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V.K. Subramanian |
Saundaryalahari of Sankaracharya |
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| Saundaryalahari is a rare Tantric work whose authorship is attributed to Samkaracarya. It is a long poem of one hundred verses; a hymn of praise to the Divine Mother; an invocation and a prayer that awakens man from stupor to a state of effulgent energy and creativity. In this monograph the original Sanskrit text of each verse is presented in Devanagari script accompanied with its Roman transliteration. English rendering of the verses and explanatory notes are provided with an eye to... |
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Kanti Chandra Pandey |
Abhinavagupta: An Historical and Philosophical Study |
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| The work of "Abhinavagupta : An Historical and Philosophical Study", is an important contribution to scholarship. It provides an account of well-known, but little-studied, philosophical system, known under the several names of 'Siva' 'Trika' 'Pratyabhijna' and others. The basic Sutras expounding the system are by Siva himself, followed by Parasurama Gaudapada and others: but like Sankaracarya in the realm of Vedanta whose basis lay in the Upanisads, the person who made the system... |
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Paramahansa Yogananda |
Wine of the Mystic |
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| This award-winning work brings to light the deeper truth and beauty of a well-loved but long-misunderstood masterpiece—the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. With an in-depth commentary on every quatrain, Paramahansa Yogananda reveals the profound kinship between the Rubaiyat's hidden metaphysical philosophy and India's ancient science of Yoga. He presents as well a fascinating exploration of the mystical experience and such subjects as: the mystery of destiny and free will, the intricacies of... |
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Hazrat Inayat Khan |
The Dance of the Soul |
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| This collection of aphorisms is just a gem of wisdom and mysticism with a
touch of humour. It helps you to discover your very being at the same time as
hinting practical solutions for your daily life: feeling, thinking, speaking,
acting. It is the only book Hazrat Inayat Khan actually wrote himself. All the
others (vide The Sufi Message, Vols. I-XIII) are representations of his
discourses. Besides aphorisms it contains a small yet highly inspiring
collection of prayers. Throughout... |
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G.N. Das |
Couplets from Kabir |
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| The fifteenth century saint-poet Kabir's extempore outpourings of songs
and couplets numbering thousands have been hailed widely for their deep
spiritual fervour and poetic quality. They are widely read with rapture and
regard by old and young alike in India. Kabir's couplets which are considered as
rich gems for their spiritual message and worldly wisdom have not been rendered
into English so far. Here are rhymed English verse translation of three hundred
of them from a wide... |
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Shyamal Banerjee |
Divine Songs of Sage Poet Ramprasad |
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| Ramprasad Sen was born in the second decade of the eighteenth century in Halishahar in (then) Bengal. He was a great saint in Shakta cult. But, he was too a natural poet and composer.
The songs are hymns to Goddess Mother Kali couched in rustic words and symbols of everyday life. Yet, most of this symbolism is a rare mosaic of the occult mystery of Tantrashastra and carry a double meaning. Thus, flying kites, the blind ox trudging routine endless circles of the village oil-machine (ghaani),... |
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Sri Aurobindo |
Savitri (Hard Cover - Crown Size) |
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| Savitri is Sri Aurobindo's major poetic work, an epic in blank-verse of about 24,000 lines in which a tale from the Mahabharata becomes a symbol of the human soul's spiritual quest and destiny. "The tale of Satyavan and Savitri", Sri Aurobindo noted, "is recited in the Mahabharata as a story of conjugal love conquering death".
Sri Aurobindo has widened the original legend and turned it into a symbol in which the soul of man, represented by Satyavan, is delivered from the grip of death... |
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Sri Aurobindo |
Bhavani Bharati |
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Bhavani Bharati is Sri Aurobindo's only poem in Sanskrit, written between 1904 and 1908. It has 99 verses in the "Upajati" metre which is an apt choice for emoting heroism, power, anger, war. Confiscated by the Calcutta Police, this piece was rediscovered in 1985. The poem depicts:
The victory of the Shakti
The Mother of the nation
Over Ignorance and Evil.
This edition contains the original in Sanskrit along with English and Hindi translations.
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Swami Tapasyananda (tr.) |
Saundaryalahari of Sri Sankaracarya (Shankaracharya) |
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| Saundarya-lahari (or The Inundation of Divine Splendour') is a highly poetical but at the same time a tough technical work of Sri Sankaracarya, who was both the Bhasyskara (commentator) on the Texts of Vedanta philosophy, as also the Sanmata-sthapaka (the founder of the systems of worship of the six Deities of the Hindu pantheon). While this Text is a hymn of praise of the Divine Mother known as Tripurasundari. Lalita, Sodasi, etc., in Her creative aspect, it also deals with the technicalities... |
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Shukdeo Singh |
The Bijak of Kabir |
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| Kabir was an extraordinary poet whose works have been sung and recited by
millions throughout North India for half a millennium. He was perhaps illiterate
(I don't touch ink or paper, this hand never grasped a pen), and he preached an
abrasive, sometimes shocking, always uncomprising message exhorting his audience
to shed their delusions, pretensions and empty orthodoxies in favour of an
intense, direct personal confrontation with truth.
The Bijak is one of the most important... |
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A.J. Alston |
The Devotional Poems of Mirabai |
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| A translation of over two hundred of the songs attributed to the early sixteenth-century female bhakti poet Mirabai. These poems express an intense love for Krishna. The Devotional Poems of Mirabai offers the reader a sober English translation of two hundred of her Padas, based on the interpretative work of Indian scholars that has appeared during the last few decades. Three introductory essays deal with her life, her place in the Bhakti movement and the characteristics of her poetry. ... |
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Mohit Chakrabarti |
Rabindranath Tagore |
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| An inward exploration of diverse finer sensibilities and softer visions of life in terms of aesthetics and mystic grandeur, Rabindranath Tagore's songs of prayer unfold an unending panorama of joy, sorrow, life, death, light, darkness, void and fullness in a serene symphony with Nature.
An alltime entry into the elegant cathedral of the language of silence and poignant suggestiveness to life as it ought to be for deliverance in ardent devotion and dedication. |
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M. P. Pandit |
A Summary of Savitri |
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| Sri Aurobindo's Savitri is the longest epic-poem in English literature. With his alchemic touch, the simple story of Savitri and Satyavan in the Mahabharata turns into a prophetic vision of the conquest of Death for man by the Divine Grace.
Sri M.P. Pandit has written an elaborate commentary on the epic in his ten outstanding volumes of Readings in Savitri. This book summarizes the commentary in a narration that flows canto by canto, book by... |
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K.N.Rao |
FINER TECHNIQUES OF ASTROLOGICAL PREDICTIONS (Vol I & II) |
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Lex Hixon |
Mother of the Universe |
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| In this delightful translation by Lex Hixon, we hear the pillow talk of the mystic poet Ramprasad to his Goddess Kali, Mother of the Universe, Mother of Reality-a tantric love affair which the Divine that will completely enchant the reader. |
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Lao Tsu |
Tao Te Ching |
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| The most accessible and authoritative modern English translation of the ancient Chinese classic. Offers the essence of each word and makes Lao Tsu's teaching immediate and alive. Scholars say that the original Tao Te Ching is a poem. Like a poem, this version of the Tao Te Ching is not meant to be read in one breath from front to back, but is to be at intervals internalized and contemplated. Jane English's haunting black-and-white photos that undulate in and out on every page act as... |
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Rabindranath Tagore |
A Hundred Devotional Songs of Tagore |
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| Devotion is dedication of the self to the All Serene. To Rabindranath
Tagore, it is more than mere dedication. It is a vrata to be in perfect unison
with the Vratapati, the Lord of askance in sincerity, purity and poignance.
To be christened with the spirituality of Tagore in the most intrinsic and poignant pattern is to muse and re-muse his devotional songs, and in doing so, one cannot but discover within oneself the lotus-land of spiritual excellence. Indeed, somewhere in the heartland... |
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Sri Aurobindo |
Homer and the Iliad - Sri Aurobindo |
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| This monograph briefly introduces two major epic poems about the famous Trojan war.
The Iliad was written by Homer a few centuries after the siege of Troy. In the 20th century, more than two millenia later, Sri Aurobindo, the great seer and poet of modern India, wrote Ilion.
In both epics the main quality abundantly displayed is heroism but seeds of the other qualities can be seen. |
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Sri Aurobindo |
Savitri (Hard Cover - Pocket Size) |
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| Savitri is Sri Aurobindo's major poetic work, an epic in blank-verse of about 24,000 lines in which a tale from the Mahabharata becomes a symbol of the human soul's spiritual quest and destiny. "The tale of Satyavan and Savitri", Sri Aurobindo noted, "is recited in the Mahabharata as a story of conjugal love conquering death". Sri Aurobindo has widened the original legend and turned it into a symbol in which the soul of man, represented by Satyavan, is delivered... |
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Nataraja Guru (tr.) |
Saundaryalahari of Sankaracarya: The Upsurging Billow of Beauty |
$37.99 $26.59 |
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| The Saundaryalahari has fascinated and puzzled generations of scholars and laypersons; subject to continuing study and debate, till today, such details as the authorship of the 100 verses named the Saundaryalahari remain a matter of contention, particularly among scholars. While some attribute it to Sankara, others argue that the Saundaryalahari's verses in praise of the Devi cannot have been authored by this staunch Vedantin; Some argue that it's value is essentially in the realm of what is... |
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Kireet Joshi |
Parvati's Tapasya |
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| The fifth canto of the famous Kumarasambhava of Kalidasa. It recounts the heroic efforts of Parvati in order to seduce Shiva, the god “whom beauty cannot conquer”. Introduction, text and notes. |
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Christine Devin |
Parvati or Extreme Love |
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| Adaptation of the famous poem in sanskrit by Kalidasa.
It describes the union of the god Shiva and his consort Parvati. How the beauty of the goddess could not seduce the ascetic god, by which means she finally succeeded in conquering him, what was the ecstasy of the lovers, such is the subject of this story in which the extreme of asceticism blends with the extreme of sensuality. |
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Cait Johnson |
Earth, Water, Fire, & Air |
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| The root of human spirituality is grounded in four elements—earth, water, fire and air. They are common to all people and almost every spiritual path; they are the keys to our understanding of Spirit; and they can help you achieve personal fulfillment and re-connection with others. This inspiring guidebook explains the role of the elements in different faith traditions and how they’ve been incorporated into religious practices and ceremonies. You will be encouraged to explore your own... |
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Michael Miovic |
Initiation: Spiritual Insights on Life, Art, and Psychology |
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| Initiation: Spiritual Insights into Life, Art, and Psychology is a compilation of essays, travelogues, short stories, art criticism, and poems that revolve around the theme of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother's vision.
The author gives personal reflections on his spiritual quest, impressions of travels in India and Greece, and critical reviews of the emerging field of spiritual/transpersonal psychology and consciousness studies. He also applies Sri Aurobindo's model of social evolution to... |
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M. P. Pandit |
The Book of Beginnings: Talks on Sri Aurobindo's Savitri (Book One) |
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| From the blurb:
Sri Aurobindo turns the legend of Savitri into a symbol of the quest of humanity for the crown of immortality. He fills the frame of the legend with a wealth of spiritual and mystic imagery, invests the characters with a profound evolutionary significance and lifts it up into an epic of the Conquest of Death for Man by the Divine Grace.
The Book of Beginnings is a line-by-line commentary on the first Book of Savitri which begins the narrative with the... |
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R.C. Prasad |
Maha Calisa Samgraha |
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| An Anthology of Calisas and Aratis forming part of the Hindu Religious
Poetry and Public Worship (Text in Nagari & Roman Scripts with Hindi &
Eng. Tr.) |
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Sunita Pant Bansal |
Kalidasa's Meghadoot |
$21.95 $15.37 |
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| Kalidasa, the creator of this poem, was indisputably the greatest master
in Sanskrit poetry. His poetic genius took Sanskrit poetry to the highest level
of elegance and refinement. He excels in the context of natural scenery and
phenomena.
Meghadoot means the clouds as a messenger. It is one of the most popular poetic works of Kalidasa.
This book endevours to explain the poem in such a way
that the reader is able to visualise and feel the whole scene through the hero's
eyes,... |
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G.D. Bakshi |
Dances with the Cranes |
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| "Dances with the cranes" celebrate, the magic and mystery of death and rebirth. These are poems of reincarnation that trace the rites of passage of the soul in the flight of the majestic Black Necked Cranes. Each year, from September to November these birds migrate from Tibet and colder regions of China to Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh. The Black Necked Cranes is the National Bird Bhutan. It is called Thrug-Thrug-Kam by the Druktas. It is deemed to be a good omen. It is a symbol of good fortune,... |
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Aurobindo |
Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol |
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| Savitri is Sri Aurobindo's revelatory mantric epic poem. The Mother has referred to it as "the supreme revelation of Sri Aurobindo's vision". The writing of Savitri extended over much of the later part of Sri Aurobindo's life. The first known manuscript dates from 1916. By around 1930 he had begun to turn it into an epic with a larger scope and deeper significance. Transformed into 'A Legend and a Symbol' Savitri became his major literary work which he continued to expand and perfect until his... |
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Niels Hammer |
Art of Sanskrit Poetry |
$67.39 $47.17 |
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| This book is both an introduction to Sanskrit and an investigation into the relationship between the nine basic affective states (bhava) and the form they take in the absence of self-interest (tatasthya) according to the theory of Indian aesthetics as developed in the Dhvanyaloka and the Abhinavabharati. To illustrate the process of aesthetic appreciation the different categories of suggestion (dhvani) in a continuous twelfth century poetic text (kavya), and the various forms of aesthetic... |
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Sri Aurobindo |
Ahana |
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| An early narrative poem.
About the Author:
Sri Aurobindo was an Indian/Hindu nationalist, scholar, poet, mystic, evolutionary philosopher, yogi and guru. After a short political career in which he became one of leaders of the early movement for the freedom of India from British rule, Sri Aurobindo turned to the development and practice of a new spiritual path which he called the... |
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Champaklal |
Champaklal as an Artist |
$31.49 $22.04 |
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| Regarding Champaklal's artistic capacity Sri Aurobindo once wrote in the 1930s "Champaklal has a natural talent already developed to an unusual degree."
This commemorative album presents:
Paintings, Drawings and Studies from Life
Paintings Created by Marbling Technique on art paper
Selections from Sri Aurobindo and the Mother on "Beauty and Art"
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Kathleen Raine |
Indian Poets and English Poetry |
$6.49 $4.54 |
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| This sequel to The English Language and the Indian Spirit is on "a much larger scale covering a greater field of literary reference fanning out essentially from the same central theme as before. This theme is the poetic vision and work of Sri Aurobindo, mostly exemplified in his epic Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol."
Life in a broad sense, sweeping over both present-day issues and past history, has formed, along with literature itself in an extensive context, the subject of the... |
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M. P. Pandit |
Yoga in Sri Aurobindo's Epic 'Savitri' |
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| From the blurb:
In a way the whole of Sri Aurobindo's Savitri is Yoga. There is the yoga of Ashwapati, Savitri's quest, the yoga of the Earth, and the yoga of the luminous Truth-world trying to materialise itself on our globe.
In this book a selection has been made from the angle of the yoga of the individual which is the crux of all the dimensions of yoga: the call, the conditions, difficulties and the process.
Each selection is followed by a commentary that reveals the... |
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Nishikanta |
Twenty-Five Lamps (Panchish Pradeep) |
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| The English translation of a long poem in Bengali by Nishikanta, written to celebrate the silver jubilee of the Mother's final arrival at Pondicherry on 24th April 1920.
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Radhika Nagrath |
Swami Vivekananda : The Known Philosopher The Unknown Poet |
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| The present book presents the study and information of Swami Vivekananda which evinces him a better poet than a thinker and a philosopher. It is by the dint of his supersensible order of life, and also the preaching that scholars have missed to explore his poetic excellence as well as its significance.
Amongst the tremendous works available on Swami Vivekananda, this book has a place of special significance as the issues and aspects evinced are those which the critics have never taken into... |
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Aine Keenan |
The Secret |
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| 'The Secret' is a contemplation on the nature of Identity, Reality and Mystery. Following in the tradition of Rumi, Hafiz, Kabir, Shikibu and Mirabai, these verses possess an appeal which is timeless and universal, speaking on many levels simultaneously, whilst mirroring the urge to bypass tradition and ritual with the ultimate objective of direct experience. Aine Keenan travelled to Mumbai, India to be in the presence of the famous Advaita sage Ramesh Balsekar, and absorb his teachings.... |
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E. Washburn Hopkins |
The Great Epic of India |
$12.50 $8.75 |
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| Long age when this book first appeared in the opening year of the century the great Epic, Mahabharata had not been thoroughly examined to see what literature it reflected had not received a careful investigation from the metrical side its philosophy had been reviewed only in a most haphazard fashion and its relation to other epic poetry had been almost judgment on the question of the date and origin of the poem of which scholars knew as yet this poem of which scholars knew as yet scarcely more... |
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John Platts |
Baital Pachchisi |
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| Among the many tales popular in India, one collection of stories has been
existing not only in Sanskrit, but also in almost all the vernaculars. This is
the 'Baital Pachchisi,' or Twenty Five Tales of A Demon (or Sprit). They are
narrated by the sprit, who haunts the cemeteries, to Vikram, the king of Oojein.
About the Author:
John Platts is among the first six to translate this collection into English from the original Sanskrit. |
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T.M.P. Mahadevan |
Hymns of Sankara |
$14.95 $10.47 |
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| These are the devotional poems and songs written by Shree Shankarachya,
the great teacher of Advaita (non-dual) philosophy and the foundation of modern
Vedanta. |
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E.H. Whinfield |
The Mathnawi |
$31.95 $22.37 |
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| This great work by Rumi, who has been called 'the greatest mystical poet
of any Age', was forty-three years in the writing. During the past seven hundred
years, this book, called by Iranians 'the Koran in Persian', a tribute paid to
no other book, has occupied a central place in Sufism.
Rumi's name is associated with the founding of the Order known in Europe as the 'Whirling Dervishes', and in the East as 'the Path of the Master'.
About the Author:
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C.N. Burchett |
Ancient Indian Tales |
$17.95 $12.57 |
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| Readers will find selections from the Mahabharata, Ramayana, Puranas,
Subandhu's Vasavadatta, bana's kadambari and Harshacharita, not to mention
Dandin's Tales of Ten Princes (Dasakumaracharita), and finally the work of the
eleventh century Kashmiri poet, Soma Deva's- The Ocean of Streams of Story
(Katha Sarit Sagar). |
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Mohammad Babib |
Hazrat Amir Khusrau of Delhi |
$24.95 $17.47 |
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| There were poets in the reign of Sultan Alauddin Khilji such as had never existed before and have never appeared since. The incomparable Amir Khusrau stands unequalled for the volume of his writings and the originality of his ideals; for while other great masters of prose and verse have excelled in one or two branches, Amir Khusrau was conspicuous in every department of letters.
A man with such mastery over all forms of poetry has never existed in the past. And in addition to his wit,... |
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Pandit Durgaprasad |
The Haravijayam of Rajanaka Ratnakara |
$60.99 $42.69 |
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| The Haravijaya of Ratnakara is an epic poem (mahakavya) belonging to the era of artificial poetry.
The mahakavya is not oral poetry; it is artificial and learned; it lays more importance on description than narration. Its only claim to the term epic lies in its breadth of content. A great kavya takes its plot from myth or from history; it must further the four ends of man; it must contain descriptions of cities, seas, mountains, moonrise, and sunrise. A great kavya should also be ornamented... |
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C.R. Devadhar |
Vikramorvasiyam of Kalidasa |
$4.95 $3.47 |
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| The Vikramorvasiya is the second of the three dramas attributed to Kalidasa. It is a love drama. The language employed in it displays all the elegance and the beauties of Kalidasa's style.
The text of this edition of the Vikramorvashiya is for the most part the same as that of Mr. S.P. Pandit's but with a few variations of readings, needed corrections and a corrected orthographic representation of Prakrit words. |
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M.M. Higgins |
Jatakamala or A Garland of Birth Stories |
$10.94 $7.66 |
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| A selection of Jataka Stories arranged for the young and enjoyed by the older alike.
Jataka means 'previous births' and mala 'garland'. This is the literally the stringing together of the stories of the previous lives of the Bodhisattva (afterwards the Buddha). The object of composing the Birth stories into verses is to teach the doctrine of Universal... |
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Harold Coward |
Rabindranath Tagore - The Builders of Indian Philosophy Series |
$25.49 $17.84 |
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| A renaissance figure and marvel that Rabindranath Tagore has been, an analytical predilection of philosophy is hardly enough for comprehending his phenomenal creativity and expression of the highest values of will and feeling.
Often the question whether Tagore is a philosopher is quite idle, as idle as whether Nietzsche is a philosopher, or the author of Philosophical Investigations is a philosopher. It is easier to deride the high and naked peaks of synoptic insight and opt for the worship... |
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Translated by Rajendra Tandon |
Kalidasa The Meghadootam |
$18.49 $12.94 |
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| Kalidasa - Who some scholars believe wrote somewhere in the first century AD-wrote poems of epic proportions and is regarded as one of the most outstanding writers of classical Sanskrit.
Known to be an ardent worshipper of Lord Shiva, Kalidasa wrote his plays and poems largely based around Hindu mythology and philosophy. The Meghadootam (The Cloud Messenger) - in many ways the finest of all of Kalidasa's works and certainly one of the masterpieces of world literature - is, however, an... |
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Kireet Joshi |
The Siege of Troy |
$9.99 $6.99 |
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| An extract from the famous poem of Homer, the Iliad.
Through this epic, Homer presents the Greek world-view, a view of life where men are seen as a base metal beaten and shaped by the gods and fate until their inner golden nature is revealed.
He showed the Greeks more than just heroic deeds; his poetic genius drew aside the curtain of outer events and gave a vivid picture of the inner forces there at work.
Introduction, text and notes.
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K.P. Bahadur |
The Poems of Suradasa |
$22.22 $15.55 |
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Gurudev Swami Sivanandaji Maharaj |
Philosophy of Yoga in Poems |
$1.39 $0.97 |
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| This book contains the quintessence of all books of Sivananda in prose-poems.
About the Author:
Sri Swami Sivananda , born on the 8th September, 1887, in the illustrious family of Sage Appayya Dikshita and several other renowned saints and savants, Sri swami Sivananda had a natural flair for a life devoted to the study and practice of Vedanta.
He was an inborn eagerness to serve all and an innate feeling of unity with all mankind. He is the author of over 300 volumes and... |
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Christine Devin |
Shakuntala or The Ring of Remembrance |
$10.99 $7.69 |
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| This adaptation of the masterpiece by Kalidasa is told in simple language. It is a moving and poetic love story seen from the inner perspective of the protagonists themselves.
Notes on Kalidasa are provided, as well as a comparison with the Shakuntala of the Mahabharata. Important comments by Sri Aurobindo on Kalidasa have been reproduced. |
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kireet Joshi |
Nala and Damayanti |
$10.99 $7.69 |
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| This ancient story by the poet-Rishi Vyasa in the Mahabharata recounts how heroism guided by wisdom enabled two human beings, crushed by adverse circumstances, to emerge victorious from a terrible ordeal.
Introduction, text and notes. |
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Sri Aurobindo |
Sri Aurobindo on English Poets (Part 1) |
$5.49 $3.84 |
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| A selection bringing together most of the important writings of Sri Aurobindo on some of the major poets of English literature such as Chaucer, Shakespeare, Spenser and Milton, compiled mostly from The Future Poetry and Letters on Poetry, Literature and Art. |
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Sri Aurobindo |
Savitri |
$15.49 $10.84 |
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| Savitri is Sri Aurobindo's major poetic work, an epic in blank-verse of about 24,000 lines in which a tale from the Mahabharata becomes a symbol of the human soul's spiritual quest and destiny. "The tale of Satyavan and Savitri", Sri Aurobindo noted, "is recited in the Mahabharata as a story of conjugal love conquering death".
Sri Aurobindo has widened the original legend and turned it into a symbol in which the soul of man, represented by Satyavan, is delivered from the grip of death... |
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Sri Aurobindo |
Collected Poems |
$9.49 $6.64 |
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| A collection of over two hundred poems, lyrics, sonnets, narrative poems, poems in new metres, and an essay "On Quantitative Metre".
About the Author:
Sri Aurobindo was an Indian/Hindu nationalist, scholar, poet, mystic, evolutionary philosopher, yogi and guru. After a short political career in which he became one of leaders of the early movement for the freedom of India from... |
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Sri Aurobindo |
The Future Poetry |
$6.49 $4.54 |
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| A survey of the evolution of poetry and its potential for inspiring men through the rhythmic word.
About the Author:
Sri Aurobindo was an Indian/Hindu nationalist, scholar, poet, mystic, evolutionary philosopher, yogi and guru. After a short political career in which he became one of leaders of the early movement for the freedom of India from British rule, Sri Aurobindo turned to... |
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Sri Aurobindo |
Letters on Poetry, Literature and Art |
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| A collection of several hundred letters on the form and substance of poetry, sources of poetic inspiration, poetic rhythm and technique, and appreciation of art.
About the Author:
Sri Aurobindo was an Indian/Hindu nationalist, scholar, poet, mystic, evolutionary philosopher, yogi and guru. After a short political career in which he became one of leaders of the early movement for the... |
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Sri Aurobindo |
Baji Prabhou |
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| An illustrated edition of Sri Aurobindo's poem founded on the historical incident of the heroic self-sacrifice of the Maratha warrior Baji Prabhou Deshpande.
About the Author:
Sri Aurobindo was an Indian/Hindu nationalist, scholar, poet, mystic, evolutionary philosopher, yogi and guru. After a short political career in which he became one of leaders of the early movement for the... |
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Sri Aurobindo |
Invitation and other Poems |
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| A selection of Sri Aurobindo's poems for readers aged below 18.
In Sri Aurobindo's view poetry is primarily a medium of illumination, beauty and delight. "Its function", he wrote, "is not to teach truth of any particular kind... but to embody beauty in word and give delight".
Poetry was Sri Aurobindo's own chosen field of artistic expression:
as a youth in England he penned lyrics and sonnets
as a teacher in Baroda he wrote longer narrative poems
as a seer and yogi in Pondicherry... |
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Sri Aurobindo |
The Infinite Adventure and other Poems |
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| A selection of Sri Aurobindo's poems for young readers. In Sri Aurobindo's view poetry is primarily a medium of illumination, beauty and delight. "Its function", he wrote, "is not to teach truth of any particular kind... but to embody beauty in word and give delight".
Poetry was Sri Aurobindo's own chosen field of artistic expression:
as a youth in England he penned lyrics and sonnets
as a teacher in Baroda he wrote longer narrative poems
and as a seer and yogi in Pondicherry he... |
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Sri Aurobindo |
Lyrical Poems (1930-1950) |
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| Sri Aurobindo once wrote that he wanted his short poems published in two separate books, one of sonnets and the other of "(mainly) lyrical poems". His sonnets were published in 1980.
This book contains all other significant short poems composed between 1930 and 1950. Most of the poems included are "lyrical" in the technical sense: they are short and express the writer's personal thoughts and feelings. Unlike most other examples of the genre, however, their lyricism is spiritual and psychic.... |
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Sri Aurobindo |
Letters on Savitri |
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| Written during the 1930s and 1940s, almost all addressed to K. D. Sethna.
About the Author:
Sri Aurobindo was an Indian/Hindu nationalist, scholar, poet, mystic, evolutionary philosopher, yogi and guru. After a short political career in which he became one of leaders of the early movement for the freedom of India from British rule, Sri Aurobindo turned to the development and... |
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Sri Aurobindo |
Supplement to the Revised Edition of Savitri - Edited by Sri Aurobindo Archives and Research Library |
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| With the table of emendations, and explaining the rationale behind the revisions in the new edition of Savitri with respect to older editions.
About the Author:
Sri Aurobindo was an Indian/Hindu nationalist, scholar, poet, mystic, evolutionary philosopher, yogi and guru. After a short political career in which he became one of leaders of the early movement for the freedom of... |
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Janina Stroka |
A Captive of Her Love: Letters and Paintings of Janina Stroka |
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| This book is a collection of letters, poems and paintings by a Polish disciple of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother.
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Supriyo Bhattacharya |
An interview with K. D. Sethna |
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| In this interview of May 2003 K. D. Sethna talks about philosophy, poetry and his personal experiences. An article by Sethna, "Poetry and the Poet: A Self-Searching Introduction" is also included.
This booklet aims to "quench the intellectual thirst" of those eager to know Sri Aurobindo and the Mother from the perception of one who was in intimate contact with them.
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Sachidananda Mohanty |
K. D. Sethna (Amal Kiran): A Centenary Tribute |
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| Born in 1904 K. D. Sethna (Amal Kiran) first came to Pondicherry in 1927 and stayed at the Ashram for several years. He permanently settled in Pondicherry in 1954 and has lived there ever since.
He is a distinguished writer, his works covering:
Poetry
Literary criticism
History
Christianity
Philosophy
Sri Aurobindo and the Mother.
He is also the editor of the monthly journal Mother India.
This volume, brought out to commemorate K. D. Sethna's centenary on 25... |
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Nolini Kanta Gupta |
Evolution and the Earthly Destiny |
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| A selection of essays on human evolution, education, science, poetry, mysticism, etc.
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K. D. Sethna |
Blake's Tyger: A Christological Interpretation |
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| The "Tyger", Blake's most admired poem, has been variously interpreted.
The author - known for his scholarly works on English literature - sees in it a parable in which the Tyger is the embodiment of Christ's wrath and renders a convincing Christological interpretation of the poem.
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V. Murugesu |
A Commentary on Sri Aurobindo's Poem Ilion |
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| The blurb states regarding Sri Aurobindo's poem Ilion that it "ranks as one of the world's masterpieces among heroic epics. A magnificent composition in hexameter, unique in English poetry, its lines carry a musical melody uplifting the reader to heights of enchanting ecstasy. Its nobility and grandeur are brought out in beautiful imagery and exquisite poetical language abounding in figures of speech.
The characters in the poem are of a high calibre and the references to Greek... |
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Amal Kiran (K. D. Sethna) |
Inspiration and Effort: Studies in Literary Attitude and Expression |
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| Essays and letters on poetry, poetic creation and levels of inspiration, from the perspective of general principles as well as with specific reference to the works of individual poets.
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Ananda Reddy |
Love and Death: Critical Essays |
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| Sri Aurobindo composed Love and Death, a narrative poem in blank verse based on a theme from the Mahabharata, in 1899 while in Baroda. Written in "a white heat of inspiration", it "bore already the impress of the future poet and prophet".
This book contains the original poem, relevant letters of Sri Aurobindo, a study by Amita Sen dealing especially with "the cohesiveness of the narration and the enrichment brought to the Sanskrit version" which inspired it, and several literary... |
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O. P. Mathur |
Sri Aurobindo: Critical Considerations |
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| This anthology of essays by eminent scholars attempts to fill a need "for a book which could project as many as possible of the major aspects of Sri Aurobindo's multi-faceted achievement".
The various contributions cover both Sri Aurobindo's philosophy as well as his poetry and plays.
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Dr Kalaamani |
Sri Aurobindo: His Mind and Art |
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| This book is an analytically researched criticism on the poetry of Sri Aurobindo, excluding Savitri, tracing three distinct and definitive phases in his life, viz the Cambridge period, the Baroda period and the Pondicherry period.
This study perceives the relative growth of his mind and art. The evolution of the poet, politician, yogi in his poetry is a study that will be useful to scholars, teachers and students of Indo-Anglian poetry.
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Prem Tyagi |
Sri Aurobindo: His Poetry and Poetic Theory |
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| From the blurb:
Sri Aurobindo's poetry cannot be properly judged by the traditional canons of criticism. He has created his own aesthetics, the 'overmind aesthetics' as he calls it and a proper estimate of his poetry 'overhead' Poetry is possible on the basis of his Poetics.
The present work offers a new approach of understanding Sri Aurobindo's Poetry in the context of his Poetic Theory. His Poetry and Poetic Theory extend our sensibilities to new areas of thought and... |
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K. D. Sethna |
Sri Aurobindo: The Poet |
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| The essays collected in this book are the result of a penetrating search for the soul of poetry and the possibilities of its highest expression.
Readers will find in this volume critical perceptions which will enable them to come into an intimate contact with Sri Aurobindo's poetry in all its varied range. The author gives a succession of interpretative insights, attempting to reveal the "many-splendoured" poet in his essentiality.
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D. Venkateswara Rao |
Sri Aurobindo and the Poets of the Dawn |
$14.49 $10.14 |
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| Contents:
Introduction
The course of English Poetry
Byron and Wordsworth
Coleridge and Blake
Shelley and Keats; etc.
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K. D. Sethna |
Sri Aurobindo on Shakespeare |
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| "Shakespeare was a supreme poet" wrote Sri Aurobindo.
In this book K.D.Sethna, himself a poet and critic, has linked together many of Sri Aurobindo's insights and critical observations on Shakespeare, by a commentary further expounding and applying them.
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Jugal Kishore Mukherjee |
Sri Aurobindo's Poetry and Sanskrit Rhetoric: Exemplification of Some Arthalankaras or 'Figures of Speech' |
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| A study of the ideational figures of speech and figures of sense in Sri Aurobindo's poetry, especially in the context of Sanskrit poetics.
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R. Y. Deshpande |
The Birth of Savitr |
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| Short poetic contemplations on each canto of Savitri.
The author "attempts an accurate subjective impression of each canto but through a personal retelling, using a focused mystic style. Bringing to this the aspiration for the overhead word, his poem becomes a seeking for the mantra -- a mantra that will capture the heart of the grand mantra that is Savitri, in other words, Savitri's bija." Also included are a Resume of Savitri, and... |
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Asoka K. Ganguli |
Sri Aurobindo's Savitri: An Adventure of Consciousness |
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| Savitri, the epic of the future, stands on "Sri Aurobindo's new concept of poetry and his Overmind aesthesis".
From the 'Apologia':
The present volume deals with Sri Aurobindo's new concept of poetry of the future - its 'laws' of composition and the new aesthesis. It also deals with the form, design and structure and technique of Savitri along with its thematic scheme. The purpose is to provide a foothold that the readers might require to have some sort of... |
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Nishikanta |
Alakananda |
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| Nolini Kanta Gupta wrote of the mystical Bengali Poet Nishikanta, "[His] poetry is the embodiment of the Mother, Her living image created through words."
Here is the English rendering of Nishikanta's book of Bengali poems Alakananda.
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R. Y. Deshpande |
All is Dream-Blaze |
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| Poems. Could be broadly considered as belonging to the "surrealistic-lyrical genre".
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Nishikanta |
Bonne Fête (Janmadin) |
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| An English translation of the long poem of Nishikanto in Bengali, Janmadin, written in the 1930s.
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Damodar Reddy |
A Bouquet for My Master |
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| A collection of poems in various metres.
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R. Y. Deshpande |
Paging the Unknown |
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| Poems by Dr R. Y. Deshpande.
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Themis |
Poems |
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| Sri Aurobindo's comment when Themis' poems were read out to him: "The poems are remarkable, especially the later ones. They have power of revelatory image and phrase and of expressing spiritual experience.Also, her later poems are very remarkably built, the thought is worked out in a perfect beginning, middle and end in a way which is not very common. Many poems contain a beautiful lyrical quality."
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R. Y. Deshpande |
The Rhododendron Valley |
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| A selection of poems with "considerable variation in the theme and style of the poems."
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K. D. Sethna (Amal Kiran) |
The Secret Splendour: Collected Poems of K. D. Sethna (Amal Kiran) |
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| Poems seeking a new intensity of inner vision and emotion that would catch alive the deepest rhythms of the spirit secret behind man's life and the world in which he labours and aspires.
About the Author:
Born in 1904 K. D. Sethna (Amal Kiran) first came to Pondicherry in 1927 and stayed at the Ashram for several years. He permanently settled in Pondicherry in 1954 and has lived there ever since. He is a distinguished writer, his works covering poetry, literary criticism,... |
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Maggi |
Seeds |
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| Maggi Lidchi-Grassi introduces her new volume of poems by recounting her experience of the force that descended on 1st January 1969 and how its descent released a wave of poetic activity in her.
The poems in this collection are intensely personal reflections, recording the inner experiences of a seeker through her spiritual struggles, awakenings, and moments of grace at the feet of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother.
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Satadal |
The Silent Symphony |
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| Sixteen short poems on a variety of themes.
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R. Y. Deshpande |
Under the Raintree |
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| Short poems by R. Y. Deshpande.
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Ruth |
Winged Words (Poems) |
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| Short poems. Printed in a red, calligraphic font.
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Agni |
Namaste Savitri: 342 Reproductions in Colour of Paintings by Agni |
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| 342 reproductions in colour of paintings by Agni (Giovanni Tonioni). Every line of Book I Canto I The Symbol Dawn is illustrated by a painting.
With captions and notes in English, Italian, French and German.
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Supriyo Bhattacharya |
Srinvantu (Golden Jubilee Special Number 1953-2003) |
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| This Golden Jubilee special number of the journal "Srinvantu" coincides with the Mother's 125th birth anniversary.
It contains a special selection of old articles by eminent writers, as well as several new ones - essays, reminiscences, poems, etc - by a variety of contributors.
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T. V. Kapali Sastry |
Collected Works of T.V.Kapali Sastry: Volume 8 - Sanskrit Writings - 1 (mostly in Sanskrit) |
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| Volume - 1: The Book of Lights-1:
Lights on the Veda
Further Lights on the Vedas
Lights on the Teachings (1)
Lights on the Ancients (1) Upanishads
Sidelights on the Tantra
Gospel of the Gita.
Volume - 2: The Book of Lights-2:
Lights on the Teachings-2
Lights on the Ancients (2)
Lights on the Fundamentals
Flame of White Light
The way of the Light
(Above 50 pages of Sanskrit shlokas with meaning and commentary)... |
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T. V. Kapali Sastry |
Collected Works of T.V.Kapali Sastry: Volume 9 - Sanskrit Writings -- 2 (mostly in Sanskrit) |
$6.49 $4.54 |
Temporarily Out of Stock |
| Volume - 1: The Book of Lights-1:
Lights on the Veda
Further Lights on the Vedas
Lights on the Teachings (1)
Lights on the Ancients (1) Upanishads
Sidelights on the Tantra
Gospel of the Gita.
Volume - 2: The Book of Lights-2:
Lights on the Teachings-2
Lights on the Ancients (2)
Lights on the Fundamentals
Flame of White Light
The way of the Light
(Above 50 pages of Sanskrit shlokas with meaning and commentary)... |
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P. Sitapati |
Sri Sathya Sai the Poet Supreme |
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| When Nadaswarupa Himself sings His own poetic creation it can transcend one to the ecstasy of highest Divine Bliss. The contemporaries of Bhagawan are immensely fortunate to here Bhagawan singing bhajans and poems as a prelude to His Divine discourses in his own melodious voice, most of them composed by Himself.
These poems composed during Bhagawan's earlier years stand out distinctively with the highest Vedantic Truth applicable to the present day generation.
As author himself humbly... |
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Sri Sathya Sai Publications Trust |
Sai Madhuryam |
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| An anthology of 180 poems rendered in original Telugu by Bhagawan, and translated into Hindi and English…. This is an endeavour by the grateful students of Bhagawan to share these nectarous words of love and wisdom emanated from the Ultimate Divine, to fellow brethren, thus living with the Sai ideal, the more you share the more happiness you derive.
This book serves as a ready reference manual for those who want to know what Bhagawan has spoken through His poems.
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Anandaghana |
Gospel of Silence |
$12.99 $9.09 |
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| Sublime mystical poetry, written originally in Telgu and transcreated into English by Dr. A Muralidhar |
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