The ultimate aim of all yoga, at-one-ment with the Supreme Lord, is the focusing point of this study of comparative yoga. All the important forms, ancient and modern, are taken in turn, their practices explained and discussed, and to the extent to which each can lead us toward the final goal is evaluated. The standard for comparison is Surat Shabd Yoga, the Crown of Life, the highest form of yo…
An enthusiastic, comprehensive biography in two volumes. Volume I covers the period from his early childhood through the World's Parliament of Religions in Chicago in 1893. Volume Two continues the story of the swami's life from the Parliament, his second visit to the USA, to his passing at the age of 39. Volume Two contains a Glossary, Bibliography, and Index.
The Bhagavata is the epitome of the Vedas, the essence of Vedic wisdom, an inspired composition encompassing the entire field of religion and philosophy, and the magnum opus of Vedavyasa. The present book is an anthology containing 30 choicest verses from that sacred work. It would not only inspire the readers but also make them seriously think about higher aspects of human life and existence a…
Ajahn Jagaro was born John Cianciosi in 1948, in Italy, and migrated with his parents to Australia at the age of ten. After completing a Diploma in Applied Chemistry and working for a short time, he took leave of his home to travel in Asia. With no clear aim in mind, his travels eventually took him to a Buddhist monastery in Bangkok, where a casual interest in meditation developed into a decisi…
The scriptures revered by Hindus are enormously varied, and R. C. Zaehner's anthology has long been considered invaluable for its breadth and diversity. Now Dominic Goodall expands Zaehner's work with three fresh translations, including one work that appears for the first time in English. Spanning more than two thousand years, the range of selections in this book include arcane hymns of the anc…
The seven lectures collected in this book were given by His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi from July 9 to 16, 1985, with the exception of the lecture on education, which dates from May of the same year. All are published here for the first time. Other than the news conference, which was conducted by telephone, all the lectures were videotape reccorded for the World Assembly on Vedic Science at…
Biography Roy Eugene Davis was born in 1931 in Leavittsburg, Ohio, approximately 40 miles south of Cleveland, and grew up in a farming community. In his early teenage years he frequented the public library, reading books on psychology, philosophy, and yoga. When he was 18 years of age, he read Paramahansa Yogananda's Autobiography of a Yogi and immediately sensed a spiritual connection with Yog…