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The Mother of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 459

The Mother of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram

The Mother of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram: Co-Creator of the Integral Yoga analyzes the contributions of the Mother (née Mirra Alfassa, 1878-1973) to the Integral Yoga that she and Sri Aurobindo (né Aurobindo Ghose, 1872-1950) co-created for his ashram. Scholars have ignored Mirra for Aurobindo, which prevents a full understanding of their spiritual practice. Scholars have also avoided examining work Aurobindo produced after they began their partnership in 1920 until his death in 1950, and privileged the written output in his journal Arya from 1914 to 1921. In this initial fertile period, he put forth his innovative teaching about what he called the “Supermind,” an emergent human faculty that he said would manifest a new humanity and a new earth through Mirra’s body. Mirra claimed that after his death in 1956 this manifestation happened as he foretold. Mirra’s work in the ashram from his death until hers in 1973 reveals important ways that she both fulfilled and changed Aurobindo’s initial vision. These developments are chiefly based on her experiences of mental dissolution while her body gained a new supramental form and consciousness.

Sovereign Women in a Muslim Kingdom
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 335

Sovereign Women in a Muslim Kingdom

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-05-05
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  • Publisher: NUS Press

The Islamic kingdom of Aceh was ruled by queens for half of the seventeenth century. Was female rule an aberration? Unnatural? A violation of nature, comparable to hens instead of roosters crowing at dawn? Indigenous texts and European sources offer different evaluations. Drawing on both sets of sources, this book shows that female rule was legitimised both by Islam and adat (indigenous customary laws), and provides original insights on the Sultanah’s leadership, their relations with male elites, and their encounters with European envoys who visited their court. The book challenges received views on kingship in the Malay world and the response of indigenous polities to east-west encounters in Southeast Asia’s Age of Commerce.

Hijras, Lovers, Brothers
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 322

Hijras, Lovers, Brothers

Against easy framings of hijras that render them marginalized, Saria shows how hijras makes the normative Indian family possible. The book also shows that particular practices of hijras, such as refusing to use condoms or comply with retroviral regimes, reflect not ignorance or irresponsibility but rather a specific idiom of erotic asceticism arising in both Hindu and Islamic traditions. This idiom suffuses the densely intertwined registers of erotics, economics, and kinship that inform the everyday lives of hijras and offer a repertoire of self-fashioning distinct from the secularized accounts within the horizon of public health programmes and queer theory. Engrossingly written and full of keen insights, the book moves from the small pleasures of the everyday laughter, flirting, and teasing to impossible longings, kinship networks, and economies of property and of substance in order to give a fuller account of trans lives and of Indian society today.

Passion, Death, and Spirituality
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 299

Passion, Death, and Spirituality

Robert C. Solomon, who died in 2007, was Professor of Philosophy and Quincy Lee Centennial Professor of Business at the University of Texas, USA. As the first book comprehensively to examine the breadth of Solomon’s contribution to philosophy, this volume ranks as a vital addition to the literature. It includes a newly published transcript of Solomon’s last talk, which responded to Arindam Chakrabarti on the concept of revenge, as well as the considered views of prominent figures in the numerous subfields in which Solomon worked. The content analyses his perspectives on the philosophy of emotion, virtue, business ethics, and religion, in addition to philosophical history, existentialism,...

Violence and the World's Religious Traditions
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 252

Violence and the World's Religious Traditions

"An introductory survey of the whole field of study of religion and violence. It includes overviews of major religious traditions, and it analyzes patterns and themes relating to religious violence. It also explores major analytic approaches, and forges new directions in the study of this important emerging field"--

Return to the Scene of the Crime
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 167

Return to the Scene of the Crime

A crime novel, at once disturbing and perversely comforting, factually has been known to curtail social anxieties through the ‘open and shut case’ of its narrative form. But what happens to that form in a world where guilt and innocence are not easily assigned? Return to the Scene of the Crime takes place on the trope of an investigator returning to the post-colony on a quest for knowledge. In tandem with solving the case, they must also grapple with the complexities of their origins. Kamil Naicker shows how five authors defy generic expectations to illustrate the complexities of personal identity, transitional justice, and civil violence in the post-colonial world. Congregating novels set in South Africa, China, Guatemala, Sri Lanka and Somalia, this book intervenes in literary studies by bringing the trend of the returnee figure and exploring the possibilities of world-making through the explosion of a familiar form. Print edition not for sale in Sub Saharan Africa.

The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Violence
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 670

The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Violence

Violence has always played a part in the religious imagination, from symbols and myths to legendary battles, from colossal wars to the theater of terrorism. The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Violence surveys intersections between religion and violence throughout history and around the world. The forty original essays in this volume include overviews of major religious traditions, showing how violence is justified within the literary and theological foundations of the tradition, how it is used symbolically and in ritual practice, and how social acts of violence and warfare have been justified by religious ideas. The essays also examine patterns and themes relating to religious violence, suc...

BOROBUDUR IS NOT BUDDHIST TEMPLE,CLARIFICATION
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 489

BOROBUDUR IS NOT BUDDHIST TEMPLE,CLARIFICATION

26.Do NOT CLOSE THE OLD ARCHIPELAGES FACTS ... is "Lying" there is a "Porn" scene in the bas-relief of "Borobudur" .... This publication must be "Stop" ..... Don't close the "Facts" to the glories of the Old Archipelago Note: There are 160 basic relief panels published with the naming "Karmawibhangga" using an interpretation of the text "Mahakarmawibhangga", but not completely following the text , Bernet Kempers 1970: 151 & 1976 The basic relief photographed by K. Cheppas 1890 was then closed in 1891, with the consideration that it would collapse, but no "Crack" was displayed ... ● Virupã ● Mãhéçãkhya ● Vyąsąda, äbhídya, mītthyädrstï ● Kųsălă ● Sûvãrnăvărnă, ća...

BOROBUDUR IS NOT A BUDDHA TEMPLE,English Version
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 489

BOROBUDUR IS NOT A BUDDHA TEMPLE,English Version

  • Categories: Art

BOROBUDUR IS NOT A BUDDHA TEMPLE When and who did Hindu / Buddhist missionaries / preachers born in pre-Islamic India enter the archipelago, so that sites in the archipelago are said to be based on one of the teachings of India ....? That it is true that Hindu / Buddhist originates from India and it is not true that sites in the Indonesian Archipelago are based on Hindu / Buddhist ... in fact what is depicted on these sites is the "teaching" that underlies the birth of Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainas in India INDONËSIARYĀ By : Santo Saba eBook pdf : WA +62813 2132 9787 https://wa.me/message/OO5THVF7RNNDO1

Leadership Lessons from Shakespeare’s Plays
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 278

Leadership Lessons from Shakespeare’s Plays

“Whatsoever a great man does, the same is done by others as well”, says the Bhagavadgītā. Shakespeare is one of such great men. He decocted man’s cosmic world into his plays, and his characters display greatness along with humility and frailty. His plays, which so lucidly articulate the hidden process of interiority of the protagonists, are a living force even today. The problems that they portray and the consequences that they map are not dissimilar to those that the leaders of today’s businesses encounter. Today’s leaders are, of course, equipped with better tools to manage these, but they may not be superior to the spiritual depth or moral strength that we experience in these classics. In a refreshing approach, this book delineates theories of leadership and management through the characters and the themes of the Bard’s plays, contextualizing their infinite variety to the concepts being expounded in today’s business environment.