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Amal Kiran (K. D. Sethna) |
Life - Poetry - Yoga: Volume 1 - Personal Letters by Amal Kiran (K. D. Sethna) |
$4.99 $3.74 |
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| These personal letters to various friends and fellow-seekers were serialised in Mother India. They are here published in book form in 3 volumes.
As the title suggests, the subject matter spanned is wide in range. Many provide "helpful treatment of a lot of problems which aspirants to the Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother meet on their way."
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Amal Kiran (K. D. Sethna) |
Life - Poetry - Yoga: Volume 2 - Personal Letters by Amal Kiran (K. D. Sethna) |
$4.99 $3.74 |
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| These personal letters to various friends and fellow-seekers were serialised in Mother India. They are here published in book form in 3 volumes.
As the title suggests, the subject matter spanned is wide in range. Many provide "helpful treatment of a lot of problems which aspirants to the Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother meet on their way."
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Amal Kiran (K. D. Sethna) |
Life - Poetry - Yoga: Volume 3 - Personal Letters by Amal Kiran (K. D. Sethna) |
$6.49 $4.87 |
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| These personal letters to various friends and fellow-seekers were serialised in Mother India. They are here published in book form in 3 volumes.
As the title suggests, the subject matter spanned is wide in range. Many provide "helpful treatment of a lot of problems which aspirants to the Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother meet on their way."
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Sachidananda Mohanty |
K. D. Sethna (Amal Kiran): A Centenary Tribute |
$12.99 $9.74 |
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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 November... |
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Jugal Kishore Mukherjee |
The Wonder That is K. D. Sethna alias Amal Kiran |
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| To accompany the main festschrift volume Amal-Kiran: Poet and Critic.
This work looks at the numerous facets of Amal Kiran's personality, among them the poet, the critic, the writer, the correspondent, the teacher and the sadhaka.
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Amal Kiran (K. D. Sethna) |
Aspects of Sri Aurobindo |
$8.49 $6.37 |
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| A collection of essays and reflections on a wide variety of subjects related to the life and thought of Sri Aurobindo, ranging from "Sri Aurobindo and Plato" to "The Ashram's Sixty Years". |
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K. D. Sethna (Amal Kiran) |
A Follower of Christ and a Disciple of Sri Aurobindo |
$15.49 $11.62 |
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| Bede Griffiths came to India from England in 1955. In 1968 he assumed charge of Sacchidananda Ashram in Tamil Nadu.
The lengthy correspondence between Griffiths and Sethna brings deep insight into Christianity and the place its principles occupy in Sri Aurobindo's synthesis.
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Amal Kiran (K. D. Sethna) |
Science, Materialism, Mysticism |
$11.49 $8.62 |
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| This book discusses from a philosophical perspective classical Newtonian versus relativistic Einsteinian physics, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, etc.
There is special emphasis on Albert Einstein's path-breaking views and philosophy of science, showing how for him physics in a sense almost merged with metaphysics.
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Amal Kiran (K. D. Sethna) |
Teilhard de Chardin and Our Time |
$18.99 $14.24 |
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| This book starts with comparative studies of Roman Catholicism, the scientific-spiritual philosophy of the Jesuit priest and palaeontologist, Teilhard de Chardin, and Pantheism with which Teilhard has been linked.
The author concludes after analysing Teihardism from all possible angles that it is "rather akin to the ancient comprehensive Vedanta of the early Upanishads" and that when "that Vedanta as revived in the Bhagavad Gita" is "modernised", "by setting it in the context of Evolutionism,... |
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K. D. Sethna (Amal Kiran) |
India and the World Scene |
$15.49 $11.62 |
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| This book contains editorial articles of Sri K.D. Sethna (Amal Kiran) written for the fortnightly Mother India, during the years 1949-51. Their immense value lies in the fact that all of them except the last two were read out to Sri Aurobindo and approved by him.
The articles are arranged in four sections:
The first section
The Spirit and Genius of India - deals with cultural issues and with India's spiritual genius.
The second and third sections
Independent India and... |
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K. D. Sethna (Amal Kiran) |
The Indian Spirit and the World's Future |
$9.49 $7.12 |
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| A collection of editorial articles for Mother India from 1949 to 1952. These are of "immense value" because they were all approved by either Sri Aurobindo or the Mother, and their themes are as important and pressing today as when they were written.
After all, today "we are still debating the question of Indian nationalism, the meaning of national pride, the significance of the English language and the essential truths behind Hinduism." We are still confused about secularism and the legacy of... |
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Amal Kiran (K. D. Sethna) |
The Beginning of History for Israel |
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| A scholar residing at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram who has written several books on the early history of the Middle East region and of India.
This book examines the early history of the Jews in the light of evidence provided by various written records and archaeological studies, and in its synthesis comes up with a refreshing new look at several key questions concerning this subject.
It focuses on the sojourn of the Israelites in Egypt, the connection with Pharaoh Ramses II, the date of and... |
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Amal Kiran (K. D. Sethna) |
Problems of Early Christianity |
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| The first part of this book takes a refreshing new look at various issues surrounding the origins of Christianity, ranging from the historicity of Christ and events in his life to the Turin Shroud.
The second part focuses on the Resurrection of Christ, an event which, historical or otherwise, has had the profoundest influence on humanity. Evidence of its occurrence contained in the Gospels and elsewhere is studied, and especially enlightening is an examination of the nature of the Appearances... |
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Amal Kiran (K. D. Sethna) |
Adventures in Criticism |
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| Studies in poetic appreciation, focussing on the works of various poets such as Shakespeare, Spenser, Yeats, AE and Chesterton.
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Amal Kiran (K. D. Sethna) |
Classical and Romantic: Approach Through Sri Aurobindo |
$4.95 $3.71 |
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| "What exactly does the epithet 'romantic' mean? And how does it reflect the mind of the movement in English and Continental literature called Romanticism as distinguished from the other called Classicism?"
This book is "an attempt made to put together, develop and apply the leading insights of Sri Aurobindo" to these questions.
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Amal Kiran (K. D. Sethna) |
Inspiration and Effort: Studies in Literary Attitude and Expression |
$6.49 $4.87 |
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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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Amal Kiran (K. D. Sethna) |
The Inspiration of Paradise Lost |
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| An in-depth study of Milton's epic - the inner and outer process of his composition, and the sources of the poem's inspiration.
Suitable omparative studies are incorporated.
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Amal Kiran (K. D. Sethna) |
Sri Aurobindo and Greece |
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| During his Cambridge days Sri Aurobindo was considered to be a brilliant scholar in Greek. His interest in this classical language was not merely academic, his relationship with Greek literature and culture was very intimate.
In this book K.D. Sethna, true to his inquisitive spirit, gives an account of how "Greece lived with a power not only intimate but also creative" in Sri Aurobindo. With his customary penetrating observation and analysis, the author shows this relationship between Sri... |
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Amal Kiran (K. D. Sethna) |
The Thinking Corner |
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| Reflections on a wide variety of aspects of life and poetry.
Regarding these causeries the author explains, "The common reader had to be respected: I must not tie him up in colourful complexities and snatch him away from practical issues. So much, surely, I owed him. At the same time, my respect must avoid any pampering: it must not render me hesitant about asking him to crane his neck and catch what might normally pass over his head."
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Amal Kiran (K. D. Sethna) |
Talks on Poetry |
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| The author, renamed Amal Kiran by Sri Aurobindo, is an inmate of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram and is well known for his scholarly and innovative works on English literature, philosophy and Indian history.
The present book is a collection of his talks mostly delivered without any helpful accessories to the students of the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, where he was appointed lecturer in poetry soon after its founding. His classes were from the begining quite unusual as he used to... |
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K. D. Sethna (Amal Kiran) |
The Secret Splendour: Collected Poems of K. D. Sethna (Amal Kiran) |
$43.99 $32.99 |
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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, history,... |
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Shyam Kumari |
Musings on the Mother's "Prayers and Meditations": Volume 2 |
$15.99 $11.99 |
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| This first volume in the series covers the prayers the Mother wrote upto March 30, 1914. K. D. Sethna (Amal Kiran) observes regarding this book:
Musings strikes us as reverberations of the author's inmost contact with the depths of spirituality that shine out from the Mother's Prayers and Meditations. It will make the readers aspire for such reverberations for themselves.
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Shyam Kumari |
Musings on the Mother's "Prayers and Meditations": Volume 1 |
$12.99 $9.74 |
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| This first volume in the series covers the prayers the Mother wrote upto March 30, 1914. K. D. Sethna (Amal Kiran) observes regarding this book:
Musings strikes us as reverberations of the author's inmost contact with the depths of spirituality that shine out from the Mother's Prayers and Meditations. It will make the readers aspire for such reverberations for themselves.
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Shyam Kumari |
Musings on the Mother's "Prayers and Meditations": Volume 3 |
$15.99 $11.99 |
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| This first volume in the series covers the prayers the Mother wrote upto March 30, 1914. K. D. Sethna (Amal Kiran) observes regarding this book:
Musings strikes us as reverberations of the author's inmost contact with the depths of spirituality that shine out from the Mother's Prayers and Meditations. It will make the readers aspire for such reverberations for themselves.
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