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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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G.N. Das |
Couplets from Kabir (Kabir Dohe) |
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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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G.N. Das |
Couplets from Kabir (Kabir Dohe) |
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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.
Some of his poems were translated into English by Tagore in 1915 and later by a couple of others. These have been popular among the English-speaking people at home and abroad.
Kabir's couplets which are considered as rich gems for their... |
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Goswami Tulsidas |
Shri Ramacharitamanasa Large Edition |
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| Ramacharitamanasa is the most excellent piece of work in Hindi literature. Sri Ramacharitamanasa of Goswami Tulasidas enjoys a unique place among the classics of the world literature. It is one of the best poems of the world. This book is an excellent specimen of ideal duties of a sovereign, ideal household life, ideal conjugal life and other ideal rights of human beings. It is quite impossible to find some other literary work in the world which contains highest level of devotion, knowledge,... |
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Gurudev Swami Sivanandaji Maharaj |
Essence of Gita In Poems |
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| 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 has disciples all over the world, belonging to all nationalities, religions and creeds. To read... |
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Gurudev Swami Sivanandaji Maharaj |
Philosophy of Yoga in Poems |
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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 has disciples all... |
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Hari Mohan Prasad |
The Literary Heritage: A New Anthology of Prose and Short Story |
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| Most often students of English make a second-level choice for reading prose pieces and stories. They are seized with the idea that poetry, drama and novel are cornerstones of creative writing; the rest is dross or marginal. This notion needs to be corrected. Stories and prose writings are also significant units of literary activities. In a short space demanding less time, they offer prisms of reality, treasures of ideas and streams of entertainment. This anthology is not to be claimed as... |
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Harold Coward |
Rabindranath Tagore - The Builders of Indian Philosophy Series |
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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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Harsha V. Dehejia |
Love Songs of Narsinh Mehta |
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| Love Songs of Narsinh Mehta is a commentary on Narsinh Mehta’s love songs. Narsinh (1408-65), a Vaishnava bhakti poet of medieval India, is considered as the adi-kavi of Gujarat. He is also regarded as a shringara kavi, a poet of romance. The quintessence of his bhakti is prem and his prem has inherent bhakti, and therefore his poetry is regarded as shringara bhakti kavya. Essentially shringara is the romantic celebration of the other, and when Narsinh's other is none other than Krishna,... |
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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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I.P. Meera Grimes |
Harikatha |
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| Harikatha (lit. stories of the Lord) is the exposition of a religious theme, usually the life of a saint or a story from one of India's scriptural texts. Its purpose is to spread devotion to the Divine. Harikatha is a composite art containing story-telling, poetry, music, drama, dance, and philosophy. Any story about God, or scriptural incidents, or about saints, who are the living exemplars from the existence of God, is an appropriate subject matter for Harikatha.
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Irma Schotsman |
Panditaraja Jagannatha's Gangalahari: With the Commentary by Sri Sadasiva and English Translation |
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| Jagannatha (1572-1665) was a famous Sanskrit poet residing at the Delhi Durbar where Emperor Sah Jahan bestowed on him the honourable title of Panditaraja. He feel in love with a Muslim woman at the court and was consequently excommunicated by the Brahmin community. Thereafter he went to Varanasi, where he composed the poem known as Gangalahari, verses entreating Goddess Ganga for purification.About the Author:Irma Schotsman (1935) from the Netherlands retired early from her job because of... |
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J.S. Speyer |
Jatakamala or A Garland of Birth Stories |
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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 salvation in a beautiful and easy style, agreeable to the popular mind and attractive to all readers. Each of the Jatakamala stories... |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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, history,... |
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K.N.Rao |
Finer Techniques of Astrological Predictions (Vol I & II) |
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K.P. Bahadur |
The Poems of Suradasa |
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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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Karavelane |
Chants Devotionnels Tamouls de Karaikkalammaiyar |
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Kathleen Raine |
Indian Poets and English Poetry |
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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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