Author: Raj ArumugamPublisher: TTS
ISBN: 1921211253
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
Mother Sakti
Author: Raj ArumugamPublisher: TTS
ISBN: 1921211253
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
Shakti
Author: VanamaliPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1594777853
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
Presents the mystery of the Divine Mother in all her manifold aspects • Explores more than 30 different goddess aspects of the Shakti force, both beneficial and malefic • Includes Sanskrit hymns and classic verses by Sri Auribindo for each of the goddesses Shakti is synonymous with the Devi, the Divine Mother or divine power that manifests, sustains, and transforms the universe. She is the womb of all creatures, and it is through her that the One becomes the many. Our first and primary relationship to the world is through the mother, the source of love, security, and nourishment. Extending this relationship to worship of a cosmic being as mother was a natural step found not only in the Shakti cult of Hinduism but also in ancient Greek, Egyptian, and Babylonian cultures. Shakti presents more than 30 goddess incarnations of the Divine Mother that represent both the beneficial and malefic aspects of the Shakti force. From Lakshmi, Parvati, and Saraswati to Durga, Chandika, and Kali--each of the different functions of the female goddesses in the Hindu pantheon is revealed, accompanied by traditional Sanskrit hymns, classic verses by Sri Auribindo, and discussions of tantric philosophy. The author draws from the Devi Bhagavatham, which describes all the stories of Shakti, and the Devi Mahatmyam, the most powerful scriptural text that glorifies Shakti in her form as Durga. Using these texts she shows that through the power and grace of the Divine Mother we may be released from the darkness of ignorance and taken to the abode of knowledge, immortality, and bliss--the source from which we have come.
The Divine Mother
Author: Raj ArumugamPublisher: TTS
ISBN: 1921211202
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Awakening Shakti
Author: Sally KemptonPublisher: Sounds True
ISBN: 1604079444
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
How do you live a life of spiritual awakening as well as outer abundance, inner freedom as well as deep intimacy? How do you serve the world selflessly, yet passionately celebrate your life? The sages of Tantra have known for centuries that when you follow the path of Shakti—the sacred feminine principle personified by the goddesses of yoga—these gifts can manifest spontaneously. Yet most of us, women as well as men, have yet to experience the full potential of our inner feminine energies. When you know these powers for what they are, they heighten your capacity to open spiritually, love more deeply and fearlessly, create with greater mastery, and move through the world with skill and delight. In Awakening Shakti, you will learn how to recognize and invite: Kali, bringer of strength, fierce love, and untamed freedomLakshmi, who confers prosperity and beautySaraswati, for clarity of communication and intuitionRadha, who carries the divine energy of spiritual longingBhuvaneshvari, who creates the space for sacred transformationParvati, to awaken creativity and the capacity to love With a wealth of meditations, visualizations, mantras, teachings, and beautifully told stories, Awakening Shakti provides a practical guide for activating the currents of the divine feminine in every aspect of your life. “Sally Kempton's new book is a treasure that brings myth, meditation, and everyday revelation together in a way that will allow every woman to embody the divine feminine in her life. Sally enlivens the full spectrum of the goddess—from independent protector, to lover, to dynamic and powerful creatrix. I highly recommend this soon-to-be classic!” —Shiva Rea, yogini “Sally Kempton has given us a mythic manual for a new kind of feminism—a feminism of the soul. And this is a good thing, because humanity needs feminine power now as both a healing tonic and a source of reinvention.” —Elizabeth Lesser, cofounder of the Omega Institute, author of Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow
Measuring Sky Without Ground
Author: Richard Chambers PrescottPublisher: Author House
ISBN: 1420898914
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Praise for Measuring Sky Without Ground "No one can write as you do without it being forged in the bliss of Her divine fire, no one comes to Her knowledge without being prepared to offer themselves in the flames... only they know the passion of this surrender! Beautiful poet, i salute you, for you are doing the work, the great work of preparing the vessel so She may flow through... oh how i too ardently long for there to be nothing left of me but the Goddess! I appreciated DRAGON SIGHT deeply... i have absorbed it and pay homage to you for not only attempting but actually executing such a work. Thank goodness, thank Goddess , for beings like you. --Penny Slinger, author of THE PATH OF THE MYSTIC LOVER The Mirage and the Mirror: Thoughts on the Nature of Anomalies in Consciousness and The Goddess and the Godman: An Explorative Study of the Intimate Relationship of the Goddess Kali with Sri Ramakrishna of Dakshineswar have already been published as one book by 1st Books. This text, Measuring Sky Without Ground: Essays on the Goddess Kali, Sri Ramakrishna and Human Potential is the compilation of the remaining six texts in that series. Please see The Mirage and the Mirror for a description of the eight texts. The topics of this present book on Tantra and Vedanta are as follows. Kalee and the Sacred Feminine: An Initial Blessing of Her Direct Reality. Groundwork for New Edition of 'Measuring Sky Without Ground' is on the Self as Atma and the Divine Mother. The Goddess' Primordial Formula is on the Primal Principles of the Waking, Dreaming, Deep Sleep, Self Paradigm. Clear Consciousness is on Waveless Thought. The Creatrix Kalee. The Goddess' Tantra. Kalee Kunda. Kalee Bhava I: The Heroic Moods of Friendship, Wisdom and Oneness in the Goddess Kali. What Ego Might Be (A Quick Journey of Discovery). The Source of All Ideas (On Bhavamukha: The Divine Mood of The Goddess Kali). The Unqualified Power of The Divine Mother as Pure Being (On the Apparent Dualism Of Bhavamukha and Nirvikalpa). Measuring Sky Without Ground (A Pragmatic Psychology Of Non-Duality). The Lucid and the Elucidation (The Non-Dualism of Light and Emanation in the Three States of Consciousness). Inextinguishable Feeling: Goddess Centered Poetics On Love As The Central Emotion. Defining the Groundwork On The Skills of Kalee. Clearing Consciousness and Creating an Opening to Happiness. Absolute Self Bliss is Primordial Power. Kalee Bhava IV: The Causeless Jewel Of Happiness. Rendering the Indefinable: Primary Emotion and Its Conscious Connection in Spiritual Feeling. The Deathless Self and the Dramatics of the Psyche is on Consciousness as Just Consciousness, Kali's Image and Kali's Play, Kali's Nose Ring and Her Symbols, Kali as Kha, Kali as Kama, Kali as Radha and Krishna, and Kali as Her Self Uniquely Free, Ishta: The Chosen Ideal and the Revolution or Turnabout in One's Own Consciousness, Imagination and Reality, and The Threshold of Response. Because of Atma is on being nourished, staked out, caused, and fulfilled in the Self as expressed in waking, dreaming, deep sleep and the Transcendent. Soaring Thoughts: A Reconveyance of Non-Dual Goddess Consciousness. Sahaja Sakti: Immediate Power in the Direct State of the Goddess Purely Unfettered by the Four Conditions of Consciousness. Wisdom, Self Balance and the Great Sentiment: Vijnana Bhava: A Particle of Bhavamukha. Ignorance, Knowledge and Perfect Wisdom. Fear, Love and the Great Sentiment. Phenomena, Noumenon and Self Balance. Existence, Pure Existence and Self Existence. Nitya Mukha and Lila Bhava. Neti Neti, Brahmajnana and Iti Iti. Wisdom, Self Balance and the Great Sentiment. Sublime Emotion and the Face of the Goddess. The Day and Night of Kali (The Lila, the Nitya and Vijnana). Turiya Bhava: In The Mood Of The Fourth State. Her Footprints Through Time: The Old Goddess Tradition in the Far East, origins, the ten Wisdom Goddesses, the Goddess and Narada and the Transcendent Function. Goddesses of the Rigveda: A Questioning of Origins comparing Tantra and Veda. Bursting the Sharp Mid Point of the World Mind Cultus: On the Subject of the Cultic Mind Set. The Guru Problem: Spiritual Trauma and Abuse in the Causal Dynamic of the Guru Dilemma. Spiritual Solutions to Psychological Equations. Spiritual Moments in High Sakti and the Problem of Return to Complex Cognition. Living Sakti: Attempting Quick Knowing in Perpetual Perception and Continuous Becoming. Living Sakti Within Physics, Psychology, and Spirituality. Kali: The Allayer of Sorrows: On the Spontaneous Experience of Innate Non-Dualistic Subjective Consciousness. The Empress Kali: The Pure Power of Her Sakti In Independent Natural Spirituality. Moving, Feeling, Being with the Mystic Sage of Kali's Dakshineswar. The Radical View of Kali: A Study in Religious Distortion. Great Delight: On the Primary Emotion of Love and Its Paradoxical Relation to Our Spiritual and Sexual Nature. Defining The Groundwork for Kalee Kunda: The Goddess' Flower (Poetics On Rapture And Ecstasy In Goddess Consciousness, Within The Symbols Of The Sacred Feminine). Free Thoughts: Tremendous Love, Kalee Lovers, Primary Spirituality, Consciousness and Neural Activity, Ineffability.
Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna
Author: Sri RamakrishnaPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3756253651
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Sri Ramakrishna (1836-1886) is considered one of the most famous Indian saints. He lived in the 19th century in the temple complex of Dakshineswar near Calcutta. After performing spiritual exercises from various traditions for years and coming to an end with them, disciples turned up, married and unmarried young men, the latter of whom founded the monastic order after his death. Attracted by his strong personality and inner purity, many visitors from all walks of life also came to be in his presence, to ask their questions and listen to his teaching. In his spontaneous, simple way, he taught them, using examples from everyday life and parables, of which this collection of 1120 sayings and parables testifies.
Genders and Sexualities in Indonesian Cinema
Author: Ben MurtaghPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135097585
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Indonesia has a long and rich tradition of homosexual and transgender cultures, and the past 40 years in particular has seen an increased visibility of sexual minorities in the country, which has been reflected through film and popular culture. This book examines how representations of gay, lesbian and transgender individuals and communities have developed in Indonesian cinema during this period. The book first explores Indonesian engagement with waria (male-to-female transgender) identities and the emerging representation of gay and lesbi Indonesians during Suharto’s New Order regime (1966-98), before going on to the reimagining of these positions following the fall of the New Order, a period which saw the rebirth of the film industry with a new generation of directors, producers and actors. Using original interview research and focus groups with gay, lesbi and waria identified Indonesians, alongside the films themselves and a wealth of archival sources, the book contrasts the ways in which transgendered lives are actually lived with their representations on screen.
Paths to the Divine
Author: Vensus A. GeorgePublisher: CRVP
ISBN: 1565182480
Category : Buddhism
Languages : en
Pages : 665
Book Description
The Divine Science
Author: Samael Aun WeorPublisher: Glorian Publishing
ISBN: 1934206407
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 163
Book Description
For thousands of years the great spiritual adepts from all corners of the globe have guarded the secret teachings enclosed in this book. Now, we are able to receive these teachings so that we too may be able to cultivate the high spiritual levels that have been lost for ages. The Divine Science is the systematic and exact process of the discovery of the mystical capabilities of the human soul. In all ancient religions and cultures the wise men and women used sacred words, the intonations of mantras, and the use of the magical art of Theurgy (mysticism or white magic). This book is filled with direct instruction and practices that anyone can use in order to discover the depth of authentic mysticism.
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