Titres dans Hindouisme

Based on extensive cultural studies and long years of practice, Livia Kohn creates a new typology of meditation, based on six distinct ways of accessing the subconscious. In a special chapter on each type, she outlines the physiology, world view, and traditional practice as well as its modern medical adaptations and organizational settings. Providing a thorough theoretical framework combined with a comprehensive, analytical overview, the book greatly advances our understanding of meditation.

With this handy little guide as your starting point, you will become an expert in the basics of Shakti and the Shakta tradition. Highly focused on the practical and the theoretical aspects of the Shakti, this book will teach you how to harness the power of Shakti to change your life for the better.

In our chaotic and isolating times, it’s more essential than ever to connect to our highest selves—finding the purpose, pleasure, and freedom that lives inside each of us. Grounded in the Vedic spiritual traditions of Ayurveda, Yoga, and Vedanta, the simple practices in this engaging guide offer us the space and perspective to do just that. You’ll meet the nine Indian goddesses who embody the essential facets of divine feminine power—courage, creativity, intuition, rejuvenation, transformation, and more.

I am fortunate to be able to publish Baba Faqir Chand's satsangs as presented to Harjit Singh Sandhu and skillfully translated by Pulkit Bose. First as a series in Sach Khand: The Journal of Radhasoami Studies and now in book form. These talks that were given in London, England, in 1980 are genuinely remarkable for their utmost clarity and penetrating insights into the nature of spirituality. Baba Faqir Chand is unique amongst masters, since he was exceptionally honest about his experiences and what he learned from them over the course of his long life.

Your physical body is animated by life energy, and according to India's science of sound healing, you can gather and direct that healing life force through the power of sacred sound. With Mantra Meditation for Physical Health, Thomas Ashley-Farrand, one of the most acclaimed teachers of mantra in the West, guides you syllable by syllable into a rich 40-day program of mantras to strengthen your natural healing potential.

Miracle on Second Avenue is a short, carefully researched documentary book written in a you-are-there style that catalogs the start and growth of the Hare Krishna movement. Miracle on Second Avenue won the 2012 National Indie Excellence Award for Biography. The work is a memoir of Mukunda Goswami, one of the pioneers of the religious group that is now known throughout the world formally as the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON).

Faqir Chand was a remarkable Indian sage who spent over 75 years practicing an ancient meditation technique, popularly known today as surat shabd yoga, which attempts to induce a consciously controlled near-death experience. This book contains Faqir Chand's unique autobiography which was dictated shortly before his death in Urdu and translated during his lifetime into English. It also includes a seasoned selection of Faqir Chand's radical teachings.

This book is a thoroughly researched primer on the 108 Upanishads, philosophical treatises that form a part of the Vedas, the revered Hindu texts. These Upanishads contain the most crystallized bits of wisdom gleaned from Hinduism. Roshen Dalal explains the concepts at the core of each Upanishad clearly and lucidly. Moreover, her vast, diverse philosophical and theological readings add priceless scholarly context to this comprehensive and fascinating volume.

It is said that when one balances his or her chakras, the rest of life falls into place. This is very true, but there is much more than chakra balancing to strive for. Chakras themselves can be a source of energy to create magick. Using chakras for magick makes perfect sense, since spiritual and physical energies travel via the chakras. You are, in essence, your chakras. Everything in the world, whether this world or the spiritual world, communicates with you via your chakras.

What you are about to learn right now is rather obscure. It's a hidden side of an otherwise popular spiritual practice. What you will learn is the Dark Mantras of Subjugation called Vashikaran. I call them dark because they are meant to "subjugate" people and events to your will, or "command" them. That kind of thing was relegated to black magick and witchcraft here in the West. But is there actually such a thing as white and black magick in the Eastern traditions? Or perhaps we, in the West, interpret these things in stark black-and-white terms?

The all-encompassing wisdom of the Bhagavad Gita is applicable to every aspect of modern life. But until now, that beautiful story of the battle and conquest over our own mind has been difficult for Westerners and modern audiences to fully grasp. Translations often brush over concepts that are already widely understood by Hindu scholars. Now, we can see the Gita through the lens of modernity. We can see its myriad of lessons through practical applications to the common struggles we face today.

Sacred sound is a substantial form of spiritual nourishment. Many cultures are rich with spiritual music, but kirtan features ancient mantras—potent sound formulas of transformation and healing—that enrich and enlighten us in ways that other music or self-help methods cannot.

The Meditation Music Zone podcast is a guided meditation for focus, anxiety relief, relaxation, and tranquility. This music is inspired by Tibetan, Shamanic, African, Hindi, Japanese music, and many others. This podcast can positively influence improving quality of life and overall well-being.

The legend of the exquisitely beautiful Shakuntala and the mighty king Dushyanta is a thrilling love story from the epic Mahabharata, which the great ancient poet Kalidasa retold in his immortal play Abhijnanashakuntalam (The Recognition of Shakuntala). English and Sanskrit verses intermingle to recreate Kalidasa’s greatest play.

As the seventh of the 12 alvars, the mystic bhakti saints of South India, he played a pivotal role in the revival of bhakti and served as an inspiration for Sri Rāmānujācārya's Sri Sampradaya. This prayer is a celebration of śaraṇāgati, perfect surrender to the Lord, and reminds us to strive for unceasing remembrance of the Lord at all times and places. King Kulaśekhara speaks of the misery of the soul trapped in this world with its many trials and tribulations, all the while reminding us all that the supreme lord, Śrīman Nārāyaṇa, is the only means of liberation.

Anxiety? Depression? Insecurity? Stress? Mental fatigue? Are you looking for a better and healthier life despite suffering from one or more of these conditions? Then understanding the principle and practice of the 7 Chakras is your best solution to all daily life problems like anxiety, depression, stress, mental fatigue, insecurity, and so on. The 7 Chakras are energetic points across the human body responsible of releasing energy from behind. When they are properly opened, they have the power to give us a better and healthier life.

If you want to discover the secret to unlocking your inner spiritual power, then pay attention...Would you like to feel more at peace and live in a state of bliss? Do you want to discover what some say slows down aging and increases creativity? Would you like to experience an increased spiritual connection and maybe even develop psychic abilities? No matter where you are in relation to this startling Sanskrit term, you’ve come to the right place. In this audiobook, you’ll learn about the many aspects of the kundalini, from what it is to its most complicated applications.

Deeply affected by the death of his entire platoon in the Vietnam War, Lance Corporal Brian Tibbitts embarked upon the pursuit of the real meaning and purpose of life. To his dismay, none of the major spiritual and religious texts he read could fully answer his questions, until he found Bhagavad-gita As It Is and met its author, Srila A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami, the founder of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness. At the age of twenty-one, Brian Tibbitts became his disciple, and at the age of twenty-nine, became Indradyumna Swami when he entered the renounced order of life.

Hinduism is practiced by nearly 80 percent of India's population, and by some 70 million people outside India. In this Very Short Introduction, Kim Knott offers a succinct and authoritative overview of this major religion, and analyzes the challenges facing it in the 21st century. She discusses key preoccupations of Hinduism such as the centrality of the Veda as religious texts, the role of Brahmins, gurus, and storytellers in the transmission of divine truths, and the cultural and moral importance of epics such as the Ramayana.

Suno Mahabharata Devdutt Pattanaik ke Saath is an exclusive presentation by Audible. Mahabharata is a story that communicates Vedic Ideas such as dharma and karma. It narrates the epic quarrel over property between five brothers (the Pandavas) and their hundred cousins (the Kauravas). The events, if real, may have taken place 3,000 years ago in the Gangetic plains. It was composed orally and transmitted for centuries before it was written down in Sanskrit about 2,000 years ago.