pakistan meet in London and fall in love. Little do they know that their destinies were interwoven 43 years ago in pre-partition Delhi… The story begins on a Ganga ghat in Banaras, where an old sadhu shares the tale of courage and duty with a group of students. Spanning the decades of 1938 to 2019 and numerous cities—Banaras, Dilli, Lahore, Cambridge—the narrative of "Angels with One Wing" takes readers on a journey of self-realization, leaving us with the reminder that, like angels, humanity needs both wings—individuality and collective support—to truly navigate the journey of life. With "Angels with One Wing", embark on an epic journey across ...
How to cultivate a successful marriage based on shared values and spiritual growth • With new chapters on their past 15 years together, stories of happy marriages modeled on the book, marital “obedience,” and the family way to world peace • Reveals how a couple can become an engine for higher spiritual experiences • Includes more than 60 letters written between the authors during their courtship and over 100 full-color photographs, including their traditional wedding in India Defying the norms of her culture and tradition, a highly educated Tamil Brahmin woman decides to arrange her own marriage. Simultaneously, an American book publisher--disillusioned with love in the Western wor...
Devotional Spaces of a Global Saint focuses on the presence and contemporaneity of Shirdi Sai Baba (d.1918), who has a vast following in postcolonial South Asia and an ever-growing global diaspora. Essays consider the saint’s influence on everyday life and how visual, narrative, textual, sensorial, performative, political, social, and spatial practices interpenetrate to produce multiple terrains of devotion. Contributions by twelve scholars of several academic disciplines explore eruptions and circulations of sacred materials, spatialities of devotional practices, visual and digital imaginaries, transcultural narrativizations, and material affects and effects of Sai Baba. The presentation ...