In our poetry and stories shelf you will find many of India's great Saint-writers, such as Kabir, who not only shared their heart song in poem with the world but were also renowned for their humanity, philosophy and mystical abilities. Discover a whole new arte of poetry and story telling at Vedic Books.
About the Book: Avvai, one of the most influential sages among the Tamil speaking people of South India was a Siddha yogi. Her poems and literary works compiled here date from the first millennium. Siddha Avvai claims that her Guru was the sound of AUM, the Pranava itself, personified in the form of Ganesha, who taught her Kundalini Yoga. The poetry in this book has the power to invoke the presence of the Guru and ignite within the reader the flame of her spiritual consciousness. It points out...
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.
Sri Sankaracarya was a great philosopher, a prolific writer and a true devotee of God. The Upadesasahasri is a famous treatise on Advaita Vedanta and also known as the Master piece of Sri Sankara. The text is named so, because it contains thousand advices of the great Advaita philosopher, i.e. Sri Sankaracarya. The book is divided into two parts, viz., prose (gadya) and poetry (padya). The prose part has three chapters and poetry part has nineteen chapters. The work vividly describes and also...
The romance of Pururavas and Urvashi, which Kalidasa has dramatized in the Vikramorvashiyam, is one of the most ancient and popular stories. One can find it recorded in the form of dialogue in the Rigveda, which is regarded as the oldest literary monument. And although, in the course of its transmigration of thousands of years in Indian literature, it has undergone several changes in single points of details, it has remained almost the same in all its essential features-so profound has been its...
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...
This volume contains five Kavyas of Kalidasa: Srngaratilaka, Rtusamhara, meghaduta, Kumarasambhava and Raghuvamsa. Srngaratilaka and Rtusmhara display the poetic imagination of his early youth. The meghaduta is the work of his advanced years. The Kumarasmbhava and Raghuwamsa are the works of his mature age. His Kavyas are praised for the happy choice of his subjects, for his illustrations derived from nature and human life. In this volume the text is...
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 mystic significance...
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