Author: Joseph Keola Donaghy Publisher: Indiana University Press ISBN: 0253070422 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 143
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In the summer of 2019, a group of kia'i, or protectors, made up of kānaka 'ōiwi (Native Hawaiians) and their allies came together to prevent the construction of the Thirty-Meter Telescope (TMT) on the dormant volcano Maunakea. In Mele on the Mauna, Joseph Keola Donaghy explores how music, and especially haku mele, or Hawaiian language composers, played a crucial role in this defense. Musicians flocked to the mauna (mountain) to perform for the kia'i and a worldwide audience via social media. Haku mele created new songs at unprecedented levels, releasing many commercially with proceeds benefiting organizations providing support services and supplies to the kia'i. This book features over 30 of the author's interviews with individuals who participated in musical activities connected with this movement, including kia'i and their supporters, composers, musicians, and community leaders. Donaghy explores Indigenous Hawaiian concepts and theories like mana (power), mo'okū'auhau and pilina (genealogy and relationships), kapu aloha (philosophical code of conduct), and aloha 'āina (love of land, patriotism), and western academic concepts like connectedness and community building, poetics, sound(ing) and silenc(e/ing), conflict, and creativity. Mele on the Mauna illuminates how music played a powerful role in building solidarity, inspiration, and activism, reveling in the most contentious confrontations about protecting Maunakea and the outpouring of musical performances and creativity that occurred.
Author: Thomas Manninezhath Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ. ISBN: 9788120810013 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 224
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The present work is an in-depth study of Tayumanavar, a seventeenth century poet-philosopher, mystic and saint of Tamil Nadu. His profoundly philosophical humns were the poet`s creative response to the contesting creeds of his time, reflecting his own intimate religious and mystical experience of God, Siva (Sivanubhava).The present study of Vedanta Siddhanta Samarasam as God-experienced by Dr. Thomas Manninezhath will no doubt, awaken a new interest in the hymns of Tayumanavar and the legacy of religious experience they bequeath to us. Religious experience (anubhava), supported by reason and enriched by reflection, has to be the meeting ground for the followers of World Religions today.It is fascinating to see how Tayumanavar sought to bring about the harmony of two opposed traditions through a re-reading of his own tradition and a re-interpretation of the scholastic Advaita in favour of a more religiously inspiring popular Advaita.The work illustrates how many of our contemporary concerns enshrined in such concepts as Comparative Religion, Ecumenism Religious Dialogue etc. were also a concern within the `household` of Hinduism even as early as seventeenth century A.D. The author`s interpretation of Vedanta Siddhanta Samarasam of Tayumanavar offers a unique basis for religious tolerance and co-existence even in our present-day context of plurality of religions and creeds. That, indeed, speaks volumes for the actuality and relevance of the work.
Author: Colum Kenny Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 0429921780 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 344
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This book demonstrates that silence is eloquent, powerful, beautiful and even dangerous. It surrounds and permeates our daily lives. Drawing on a wide range of cross-cultural, literary and historical sources, the author explores the uses and abuses of silence. He explains how silence is not associated with solitude alone but has a much broader value within society.The main themes of The Power of Silence are positive and negative uses of silence, and the various ways in which silence has been understood culturally, socially and spiritually. The book's objectives are to equip people with a better appreciation of the value of silence and to enable them to explore its benefits and uses more easily for themselves.
Author: J.L.Dhar Publisher: Notion Press ISBN: 9352069307 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 363
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The book Holy Wedlock or Unholy Deadlock encompasses varied phases and facets of a couple?s marital relationship. It invites you to identify, understand and handle realities of marriage that invariably shock almost every couple at one point or the other. Creating a happy marriage is a mysterious process. There is no denying the fact that bonding together a man and a woman, who until now were mostly strangers to each other, is complex and, therefore, cumbersome. It is, indeed, intriguing as to how two distinct individuals merge into a life-partnership. The adjustment required post marriage has more to do with individual compatibility than a messing together of two ways of life. It is important to give each other room to grow and to accept one another for ?who? he or she is. Many couples seeking to heal their acrimonious tiffs and rifts could well find this book talking to them about their own selves and their journey through conjugal life. There is much to take home!
Author: Mahesh B. Sharma Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1467824771 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 180
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Bhakti is a real, genuine search after God, a search beginning, continuing and ending in love. One single moment of madness of extreme love to God brings us eternal freedom. Devotional service is a process of spiritual understanding. Wherever devotional service exists, the material contamination cannot coexist. The book Bhakti - Devotion discusses Bhakti using various approaches. These include: a) Collection of Sayings from the Shastras. The ancient Hindu Shastras such as the Vedas, Upanishads, Mahabharata, Ramayana, Puranas, Bhagavad Gita, Shrimad Bhagavata, etc., contain invaluable Sayings which are a source of enlightenment. b) Sage Naradas Bhakti-aphorisms. Sage Narada describes Bhakti as intense love to God; when a man gets it, he loves all, hates none; he becomes satisfied for ever. c) A discussion of Bhakti-Yoga - The Path of Devotion, Chapter 12 of the Bhagavad Gita. This chapter takes us deeper into the concept of Bhakti. d) Bhaktas - Devotees of the Lord. Their lives are a source of inspiration and instill in us a sense of devotion. e) Shri Adi Shankaracharyas devotional song Bhaja Govindam. It is enchanting and elevates the mind to a higher plane. f) Sanskrit Epithets of Lord Krishna and Arjuna used in the Bhagavad Gita. There is great depth in their meanings.
Author: Swami Sivananda Radha Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publishe ISBN: 9788120810143 Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 408
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This is a direct path to higher conciusness. It is the process of concious cooperation with evolution. within each of us there lies a vast Potential of energy and power which, when properly understood and directed, will lead to previously unimagined heights of perception and awareness. This is a book of inspiration, and into life are given for those who wish to cooperate with evolution. Swami Radha has presented clear directions for exercises and practices.
Author: Publisher: A&C Black ISBN: 1441122125 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 186
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Philosophical exploration of the Yogasutra, looking at themes of freedom, self-identity, time and transcendence, and translation - between languages, cultures and eras.
Author: Swami Satchidananda Saraswati Publisher: Notion Press ISBN: 1685867820 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 265
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“Spiritual growth is a deliberate movement from the rational mind to the heart, which recognizes interdependence and universal love as the precondition for the experiential knowledge of Atman as Brahman.” – Swami Satchidananda In Reflections, Swami Satchidananda gives us practical guidance and pointers for good living based on the wisdom in the Vedas. We live in difficult and challenging times. Violence, both external and internal, along with the consumerist model of societies, have resulted in deep moral decline among humanity. Thus, having a sense of personal well-being and peace within often escapes us. Reflections addresses issues all of us need to resolve in order to find peace of mind and be happy. Also, it introduces you to the truths and practices of Vedanta, meditation and yoga, which free you from the illusion that you are a mortal body and mind and reveal the glory of the Divine within you.
Author: Indu Arora Publisher: YogSadhna ISBN: 0578729431 Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 154
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SOMA - 100 Heritage Recipes for Self-Care, is an homage to the fragrant years of my childhood spent with my grandmother. It is an offering to her tender, yet strong hands that made those bitter, yet healing concoctions, pastes, and oils. It is in gratitude to my mother (and all those who mothered) whose nurturing and caring hands made those healing salves and healing soups. It is a collection of those secret recipes that are passed on from generation to generation. It is so that those heritage formulas shared by my Guru, which have transformative and nourishing properties, benefit many. It is so that her Yogic revelations are not lost in the crease of time. It is to live by and open the doors to the heritage recipes of kitchen pharmacy and Yogic Wisdom. These are the fragrant flowers that I picked in my childhood and growing years, it is these drops of nectar that I still yearn to collect, live, and pass on. Each of these 100 recipes is picked carefully for you, dear reader, to bring ease in pain, peace to an ailing heart, and rest to the tired bodies. May each recipe open the doors of healing, self-empowerment, peace, and rest for you. May you pass on this book as a heritage to the generations to come. May we never hoard the pearls of wisdom, but share them responsibly and tend to the eternal flame of life. My humble bows to all those who mother, who insist on sharing, and those who keep this ancient healing wisdom alive. SOMA means tender, soft, radiant rays of the moon. It is the nectar of the moon. When the mind is peaceful, it called saumya which means “moon-like.” The tender, gentle, benevolent, kind love and nourishing care of someone who mothers is called saumyata.
Author: J.L. Dhar Publisher: SCB Distributors ISBN: 8183282601 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 284
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Simple Ways To Harness The Power Within Practical, precise and full of real-life examples, this book is meant to be your intimate life-coach. In fact, this book is an invitation - an invitation to truly know and understand yourself. But it is not an invitation that somebody else has sent you. It has actually come from the deep yearning of your own soul. It is an invitation from you to yourself. Be invited and undertake the journey within.
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