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Japa Yoga (Mantra Yoga)

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(Theory, Practice and Applications) by N. C. Panda Paperback (Edition: 2007)

D. K. Printworld (P) Ltd., New Delhi ISBN 8124603898 Size: 8.3"X 5.3 Pages: 388 (Black & White Illus: 94, Figures: 28) Back of the Book The repetition of God's name or of a mantra containing God's name, otherwise known as japa, is a religious ritual, generally meant for the emancipation of the self. The present book on japa-yoga has not neglected this aspect. But, it is more comprehensive and a broad-range book. That japa is a branch of yoga, an easily attainable one and simultaneously a very effective one, has been emphasized. The theory and methology of japa in Patanjala Yoga, in the Vedas, in the Vedanta and in the Tantra, in the perspective of knowledge and devotion, have clearly been outlined. The book ha been divided into three Chapters. Chapter 1 expounds the theory of japa based on classical scriptures. Chapter 2 presents the practice of japa in a clearly graspable style, easy to be followed by the practice of japa in a clearly graspable style, easy to be followed by the readers. Chapter 3 deals with the applications of japa for the uplift of human personality and spirituality, for attaining the liberation of the self, for mental peace and tranquility, and for physical health inclusive of the prevention and treatment of diseases, both physical and mental. The last part of this book tries to explain the effects of japa-applications on a scientific footing, a successful attempt made for the first time. The approach to japa has been holistic - religious, spiritual, scientific, Vedic, Vedantic, Yogic and Tantric. Nrusingh Charan Panda is the 1929-born scientist Emeritus - having retired from the Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology, Bhubaneswar, from he post of the Dean of the Veterinary Faculty. He is essentially a versatile personality combining in him the endowment of a scientist, a Sanskritist, a philosopher, a psychologist, a litterateur (novelist, story-writer, poet, essayist) a yogi and a Tantrist. His achievement have been recognized, at different times, with a number of prestigious awards in both science and literature. Professor Panda is internationally reputed for his scientific interpretations of the Vedas and the allied Vedic literature. He has also authored a number of widely acclaimed books. His approach is truly integral, synthetic and holistic. Prologue The yoga of devotion (bhakti-yoga) lays a great deal of importance of the japa (the repeated utterance - silent, whispering or vocal - of the name of God), Which appeals to the religious persons. The Bhagavad-Gita has eulogized the japa. As a matter of fact, all religions hold similar opinions on the benefits obtained from the repeated utterance of God's name. The philosophy related to bhakti yoga is mostly dualistic in some sense or other. The yoga of the realization of the Reality (Jnana-yoga) uses the pranava-japa and the pranava-dhyana as a ladder to ascend the steps to reach the summit. Philosophically speaking, the Jnana-yoga is primarily non-dualistic. None the less, the onkara-japa plays a prominent role in the spiritual practices of non-dualism. The Patanjala-yoga of eight limbs, otherwise known as the Astanga yoga or the raja-yoga, advocates the japa of the pranava, the om that designates Isvara (God). If properly done, the japa becomes dhyana, one of the higher limbs of the eightfold yoga. Mantra-japa is vitally important in Tantra. Although Tantra-Yoga is an important branch of yoga, a few realize that Tantra has anything to do with yoga. The Kundalini Yoga is an exclusive branch of Tantra. One can hardly separate hatha-yoga and Tantra. Bandhas, mudras and nyasas are the contributions of Tantra-Yoga. A tantrika can hardly achieve anything without the purascarana japa. Notwithstanding these facts, any book on japa rarely deals with any tantrika japa. It is heartening to note that yoga has been popularized throughout the world. Most yoga schools limit their activities to physical postures (yogasanas), sometimes with a little addition of Pranayama and meditation. Most yoga schools do not give much emphasis on the three higher limbs of the yogic practices, namely, Dharana, dhyana and Samadhi, Yoga practices, for the improvement of physical health and for preventing and curing diseases, are not discredited here. At the same time, it is emphasized that the mental and the spiritual health can hardly be neglected. Further, it is to be noted that the primary goal of Yoga is spiritulization of oneself and that liberation (moksa) is to be sought by making Yoga a means. We have a conviction that the japa technique of Yoga is comparatively easier than the other ones. In spite of this fact, many yoga schools hardly give any importance to this technique. We went through the scanty number of yoga books on japa. A few of them are reasonably good and we have been immensely benefited by them. Nevertheless, we have a feeling that a lacuna does exist and it is to be got over. And hence is this attempt to write this book. With regard to japa-yoga, our approach has been holistic and synthetic. Essentially, we are non-dualistic and monotheistic in a wider frame, which binds diverse theories of dualism, polytheism and pantheism. We are firm and steadfast about the fact that Being is formless and a single one only. At the same time, we do accept forms and multiplicity by accepting the phenomenon of manifestation from the Unmanifest and also by recognizing the psychological need of forms for avoiding abstractions and for better mental concretization. Thus, we have drawn no line of demarcation. Thus, we have drawn no line of demarcation between yoga and Tantra, Vedic and non-Vedic systems, dualism and non-dualism, form-worship and formless worship, devotion and knowledge, science and spirituality and the sundries. This book on japa-yoga has systematized japas of diverse systems. It has elaborated the techniques in simplified ways. It focuses on the methods of doing the japa. It is up to the reader to choose one or more of the techniques of japa for his/her adoption out of the cafetaria-presentation. The japa is usually regarded as a religious activity. We have not denied that. But we have philosophized it and that is the reason for short discourses here and there on different philosophical systems. As a religious activity, it is based on faith. As part of philosophy, it is based on rationality, logicality and analysis. We have leaned more on spirituality than on religion. It is hard for some people to accept the japa as a science. We do not agree with them. This book on japa-yoga has a lot of science, especially medical science with special reference to the treatment of diseases. Any reader can practise the japa methods and ascertain the benefits obtained. Any medical scientist may do experimentation on the efficacy of the japa-methods for preventing and curing diseases. It is hoped that doctors, in the future, may prescribe the japa-techniques in addition to their medical and/or surgical therapies. The japa-sadhana is partly subjective and partly objective. Objectivity which is a key-word in scientific experimentation may not wisely exclude this partial subjectivity while evaluating the experimental result.

YOGA: THE ULTIMATE ATTAINMENT

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by Swami Rajarshi Muni Paperback (Edition: 2004)

JAICO PUBLISHING HOUSE ISBN 817224424 X Size: 9.6" X 7.2" Pages: 200 About the Book : Yoga - The Ultimate Attainment is a groundbreaking work about "Spontaneous Yoga" or the yoga of liberation. Instead of discussing the physical exercises or meditations to achieve inner peace, this book is about a proven process by which you can achieve unlimited divine powers, liberation from the limitations of time and space, and an immortal, physically perfect divine body that is retained forever. The sagas who composed the ancient scriptures achieved such a state - as have people of all religious traditions. How? Through the process of spontaneous Yoga, in which the body and mind are surrendered to the spontaneous workings of the awakened life force: prana. Once prana has been awakened, it works in its own amazing way to purify your physical and non-physical body and over time, all the bondages of karma are released and you become fully liberated. Yoga - The Ultimate Attainment reveals how anyone who's genuinely sincere can practice dharma, or pure conscious living, which results in prosperity, pleasure, happiness, and the joy of selflessness. About the Author: Swami Rajarshi Muni was born in 1931 and has devoted himself to serious yoga study since 1950. He renounced the world to receive Sannyas initiation in 1971, and lives in seclusion practicing the yoga of liberation.

MAHA YOGA

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by Swami Sivananda Paperback (Edition: 2004)

THE DIVINE LIFE SOCIETY Size: 6.9" X 4.9" Pages: 24 About the Author: Born on the 8th September, 1887, in the illustrious family of Saga Appayya Diskhita 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. Added to this was an inborn eagerness to serve all and an innate feeling of unity with all mankind. His passion for service drew him to the medical career; and soon he gravitated to where he thought that his service was most needed. Malaya claimed him. He had earlier been editing a Health Journal and wrote extensively on health problems. He discovered that people needed right knowledge most of all; dissemination of that knowledge he espoused as his own mission. It was divine dispensation and the blessing of God upon mankind that the doctor of body and mind renounced his career and took to a life of renunciation to qualify himself for ministering to the soul of man. He settled down at Rishikesh in 1924, practiced intense austerities and shone as a great Yogi, Saint, Sage and Jivanmukta. In 1932 he started the Sivanandashram. In 1936 was born The Divine Life Society. In 1948 the Yoga-Vedanta Forest Academy was organized. Dissemination of spiritual knowledge and training of people in Yoga and Vedanta were their aim and object. In 1950 he undertook a lightning tour of India and Ceylon. In 1953 he convened a 'World Parliament Reliogions'. He is the author of over 300 volumes and has disciples all over the world, belonging to all nationalities, religions and creeds. To read his works is to drink at the fountain of Wisdom Supreme. On 14th July, 1963 he entered Mahasamadhi.

SVARA YOGA

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by Swami Sivananda Paperback (Edition: 2000)

THE DIVINE LIFE SOCIETY Size: 8.5" X 5.7" Pages: 95 About the Author: Born on the 8th September, 1887, in the illustrious family of Saga Appayya Diskhita 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. Added to this was an inborn eagerness to serve all and an innate feeling of unity with all mankind. His passion for service drew him to the medical career; and soon he gravitated to where he thought that his service was most needed. Malaya claimed him. He had earlier been editing a Health Journal and wrote extensively on health problems. He discovered that people needed right knowledge most of all; dissemination of that knowledge he espoused as his own mission. It was divine dispensation and the blessing of God upon mankind that the doctor of body and mind renounced his career and took to a life of renunciation to qualify himself for ministering to the soul of man. He settled down at Rishikesh in 1924, practiced intense austerities and shone as a great Yogi, Saint, Sage and Jivanmukta. In 1932 he started the Sivanandashram. In 1936 was born The Divine Life Society. In 1948 the Yoga-Vedanta Forest Academy was organized. Dissemination of spiritual knowledge and training of people in Yoga and Vedanta were their aim and object. In 1950 he undertook a lightning tour of India and Ceylon. In 1953 he convened a 'World Parliament Reliogions'. He is the author of over 300 volumes and has disciples all over the world, belonging to all nationalities, religions and creeds. To read his works is to drink at the fountain of Wisdom Supreme. On 14th July, 1963 he entered Mahasamadhi. Publishers' Note: Svara Yoga is an ancient Hindu science and Art that has fully analysed the working of the Life-Principle, Prana, and the functioning of Life within this body. It deals with the various channels along which the Prana vibrates within this body animating it and also prescribes means to regulate the flow of Prana to ensure good health and longevity. This Science or Yoga of Svara is more subtler and all-comprehensive than the Science of Pranayama, which when compared to the former, is but a bare outline of Svara Yoga. I Svara Yoga we find various effective means to check disease and death. This Yoga of breath should be practised under the direct guidance of a fully qualified Yogi. The modern Rishi and Yogi of the twentieth century, Swami Sivananda, has within the pages of this publication, dealt with the little known, though important, branch of traditional scientific Yogic knowledge, that has not found in its general treatment in such publications of his as The Science of Pranayama, Hatha Yoga, Practice of Yoga, Kundalini Yoga. To the spiritual aspirant as well as to lay readers, the contents of this book are full of practical import and the amount of its value, it may be superfluous to say, is relative to the particular requirements of the individual readers.---THE DIVINE LIFE SOCIETY

GURU BHAKTI YOGA

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by Swami Sivananda Paperback (Edition: 2004)

THE DIVINE LIFE SOCIETY ISBN 8170521688 Size: 8.6" X 5.5" Pages: 175 About the Author: Born on the 8th September, 1887, in the illustrious family of Saga Appayya Diskhita 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. Added to this was an inborn eagerness to serve all and an innate feeling of unity with all mankind. His passion for service drew him to the medical career; and soon he gravitated to where he thought that his service was most needed. Malaya claimed him. He had earlier been editing a Health Journal and wrote extensively on health problems. He discovered that people needed right knowledge most of all; dissemination of that knowledge he espoused as his own mission. It was divine dispensation and the blessing of God upon mankind that the doctor of body and mind renounced his career and took to a life of renunciation to qualify himself for ministering to the soul of man. He settled down at Rishikesh in 1924, practiced intense austerities and shone as a great Yogi, Saint, Sage and Jivanmukta. In 1932 he started the Sivanandashram. In 1936 was born The Divine Life Society. In 1948 the Yoga-Vedanta Forest Academy was organized. Dissemination of spiritual knowledge and training of people in Yoga and Vedanta were their aim and object. In 1950 he undertook a lightning tour of India and Ceylon. In 1953 he convened a 'World Parliament Reliogions'. He is the author of over 300 volumes and has disciples all over the world, belonging to all nationalities, religions and creeds. To read his works is to drink at the fountain of Wisdom Supreme. On 14th July, 1963 he entered Mahasamadhi. Publishers' Note: His Holiness Sri Swami Sivanandaji Maharaj did not write text books as such. The books he wrote were the outpourings of wisdom from his own direct realisation of the Truth. From his books you will derive not only the benefit of his wisdom and knowledge of both practical and esoteric matters pertaining to Yoga, but also the power of his spiritual force. Sri Swami Sivanandaji had a unique style-simple, direct and compelling. His books are not dull treatises on Yoga and philosophy, rather his enthusiasm and eagerness to help all is evident in every page, lifting the reader to new heights of understanding. Sri Gurudev's great utterances about the need for a Guru to lead the aspirant along the path to God-realisation, and of the devotion that the aspirant should have towards his Guru, are scattered over a number of his works. That great disciple of Sri Gurudaev, Sri Swami Satchidanandaaji (Private Secretary to H.H. Sri Swami Sivanandaji Maharaj) felt the urge to compile Sri Swamiji's "saying" on Guru and Guru Bhakti Yoga into a single volume. Guru Bhakti Yoga is the result. May Sri Gurudev's Grace lead you to the Highest Realms of Immortality, Eternal Bliss and Supreme Peace. ---THE DIVINE LIFE SOCIETY

RAJA YOGA

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by Swami Sivananda Paperback (Edition: 1999)

THE DIVINE LIFE SOCIETY ISBN 8170521521 Size: 5.5" X 8.5" Pages: 223 About the Author: Born on the 8th September, 1887, in the illustrious family of Saga Appayya Diskhita 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. Added to this was an inborn eagerness to serve all and an innate feeling of unity with all mankind. His passion for service drew him to the medical career; and soon he gravitated to where he thought that his service was most needed. Malaya claimed him. He had earlier been editing a Health Journal and wrote extensively on health problems. He discovered that people needed right knowledge most of all; dissemination of that knowledge he espoused as his own mission. It was divine dispensation and the blessing of God upon mankind that the doctor of body and mind renounced his career and took to a life of renunciation to qualify himself for ministering to the soul of man. He settled down at Rishikesh in 1924, practiced intense austerities and shone as a great Yogi, Saint, Sage and Jivanmukta. In 1932 he started the Sivanandashram. In 1936 was born The Divine Life Society. In 1948 the Yoga-Vedanta Forest Academy was organized. Dissemination of spiritual knowledge and training of people in Yoga and Vedanta were their aim and object. In 1950 he undertook a lightning tour of India and Ceylon. In 1953 he convened a 'World Parliament Reliogions'. He is the author of over 300 volumes and has disciples all over the world, belonging to all nationalities, religions and creeds. To read his works is to drink at the fountain of Wisdom Supreme. On 14th July, 1963 he entered Mahasamadhi. Publishers' Note: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali Maharshi are the standard Text on Yoga and these Sutras constitute a philosophy as well as a practical technique of meditation. The purpose of the Yoga way of analysis is an overcoming of the limitations of both subjectivity and objectivity and a union of the deepest within us and the deepest in the Cosmos. Yoga is not one way of living among many. It is the only way-gathering of your personality with one purpose. The removal of the idea of externality of the object is the process of meditation. There are certain misconceptions about Yoga. It is based on a sound philosophy and deep psychology. It is an education process by which the human mind is trained to become more and more natural and weaned from the unnatural conditions of life. Very few authentic commentaries on the Yoga Sutras are available today. And, the aspirants in this science-minded world of today take a keener interest in this Branch of Yoga. All the Western Sadhakas take to the pratice of Raja Yoga. In Europe and America, hundreds of men and women Sadhakas owe their progress in the practice of Raja Yoga to the practical and efficient guidance of Sri Swami Sivanandaji Maharaj. Sri Swamiji's approach is direct, clear and positive. There has been a persistent demand for a reprint of Sri Swamiji's Raja Yoga. We are happy now to be able to present the readers with a reprint of this precious volume. 28th July, 1999 Sri Guru Purnima THE DIVINE LIFE SOCIETY

The Forceful Yoga: Being the Translation of Hathayoga-Pradipika, Gheranda-Samhita and Siva-Samhita

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by Translated By: Pancham Sinh, Rai Bahadur Srisa Chandra Vasu, Romanised and Edited By: Dr. G.P. Bhatt Paperback (Edition: 2004)

Motilal Banarsidass Publishers Pvt. Ltd. ISBN 812082055X Size: 8.5" X 5.4" Pages: 291 From the Jacket: This book, which is the collection of three principal sources on the Hathayoga, namely the Hathayoga Pradipika, the Gheranda Samhita and the Siva Samhita, written in the medieval period, is rather the reproduction of the three Sanskrit texts and their revised English translations, originally published by Panini office, Allahabad (1914-15). The Hathayoga or 'Forceful Yoga', which was particularly popularized by Gorakhanatha, a noted thirteenth century yogi, still has many followers in Indian and abroad. The most distinctive element of the Hathayoga is its theory, that the prescribed purifications of the body and physical exercises and practices related with the cakras, nadis, kundalini and so on, eventually, lead to the samadhi or supreme concentration of the mind. Further more, the practitioner may develop supernormal powers to realize the summum bonum of life. This collection of the three texts makes a brilliant exposition of the above theory to compensate the loss of the Gorakhanatha's original text on the Hathayoga. About the Author: Dr. G.P. Bhatt, M.A. Ph.D. has specialized in the epistemology of the school of the great Mimamsaka Kumarila Bhatta and is the author of The Basic Ways of Knowing, a revised edition of the much earlier published Epistemology of the Bhatta School of Purva Mimamsa on the subject. He is currently Academic Consultant to the Publishing House of Motilal Banarsidass.

Patanjali's Yoga Sutras

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by Sadhakas Paperback (Edition: 2002)

The Yoga Institute ISBN 8185053472 Size: 7" X 5" Pages: 205 Introduction: We cannot just plant a sapling anywhere, forget about it and then come again to the spot after a few days expecting to see a tree growing. There is thus the need for imparting some sincerity, enthusiasm, and meaning to an activity once started. Just like the sapling the human beings are also striving for growth and actualisation of inner potentials. In Yoga there is much work to be done work within to train the subconscious to realise the highest. A well-known Indian named Patanjali, organized this study of man and his achievements in a systematic form. He wrote a small book which is called the Yoga Sutra. The work itself is very very small. In one single page you can write down the entire book. It contains aphorisms consisting of a few words, but these are very important. In the very second and third sentence Patanjali answers the question, "What is Yoga, where of the human personality" and in the next aphorisms, he assures us that such a self mastering leads us to the absolute states. That's what Yoga is. It is not just exercise, it is not just meditation, it is not just relaxation. The purpose behind Yoga is to gain a complete control over our whole personality - the body, the mind and more, Such a control leads to the optimum growth of one's consciousness. Shri H. Sequeira translated the Yoga Sutras and wrote notes on the same. The notes were published in the magazine 'Yoga and Total Health' of the Yoga Institute from 1985 to 1995. Success has different meanings. Success in the true sense of achieving the highest is enshrined in the old Indian ways of realising one's own true nature. Such a success spills over into success in other areas. Some of the great men in this country were first Yogis and then good medical men, good philosophers and excelled in practically all areas of life. We remain indebted to Shri Yogendraji, The Yoga Institute, Santacruz and academicians like Ramaprasad, Woods and Dasgupta for the use we made of their experiences and explanations at different places in the book. We also wish to thank all those who helped us in compiling this book.

Yoga Secrets of Psychic Powers

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by Swami Jyotirmayananda Hardcover (Edition: 2004)

International Yoga Society ISBN 8185883416 Size: 8.6” X 5.6” Pages: 240 (21 B/W & 1 Colour Illustration) Introduction of the Book and the Author The Great Buddha, Adorable Jesus, Bhagavan Krishna, Divine Moses and all great pioneers of spiritual movement were endowed with extraordinary psychic powers. Even many centuries before Christ, the Sages ad Seers of India possessed miraculous psychic powers. How did they achieve their greatness? What secrets did they pursuer in order to unravel the infinite powers of the mind? All this and more is given in this inspiring book, “Yoga Secrets of Psychic Powers”. The Genius of Yoga, Swami Jyotir Maya Nanda reveals now those secrets of psychic powers that made these great personalities the immortal torch-bearers of wisdom and cosmic love. Not only are these psychic powers explained but full instructions are detailed upon so that anyone wishing to tread the path of psychic powers may commence immediately on his endeavour to gain mastery over any technique he chooses. The mysteries of he mind are ar, far beyond the imagination of any individual. So profound and vast are the possibilities of the mind that even science has never been able to fathom its depths! Deeper than the deepest ocean, higher than the highest mountain, stronger than the mightiest hurricane, and more delicate than the fragrance of rose, such is the human mind that remains unexplored by most people of the world. Few have known the true nature of the unconscious mind and what lies hidden in its depths. In the innermost regions of the mind lies an extraordinary power, sometimes referred to as extrasensory perception or ‘occult powers’. However, in Yogic terminology it is known as Siddhis or Psychic Powers. The renouned author, Swami Jyotir Maya Nanda, tell show these powers are inherent in everyone, but remain untapped and unused. For the vast majority of people they continue to remain unseen and unheard. Just as resources of oil and gold lie hidden beneath the sea and land, so too, the unique mysterious powers of the mind lie dormant and untouched by man. Mahatma Gandhi of India had great spiritual powers. Even men in different fields of life are able to express powers in different ways. Isaac Newton, the discoverer of the law of gravitation; Einstein, the discoverer of the law of relativity, Wagner, the great composer; Leonardo da Vinci, the great painter and artist, and any others were endowed with extraordinary powers of the mind. Can there by any work of glory and greatness without the power of this mysterious mind? Within these pages, it is shown that the understanding of psychic powers and the secrets of developing them are important for conquering all weaknesses of the body and mind. With an insight into the immense resources of he soul, you move from strength to a greater strength; from success to a greater success, from the ordinary state of consciousness to the extraordinary attainment of Self-realization only known by a few mortal men. In the Bible, Luke 12-2, Jesus said, “There is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known,” Here Jesus was referring to the mind that knowns, to the all-seeing Spirit, from which nothing is concealed. The cosmic Ear hear everything, the Eternal Mind knowns all things, and the Witnessing Self sees all that is confined to the law of cause and effect relationship. The Upanishads say, “This Divine self is hidden in all beings. He pervades all that exists. He is the indweller of all. He is the bestower of the fruits of Karmas (results of actions). He is the abode of all beings. He is the Eternal Witness, Pure Consciousness, Non-dual, and devoid of all limitations.” - Shwetashwater Uapnishad 6/11. The Universal self is the essence of all, and each one has access to this source through the profundities of his mind. By attuning the individual mind to the Cosmic Mind there is nothing that the soul cannot acquire or experience. This soul in a human being can realize its identity with the Supreme Self. What can be a greater attainment than this? The author emphatically declares that all the secrets of psychic powers are ultimately meant for unraveling the supreme secret of existence- the inherent identity of the soul with Brahman or the Absolute. On this Book, the author, Swami Jyotir Maya Nanda has given the entire third chapter of Raja Yoga with lucid explanations and brilliant powers. In addition to this the author gives passages from Yoga Vasishtha and Srimad Bhagavat Purana to present different approaches of unraveling the inner powers of the mind. Kundalini Yoga, Mantra Yoga, and truths about the functions of the mind have been included in this unique book for aiding one’s quest for the inner powers of the mind and the soul. This is the thirtieth book of Swami Jyotir Maya Nanda written with usual clarity, profound simplicity and dynamic spiritual force. Showing how these mysterious powers can be achieved, he gives a great emphasis on the complete integration to personality. Therefore, an aspirant in his pursuit of psychic powers cannot become disbalanced or maladjusted in day to day life. Swami Jyotir Maya Nanda is held in high esteem throughout the world; as a profound philosopher, a renouned religious teacher and the “Genius of Yoga.” Thousand of lives have been transformed by his visible and invisible presence and magnanimous writings imbueded with his intuitive knowledge. Our profound appreciation to Roberto Martinez, the Artist who did the drawings and the staff of Ashram Karma Yogis who have rendered their assistance in the various aspects of the completion of this book. May your life reveal those great powers that lie in the depths of your mind. And may the Lord grant you Eternal Peace!. Back of the Book Discover –explore the secret powers and mysteries of great yogis of India. Learn authentic techniques of how to acquire psychic powers. See how meditation provides knowledge of past, future, rebirth & death. Experience mystic powers of the soul. Acquire extra energy for body mind.

Nirvana the Last Nightmare: Talks on Zen Anecdotes

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by Osho Hardcover (Edition: 2006)

Tao Publishing Pvt. Ltd. ISBN 8172612001 Size: 8.2" X 5.6" Pages: 288 About the Osho Osho defies categorization, reflecting everything from the individual quest for meaning to the most urgent social and political issues facing society today. His books are not written but are transcribed from recordings of extemporaneous talks given over a period of thirty-five years. Osho has been described by the Sunday Times in London as one of the "1000 Makers of the 20th Century" and by Sunday Mid-Day in India as one of the ten people - along with Gandhi, Nehru and Buddha - who have changed the destiny of India. Osho has a stated aim of helping to create the conditions for the birth of a new kind of human being, characterized as "Zorba the Buddha" - one whose feet are firmly on the ground, yet whose hands can touch the stars. Running like a thread through all aspects of Osho is a vision that encompasses both the timeless wisdom of the East and the highest potential of Western science and technology. He is synonymous with a revolutionary contribution to the science of inner transformation and an approach to meditation which specifically addresses the accelerated pace of contemporary life. The unique Osho Active Meditations are designed to allow the release of accumulated stress in the body and mind so that it is easier to be still and experience the thought-free state of meditation.

Yakusan: Straight To The Point Of Enlightenment

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(Zen Masters Series) by Osho Rajneesh Hardcover

The Rebel Publishing House Gmbh Colonge ISBN 3893380841 Size: 7.6" X 4.8" Pages: 205 From the Jacket I am neither a savior nor a prophet. I am simply a man amongst you. I am not talking to you from a high peak, from the point of view that I know and you don’t know. I am talking to you man to man. All that I am saying to you is that there was a time when I was asleep just as you are asleep, and there is nothing wrong in it. It is perfectly okay with existence- you can sleep for eternity; but it is not good for you. What you are seeing in your sleep is only dreams, hallucinations. If you want to know the reality and its beauty you have to wake up. And only you can do it, nobody can help you in any way. I can go on shouting till my last breath. That will not help unless you are ready to hear and be receptive. And even if you hear, you are receptive, then too you have to walk the path from the circumference of your life to the centre of your being. Nobody can do it on your behalf. I teach the individual. Jesus tries to convince the masses; I don’t care about the masses at all. Religion is the greatest creative art, in which you create yourself again. You become the womb and you give birth from the mother’s womb is only physical. You have to give yourself a birth is going to bring your spiritually with all its flowers, with all its mysteries, with all its roses, with all its freedom, its truth, its beauty, its godliness. But you have to do it. From the Back of the Book: To me religion is an individual love affair with existence. I teach you rebellion! Come out of the masses. Stand alone like a lion and live your life according to your light. Find the light and it will show you the path. The path that is shown by your own light is the only path that is right. What others have been telling may be right for them; it cannot be right for you.

Nansen: The Point of Departure

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(Zen Masters Series) by Osho Rajneesh Hardcover

The Rebel Publishing House GmbH Colonge ISBN 3893380671 Size: 8.5" X 5.8" Pages: 197 From the Jacket: Nansen is a tremendous departure from the past spirituality, accepting secular and sacred as together, one - two aspects of one reality. My love for Nansen is immense because of this understanding that the earth and the sky are not separate - are not separable - and both should be enjoyed. My own understanding is the same. I want the earth and the sky to be together. Only in their togetherness is wholeness; only in their togetherness is a joy, is a fulfillment. Buddha alone is half, Zorba alone is half, and unless they are together they can never be whole.

Isan No Footprints in the Blue Sky

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(Zen Masters Series) by Osho Ranjeesh Hardcover

The Rebel Publishing House ISBN 3893380701 Size: 8.4" X 5.8" Pages: 186 (Illustrated With B & W Figures) From the Jacket: Isan was a great master as one can be, but he has left behind him neither great scriptures nor great commentaries. His is a great master, but almost forgotten. Who remembers people who have not created great followings, who have not made organized religions, who have not chosen their successors, who have not made their religion a politics, a power in the material world? Isan did none of that. He simply lived silently. Of course thousands of disciples were attracted towards him, but it was not his fault. You can not blame him for it - it was just a magnetic force that he had become by disappearing into enlightenment.

Rinzai Master of the Irrational

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(Zen Masters Series) by Osho Rajneesh Hardcover

The Rebel Publishing House ISBN 3893380698 Size: 8.4" X 5.8" Pages: 204 (Illustrated With B & W Figures) From the Jacket: Rinzai would shout at his disciples to give them a first experience of their centering. You are both a circumference and a center. You live on the circumference; the shout simply pushes you to the center. Once you experience being at the center you suddenly see the whole world changing. Your eyes are no more the same….

Dogen The Zen Master

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(Zen Masters Series) by Osho Rajneesh Hardcover

The Rebel Publishing House ISBN 3893380639 Size: 8.4" X 5.8" Pages: 196 (Illustrated With B & W Figures) From the Jacket: Dogen is saying, that forms don't change into other forms. Winter remains winter, summer remains summer, but something inner moves from one climate to another climate which is beyond birth and beyond death, which is beyond life, which simply is. You can give it any shape, any form, but you cannot take away its isness. This isness is the greatest discovery of the East. The West has missed it completely.

One Hand Clapping (a collection of zen stories)

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Paperback (Edition: 2003)

Rupa and Co. ISBN 81-291-0216-1 Size: 7" X 4.6" Pages: 113 About the Book: This book is a collection of zen stories that have withstood the test of time. Perhaps it is because Zen is a way of life offering profound insights into human nature, the cosmos, and spirituality. Or perhaps it is just because they are fun to tell. These stories capture all sorts of truths about life and death. But they are also witty, entertaining, and at times puzzling, even mind-bending. And they are not just the secret lessons of monks sequestered away in mountain monasteries. The ancient teachers intended these stories to be used by everyone, everywhere. On the bus to work, during meal times, taking an evening stroll with a friend- all of these situations and more lend themselves to these stories. Once you know a few of them, you will see opportunities to tell them popping up everywhere - when you are with your family, friends, and coworkers. Think of these tales as conversation pieces, as handy tools that you can lift out of your pocket to help you and others talk, think, and laugh about the wonderful and mysterious details of this thing we call Life.

Zen-Yoga - A Creative Psychotherapy to Self-Integration

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by P.J. Saher Hardcover (Edition: 2004)

Motilal Banarsidass Pvt. Ltd. ISBN 81-208-0809-6 Size: 8.8" X 6.0" Pages: 387 (B & W Illus: 25) From the Jacket: This fascinating and profound book of ancient, Eastern esoteric wisdom backed by the latest discoveries and experiments of modern science treats of the health of the soul by showing the relationship between soul and brain. Here is a practical guide to Zen-Yoga, which can help to master suffering and harness latent powers. At a time when science is exploring outer space Zen-Yoga helps us to explore the inner space of the human psyche, to recognize within ourselves a new freedom - freedom to work out our destiny with integral consciousness or the divine supra-Self as the light within. This book is a cybernetic exploration of mind's inner space leading to expanded cosmo-electronic consciousness. Having shown the differences between Eastern and Western thought-processes, Saher explains how the sages of the East have acquired that source of wisdom and bliss which our misguided youth seeks vainly in hallucinogenic drugs. About the Author: P.J. Saher, best known for his book Eastern Wisdom and Western Thought, was born in Bombay and studied in England and Germany. He gave up a career at the Bar to take up research in mysticism, mastered yoga, and came under the influence of first of Heidegger, then of Radhakrishnan and Huxley. He has published several widely read books in German.

The Search: Talks on the Ten Bulls of Zen

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by Osho Hardcover (Edition: 2003)

Tao Publishing ISBN 8172611889 Size: 8.5” X 6.8” Pages: 308 From the Jacket Your Birth came out of the unknown, out of nothingness you were Born. One day you will disappear again into the unknown that will be your death. And in between these two, sometimes there will be glimpses of love. They will all be of the unknown. The ten Bulls of Zen are something unique. In the history of human consciousness. Kakuan painted ten pictures of the whole search of man and man is a search. He is not only an inquirer. He is inquiry. These ten bulls are a pictorial representation of the inquiry, the inquiry that I call -Man

BOOK OF SECRETS

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Science Of Meditation--An Approach To 112...In The Vigyan Bhairav Tantra (H) by Rajneesh, Osho Publisher: Macmillan

Hyakujo: The Everest of Zen

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(Zen Master Series) by Osho Rajneesh Hardcover

Tao Publishing Pvt. Ltd. ISBN 3893380663 Size: 8.4" X 5.8" Pages: 104 From the Jacket: Basho is one of the greatest poets in the world. His greatness is not in his poetry - there are far greater poets as far as the composition of the poetry is concerned. His greatness is that his poetry is not just verbiage, is not just putting words together according to a certain pattern, his poetry is an experience. Hyakujo never wrote any poetry. His approach is very prose and direct, and the haikus supplement what is missing in the prose. Basho expressed himself very graphically. His experiences are more paintings than poetry. And his understanding is - and I agree with him - that where prose fails, poetry may succeed. Poetry has a more feminine way, more subtle, more graceful, of entering into the heart. I have put together two great masters. Both are Himalayan peaks, and together they are going to create a tremendous harmony.

That Art Thou: Discourses on the Sarvasar; Kaivalya and Adhyatma Upanishads

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by Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (Osho) Paperback

The Rebel Books ISBN 3893380116 Size: 8.3” X 6.3” Pages: 453 {16 Illustrations in B/W}

Introduction When I was asked to help out with the Sanskrit text which appears in this book, I had no idea that I was being invited to set out on a journey… Perhaps it was the serene, unearthly atmosphere of the Lao Tzu Garden, charged by Bhagwan’s Presence; the Stately, meditative trees, friendly ducks waddling through the walkways, which made these timeless upanishadic times come alive. As I started listening to the audio cassettes one by one, Ma Yoga Taru’s raw, enchanting voice singing those ageless chants of the Upanishads reversed the time track and once again I was transported into the early seventies, when Bhagwan actually conducted these meditation camps. These camps were a love affair! All the people who had gathered were Bhagwan’s lovers and beloveds, who did not care much for growth or spirituality. In the Sixties Bhagwan used to travel extensively throughout India, always staying with people who invited him. He would chit-chat with them, listen to their woes, and shower love on their hearts thirsty for love. Every member of the family would feel that Acharya ji as he was called in those days was one of them, their very own. So for all people who attended the camps, it was a case of their very own. So for all the people who attended the camps, it was a case of their beloved turned God! The camps were conducted in a very informal and friendly manner. Bhagwan would choose to speak on one Upanishad, which is the most precious treasure of ancient Indian wisdom. First he used to speak in Hindi, and later in English for Westerners, who had just started to appear in the meditation camps. There were three sessions of meditations each day. The morning session would begin by his discourse, followed by dynamic meditation. These discourses happened on the open grounds of one of the hill stations like Mt. Abu or Matheran. These were the first days of his most dangerous and bold dynamic meditation, which he courageously introduced to the repressed, traditional Indian audience. So he would sit through the entire meditation now persuading, now provoking people to shed their age-old conditionings. He was even heard shouting Hoo! Hoo! to encourage the participants. People painfully threw out their unconscious garbage, and the compassionate sky above would absorb all the poison that human civilization had imposed on human beings. The meditation would end after forty minutes, but the devils let loose out of the Pandora’s box would be active even after that. The hills reverberated with the mad shrieks and Hoos throughout the day! Akiran meditation was conducted at 3.30 p.m. in the afternoon. This meditation was very popular with the Indians. Bhagwan would again come for this session exactly at 3.30p.m. Dressed in a Spotlessly white lungi and a shawl casually thrown over his shoulder, he would sit on an ordinary cane chair, covered with a bed sheet. And that chair would become a throne! He would sit there majestically, watching the people sing and dance around him with great love. They had never seen God, but they would shower all their bottled-up emotions on one god that was sitting before them. After one hour, he would leave the premises as quietly as he had come. As the dusk descended on the hills, preparations for the evening sessions would begin. Every session would be preceded by some devotional singing. The organizers would request some one from the audience to sing, and he or she would oblige. It was often out of rhythm, out of tune, but who cared? Their hearts were already tuned with their beloved. The day’s work had a made their hearts sensitive and vulnearable, and as the darkness deepened, Bhagwan’s seductive voice would delve deeper and deeper into the mysteries of Upanishads. The last night of meditation, called tratak dhyan was absolutely out of this world! Bhagwan would stand on the platform, his arms spread out like wings, looking like an angel just descended from the sky. He would ask people to look at him without blinking their eyes, while jumping and shouting “hoo hoo” at the same time. There was such a magic in the air with Bhagwan standing against the black sky! The two flames burning in his unblinking, magnetic eyes would encourage people to shout and jump more and more vigorously. When the whole thought process stopped, the mass of their energy rose to a crescendo, and then he would invoke the divine energy to come down to meet this peak. And a great uproar used to explode into the electrified atmosphere. And he would slip away quietly into the night. He has been doing this for years: bringing new methods of meditation to fit the modern man; creating the thirst of high values of life. Then, and then only, you turn inwards and set out on a new journey, till you yourself arrive at a point when you dissolve in Him. And you experience what the Upanishads have been saying.

That Art Thou!

Ma Amrit Sadhana

The Psychology of the Esoteric

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(Insights into Energy and Consciousness) by Osho Hardcover (Edition: 2007)

Rebel Publishing House ISBN 8172612117 Size: 7.8" X 5.0" Pages: 305

Preface If esoteric work is introduced to you without any foundation, you are not going to work for the foundation, because that is not interesting. The esoteric work is really very interesting, but I don’t want you to make a temple without a foundation. It has happened many times; then the temple fall and destroys those who were building it. The word esoteric simply means: you cannot put it objectively, scientifically. It is something inner, something subjective, something so mysterious, so miraculous that you can experience it but you can not explain it. You can have it, but still you cannot explain it. It remains beyond explanation. And it is good that there is something in life which you cannot bring down to language, which you cannot bring down to the objective world – something which remains always beyond. You can become one with it. I have been spontaneous in my work, but these are the mysteries of life, that existence itself has taken care. I have left it to existence, “Whatever you want me to do, I will do.” I am not the doer; I am just a passage for existence to reach people. So I have never planned, but existence functions in a very planned way. So all the phases that have passed were necessary, and now we are ready to enter into the last phase the ultimate ecstasy. Ecstasy cannot be pragmatic. Love cannot be pragmatic. Trust cannot be pragmatic. All that is valuable is esoteric. From the Jacket “The dignity, the beauty and the glory of man is consciousness. But it is a burden also. The glory and the burden come simultaneously the minute you become conscious. Every step is a movement between the two. With man, choice and conscious individuality come into existence. You can evolve, but your evolution will be an individual endeavor. You may evolve to become a buddha or you may not. The choice is yours.” Osho continues to inspire millions of people worldwide in their search to define a new approach to individual spirituality that is self-directed and responds to the everyday challenges of contemporary life. His unique perspective encompasses both the timeless wisdom of the East and the highest potential of Western science and technology, and he was named by The Sunday Times of London as one of the “1000 Makers of the 20th Century.” The American novelist Tom Robbins has called him “the most dangerous man since Jesus Christ.” Back of the Back In this book, Osho explores the world of the esoteric. He gives insight and meaning to the subtlest expressions of human energy including kundalini, tension and relaxation in the seven energy bodies, and the significance of dreaming. He shows how by simply being in the present moment and becoming aware of our vital energy, our ordinary, day-to-day lives can become filled with wonder and mystery.

Beyond Psychology

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by Osho Hardcover (Edition: 1986)

Tao Publishing Pvt. Ltd ISBN 8172611951 Size: 8.7” X 7.0” Pages: 581 Preface Until the strings are ready to play To become some new tune, some new rhythm, One may pluck those strings ten thousand times But there will be no resonance. An enlightened mystic is one whose strings have been awakened by the divine. An enlightened consciousness is one whose veena is no longer lying idle; the hand of the divine has touched it. To be a enlightened mystic means that the song this person was born to sing has burst forth, the fragrance that was hidden in the this flowers has been released to the winds. An enlightened consciousness means that you have become that which you were destined to be. And naturally, in the fulfillment of this destiny, there is supreme bliss. A seed is unhappy and in anguish as long as it is a seed. The anguish lies in the very fact of being a seed. To be seed means you are meant to become something which you have not yet become. To be a seed means you are meant to blossom but you have not yet blossomed. A seed is meant to grow but it has not yet done so, it has not yet fulfilled its potential. To be a seed means the waiting continues…the path is long, and you have not yet arrived at your destination. The enlightened mystic is a human being who has become what he was destined to become. He is no longer a seed, now he is a flower: a lotus with its thousand petals blossoming, blissful like a flower. What is the bliss of a flower? Now there is nothing left to become, there is no place left to go. The journey is over, the full stop has come. Now there is the possibility of being at peace – because when there is somewhere to go you are always restless, when there is something to be done, you must plan. As long as you have to become something, success and failure will be following you. Who knows whether you will succeed or not? Doubt and misapprehensions will surround you…a thousand things. The mind will remain wavering, the mind will not be stable. “Which path should I choose? How to avoid a mistake? The path I choose may turn not to be a path at all. Will the path I am choosing be in harmony with my ultimate destiny or not?” So doubt lives and burns inside us, filling us with despair. And naturally there are the pains of the journey, the obstacles on the path. The biggest obstacle will be that the seed is not confident that it can become a flower. How can it be? It has never been a flower before. How can one have trust in what one has never been? “Other seeds have become flowers, but this does not prove that I will also become one. The other seed were other; they may have been different. This seed that I am be just a pebble, it may just a pebble, it may not have anything inside it.” There is no way a seed can be confident about its future. Confidence comes only from experience. So a thousand doubts ad misapprehension surround it: Do I have a future? Does the direction in which I am heading exist? Is the idea of what I want to be simply a trick of my mind? Am I just dreaming? Am I creating some new kind of deception, some new illusion? All these things cause pain; they pick us like thorns. The bliss of the flower is that it doesn’t have to go anywhere; the future has ended for it. And when the future ends, the connection with the past also breaks. When nothing more has to happen, who needs to remember the past? We remember the past because something is about to happen, because our past experience might be useful. We gather from or past experiences for the journey ahead: they might be useful. When there is nowhere to go, when there is nothing left to become, when the future has come to an end, in that same moment we are free from the past. Now there is no need to carry the burden of memory. The test is over. Now there are no more trials. So there is nothing to remember and no web of imagination to weave. The energy that was scattered into the past and the future is now concentrated into the tiny moment of the present. There is supreme bliss in this intensity and a sharp focus. It is in such a moment that a moment that sat-chit-anand- truth, consciousness and bliss – or what the devotees call love and the wise call truth of liberation, happens. An enlightened consciousness means the flower of a person’s life has blossomed. From the Jacket “Just live the moment with intensity and totality. Live ti with as much joy as possible, with as much love as possible, with no fear, no guilt. This existence is your and this moment is a gift – don’t let it go to waste. And don’t be worried about enlightenment, the moon. This moment, living totally is enlightenment.” “Such trust in existence, such unwavering trust, comes when you start taking responsibilities. As you feel more responsible towards small things around you, existence goes on responding in a thousand-fold way. You are not a loser.” Back of the Book This people who will go beyond mind will create the new man, the new mind. And the most special thing to be remembered about the new mind is that is will never become a tradition, that it will be constantly renewed. If it becomes a tradition it will be again the same thing. The new mind has to become continuously new, every day new, ready to accept any unexpected experience, any unexpected truth…just available vulnerable. It will be tremendous excitement, a great ecstasy, a great challenge.”

The Song of Ecstasy: Talks on Adi Shankara's Bhaj Govindam

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by Osho Hardcover (Edition: 2005)

Tao Publishing Pvt. Ltd. ISBN 8172611617 Size: 8.8" X 5.8" Pages: 318 (Black & White Illus: 1) From the Jacket: Shankara is a unique person. And it is very easy to misunderstand the unique person because he is beyond your common understanding. It seemed to people that he was also a logician, a great logician. But can a great logician say, "Sing! Dance! Sing the song of the divine"? It is just not possible for the logician to say so. Such words can be spoken only by a lover of the divine from the depths of his heart. - Osho The path of Shankara's realization is through the heart and not through the head. That is why, although Shankara has written commentaries on the Brahmasutra, the Upanishads and the Gita, you will find his innermost feelings expressed in these small verses; here he has opened his heart. Here Shankara does not speak like a scholar or a thinker, here he expresses himself like a devotee. - Osho Osho, the enlightened master for the twenty-first century, has spoken many times of Adi Shankaracharya, the eighth-century Indian enlightened mystic, but here for the first time we have a series of talks given on him and his teachings. In these talks we are introduced to a different Adi Shankaracharya - one who can sing of his ecstasy, and can dance in his joy in life. "No one is more qualified to introduce the mystics than Osho, a man who stands out even in their exalted company. He speaks from his own experience, bringing his mystic predecessors to life, making them his contemporaries." - John Lilly, Scientist and author About Osho: Osho defies categorization, reflecting everything from the individual quest for meaning to the most urgent social and political issues facing society today. His books are not written but are transcribed from recordings of extemporaneous talks give over a period of thirty-five year. Osho has been described by the Sunday Times in London as one of the "1000 Makers of the 20th Century" and by Sunday Mid-Day in India as one of the ten people - along with Gandhi, Nehru and Buddha - who have changed the destiny of India. Osho has a stated aim of helping to create the conditions for the birth of a new kind of human being, characterized as "Zorba the Buddha" - one whose feet are firmly on the ground, yet whose hands can touch the stars. Running like a thread through all aspects of Osho is a vision that encompasses both the timeless wisdom of the East and the highest potential of Western science and technology. He is synonymous with a revolutionary contribution to the science of inner transformation and an approach to meditation which specifically addresses the accelerated pace of contemporary life. The unique Osho Active Meditations are designed to allow the release of accumulated stress in the body and mind so that it is easier to be still and experience the thought-free state of meditation. Introduction: Osho, the enlightened master for the twenty-first century, has mentioned Adi Sankaracharya, an enlightened mystic of eighth-century India many times, but there for the first time we are given a series of talks on the mystic and his teachings. Here we are introduced to a different Adi Shankaracharya - one who can sing in his ecstasy, one who can create a song and dance of his joy in life with an enlightened perception. Osho begins the series with "The first and the basic sutra to be understood, is that truth is attained in emptiness and is lost in words…Language is created by man. Truth is not created by man, it is his discovery. It is neither to be created or proved, but only to be unveiled." Here Osho begins to unveil the secret, "Language is the veil. Thoughts are the only obstacle." Again we are directed inward into meditation, to bring out the mystery and mastery of our humanness. Hearing Osho mention this master many times I had formed in my mind a character for Adi Shankaracharya - the great teacher, Shankara - as a dry debater of the scriptures. Adi Shankara went around the country, from one end to the other, arguing, debating and defeating all the renowned scholars, theologians and the so-called traditional religious leaders of that time who had turned the search for one's self into merely a mental exercise, and academic discussion. In these debates he continually insisted on bringing the search for one's self, of one's enlightenment, back to where it should be - the search within. This popular son, which is in the Sanskrit language, is sung throughout India and is known as "Bhaj Govindam." "Oh fool! Sing the son of the divine, sing the song of the divine." These words introduce the sutras of this song, leading us into Adi Shankara's perceptions that many will find will cut to the bone. One by one he cuts all delusions away from you, all supports and constructs that your might have used for the way of life you have chosen up to now, allowing a fresh opening, a new beginning. This song contains the truth, the bearuty, the clarity and the power of this enlightened master's teaching. At the same time Osho is continually exhorting us, from his own understanding, "Oh fool! Sing the song of the divine, sing the song of the divine."

Unio Mystica II: Discourses on the Sufi Mystic Hakim Sanai

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by Osho Hardcover (Edition: 2004)

Tao Publishing Pvt. Ltd. ISBN 8172611856 Size: 8.1" X 5.6" Pages: 325 About the Book Unio mystica. This means "the mystic unity." It is the integration, the centering of the soul. You remain centered even in a raging cyclone. About the Author Osho defies categorization, reflecting everything from the individual quest for meaning to the most urgent social and political issues facing society today. His books are not written but are transcribed from recordings of extemporaneous talks given over a period of thirty-five years. Osho has been described by the Sunday Times in London as one of the "1000 Makers of the 20th Century" and by Sunday Mid-Day in India as one of the ten people-along with Gandhi, Nehru and Buddha-who have changed the destiny of India. Osho has a stated aim of helping to create the conditions for the birth of a new kind of human being, characterized as "Zorba the Buddha"- one whose feet are firmly on the ground, yet whose hands can touch the stars. Running like a thread through all aspects of Osho is a vision that encompasses both the timeless wisdom of the East and the highest potential of Western science and technology. He is synonymous with a revolutionary contribution to the science of inner transformation and an approach to meditation which specifically addresses the accelerated pace of contemporary life. The unique Osho Active Meditations are designed to allow the release of accumulated stress in the body and mind so that it is easier to be still and experience the though-free state of meditation. Back of the Book Osho present his views on war and the political mind. He offers a fresh outlook: a blueprint for cutting the roots of the destructive political mind of man, and creating a human being who wants to celebrate life. "I am trying to create a space for the future to happen." The story around Hakim Sanai, the 12th Century intrigue of a pointless military expedition, a poet and a mystic, continues from Unio Mystica I. Reading it today, there is a taste of history repeating itself. This time there is an opportunity to listen to and to welcome the aerial viewpoint of a modern mystic. Osho holds Sanai in high esteem, saying if he were to save only two books from the world of the mystics, one would be from the world of Zen, the path of awareness, Sosan's Hsin Hsin Ming and the other would be Hakim Sanai's Hadiqa because "it is the essential fragrance of the path of love. No other Sufi has been able to reach to such heights of expression and such depths of penetration." Preface A man of peace is not a pacifist. A man of peace is simply a pool of silence. He pulsates a new kind of energy into the world; he sings a new song. He lives in a totally new way, his very way of life is that of grace, that of prayer, that of compassion. In whomsoever he touches, he creates more love energy. The man of peace is creative. He is not against war, because to be against anything is to be at war. He is not against war, he simply understands why war exists. And out of that understanding he becomes peaceful. Only when there are many people who are pools of peace, silence, understanding, will war disappear.

Unio Mystica I: Discourses on the Sufi Mystic Hakim Sanai

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by Osho Hardcover (Edition: 2004)

Tao Publishing Pvt. Ltd ISBN 8172611846 Size: 8.1" X 5.6" Pages: 336 About the Book Unio mystica. This means "the mystic unity." It is the integration, the centering of the soul. You remain centered even in a raging cyclone. "Some planetary collective building, along with the tribal, personal, familial, national and neighborhood consciousnesses. They trickle, pour, drip-drop, and thunder down through each other, altering the consistency and intensity of who we are and what we know and feel. Soul is the usual hapless word we throw at the process. "I contend that Osho will come to be seen as a germane, yeasty presence in our soul fermentation. …The history of soulmakers is our most significant history. They are the moving indices of how we say our truth." From the introduction "Stern Mystics and Secret Government Murder" by Coleman Barks. "Hakim Sanai has been able to catch the very soul of Sufism". Osho About the Author Osho defies categorization, reflecting everything from the individual quest for meaning to the most urgent social and political issues facing society today. His books are not written but are transcribed from recordings of extemporaneous talks given over a period of thirty-five years. Osho has been described by the Sunday Times in London as one of the "1000 Makers of the 20th Century" and by Sunday Mid-Day in India as one of the ten people-along with Gandhi, Nehru and Buddha-who have changed the destiny of India. Osho has a stated aim of helping to create the conditions for the birth of a new kind of human being, characterized as "Zorba the Buddha"- one whose feet are firmly on the ground, yet whose hands can touch the stars. Running like a thread through all aspects of Osho is a vision that encompasses both the timeless wisdom of the East and the highest potential of Western science and technology. He is synonymous with a revolutionary contribution to the science of inner transformation and an approach to meditation which specifically addresses the accelerated pace of contemporary life. The unique Osho Active Meditations are designed to allow the release of accumulated stress in the body and mind so that it is easier to be still and experience the though-free state of meditation. Back of the Book The story of the 12th Century court poet Hakim Sanai begins like a political thriller. He's moving with the Sultan of Persia and his military forces on an expedition to conquer India. But as they pass a certain walled garden they come across a drunken singer, who is really a great Sufi mystic, an enlightened man named Lai-Kur. Sanai is transformed, enlightened by this chance meeting. He leaves the king to his meaningless war games and goes off alone to obsorb what has happened to him. From this process comes a book of poems, the Hadiqa, The Walled Garden of Truth. Osho's own books are transcribed from his spoken words. This is the first of a two volume series on Sanai's Hadiqa, about which he observes: "Such books are not written, they are born. These words are saturated with satori." Nine centuries later, during the preparation of this second edition, the revered modern-day poet, Coleman Barks, writes the introduction to Osho's book. In so doing he weaves the political thriller of today involving the same configuration: a poet, a mad government plan and an enlightened man. And he gifts us with a new translation of a startling and beautiful poem by Sanai. Introduction Sanais tone is distinct from Rumi's, tougher. There's a challenging feel to the poetry. He awakens more by accusation than by gentle guidance. The quality of his teacher, Lai-Kur, comes through. All we know of Lai-Kur is a toast he once proposed, two toasts actually. Hakim Sanai was attached to the court of the king of Ghazna in the Persian empire of the mid 12th Century. The king was setting out on a pointless military expedition to India. Sanai was along to write the conventional laudatory record. That's what a court poet did. He wrote poems in praise of his patron, PR for the reigning regime. The expedition was riding by a walled garden from behind which came beautiful music and singing. They looked over the wall. It was Lai-Kur. He stood and proposed a toast, "To the blindness of the Kind!" "What do you mean?" "Bahramshah is going on this ridiculous expedition to India when he is needed here at home, and besides, what he is looking for is in himself." Lai-Kur then proposed another toast. "To the even greater blindness of Hakim Sanai!" "Please explain," said Sanai looking into the luminous eyes of the Sufi master. "You are unaware of the purpose of your life. You will come into Gods presence with these silly poems commending various political stupidities." Sanai immediately felt the truth of Lai-Kur. He left the service of Bahramshah and went on pilgrimage. The king desperately tried to lure him back, offering his daughter's hand in marriage and half the wealth of the kingdom! But Sanai was unshakeable in his new state. This profoundly disturbed the king, because obviously, he had been given the same darshan from Lai-Kur but was unable to make any change in his life. The invasion of India continued as planned. Sanai came back from his pilgrimage with the text of the Hadiqa, The Walled Garden of Truth. We can feel in it the lightning which struck and galvanized the court poet into the soul-work of his being. These two volume of morning talks given by Osho to his community in Pune, India, contain brilliant commentary on various passages from Sanai's Passges from Sanais's Hadiqua using David pendlebury's 1974 English translation. Osho approaches the sufi master from the inside out, that is, he speak of Sanai's beauty and wisdom from within his own enlightenment. This is not literary explication. It is more like friend speaking of friend. Osho uses Sanais text as a kind of grace, an attunement through which he conveys his own intelligence, his openness of being. A great range of subjects comes up, from the crux of this moment in history, twenty-five centuries after the Buddha's enlightenment, to whether it is more difficult for a man or a woman to decide to take sannyas (the ultimate commitment to a teacher.) I did not take sannyas with Osho. When I visited the commune in Poona in October of 1988, I already had a deep connection with a teacher, Bawa Muhaiyaddeen. I have told that story in some detail in other places (see p.140 of Rumi: The Book of Love.) One moment though, that I haven't included yet in any account-I just recently remembered it- is this: Bawa said to me that sometimes one has a mirror to see the front and a mirror behind to see the back. Two reflections are needed to see both sides, implying that I might meet two teachers. Bawa told me to do the Rumi work in 1978 ("It must be done.") Osho said in 1988, "This is beautiful poetry. It has to be because it is coming from Rumi's love, but you must watch out for it. Professor Coleman, for you, it can become ecstatic self-hypnosis." He nailed me with that hit, and I am still trying to assimilate the wisdom. I may be the only person to have had both Bawa Muhaiyaddeen and Osho as teachers. They were very different, but in one matter they were similar. Neither wanted "followers." That's not what I was, or am. I just need, and accept, all the help I can get. The Big Picture John Keats is right. This is a vale of soulmaking. Some planetary collective awareness is continually building, along with the tribal, personal, familial, national and neighborhood consciousnesses. They trickle, pour, drip-drop, and thunder down through each other, altering the consistency and intensity of who we are and what we know and feel. Soul is the usual hapless word we throw at the process. In the 1950's I took college courses in intellectual history. They were very fine, taught by the eccentric James Hall in the History Department at Chapel Hill. But they feel inadequate to the truth of the matter now. All that talks of isms, Marxism, romanticism, Darwinism, and no talk at all of the mystics and the artists. The geniuses of William Blake, Emily Dickinson, Whitman, Melville, Oscar Wilde, Hopkins and Nietzsche surely shaped the 19th Century at it came toward and became us in the 20th and now in the 21st. Only Wilde and Whitman of those were recognized at all in their times as having creative value. I contend that Osho will come to be seen as such a germane, yeasty, presence in our soul fermentation. Freud, Jung, Einstein, Joseph Campbell, Cormac McCarthy, Groucho Marx, the quiet tenderness of James Wright, the bleak cultural surgery of Robert Bly, many elements will come forward as we look back. Osho will be on of them. The history of soul makers is our most significant history. They are the moving indices of how we say our truth. That's why its important to examine the circumstances leading to Osho's death in 1990. Confessions of a Dangerous Mind These are times that try men's souls, says Thomas Paine in one of his firebrand pamphlets that shaped our democracy, such as it is. The times are still wearing down our souls, and it feels more like we have government of multinational corporations, by vested interests, and for the many secret agencies. The People are out in the street, but not much in the picture. The media barely covers the war protests, for example. But I saw a movie recently that gives me some hope, "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind." It's Chuck Barris' story, and I take it as a thinly disguised documentary, a true account of how the CIA hired him to kill thirty-three people during the Cold War. What emerges in the film is a new American type that may not yet have a name. Part Melville's confidence man, part Cormac McCarthy's judge in Blood Meridian. Serial killer innocent. Carnival barker secret agent. Barris was the goofball genius who thought of The Gong Show, The Dating Game, The Newlyweds, and god knows what else. P.T. Barnum and 007. New Age guru and ungovernable operative. Barris appears as himself at the end of this movie he directed, still alive and looking wise enough to show us this ugly truth. Truth have been other movies about spook-hitmen, but this one has the raw provocation of Thomas Paine. Our tax dollars paid a game show host to kill thirty-three people for various anti-communist reasons (I guess). How many others are there like Chuck Barris? Twenty? Thousands? Can The History of American Secret Agencies, Vols.I-12, ever be written? It's hoplessly naïve to even ask for that. Who determines who will be killed next and why? We may never know. This movie opens the issue to let us get a good look. I say, a democracy must not run permanently secret operations, or it will become something other than a democracy. There must be a way to have secure missions in wartime, during criminal investigation, stings, terrorist surveillance, etc. There are certainly many valid reasons for government not to say all that its doing, but at some point there has got to be a way of knowing exactly what we've done, who did what, and how the chain calling these shots, or some appointed underling is authorizing murders by whim. The Murder of Osho by the U.S. Government If the U.S. government used tax money to assassinate an enlightened being, I would like to trace the methodology. I have no doubt there are secret whackings for trivial, policy, reasons. But this is different. Osho was assassinated for his worldview. Fundamentalist orthodoxies have ever opposed, and even killed, innovators who break with the past. Hallaj, jesus, Suhrawardi. If this is our orthodoxy, I want to look more closely at it. Tom Robbins assessed the perceived threat of Osho by the Reagan administration like this. "Government authorities intuitively sense something dangerous in his message, something that can set men and women loose from their control. Nothing frightens the state, or its partner in crime, organized religion, so much as the prospect of a population thinking for itself and living free." When I began this introduction, I had intended to reveal with specifics how Tom Robbins' theory played out in this instance. I don't know who I thought I was. The research needed would take years; require a covert team of counter-espionage experts, moles, a huge budget, silencers, exile, and cunning. None of which I have energy of resources for. There are several books that will be helpful to anyone wishing to pursue this matter, and someone should. Was [Osho] poisoned by Ronald Reagan's America? by sue Appleton and Max Brecher's A Passage to America. I have looked into those two. A lot of careful investigation went into them. There are specific names and places, uncovered while the trail was still hot and memories fresh, that could be followed up on. I sense that Max Brecher is being as factual as he possibly can be, and to go on record, for what its worth, it looks like to me that Osho was poisoned by some faction of the powers that be. I have met his doctor, George Meredith, (Amrito) and I believe him. Amrito supervised the thallium tests. He says that Osho's health changed radically after that strange interlude he spent alone in an Oklahoma jail in November of 1985. Thallium is an untraceable (after a year) heavy metal, but the symptoms of thallium poisoning are clearly set forth in the medical literature. Osho developed most if not all of them, and he had exhibited none of them prior to November 1985. I am no scholar of the evidence, but I do believe that he was murdered by the U.S. government. Someone else will have to present the full case. We need for whoever put the poison in Osho's jail food to come forward and tell us who ordered that. Nobody need be punished. Nothing can help now, but we do need to know the truth. Most probably the villain is Reagan, a vegetable and the victim, Osho, is fine ash and spirit. I am grateful for this chance to say my outrage publicity, even if imbedded in an introduction to observations on an obscure Sufi poet. Hakim Sanai would approve. Another toast, pure springwater: to the true mystrics, Sanai, Osho, Bawa and Lai-Kur, our gardens on the ruins.

Meditation Inc.

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(144 Techniques to Transform the Quality of your Work and Life) by Osho Paperback (Edition: 2006)

Tao Publishing Pvt. Ltd ISBN 817261201X Size: 11.4" X 8.1" Pages: 114 (Illustrated throughout in Black & White) About the Author Osho defies categorization, reflecting everything from the individual quest for meaning to the most urgent social and political issues facing society today. His books are not written but are transcribed from recordings of extemporaneous talks given over a period of thirty-five years. Osho has been described by The Sunday Times in London as one of the "1000 Makers of the 20th Century" and by Sunday Mid-Day in India as one of the ten people - along with Gandhi, Nehru and Buddha - who have changed the destiny of India. Osho has a stated aim of helping to create the conditions for the birth of a new kind of human being, characterized as "Zorba the Buddha" - one whose feet are firmly on the ground, yet whose hands can touch the stars. Running like a thread through all aspects of Osho is a vision that encompasses both the timeless wisdom of the East and the highest potential of Western science and technology. He is synonymous with a revolutionary contribution to the science of inner transformation and an approach to meditation which specifically addresses the accelerated pace of contemporary life. The unique Osho Active Meditations are designed to allow the release of accumulated stress in the body and mind so that it is easier to be still and experience the thought free state of meditation. Back of the Book Osho continues to inspire millions of people worldwide in their search to define a new approach to individual spirituality that is self-directed and responds to the everyday challenges of contemporary life. His unique perspective encompasses both the timeless wisdom of the East and the highest potential of Western science and technology, and he was named by the Sunday Times of London as one of the "1000 Makers of the 20th Century". The American novelist Tom Robbins has called him "the most dangerous man since jesus Christ." "To he total in your work is not addiction, it is a kind of meditation. When you are totally in your work, your work has a possibility of perfection, you will have a joy arising out of perfect work. "If you can be perfect and total in work, you can be total in no-work-just sitting silently, totally silent. You know how to be total. You can close your eyes and you can be totally in. You know the secret of being total. So to be total in work is helpful in meditation". Introduction If work is just a four-letter word to you, be ready for a surprise. With osho's eye view on the subject, work has been reworked! Awareness transforms the ordinary into the awesome. Joy rules-and apart from the fact that fun is, well, fun, it is also vital food for the creative mind. Look at your own life:When you're serious or stressed out, you're contracted, right? Available, flexible, relaxed, present, able to tune into the light side of things, you can more easily access your intelligence and creativity. Happily, some global changes have converged to bring about a change in many people's attitude towards their occupation. One of these is the dissolving the authoritarian structure in favor of the team concept. In addition, with companies now tending to measure the output and effectiveness of the employees work-rather than how many hours they are required to put in- people have begun to ask themselves: "What do I want to do? How do I want to spend my time?" More people are asking themselves what life is about, and what they really want from it. There is evidence of this trend in recent media converge. For example, Sydsvenska Dagbladet, the third biggest daily paper in Sweden, not long ago ran an article that stated, "the employers who fail to create fun at work will have trouble recruiting the best brains to their organization," and, "if people really enjoy what they are doing together in an organization it creates a tremendous energy. If the office isn't so great or the coffee machine doesn't work, suddenly it doesn't matter so much." When employees at Ericsson- the telecommunications company-were asked what success is, the older managers answered, "Money and position," while the younger engineers responded, "success is being able to work with something that captures your heart." CHEF [it means "Boss"] is the biggest monthly business magazine in Scandinavia, and a few months back featured a cover that read: "50 Ways to improve your mood-Fun at Work." Regus Business Centers- it provides "instant officer" that come fully equipped, furnished and staffed- wants its centers to be "destinations that workers find fun and engaging." Mark Dixon, its English founder and chairman says, "When I talk to customers, I listen for the word enjoy. The office should be fun. If you enjoy yourself, you'll do your best work." Biel, Switzerland, has given birth to the Brainstorm-an "ideas-factory." Available for both business and individuals, its customers have included the Swiss Cancer Association wanting to know how to promote its sun-protection lotion, and an elderly woman wanting to restart a love life. "If you're serious about being creative," suggests Mettler, one of the founders of the business, "you've got to give yourself license to be playful." So when they are confronted with a really challenging situation they call in the experts in playfulness- kids! The company wants to "blend the professionalism of experts with the unbridled enthusiasm of kids." Mettler points our, "We have 17 year olds working on products and campaigns for such companies as Nestle and the Swiss Railway." The company is looking for "crazy ideas. We use kids to find those ideas because they know how to talk without letting their thinking get in their way." But doesn't being playful mean being irresponsible? Just the reverse: we tend to a avoid responsibility when it's connected with something like a duty or a burden, something we don't really care about. When we are having fun, our life-energy is activated; with its being allowed to flow freely, the intelligent person will naturally feel responsible for what he initiates through his creative participation. Fun is no longer something you do outside your work time; fun is what fuels your work. And clearly it's great to spend time and money relaxing because that is only going to positively impact your work and chances of success. South good to you? But, maybe you're asking, how to make work juicy, rewarding and an extension of my meditation, with the silence and centered that it brings me? How to "walk the talk"? Being centered and felling peaceful while sitting still with your eyes closed, in an environment created to support meditation, is one thing. Staying cool, calm and connected when you are being bombarded with time, people and performance pressures, when you are trying to balance your working life with family commitments, when there are health or financial issues hanging over you, is quite another. But if meditation isn't of any practical, lasting benefit, why would you bother with it in the first place? If you are currently visiting the International Osho Meditation Resort for a length of time or plan to do so in the future, one way of learning how to keep meditation as the center of your day is through the work as Meditation Program. Find out more about this program through the work as Meditation Office. This compilation is a selection of techniques to help you keep your cool when the going gets hot, in every aspect of everyday life, especially in your place of employment. Starting off your day with the active method called OSHO Dynamic Meditation: the perfect way to wake up you're sleeping energies and throw off any residual tension. Its "sister" method, known as OSHO Kundalini Meditation, is particularly recommended for the end of the day, to shake off the stress we all accumulate through a typical working day. If your schedule makes it difficult for you to regularly practice one or both of these hour long techniques, you'll find many shorter methods within these pages- some of them simply small devices or remembrances.

Satyam, Shivam, Sundaram {Truth, Godliness and Beauty}

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by OSHO Hardcover (Edition: 2004)

Tao Publishing Pvt. Ltd. ISBN 8172611927 Size: 8.5” X 6.8” Pages: 418 From the Jacket There are only three things that happen in your life. One has already happened your birth. You could not do anything about it. Another is death. Again, although it has not happened yet, you cannot do anything about it. So drop these two things completely, they are beyond your grasp. Between these two remain life, love, rejoicing. Just the simple art of let go will turn every human being into a religious person, because religion is not believing in god, religion is not believing in pope, religion is not believing in any ideological system. Religion is knowing that which is eternal within you satam shivam sundaram that which is the truth of your existence, that which is your divinity, and that which is your beauty, your grace, your splendour. The art of let go is synonymous with experiencing the immaterial, the immeasurable your authentic being.

The Supreme Doctrine: Discourses on the Ken Upanishad

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by OSHO Hardcover (Edition: 1997)

The Rebel Publishing House ISBN 8172610742 Size: 8.5” X 6.7” Pages: 388

From the Jacket Meditation creates a distance, it gives you a perspective. You go beyond the problem. The level of consciousness changes. Through psychoanalysis you remain on the same level. The level never changes; you are adjusted on the same level again. Your awareness, your consciousness, your witnessing capacity, doesn’t change. As you move in meditation you go higher and higher. You can look down at your problems. They are now in the valley, and you have come to a hill. From this perspective, this height, all the problems look different. And the more the distance grows the more you become capable of observing them as if they don not belong to you. Psychoanalysis is a temporary relief because psychoanalysis cannot conceive of anything which transcends ego. A problem can be solved only when you can go beyond it. Yoga, Tantra and all meditation techniques, they are based upon a different ground. They say that the problems are there, the problems are around you but you are never the problem. You can transcend them; you can look at them like an observer is looking down from the hill into the valley. This witnessing self can solve the problem. Really, just by witnessing a problem it is half solved already. Because when you can witness a problem, when you can observe it impartially, when you are not involved in it, you can stand by the side and look at it. The very clarity that comes out of this witnessing gives you the clue, gives you the secret key.

OSHO

Living Tao: Talks on Fragments from "Tao Te Ching" by Lao Tzu

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by OSHO Hardcover (Edition: 2003)

Tao Publishing Pvt. Ltd. ISBN 8172611870 Size: 7.6” X 5.0” Pages: 288

From the Jacket To be ordinary is the most extraordinary thing that can happen to you; but the desire to be extraordinary, to be spiritual, supermen, not of this world by of the other world, is a mania. Only Tao is a natural religion. All other religions are in subtle ways unnatural. Lao Tzu is the future of the whole of humanity and all possibilities of bliss and benediction lie through him, pass through him.

OSHO

Life is illogical and if you become too logical you become closed to life. Then you move in a mental direction, not in an existential direction. Lao Tzu is not logical, he is very, very simple man, not a scholar at all. He does not known anything about arguments: he simply watches life, he is a great watcher of life, a witness, a spectator.

OSHO

We are in Tao, because where else can we do? Just as the fish lives in the ocean and is completely oblivious of the ocean, we are living in Tao and are completely oblivious of Tao. We live in Tao, through Tao, but we are not aware of it. The Tao exists, because without the Tao trees will not grow, and stars will not move, and the blood will not circulate, and the breath will not come in. life will disappear.

OSHO

Zen: The Mystery and the Poetry of the Beyond

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by OSHO Hardcover

The Rebel Publishing House ISBN 3893380825 Size: 7.5” X 4.8” Pages: 152 Introduction Imagine a place where the barriers that usually divide people-the barriers of race, of language, of nation, of political and religious ideology- no longer exist. A place where laughter is the most commonly heard sound when a group of people gather. A place devoted to helping each individual discover and express his or her own uniqueness and creativity. A place where washing the floor is an activity just as honored and valued as making a painting, of organizing a staff of a hundred people. Paradise? No, Poona. Osho Commune International, It’s called, and it is flourishing despite the opposition of governments and organized religions all over the world to what it represents. Osho, the man at the center of this extraordinary place is an unstoppable hurricane of transforming energy, a one-man rebellion against the whole past, an irresistible call to wake up before it’s so late there won’t be any future. It is our habit to look at the world through the eyes of our past experience and knowledge. Religion, therefore, is a Sunday affair, or a life of renunciation, or the promise of a paradise after death. It depends on our conditioning. Osho’s work is to dismantle that conditioning, to turn our attention towards “the mystery and the poetry of the beyond.” It has made Him very unpopular with those who prefer people to be conditioned and therefore obedient, faithful and otherwise supportive of those who have got us in the mess we are in. Osho is redefining religion, breathing life back into the spirit of man. And as you will see on the pages which follow, he does it as it has never been done before. It is time to become a flower, He says. I have come to you as a spring.

Ma Deva Sarito Poona 1990

Vedanta Seven Steps to Samadhi

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(Talks on Indian Mysticism) by Osho Hardcover (Edition: 2006)

Tao Publishing Pvt. Ltd. ISBN 8172610122 Size: 8.6" X 6.6" Pages: 430 About Osho Osho defies categorization, reflecting everything from the individual quest for meaning to the most urgent social and political issues facing society today. His books are not written but are transcribed from recordings of extemporaneous talks given over a period of thirty-five years. Osho has been described by the Sunday Times in London as one of the "1000 Makers of the 20th Century" and by Sunday Mid-Day in India as one of the ten people - along with Gandhi, Nehru and Buddha - who have changed the destiny of India. Osho has a stated aim of helping to create the conditions for the birth of a new kind of human being, characterized as "Zorba the Buddha" - one whose feet are firmly on the ground, yet whose hands can touch the stars. Running like a thread through all aspects of Osho is a vision that encompasses both the timeless wisdom of the East and the highest potential of Western science and technology. He is synonymous with a revolutionary contribution to the science of inner transformation and an approach to meditation which specifically addresses the accelerated pace of contemporary life. The unique Osho Active Meditations are designed to allow the release of accumulated stress in the body and mind so that it is easier to be still and experience the thought-free state of meditation. From the Jacket For over 35 years, Osho ahs spoken to international audiences of seeker, addressing their essential questions and concerns. The international press calls him "A 21st Century Prophet" and "an oracle of modern times." His books and audio lectures are international bestsellers. Osho himself says that he is neither a prophet nor a philosopher; he is simply sharing his own experience; he is simply sharing his own experience. The Sunday Times of London described him as "one of the 1000 makers of the 20th century" and American author Tom Robbins has called him "the most dangerous man since Jesus Christ" - both comments reflecting the profound influence of his revolutionary approach to the science of inner transformation. Spoken with authority, clarity, sharpness and humor, his insights address both the timeless and timely concerns that tend to escape our notice in the clamor and overload of daily life.

The Revolution

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by Osho Hardcover (Edition: 2003)

Tao Publishing Pvt. Ltd. ISBN 8172611358 Size: 8.2" X 5.6" Pages: 283 About the Osho Osho defies categorization, reflecting everything from the individual quest for meaning to the most urgent social and political issues facing society today. His books are not written but are transcribed from recordings of extemporaneous talks given over a period of thirty-five years. Osho has been described by the Sunday Times in London as one of the "1000 Makers of the 20th Century" and by Sunday Mid-Day in India as one of the ten people - along with Gandhi, Nehru and Buddha - who have changed the destiny of India. Osho has a stated aim of helping to create the conditions for the birth of a new kind of human being, characterized as "Zorba the Buddha" - one whose feet are firmly on the ground, yet whose hands can touch the stars. Running like a thread through all aspects of Osho is a vision that encompasses both the timeless wisdom of the East and the highest potential of Western science and technology. He is synonymous with a revolutionary contribution to the science of inner transformation and an approach to meditation which specifically addresses the accelerated pace of contemporary life. The unique Osho Active Meditations are designed to allow the release of accumulated stress in the body and mind so that it is easier to be still and experience the thought-free state of meditation.

Ancient Music in the Pines

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by Osho Hardcover (Edition: 2003)

Tao Publishing Pvt.Ltd. ISBN 8172610793 Size: 8.5" X 5.5" Pages: 288(B & W Illus: 20)

Introduction That is this ancient music? Osho says it is the soundless sound, the sound of existence itself and it is surrounding us all the time but we just cannot hear it. He tells us that listening is all that meditation is about - how to listen to that which is already there. With the help of five really great Zen stories and questions from disciples, Osho goes into careful detail on what meditation is. He helps us examine the mechanism of our mind and how to understand it, because without this understanding we may go on doing things which help the mind to function in its old patterns. And to hear the ancient music, mind has to be put aside. The first chapter gives an in-depth explanation of the differences in the right and left hemispheres of our brains. This is illustrated with the Zen story of a master thief whose mastership comes from his ability to act through the hemisphere of his right-brain, his intuition. A chapter on life, death and love gives us the key to living and loving, how to accept the certainty of death, and there is some lovely help with relaxation as Osho talks about the simplicity of enlightenment. I was working on the production of this book and many times I would look at a page and there would be something absolutely relevant to what was happening that day, as for instance in the chapter where Osho is talking on how we make problems for ourselves. One sentence that struck me like a Zen gong was, "The ego is not an entity - not a thing - it is just a tension." Aah what a sigh of relief I gave when that sank in. all these years I have been looking for my ego in order to drop it, and I only need to relax it is so simple. For many days I was fascinated by the sight of a Japanese swami who sat drawing in the garden. This was Swami Prem Vasant and he agreed to create drawings of plants and trees to use in this book. Each drawing is done in such detail and looks so lifelike that you will sometimes think it might be a photograph. Osho describes creativity as the main quality that makes Zen superior to any other way of life. He talks about how the artist sees each leaf of a tree as different, unique, individual, and how for the poet each word has its own subtle music. Osho takes us into the world of Zen where we are encouraged, or rather inspired, to grow towards more sensitivity, to be more alive, more silent, so that we may hear it - that music - it is here. Shhh!. Back of the Book I can see clouds a thousand miles away, hear ancient music in the pines. You can also hear it. It is your birthright. If you miss it, only you and only you will be responsible for it. Listen in the pines just listen. In this very moment it is there. Someone asked Buddha, "What is the greatest miracle?" He said, "Paravritti, turning in." Turn in, tune in, and you will be able to see clouds a thousand miles away, and you will be able to hear the ancient music in the pines. Meditation is a state of clarity, not a state of mind. Mind is confusion. Mind is never clear - it cannot be. Thoughts create clouds around you, they are subtle clouds. A mist is created by them and the clarity is lost. When thoughts disappear, when there are no more clouds around you, when you are in your simple beingness, clarity happens. Then you can see far away then, you can see to the very end of existence. Then your gaze becomes penetrating, to the very core of being.

Joshu the Lion’s Roar

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by Osho Rajneesh Hardcover

A Rebel Book ISBN 389338068X Size: 8.2" X 5.8" Pages: 200 (14 Black & White Illustrations) Introduction Of all the stories Osho Rajneesh has shared with His disciples through the years this story is surely one of the al time favorites: “I have told you a story, a very ancient story, about a lioness giving birth to a cub while she was jumping from one hillock to another hillock. The cub fell into a crowd of sheep and grew up amongst the sheep. There was no way for him to know that he was not a sheep. And the sheep were not afraid, they never thought that he was dangerous. “One day an old lion saw this phenomenon and could not believe it! He had never seen any lion walking in a crowd of sheep. The moment sheep see a lion they start running-naturally. But this young lion believed he was a sheep. “The old lion was a man just like Joshu. He got hold of him. He started trembling, and the old lion said, ‘You are trembling and weeping and crying and asking that you should be released because you want to join your group. There is something you don’t know, it seems you are unaware, and I will not leave you unless I make you aware. You come with me!. “He dragged him to a nearby lake. The lake was silent-no ripples, no wind was there. He took the young lion to the edge of the water and told him, ‘Look in the water. Look at my face and your face.’ “Instantaneously, from the young lion a roar came out. It was not any effort, it was simply the fact of seeing that he is a lion immediately a roar that resounded in faraway mountains. “The young lion thanked the old lion and said, ‘You have been very kind to me. Otherwise my whole life I would have lived chewing grass with the sheep. You have given me a new birth.” Somewhere deep within us all, the message is heard clearly: we are not living as full a life as we are meant to be. Discontentedly we live on desires, dreams, wanting love and understanding, never reaching. Wondering why a sheep’s life is so empty, boring, unfulfilling. But then a master comes with soft words or a sudden leap; to shake us up, wake us from our sleep; to take us to his still and silent pool in which we see our true faces reflecting. This has been the work, the play, of all the masters down the ages: to wake us from our dreams. This is the game that Joshu was playing with his disciples eleven hundred years ago. The same game Osho Rajneesh goes on playing with us, here, today. In these eight discourses, Osho Rajneesh brings Joshu back to life. Not just by commenting on him or his life, but by being the same kind of man-a master, breathing the essence of Zen. With the ‘whack!’ of a Zen stick, the shock of an outrageous joke, or the offer of a cup of tea, Rajneesh and Joshu together are saying, “Wake up, recognize your being. From the Jacket Joshu is one of the most loved masters in the Zen tradition. There have been great masters, but nobody has been loved so much as Joshu-and he deserved it. His working on people, on disciples, was so soft, so delicate, that only a poet can manage it…a great craftsmanship in carving buddhas out of the stones of humanity. Every man is just a big rock. It needs a craftsman, a great artist, a sculptor, who with loving hands removes all that is unessential and leaves only that which is absolutely essential. That absolutely essential is your Buddha. About the Author Osho Rajneesh was born in Kuchwada, Madhya Pradesh, India, on December 11, 1931. From his earliest childhood, his was a rebellious and independent spirit, challenging all accepted religious, social and political traditions and insisting on experiencing the truth for himself rather than acquiring knowledge and beliefs given by others. At the age of twenty-one, on March 21, 1953, Rajneesh became enlightened. He says about himself, “I am no longer seeking, searching for anything. Existence has opened all its doors to me, I cannot even say that I belong to existence, because I am just a part of it…When a flower blossoms, I blossom with it. When the sun rises, I rise with it. The ego in me, which keeps people separate, is no longer there. My body is part of nature, my body is part of nature, my being is part of the whole. I am not a separate entity.” He graduated from the University of Sagar with First Class Honors in philosophy. While a student he was All-India Debating Champion and the Gold Medal winner. After a nine-year stint as professor or philosophy at the University of Jabalpur, he left to travel around the country giving talks, challenging orthodox religious leaders in public debate, upsetting traditional beliefs, and shocking the status quo. In the course of his work, Rajneesh has spoken on virtually every aspect of the development of human consciousness. From Sigmund Freud to Chuang Tzu, from George Gurdjieff to Gautam Buddha, from Jesus Christ to Rabindranath Tagore… He has distilled from each the essence of what is significant to the spiritual quest of contemporary man, based not on intellectual understanding but tested against his own existential experience. He belongs to no tradition – “I am the beginning of a totally new religious consciousness,” he says. “Please don’t connect me with the past – it is not even worth remembering.” His talks to disciples and seekers from all over the world have been published in more than six hundred fifty volumes, and translated into over thirty languages. And he says, “My message is not a doctrine, not a philosophy. My message is a certain alchemy, a science of transformation, so only those who are willing to die as they are and be born again into something so new that they can not even imagine it right now…only those few courageous people will be ready to listen, because listening is going to be risky. Listening, you have taken the first step towards being reborn. So it is not a philosophy that you can just make an overcoat of and go bragging about. It is not a doctrine where you can find consolation for harassing questions… No, my message is not some verbal communication. It is far more risky. It is nothing less than death and rebirth.” Osho Rajneesh is now residing at Rajneeshdham in Poona, India, where thousands of disciples and seekers gather throughout the year to participate in the meditations and other programs offered there.

The True Name

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(Talks on the Japuji-Saheb of Guru Nanak Dev) by Osho Paperback (Edition: 2007)

Hind Pocket Books Pvt. Ltd ISBN 9788121612029 Size: 8.5" X 5.5" Pages: 528

Back of the Book "The Japuji were Nanak's first proclamations after the union with the beloved. The Japuji are the very first words uttered by him after self-realization. Therefore they hold a very special place in the sayings of Nanak. They are the latest news brought back from the kingdom of heaven".-Osho "Osho's discourses on Nanak's songs made me aware of many things which previously were not clear to me. I started listening every morning to his discourses in which he has explained the teachings of the Upanishads, Vedas and Sufi mystics. It confirmed my belief that Osho is one of the greatest souls born in this country…. These discourses are not just for Sikhs but are useful for all those who want to move on the path of devotion."-Khushwant Singh About the Book For over 35 years, Osho spoke to international audiences of seekers, addressing their essential questions and concerns. The international press calls him "A 21st Century Prophet" and "an oracle of modern times." His books and audio lectures are international bestsellers. Osho himself says that he is neither a prophet nor a philosopher, he is simply sharing his own experience. The Sunday Times of London described him as "one of the 1000 makers of the 20th century" and American author Tom Robbins has called him "the most dangerous man since jesus Christ" - both comments reflecting the profound influence of his revolutionary approach to the science of inner transformation. Spoken with authority, clarity, sharpness and humor, his insights address both the timeless and timely concerns that tend to escape our notice in the clamor and overload of daily life. About Osho Osho defies categorization, reflecting everything from the individual quest for meaning to the most urgent social and political issues facing society today. His books are not written but are transcribed from recordings of extemporaneous talks given over a period of thirty-five years. Osho has been described by the Sunday Times in London as one of the "1000 Makers of the 20th Century" and by Sunday Mid-Day in India as one of the ten people - along with Gandhi, Nehru and Buddha - who have changed the destiny of India. Osho has a stated aim of helping to create the conditions for the birth of a new kind of human being, characterized as "Zorba the Buddha"- one whose feet are firmly on the ground, yet whose hands can touch the stars. Running like a thread through all aspects of Osho is a vision that encompasses both the timeless wisdom of the East and the highest potential of Western science and technology. He is synonymous with a revolutionary contribution to the science of inner transformation and an approach to meditation which specifically addresses the accelerated pace of contemporary life. The unique Osho Active Meditations TM are designed to allow the release of accumulated stress in the body and mind so that it is easier to be still and experience the thought free state of meditation.

Dynamic Meditation

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by Osho Paperback

Osho International Foundation Size: 11.6" X 8.3" Pages: 372 From the Book There are as many paths as there are minds. Each mind requires a particular path and each method is true for a particular person. No method is true as such or false as such. It depends on the person to whom it is to be applied. So yoga is basically individual. Whenever a society changes, mind changes. I have been developing new methods for the new mind. The old methods wee developed for a particular type of mind that no longer exists in the world. For example, Buddhist methods were developed for the particular type of mind that Buddha was encountering. Now that mind no longer exists and those methods have become useless. A new mind has come into being. The type of mind that Buddha was facing and working with was basically based on faith. The whole training of the Indian mind was based on faith, doubt was never allowed. Now, all lover the world, the modern mind is based on doubt. The scientific approach uses doubt, a mind cannot be scientific unless it can take doubt to the very extreme. We have trained our minds for doubt, so those methods that were based on faith have become useless. For the modern mind, they cannot be used. We have to devise new methods for the modern mind – based on doubt; on experimenting, without faith as a basic condition. In each age, new devises are needed. All devices can be used only for a certain time. My method is more scientific and less religious. It gives you a religious experience, but the method itself is more scientific than religious, more psychological than spiritual. The modern mind only accepts the body and the mind; the spiritual realm is taken as a romantic fallacy. So you cannot begin anything from the spiritual. At the most, you can start from the psychological. So my method is more psychological than spiritual. It leads ultimately to the spiritual dimension but it starts from psychology. We have been doing much with the human mind, particularly in the West. The religious tradition – Jewish, Christian Islam and now even Hindu – have all been suppressive. We have layers and layers of suppressions, and unless they are released, thrown out, exhaled, nothing can be done as far as the inner journey is concerned. So my method works with catharsis. The first basic thing is to go through a catharsis. Unless the repressions in your mind are released, you cannot proceed further. They are the blocks. They were never there before. Particularly in the East they have never before existed. The kind was not so repressed; we accepted things as they are. But now, the whole world lives under a Christian shadow. Everything natural has become condemned. The body, sex – all these things are condemned. We are in an inner conflict. Reason has become supreme and it suppressed everything that is not rational. Reason is just a tiny part of the whole being of man, just a small fragment, but this small fragment has become supreme, dictatorial. It has suppressed everything else in the personality. These suppressed layers have to be released first. Unless they are released and one comes to a deep harmony within – with one’s own instinct, nature, body-nothing further can be done. All the old methods start with you as you are. For example, Mahesh Yogi’s Transcendental Meditation. It starts with you as you are. It gives you a particular technique, a mantra to work with. The mantra will help you to calm down, but it cannot transform you. It can only make you more adjusted to a society that is, itself, ill. It can make you more still, a certain well being will come to you, but no transformation will happen because the repressed layers will remain where they are. They are not even touched by it You by-pass your suppressions and do something with your mind that only gives it a superficial tranquility. All the old methods – if used directly, without catharsis – will not be of much help. So my method starts with catharsis. Only when your tensions, are released can you jump deep within yourself. The jump is possible. And I think that for us today, it has become urgent that we move within. But the preparation is bound to be different than it has been in the past, so my method works first as a catharsis. Then, it tries to create a harmony with you body. We are separated from our bodies. All the old traditions have emphasized that body and mind are two things. That is absolutely wrong. Body and mind are just two poles of one existence. The old traditions have emphasized that you are not the body, but my emphasis is quite the contrary. You are the body, you are more than the body, you go beyond the body, but you are also the body. There is no division as such, no conflict. We have created the conflict, and that conflict has created a gap. The gap has to be bridged. My method is a means to bridge the gap. Only when it is bridged do you become whole. And then, the jump becomes possible. You cannot jump if you are fragmented. One part of you cannot jump ahead of another part. You have to take the jump as a whole being. To me, ‘holy’ means whole. This wholeness has to be created. That is what I am trying to do. If you take it for granted that you are not the body then your body becomes closed: a dead thing hanging over you. Then you are not living in it, just carrying it. So to bring you back to your body is the first thing that must be done. Then you have to be brought back to your mind, you have to become one with the whole mind. Only then can you become one with the spirit. Man must first be rooted in the body and then rooted in his natural mind. Only then can be fall down deep, into his natural depths. So I am a yea sayer; I am against all conflict. I accept nature in its totality, with no condemnation. Only when there is acceptance can there be transformation. That is why 1 am not very concerned with old traditions of yoga – not concerned at all. A compilation on Osho Dynamic Meditation This compilation of excerpts includes all the public comments Osho makes about Osho Dynamic Meditation and is presented in the order in which they were spoken, so you can appreciate the gradual development of this technique over time. You will notice that in the first references, the instructions for the fourth stage are “to just fall down as if dead, relaxed and to become a witness.” Later the technique was refined to its current format of five stages with a “stop” at the end of the first three stages. Bold text for some keywords are added to help the reader find the more specific references to the technique. Back of the Book Just to be is such a great celebration if you know how to take the conditioning off. This “taking off” you will learn through Dynamic Meditation. It will not be caused; it will come to you uncaused. Meditation will create a situation in which you will come to the unknown; by and by you will be pushed from your habitual, mechanical, robot-like personality. Be courageous: practice Dynamic Meditation vigorously and all else will follow. It will not be your doing, it will be a happening.

The Laughing Swamis

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(Australian Sannyasin Disciples of Swami Satyananda Saraswati and Osho Rajneesh)

Motilal Banarsidass Publishers Pvt. Ltd ISBN 8120811186 Size: 8.5" X 5.4" Pages: 239 Back of the Book In 1895 Swami Vivekananda of the Ramakrishna Mission initiated two Europeans, one a woman, into the ancient Indian tradition of sannyasa or world-renunciation. This practice was continued in the first part of the twentieth century by Swami Shivananda of Rishikesh. From the late sixties onwards, with the sudden expansion of European awareness of Indian Spirituality, a vast hord of "foreign religious heads" have spread through India in incomprehensibly large numbers (to quote Gita Mehta in Karma Cola). Many thousands of these have assumed the orange robes, beads and Sanskrit names of the Indian renunciate, for various periods of time and with differing degrees of commitment. Foremost in initiating Western disciples during this time have been Swami Satyananda Saraswati, a wandering (parivrajaka) mendicant, and the late Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (or "Osho" as he was known prior to his death). Who were these disciples? What were their backgrounds in their own societies? What did sannyasa mean to them? How did they live in their ashrams and residences, in India and abroad? How had they changed when they returned to the West? This book seeks to answer these questions with reference to the Australian disciples of Satyananda and Osho. It provides a careful study of both Indian concepts and practices of renunciation and of the western "Counter Culture" of the sixties, which formed an integral part of the background of these seekers. The teachings of Satyananda and Rajneesh on renunciation are analyzed in depth. Finally, the major part of the book is devoted to a description of the lives and experiences of the renunciates themselves. Harry Aveling was born in Sydney, Australia in 1942. He holds postgraduate degrees in Arts (Indonesian and Malay Studies), Education (Multicultural Studies) and Theology (Franciscan Spirituality and Theology). Translator of over fifty volumes of Indonesian and Malay literature, he was awarded the Anugerah Pengembangan Sastra EssoGapena for his contributions to the international recognition of Malay Literature, in 1991. He is currently attached to the Department of Malay Studies, National University of Singapore. Preface This book aims to study the reinterpretation of the ancient Indian tradition of world-renunciation, sannyasa, by two contemporary teachers, Swami Satyananda (b.1923), and Osho (1931-1990) otherwise known as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. The major focus of the study is on Australians who were disciples of these teachers during the seventies and eighties. In particular, the work seeks to describe the cultural settings for renunciation both in India and in Australia after 1965; and to explore the motive, understanding and lifestyles of the Australians who became sannyasin disciple of these two teachers. In this Preface I would like to provide an overview of the whole work. The study is based on a wide range of texts, including classical scriptures, ethnographies, talks in which Satyananda and Rajneesh explained their position on renunciation, and the replies to a 'Questionnaire on Sannyasa' provided by sixty-seven respondents: twenty full sannyasin initiates and twenty-two 'householder sannyasin' disciples of Rajneesh. Part One serves as an introduction to the volume and deals with the methodology used- an analysis of 'discourses', and the problems related to the distribution of the questionnaire to a dispersed, unmodified, self-protective population. Part Two presents the traditional Indian theory and practice of renunciation. Sannyasa was considered the last of four life-stages. It has been interpreted in various ways in the scriptures: as a continuous state of divine ecstasy outside the conventional society, by the Vedas; as a form of self-control based on knowledge of the Self (atman) and God (Brahman, the Ground of Being), in the Upanishads, as a defined code of practice, with specific external insignia, grades and obligations, in the sannyasa Upanishads; and as a state of inner detachment from the consequences of one's action (karma), in the Bhagavad-Gita. Contemporary sociological research suggests that renunciates in India are expected to wear the insignia of their order; to be characterized by the quality of 'holiness'; to have some knowledge of Sanskrit texts, and skill in ritual or devotional leadership; and to follow a distinctive lifestyle based on asceticism and physical restraint (including sexual celibacy). Most renunciates derive from small joint families of the Brahmin caste, particularly those engaged in farming. Most are also illiterate, and rely on begging for their food and other needs. Although some sannyasins are initiated before the age of thirty, most are initiated after this age and many after the age of sixty. For most, a desire to lead a spiritual life is less important than the opportunity to follow a convenient and respectable existence. Some Europeans have joined orders of mainly Western renunciates, which seek to maintain a lifestyle similar to those of Indian renunciates. Unlike their Indian counterparts, these Western renunciates have been aged in their twenties at the time of first joining, been well-educated (often to tertiary level), were single or divorced, and have expressed a strong need to understand the world in religious terms. Part three concentrating with the lives and teachings of Satyananda and Osho. By concentrating on the 'inner essence' of sannyasa, both have sought to justify the extension of renunciation to non-Indians, non-Hindus, and women. Of the two teachers, Rajneesh was the more radical, in that he sought to use the inner essence of sannyasa as a means of attacking what he considered to be abuses of contemporary renunciate lifestyles in India. Part Four deals with the experiences of Australian renunciates and forms the major part of the study. Chapter Six shows the limited position of religion in the Australian society, and the unusual place of Asian-based religions in a Christian, materialist and racist society. Such religions are most likely to appeal to those who are not well-integrated into the mainstream of society and are available to the adoption of new and unusualidentites. The rise of the 'counter-culture' in the last 1960s and throughout the seventies created such a situation. Chapter Seven presents the main features of the counter-culture, beginning with the opposition to the war in Vietnam, and moving to more personal issues such as feminism, new arrangements of shared accommodation, new concepts of 'personal power', particularly as developed in the 'growth movement' which was a part of Humanistic Psychology, the use of drugs, and the rise of movements devoted to 'eastern mysticism' including the practice of yoga. Australians attracted to a commitment to either Swami Satyananda or Osho had backgrounds similar to those of the other Western renunciates described above. They were usually under the age of thirty, well educated, with some religious background in a mainstream Christian denomination, and often single or recently divorced. The demographic details of the respondents are summarized in Chapter Eight. In this chapter it is suggested that three cohorts can be distinguished among each of the group of full sannyasins, householder sannyasins and neo-sannyasins. The first cohort took initiation in the seventies, often in India, and were closest to the values of the counter-culture. The second cohort, who took initiation in the early to mid-eighties, moved into a known and defined situation, and spent less or no time in India. The third cohort have joined after the major collapse of both movements in the later part of the eighties, and exhibit distinctively individual reasons for joining. Members of the second and third cohorts show less attachment to the values of the counter-culture than do members of the first cohort. Nevertheless, all belong to what Mannheim (1952:306) has described as a 'generational unit', a group o persons with a common psychological and emotional perception of the world and characteristic way of behaving. Chapter Nine, Ten and Eleven describe each group in detail by turn. The chapter follow a similar pattern, beginning with the life of a representative member of the group; the experiences of the different cohorts and the changing understandings of discipleship; the lifestyle of the major ashram or place of training and finally a survey of current work patterns, attitudes to celibacy, and spiritual practices. Chapter Nine shows the structured and disciplined life led by full sannyasin disciples of Swami Satyananda, and their methods of readjusting to the Australian society after lengthy residences in India. Chapter Ten describes householder sannyasins, the most recent of the three groups, who follow an ethic dedicated to the sacralisation of their present work and family patterns. Chapter Eleven is concerned with neo-sannyasins, who, on the other hand, accept an unstructured lifestyle, in which a major emphasis is placed on Rajneesh as an object of emotional focus and on psychological therapeutic techniques as the major means for self-awareness. The Rajneesh community also places little stress on discipline or poverty, preferring spontaneity and beauty. Neo-sannyasins have lower levels of education than Satyananda's disciples, less commitment to rewarding work, and spend little time practicing meditation. In view of the decision to drop the wearing of the external signs of renunciation in 1987, it must be questioned whether neo-sannyasa now has anything in common with other renunciate movements, either positively or in contradiction to them. Ironically, it is noted that with the increasing loss of interest in the Indian ashram by overseas visitors, the ashram is tending to become a memorial to Rajneesh; the tradition has absorbed his challenge and given him the status of a great teacher. The Postscript suggests that both movements have been unable to survive the moral shortcomings of their top leadership in the middle of the last decade and are now dying. What promised to be innovative transformations of an ancient spirituality, in accordance with contemporary needs and ways of thought, have come to nothing. This study is an extension of work done on Canadian renunciates in 1988. The challene to turn my interest to Australian renunciates first came from Swamis Karuna Devi and Bhav-chaitanya, organizers of the 1989 Yoga and Meditation Festival, Melbourne. The research was conducted during 1989-1990 and presented to the University of New England, Armidale, New South Wales, towards the degree of Master of Education in Multicultural Studies in March 1991. Dr. A.K. Eckermann was a patient and gracious supervisor. I am also grateful for the interest, hospitality and insights of Dr. G. Gunther, my associate supervisor. Encouragement and support was given by many sannyasins. Particular mention must be made of Swamis Ajnananda, Jivan Christopher, Deva Daricha, Devanatha, Karmamurti, Muktananda, Muktibodhananda, Naradananda, Sambodh Roman, Shankardevananda and Tapasmurti and Ma Anand Kalpana, Prem Maneesha, Rajni and Shivam Rachana, who facilitated this work in many ways. Ma Anand Ruchita has suffered the complexities and paradoxed yet to be resolved in the heads of many sixties people and knows how much the seeing eye is part of what is seen. Mrs. Coleen Clavdivs first typed an earlier version of the chapter on Osho. Mrs. Satwant Kaur typed the entire manuscript with care and good humor. Blessings on her son, Sandip, who was born during this time. Ms. Catherine Welch helped with the proof-reading; to her too I offer my sincere thanks. The responsibility for this work is my own, as must be the karma associated with it.

The Great Tantra of Ajita

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5 Volumes by Edited, Translated & Annotated By. N.R. Bhatt, Jean Filliozat & Pierre-Sylvain Filliozat Hardcover (Edition: 2005)

Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts & Motilal Banarsidass Publishers Pvt. Ltd. ISBN 8120819748 Size: 9.8" X 7.5" Pages: 1844 (B & W Illus: 285) From the Jacket: The Hindu temple is the seat of a full culture including material commodities and services, arts ranging from cooking and flower decoration, to music and philosophy. To conceive, build, organize, manage, maintain such a privileged site of culture an authentic and well thought out theory and guidance is required. Sanskrit Agamic literature plays this role. The Saiva religion is based on a set of twenty-eight Tantra's. The Ajitamahatantra is the fifth in a international list, a lengthy text, which invites the reader to approach the Saiva religion in a form, which probably goes back to the Cola period and is definitely located in Tamilnadu. In eighty-nine chapters, it offers a systematic account of the installation of Linga starting from the selection of the stone ad construction of the temple to the great ceremony of installation of the deity. Thereafter it deals extensively with the daily worship, festivals and occasional rituals, with iconography, subsidiary rituals, as well as the rites of atonement of faults and failures. The present publication in five volumes is the second revised critical edition with English translation and annotation. Wherever possible, descriptions have been illustrated with theoretical drawings or photographs of actual monuments and icons. About the Author: N. Ramachandra Bhatt is a traditional Pandit well-versed in the vast literature of Saivagama. He has toured South India for many years to collect manuscripts and conduct inquiries in the temples. He has directed a team of researchers on this subject in the French Institute of Pondicherry and authored critical editions of Agamas and relevant texts. To his credit is also a general study, The religion of Siva (in French) which sheds light on the rituals with special reference to Tamilnadu. Jean Filliozat (1906-1982) was a versatile scholar in many fields of Indology, with an excellent command over Sanskrit, Pali, Tibetan and Tamil. Initially a medical doctor, he held the prestigious chair of Indology in College de France (Paris). He established and administered the French Institute of Pondicherry from 1955 to 1978 where he conceived and directed a project of the study of Saivagamas and South Indian temples. His works cover all branches of Indology from Ayurveda to Buddhism, Tamil literature, expansion of Indian culture in South East Asia, etc. Pierre-Sylvain Filliozat is Professor of Sanskrit in Paris and conducts research mainly in the field of Sanskrit literature, Alamkarasastra, Vyakarana, Saivagamas, History of Indian art and architecture. His publications bear inter alia on Panini and Patanjali, Saivagama and Temple architecture in Karnataka.

Jnana Sankalini Tantra

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by Paramahamsa Prajnanananda Hardcover (Edition: 2006)

Motilal Banarsidass Publishers Pvt. Ltd. ISBN 8120831454 Size: 8.9" X 5.7" Pages: 236 From the Jacket Modern civilization is a marvel of technological accomplishment, material wealth, and communication systems that have shrunk the world to a nutshell. Despite the wealth and ease of modern life, people are not satisfied and are unaware of the inner bliss humanity may experience arousing the powerful energy latent in each human being. This book by Paramahamsa Prajnanananda explains the true sacred meaning and hidden truths of tantric meditation, one of the most ancient and highest spiritual sciences. He reveals Tantra’s inner meanings in the light of his philosophical knowledge, which arises from his own direct inner experience and wisdom. His mystic, non-sectarian and universal approach, as well as the wisdom he imparts, make him a binding and bridging force between East and West. Paramahamsa Prajnanananda is a teacher of Kriya Yoga, an ancient system meditation. He is the disciple and successor of Paramahamsa Hariharananda. A truly powerful and loving teacher, author, and speaker on world religion, well-versed in the scriptures of the East and West, he combines a divine compassion for humanity with his love for God and his mastery of complex philosophical thoughts. On his 39th birthday, the title of Paramahamsa, the highest title reserved for monks who attain the summit of realization, was conferred upon him by his loving and divine master. He sets an example to one and all on how to realize the connection between ourselves and the Divine; how to surrender and unfold our infinite potential to its fullest in order to be or become anything we wish, without losing sight of the highest goal in life. Thus, his disciples are encouraged to follow his exemplary life and his teachings with enthusiasm and faith. His loving guidance and deep compassion have won him the devotion and faith of countless disciples around the world whose lives he has transformed. Back of the Book With the passage of time, the real meaning of Tantra was misunderstood. From a highly evolved spiritual science Tantra was demeaned as a tool for magical or occult power or an enhancer of sensual enjoyment. Tantra is none of these. It is an ancient discipline that provides a vast learning, a deep understanding of life, and a methodology to attain Self-realization. Jnana Sankalini Tantra is a beautiful and meaningful dialogue between Lord Shiva and his consort, Parvati. In tantric practices, both Shiva and Parvati are worshipped together, since the former represents consciousness and the latter, in the form of shakti, symbolizes energy. In tantric meditation, inner bliss can be obtained by arousing energy latent in humankind, and uniting it with Shiva. Tantra uplifts consciousness in order to embrace the cosmic spirit.

Kundalini Tantra

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by Swami Satyananda Saraswati Paperback (Edition: 2004)

Yoga Publication Trust ISBN 8185787158 Size: 8.4" X 5.3" Pages: 453 (Coloured Illus: 8 and Illustrated throughout with Lines and Figures) From the Back of the Book: Kundalini Tantra is Swami Satyananda Saraswati's seminal work of kundalini, chakras and kriya yoga. Defining and explaining kundalini, this book provides a detailed account of kundalini awakening, including the signs and effects of such experiences and ways to both elicit and manage them. The book contains a comprehensive description of each chakra and significance of the chakras in tantric and yogic practice. Techniques are given to balance each centre for greater harmony in mind, body and spirit, and in preparation for the rising of kundalini Shakti. The 20 kriyas and their preparatory practices are fully elucidated. Includes colour plates, diagrams and charts. About the Author: Swami Satyananda was born at Almora, Uttar Pradesh, in 1923. In 1943 he met Swami Sivananda in Rishikesh and adopted the Dashnami sannyasa way of line. In 1995 he left his guru's ashram to live as a wandering mendicant and later founded the international yoga fellowship in 1963 and the Bihar school of yoga in 1964. Over the next 20 years Swami Satyananda toured internationally and authored over 80 books. In 1987 he founded Sivananda Math, a charitable institution for aiding rural development, and the Yoga Research Foundation. In 1988 he renounced his mission, adopting kshetra sannyasa, and now lives as a paramahamsa sannyasin.

All You Wanted to Know About Tantra Yoga

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by Ravindra Kumar, Ph.D. (Swami Atmananda) Paperback (Edition: 2002)

New Dawn Press ISBN 812072433X Size: 5.8" X 4.5" Pages: 160 From the Jacket : Raising one's sexual enjoyment to its highest power, and then using it as fuel for spiritual advancement, leading eventually to enlightenment, is the underlying principle of tantra. Yoga, meditation and chanting of mantras are important in tantra. This book provides, briefly yet sufficiently, the necessary knowledge for achieving the goal of enlightenment. About the Author : Swami Atmananda (formerly Professor Ravindra Kumar) is a Ph.D. in mathematics from IIT Delhi. He has taught in ten countries. His kundalini is awakened. He is Founder President of Academy of Kundalini Yoga and Quantum Soul (AKYQS), and guides people in yoga/meditation for self-realisation.

Sri Vijnana Bhairava Tantra: The Ascent

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by Swami Satyasangananda Saraswati Paperback (Edition: 2004)

Yoga Publications Trust ISBN 818633632X Size: 8.5" X 5.5" Pages: 527 From the Jacket : The theme of Vijnana Bhairava Tantra is dharana, or concentration, a subject most relevant today. This new translation and commentary of a classical tantric text sheds much light on the practice of dharana, which until now has been revealed only by pheripheral explanations. The text comprises 112 different dharanas, or techniques of concentration, which can easily be incorporated into one's daily life. Although dharana is a practice intended for an adept, whose mind is steady and controlled, the techniques contained within this book provide a way even for the aspirant with a distracted mind to gradually develop concentration and meditation. This work is the result of an in-depth study of dharana in relation to the tantric view of meditation, substantiated by the personal experience of the author. Included is a detailed introduction followed by the original Sanskrit slokas, with transliteration, translation and extensive commentary. About the Author : Swami Satyasangananda (Satsangi) was born on 24th March 1953, in Chandorenagore, West Bengal. From the age of 22 she experienced a series of inner awakenings, which led her to her guru, Swami Satyananda. From 1981 she traveled ceaselessly with her guru in India and overseas and developed into a scholar with deep insight into the yogic and tantric traditions as well as modern sciences and philosophies. She is an efficient channel for the transmission of her guru's teachings. The establishment of Sivananda Math in Rikhia is her creation and mission, and she guides all its activities there, working tirelessly to uplift the weaker and underprivileged areas. She embodies compassion with clear reason and is the foundation of her guru's vision.

Die O Yogi Die: Talks on the Great Tantra Master, Gorakh

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by Osho Hardcover (Edition: 2004)

Tao Publishing Pvt. Ltd. ISBN 8172611919 Size: 8.4" X 5.8" Pages: 463

From the Back of the Book: Gorakh, a Tantra master, is one of the four people that Osho calls "the foundation stones of Indian mysticism." He is direct and to the point, earthy, an "unpolished diamond," who doesn't allow any detours or side-stepping on the path to self-realization: Laughing, being playful - the knack of meditation… Die, O yogi, die! Die, sweet is this dying. Die this death that Gorakh embraced and awakened

Tantra: The Supreme Understanding

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by Osho Hardcover (Edition: 2004)

The Rebel Publishing House ISBN 8172610092 Size: 8.4" X 5.8" Pages: 269 From the Jacket: Tilopa says in the song: Become like a hallow bamboo, nothing inside. And suddenly, the moment you are hollow bamboo, the divine lips are on you, the hallow bamboo becomes a flute, and the song starts - this is the song of Mahamudra. Tilopa has become a hallow bamboo, and the divine has come, and the song has started. It is not Tilopa's song, it is the song of the ultimate experience itself. From the Back of the Book: Nothing much is known about the 11th Century Indian master Tiolpa, yet his mystical insight into Tantra in the form of a song passed on to his disciple Naropa, has lived for the past ten centuries. In these talks Osho explains many significant meditation techniques that are as helpful and powerful today as when Tilopa first sang his song.

Tantra The Supreme Understanding

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by Osho Paperback (Edition: 2006)

Full Circle ISBN 8121606950 Size: 8.3" X 5.3" Pages: 271 Back of the Book Nothing much is known about Indian master Tilopa yet his mystical insight into Tantra in the form of a song passed on to his disciple Narepa, has lived on through the ages. In this series of discourses Osho speaks on Tilopa's verses, which contain many significant meditation techniques that are still as helpful and powerful today as when Tilopa first sang his song. About the Author Most of us live out lives in the world of time, in memories of the past and anticipation of the future. Only rarely do we touch the timeless dimension of the present - in moments of sudden beauty, or sudden danger, in meeting with a lover or with the surprise of the unexpected. Very few people step out of the world of time and mind, its ambitions and competitiveness, and begin to live in the world of the timeless. And of those who do, only a few have attempted to share their experience. Lao Tzu, Gautam Buddha, Bodhidharma… or more recently, George Gurdjieff, Ramana Maharshi, J. Krishnamurti - they are thought by their contemporaries to be eccentrics or madmen; after their death they are called "philosophers". And in time they become legends - not flesh and blood human beings, but perhaps mythological representations of our collective wish to grow beyond the smallness and trivia, the meaninglessness of our everyday lives. Osho is one who has discovered the door to living His life in the timeless dimension of the present - He has called Himself a "true existentialist" - and He has devoted His life to provoking others to seek this same door, to step out of the world of past and future and discover for themselves the world of eternity. Osho was born in Kuchwada, Madhya Pradesh, India, on December 11, 1931. From His earliest childhood, His was a rebellious and independent spirit, insisting on experiencing the truth for Himself rather than acquiring knowledge and beliefs given by others. After His enlightenment at the age of twenty-one, Osho completed His academic studies and spent several years teaching philosophy at the University of Jabalpur. Meanwhile, He traveled throughout India giving talks, challenging orthodox religious leaders in public debate, questioning traditional beliefs, and meeting people from all walks of life. He read extensively, everything He could find to broaden His understanding of the belief systems and psychology of contemporary man. By the late 1960s Osho had begun to develop His unique dynamic meditation techniques. Modern man, He said, is so burdened with the outmoded traditions of the past and the anxieties of modernday living that he must go through a deep cleansing process before he can hope to discover the thought-less, relaxed state of meditation. In the early 1970s, the first Westerners began to hear of Osho. By 1974 a commune had been established around Him in Pune, India, and the trickle of visitors from the West was soon to become a flood. In the course of His work, Osho has spoken on virtually from the West was soon to become a flood. In the course of His work, Osho has spoken on virtually every aspect of the development of human consciousness. He has distilled the essence of what is significant to the spiritual quest of contemporary man, based not on intellectual understanding but tested against His own existential experience. He belongs to no tradition - "I am the beginning of a totally new religious consciousness," He says. "Please don't connect me with the past - it is not even worth remembering." His talks to disciples and seekers from all over the world have been published in more than six hundred volumes, and translated into over thirty languages. And He says, "My message is not a doctrine, not a philosophy. My message is a certain alchemy, a science of transformation, so only those who are willing to die as they are and be born again into something so new that they cannot even imagine it right now… only those few courageous people will be ready to listen, because listening is going to be risky. "Listening, you have taken the first step towards being reborn. So it is not a philosophy that you can just make an overcoat of and go bragging about. It is not a doctrine where you can find consolation for harassing questions. No, my message is not some verbal communication. It is far more risky. It is nothing less than death and rebirth." Osho left His body on January 19, 1990, as a result of poisoning by US government agents while held incognito in custody on technical immigration violations in 1985. His huge commune in India continues to be the largest spiritual growth center in the world attracting thousands of international visitors who come to participate in its meditation, therapy, bodywork and creative programs, or just to experience being in a Buddha field.

Love and Lust

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(An Anthology of Erotic Literature from Ancient and Medieval India) by Pavan K. Varma and Sandhya Mulchandani Hardcover (Edition: 2004)

HarperCollins Publishers ISBN 81-7223-549-6 Size: 9.5" X 6.5" Pages: 344 About The Book A compendium of evocative and sensual writing spanning 5000 years of Indian literature… In this comprehensive anthology, the authors forcefully drive home the point that the fascination with eroticism is age-old. The absence of inhibition and guilt and the candour and boldness with which society set about seeking its pleasures find expression repeatedly in writings over the ages. The literature of India, both religious and secular, is full of sexual allusions, sexual symbolisms and passages of such frank eroticism the likes of which are not to be found elsewhere in world literature. For example, some sections of ancient texts like the Vedas, the Upanishads, the epics (the Mahabharata and the Ramayana), the Brahmanas, the puranas and devotional hymns like the Saundarya Lahiri (by Adi Shankaracharya) are studded with graphic sexual imagery. The sacred and the sensuous were thus seen as integrated elements of human existence. In the medieval period, writers, poets, dramatists, painters, sculptors and artists, whatever be their language and idiom, gave full vent to their creative talents suffused with the sexual metaphor. Kalidas and Jayadeva stand out as exemplars of this genre. It was basically the evangelical fervour of the Victorian era that imposed severs strictures on the so-called heathen 'amorous degradation' and sought to 'cleanse' the Indian people by propagating Western 'morality' and values'. And the Victorian hangover still persists. The underlying themes of this volume are that, in the Indian tradition, the relevance of desire, with eroticism as its natural attribute, was pragmatically accepted and that women were given equal status as men in the pursuit of pleasure. Think of erotic literature form India and what immediately comes to mind is Vatsyayana's Kamasutra. This was indeed not the first study in erotology nor was it the last. Beginning with the Rg Veda (written some 5000 years ago) right up to the seventeenth century, Indian literature is marked by diverse genres replete with unabashed eroticism in which love, lust and life are explored to their fullest extent… Today, the philosophical acceptance of desire and the erotic sentiment has been asphyxiated by a hypocritical morality that has for much too long equated sex with sin and desire with guilt. The purpose of this anthology is to provide enough evidence of an alternative vision, so that readers can get a glimpse of the sense of maturity and honesty that animated our ancestors. About The Author Author-diplomat Pavan K. Varma has penned several successful and critically acclaimed books such as The Great Indian Middle Class and Krishna: The Playful Divine apart from an authoritative biography of the renowned poet Mirza Ghalib. He has also translated Kaifi Azmi (a well-known Urdu poet) and Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee into English. He was, until recently India's hight commissioner in Cyprus. He has now been appointed the director of the Nehru Centre, London. Sandhya Mulchandani has worked in the print media for several years and is the author of The Indian Man: His True Colours, a book that looks at the modern urban Indian male, warts and all. She is presently working on a five volume series, translating hitherto unpublished Sanskrit Kama Shastra manuscripts into English, as well as on Kamasutra for Women.

A Daily Meditation on Shakyamuni Buddha

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(How to Meditate on the Graded path to Enlightenment) by Lama Zopa Rinpoche Paperback FPMT Education Dept. Size: 8.4" X 5.4" Pages: 20 Back of the Book "Life is very busy, especially for those living in the West. Many people reject rituals because they do not understand the purpose and meaning of ritual. Done correctly, the following practices are not mere ritual: they are meditation. Without meditation, ritual becomes like a hollow orange - skin on the outside, empty inside. Each of these preliminary practices contains the entire path to enlightenment." This practice booklet is an easy to use method for those wishing to establish a daily meditation practice. Written by Lama Zopa Rinpoche for use by beginning students, it is a clearly outlined practice complete with guided meditations for developing one's motivation, the mind of refuge, and the thought of bodhichitta. In addition, the practice contains mantra recitation and visualization based on Shakyamuni Buddha and a Lamrim prayer in the form of a request for blessings to develop all the realizations on the path to full awakening. It contains everything one needs for a complete daily practice. Introduction Life is very busy, especially for those living in the West. Many people say, therefore, that it is difficult to find the time during a busy day for a regular meditation practice. In this case, the best solution is to get up earlier each morning. Early rising is a good habit to develop; it follows the example of all the practitioners who have attained the path. And because it is very quiet, early morning is also a good time to meditate. In this way you will be able to do your practice. If you put off your practice until the very end of the day, you might forget it completely, because you are distracted by television or something else or because you are too tired, especially if you have children. The best time to find peace and quiet for practice is generally after the children have gone to bed or before they awaken in the morning and demand your attention. Many people reject rituals because they do not understand the purpose and meaning of ritual. Done correctly, the following practices are not mere ritual: they are meditation. Without meditation, ritual becomes like a hollow orange- skin on the outside, empty inside. Each of these preliminary practices contains the entire path to enlightenment. If you understand the meaning behind them, the rituals taught by the Buddha are actually not separate from the entire path to enlightenment. Of course, one needs purification and a large collection of merit to be able to have faith in and to understand this. While this meditation is based on Shakyamuni Buddha, it can be adapted to suit other practices by altering the visualization and the mantra recitation.

Buddha and His Message

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by Swami Vivekananda Paperback (Edition: 2003) Advaita Ashrama ISBN 8175052457 Size: 6.9" X 4.6" Pages: 80 Publisher's Note The present book Buddha and His Message, as it was pointed out in the Publisher's Note to the first edition, is a selective, handy compilation of Swami Vivekananda's appreciative views on Buddha and His Message. Those who like to make an in-depth study of Swami Vivekananda's more comprehensive views on Buddha, His message and Buddhism are advised to consult The complete Works of Swami Vivekananda (Vol. I to Vol. IX) published by Advaita Ashrama. Back of the Book The whole human race has produced but one such character, such high philosophy, such wide sympathy. This great philosopher, preaching the highest philosophy, yet had the deepest sympathy for the lowest of animals, and never put forth any claims for himself.

The Way Of The Buddha

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Hardcover (Edition: 1995) Publication Division ISBN 81-230-0226-2 Size: 11.2" X 9.0" Pages: 330 (B & W Illus: 397, Color Illus: 27) From the Jacket: This album represents the origin of Indian culture, the development of Buddhism and permanent influence, which Buddhism has exerted upon India's cultural history. It shows how Buddhism is even today a vital force in the life of the Indian people. THE WAY OF THE BUDDHA is published as a companion volume to the book 2500 Years of Buddhism. It has been designed as an album narrating in pictures the life-story of the Buddha and the growth and spread of Buddhism. With the help of illustrations representing the best specimens of art from India and abroad, the volume has been divided into seven sections. The illustrations have been arranged theme wise and on a chronological basis. Each section begins with a series of select quotations from the original Pali and Sanskrit texts, with their translations in English. These quotations have a direct bearing upon the pictorial material that follows and would serve as a textual introductory background. The notes at the end of the volume would enable the reader to understand better and appreciate the illustrative matter. They give necessary information about each picture which would serve as a guide to the student of art. Separate photographs, at appropriate places, have been added about a picture or a group of pictures which, read independently and also give in words the whole story. Having regard to the general concept of the book, it was felt that the most appropriate introduction to it would be through the words of Gandhiji. The book, therefore, begins with Gandhiji's tribute to the Buddha.

The Life of Buddha as Legend and History

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by Edward J. Thomas Hardcover (Edition: 2003) Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt. Ltd. ISBN 81-215-0581-X Size: 8.8" X 5.8" Pages: 223 (B & W Illus: 4) Introduction: ASIA is the grave as well as the cradle of religions. They have disappeared not merely with the crumbling of ancient civilizations, but have been swept away before the victorious progress of new forms of belief. One of the most widely spread of these spiritual conquerors has been Buddhism, extending form India over great portions of southern and central Asia and permeating the ancient religious of China and Japan. Yet until modern times nothing of the real nature of Buddhism was known. The scientific investigators who followed in the train of Alexander the Great describe various Indian religious sects, but do not specifically mention Buddhism. The first Christian writer to mention Buddha is Clement of Alexandria at the end of the second century, who speaks of “those of the Indians that obey the percepts of Boutta, whom through exaggeration of his dignity they honour as a god.” Buddha was also known to the Manichaeans. AI Biruni quotes a work by Mani (c. 216-276 A.D.), the Shaburkan, in which the great heretic claims as three of his predecessors Buddha, Zoroaster, and Jesus. The Acts of Archelaus (early fourth century), which purport to be the record of a debate between Mani and a bishop Archelaus, speak of a predecessor of Mani, Terebinthus, who spread a report about himself, saying that he was filled with all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was now called not Terebinthus but Buddha. He pretended that he had been born of a virgin and brought up by an angel on the mountains. This work was known to St. Jerome, and from it he may have got his statement that Buddha was born of a virgin. The Acts do not say that Buddha was of virgin birth, but only that Terebinthus, who called himself Buddha, made that claim. St. Jerome attributes to the gymnosophists the belief that “a virgin gave birth from her side to Buddha, the chief person of their teaching.” His statement about the virgin birth may be as much a confusion as his view that Buddha’s followers were the gymnosophists. There were gymnosophists or naked ascetics in India, but they were Buddhists.

THE BUDDHA (STORIES AND PARABLES)

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by VARSHA DAS Paperback (Edition: 2003) MADHUBAN EDUCATIONAL BOOKS ISBN 81-259-1201-0 Size: 8.5" X 5.5" Pages: 108 About the Book: A man with supreme humane qualities, the Buddha was born in India in the 6th century BC. He did not believe in theories and rituals, austerities and extreme attitudes. The Buddha discarded all these, realizing their futility, and showed the Middle Way, the path of peace and tolerance. He showered his compassion equally on all -be it prince Ajatashatru or a poor, old woman or even the elephant Nalagiri. Beautifully illustrated, The Buddha -stories and Parables is not a dry historical biography. It captures the essence of the Buddha's great life through various stories, anecdotes and episodes that immediately lift the reader to another realm -the realm of love, grace and compassion. About the Author: Dr. Varsha Das has writing for children for the past forty years in Gujarati, Hindi and English. She has received several awards for her contribution to children's literature. She has also authored the Jataka tales, published by Madhuban. She practices Buddhist philosophy under the umbrella of Soka Gakkai.

The Path of the Buddha (Writings on Contemporary Buddhism)

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by Ed. By. Renuka Singh Paperback (Edition: 2004) Penguin Books India Pvt. Ltd. ISBN 0-14-303037-X Size: 7.5" X 5.0" Pages: 245 About the Book So compelling is the story of Prince Siddhartha Gautama that it loses none of its sheern with a retelling. Impelled by a desire to deal with the sorrows of human existence, he renounces the world when barely twenty-nine and finds Buddhism. Giving Buddha's spiritual journey a contemporary dimension, this anthology contains essays by spiritual leaders like His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Lama Zopa Rinpoche and Lama Thubten Yeshe on the impact of Buddhist philosophy on them. Equally poignant are the accounts of others who, dissatisfied with the present world, embark on a search for salvation. Urged by a seemingly simple notion, Donna Brown starts her quest to find a really 'good' person; a journey which takes her from the heart of Canada to Nepal's remote Kopan monastery. An inexplicable restlessness takes Robina Courtin from dabbling in drugs, political activism and martial arts to finding truth as a Buddhist nun. Though born into a Sikh family, robed monks and monastic rituals, and eventually chooses the philosophy of Tibetan Buddhism over science. For Kabir Saxena, Buddhism offers a practical path in this broken, imperfect world. Varied and meaningful, The Path of the Buddha provides a rare glimpse into Buddhism.

Discourses on the Great Mystic Ashtavakra: Enlightenment The Only Revolution

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by Osho Hardcover (Edition: 2006) Tao Publishing Pvt. Ltd. ISBN 817261070X Size: 8.3" X 5.8" Pages: 405 (Black & White Illus: 1) From the Jacket: "If these words penetrate you, they will start awakening your sleeping soul. These words will thrill you. These words will fill you with ecstasy. These word will shock you. With these words a revolution can take place…. This is why I have chosen the Ashtavakra Gita: I have chosen it because your are ready." - Osho I am giving you a touchstone. Test your experiences on these touchstones…. When you have an understanding of Ashtavakra's words preserve it as a touchstone, let it stay deep within you, and when your experience of life comes then you can test it. Then Ashtavakra's touchstone will be helpful. You will be able to know what has happened. You will have the language to understand it. You will have a method of understand it. Ashtavakra will be your touchstone." - Osho "Man has many scriptures, but none are comparable to the Gita of Ashtavakra. Before it the Vedas pale, the Upanishads are a mere whisper. Even the Bhagavadgita does not have the mere majesty found in the Ashtavakra Samhita - it is simply unparalleled. The most important thing is that neither society, nor politics, nor any other institution of human life had any influence on the statements of Ashtavakra. There are no other statements anywhere that are so pure, transcendental, and beyond time and space." - Osho "Higher than Einstein, deeper than Jung, as perceptive as Proust, as up-to-date as the internet, Osho is the best read since the Rosetta Stone." - Ralph Thorpe, author of The Dreamer "Osho is a thoroughly modern man as much at home with Marx and Engels and humanistic psychology as with the mystical traditions of the East." - Washington Post, USA

The Art of Dying: Talks on Hasidism

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by Osho Hardcover (Edition: 2005)

Tao Publishing Pvt. Ltd. ISBN 8172611080 Size: 8.3" X 5.8" Pages: 291 (Black & White Illus: 11)

From the Jacket: Once you know what life is you will know what death is because death is also part of the same process. Ordinarily we think death comes at the end, ordinarily we think death is against life, ordinarily we think death is the enemy. Death is not the enemy. And if you think of death as the enemy it simply shows that you have not been able to know what life is. - Osho If you really want to live you have to be ready to die. Who is afraid of death in you? Is life afraid of death? It is not possible. How can life be afraid of its own integral process? Something else is afraid in you. The ego is afraid in you. Life and death are not opposites; ego and death are opposites. Life and death are not opposites; ego and life are opposites. Ego is against both life and death. The ego is afraid to live and the ego is afraid to die. It is afraid to live because each effort, each step towards life, brings death closer. - Osho Osho speaks on classic Hasidic stories compiled by the Jewish philosopher, Martin Buber - a great tradition of laughing saints and wonderful stories. Death and life are two polarities of the same energy, of the same phenomenon - the tide and the ebb, the day and the night, the summer and the winter. They are not separate and not opposites, not contraries; they are complementaries. Death is not the end of life; in fact, it is a completion of one life, the crescendo of one life, the climax, the finale. And once you know your life and its process, then you understand what death is. - Osho "In a language simple but yet profound, the master Osho indicates the art of 'dying' by learning how to live in the here and now, the eternal life." - Livres Hebdo, France.

The Heart Sutra

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Discourses on the Prajnaparamita Hridayam Sutra of Gautama the Buddha by OSHO Hardcover (Edition: 2004)

A Rebel Book ISBN 8172611366 Size: 8.8" X 5.8" Pages: 291 From the Jacket: Buddha's message is the greatest that has ever been delivered to man. And this sutra is one of the greatest expressions of Buddha. He has talked for forty-two years, and he has said many things, but nothing compared to this. This is unique. You are fortunate that you have been here to listen to it and to meditate upon it. Now be even more fortunate-become it. Osho

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CHANTING OM

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Music For Deep Meditation (CD) by Inner Splendor Media LLC & Banyan Education & Music For Deep Meditation A customer favorite! One of the top selling CD's by Music for Deep Meditation. Currently topping the New Age charts at iTunes! Awe inspiring group chant of the sacred syllable OM. The perfect recording for your yoga, healing or meditation practice; or you can use it to simply uplift and bless any environment. This powerful and melodious recording features an ensemble of meditation and yoga practitioners singing the sacred syllable together. This is a very special recording. In track one, the syllable is chanted in a continuous unbroken stream of sound. In track two, gifted singers in the ensemble improvise adding angelic harmonies and other musical dynamics. MEDIA REVIEWS "New Age is one of the most challenged genres to produce music that stands out, moves and inspires. However, "Music for Deep Meditation" taps into the most simple, most basic energies of the life force and attempts nothing more than to help its listeners ground and center in the heart, meditating on the most primitive and foundational sound in the universe, the "Om". This quietly and simply powerful album takes its audience through melodious and fluid variations on the Om, casting a veil of quiet reflection and inward focus. For those seeking support in their journey of the spirit, "Chanting Om" is an excellent step forward." CD Baby "A must have for Meditators. The finely crafted recordings bring to life the sacredness and power of soothing primodial sounds"Stress Free Living Magazine "I love the CDs! I've been playing them alot at the beginning of class to get people settled in, especially the OM one. At the end of class I use them for meditation and final relaxation. All of my students love them."- Kristin McGuee, Yoga teacher and star of MTV Power Yoga and Pilates videos "I love your "Chanting Om" CD so much I'm going to feature it on the FRONT PAGE of CD Baby for a few days. We're REALLY picky about what goes on the front page. We get about 100 new albums a DAY coming in here now, (about 100,000 total), and yours is one of the best I've ever heard." Derek Sivers, Founder CD BABY "The 'Deep Meditation' CDs are wonderful. I played the Tibetan singing bowls in my yoga class during meditation and my students loved it."-; Alicia Johnson, Account Executive, Yogi Times Business To listen to audio samples, simply visit us at iTunes and search for "Music for Deep Meditation" Publisher: Inner Splendor Media LLC

CAROLINE MYSS' CHAKRA MEDITATION MUSIC

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by Myss, Caroline & McNamara, S Caroline Myss teaches that each of the body's seven chakras - or energetic databases - responds to specific vibrational frequencies, which we can use to assess and cultivate our energetic health. Composed and performed by acclaimed world music artist Stevin McNamara, the first music CD authorized by Dr. Myss is designed specifically to support two daily chakra meditations that she uses herself in her daily practice. Publisher: Sounds True

BURNING KARMA

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A Guided Meditation (CD) by Temple-Thurston, Leslie Our karmas are our states of consciousness that result from the actions we take in life. If your life is not working well, it is possible to clear the karmas responsible. With gentle, relaxing background music, this program guides you through breathing and letting-go exercises that help to still the mind and open dimensional doorways. From this balanced place, beyond thought and emotion, you can witness the karmas burn off and experience the vast, eternal being that you are. Publisher: Corelight

BEAUTIFULLY GUIDED MEDITATION

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Into Relaxing, Stilling & Cleansing Your Mind, Body... (CD) by Drum, Gael AUSTRALIAN CD Gael, one of Australia's leading meditation experts, gently but powerfully guides the listener into their Mind & Bodies to acknowledge and release worries, tension & pain with her calm & knowing voice; her belief in her method flowing through. This CD has two guided meditations facilitating deep relaxation and empowerment, enabling the listener to activate their own wonderful healing powers within. Publisher: Gael Drum

AWAKENING COMPASSION

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Meditation Practice For Difficult Times (w/study guide) (6 CD) by Chodron, Pema "For more than 800 years, Tibetan Buddhists have used the principles of lojong (literally, ""mind training"") to transform difficulties into insights, and conflict into genuine communication. Awakening Compassion is the first audio retreat on the practice of lojong taught by Pema Ch"dr"n herself. With many on-the-spot techniques for dealing with jealousy, anger, and fear, Awakening Compassion is a unique resource for bringing compassion into the world and stopping the cycle of suffering in our own lives." Publisher: Sounds True

ANDREW WEIL AUDIO COLLECTION

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(includes BREATHING & MEDITATION FOR OPTIMUM HEALTH) (4 CD) by Weil, Andrew & Kabat-Zinn, Jon Two of Dr. Weil's most popular audio titles in one slipcased edition: Breathing: The Master Key to Self-Healing and Meditation for Optimum Health. Publisher: Sounds True

ACHIEVE SOUND SLEEP

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Miracle Meditations (2 CD) by Tesar, Barry & Tesar, Roxanne Restore your natural ability to fall asleep easily, enjoy peaceful dreams and awaken in the morning confident, refreshed and ready to face the new day. Find out what it means to once again "sleep like a baby." Played at bedtime, this double CD program will guide you into peaceful, refreshing slumber. And the affirmations you learn can be used any time, any place. (Please don't listen while driving or performing other tasks requiring full attention.) Publisher: Barry Tesar

INSIGHT MEDITATION KIT

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A Course On How To Meditate (w/workbook & 12 study cards) (2 CD) by Salzberg, Sharon This elegant "meditation kit in a box" makes it simple to start an inner practice in the Buddhist tradition. Insight Meditation includes two exclusive compact discs with authentic guided meditations, complemented by study cards and a special instruction book. Listeners join the popular cofounders of America's oldest center for the study of Buddhist vipassana (or "insight") meditation, Sharon Salzberg and Joseph Goldstein, for this complete introduction to meditation as the Buddha first taught it. Publisher: Sounds True

LOVINGKINDNESS MEDITATION

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Learning To Love Through Insight Meditation (3 CD) by Salzberg, Sharon Publisher: Sounds True (terms)

MEDITATION 101

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A Complete Overview Of The Most Powerful Meditations (4 CD) by Sadleir, Steven S This set of four CDs offers a helpful overview of two dozen popular types of meditation, featuring talks that explain meditation from the varying perspectives of several schools of meditation. It covers Kundalini, Chakra, Heart-Centered, Pranayama, Shaktipat, Jhana, Mindfulness, Introspection, and more. Publisher: Self Awareness Institute

MUSIC FOR ZEN MEDITATION

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by Lee, Riley Practiced for centuries by Buddhist priests in Japan, playing the shakuhachi flute during meditation is called suizen, or blowing Zen. Riley Lee was honored in 1980 as the first non-Japanese in a long lineage of shakuhachi dai shihan (grand masters) and has garnered a large international fan base by performing and teaching around the world. On this specially-priced two-CD set he expertly conveys the quiet dignity and simple elegance of this ancient instrument with starkly beautiful solos and duets. Publisher: Narada Productions

OSHO CHAKRA BREATHING MEDITATION

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by Kamal Chakra Breathing meditation can help you to become aware of and experience each of the seven chakras. This meditation is active and uses deep rapid breathing and body movement, accompanied by musical sounds to open and bring awareness and vitality to the chakras. Publisher: New Earth Records

OSHO CHAKRA SOUNDS MEDITATION

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by Karunesh This meditation uses vocal sounds made by the meditator along with music to open and harmonize the chakras while bringing awareness to them. The meditation can bring you into deep, peaceful inner silence either through making your own vocal sounds or by just listening to and feeling the sounds within you. This meditation can be done at any time. Publisher: New Earth Records

OSHO DYNAMIC MEDITATION

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by Deuter "The most active of the Osho techniques, Osho Dynamic Meditation is best done at sunrise. Osho Dynamic Meditation is an individual experience so you should remain oblivious of others around you. If possible, keep your eyes closed throughout, or you can use a blindfold. It is best to have an empty stomach and wear loose, comfortable clothing. ""This is a meditation in which you have to be continuously alert, conscious, aware... Don't get lost. Observe what is happening as if you are just a spectator, as if the whole thing is happening to somebody else..."" - Osho" Publisher: New Earth Records

OSHO KUNDALINI ACTIVE MEDITATION

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by Deuter Osho Kundalini is one of Osho's most popular and potent meditations techniques. It involves shaking, dancing, sitting silently, and relaxing. Publisher: Inner Worlds Music

PURE MEDITATION

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A Tibetan Buddhist Practice Of Inner Peace (2 CD) by Chodron, Pema Publisher: Sounds True

REIKI SAMADHI

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Japanese Reiki Meditation by Ellyard, Lawrence Publisher: Lawrence Ellyard

Goddess Green Tara

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Goddess Saraswati

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The Buddha Who Grants Succor

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From Both Spiritual and Physical Sickness. Seated majestically upright, his body taut and stretched like that of an archetypal yogi, the Buddha here sits on a double lotus pedestal. His arms are healthy and strong and the shoulders firm and graceful. The robe covering his two shoulders is plain except for an arabesque border running across the four sides. A knot at the center of the chest holds the drape together. Brass Statue 3.2 ft x 2.1 ft x 1.4 ft 49.0 kg Free Shipping. Delivered by FedEx to all international destinations within 3 to 5 days, fully insured.

Chenrezig

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Lord Shiva Family Panel

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The Female Buddha Vajravarahi

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Ushnishvijaya - Goddess of Long Life

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The Savior Goddess Green Tara

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Crowned Tara Head

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Blessing Tara

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Lord Buddha Against an Ornamented Aureole

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Buddha in Bhumisparsha

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Gautam Buddha in the Bhumisparsha

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Vajradhara in Vajrahumkara

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Buddha Seated in Bhumisparsha

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Auspicious Conch

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Thousand-Armed Avalokiteshvara

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Thousand-Armed Avalokiteshvara Mandala and the Scenes from the Life of Buddha. Tibetan Thangka Painting Size of Painted Surface 12.0" X 16.5" Size with Brocade 27.5" X 26.0" Free Shipping. Delivered by UPS to all international destinations within 3 to 5 days, fully insured.

Gautama Buddha

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The Buddha Shakya

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The Buddha Shakyamuni Mandala and Some Episodes from His Life with Bodhisattvas, Adepts and Wrathful Deities Tibetan Thangka Painting Size of Painted Surface 15.5" X 20.0" Size with Brocade 24.0" X 34.5" Free Shipping. Delivered by UPS to all international destinations within 3 to 5 days, fully insured.

OM Mandala

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Shakyamuni Buddha Mandala

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The Buddha Shakyamuni is seated in the centre of the mandala. His right hand is in bhumisparsha-mudra and the left hand, held in meditation position, holds a pindapatra. The inner circle of the Buddha is surrounded by eight lotus petals, symbolizes eight-fold path of Buddha's teachings, the way to freedom, consisting of the three spiritual educations - moral, meditative, and intellectual. The bhumisparsha-mudra of the Buddha symbolizes his victory over evil and the attainment of enlightenment at Bodhgaya. Buddhists meditate on this mudra of the Buddha mainly for protection from evil and also for the removal of obstacles in material and spiritual life.

Manjushri

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Goddess White Tara

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Nataraja Dancing on Apasmara

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Sitatapatra

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Buddha in Bhumisparsha

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Solar Yoga

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(An Illustrated Guide to Yoga Practice) by Yogacharya Janakiraman & Caroline Rosso Cicogna Paperback (Edition: 2005)

New Age Books ISBN 8178222477 Size: 8.3" X 5.4" Pages: 286 (Illustrated throughout in Black and White) Back of the Book This book offers new insights into the age-old discipline of Solar Yoga. It treats a carefully selected number of classical Yoga practices in a novel manner, integrating the use of sound vibrations with that of postures and breathing techniques at the physical, psychic and spiritual levels. Because of its clear and methodical approach, SOLAR YOGA can be enjoyed by everyone. New students will find the book a valuable and well-illustrated guide for their practice. Yoga teachers will be able to use it as a handy reference manual and the general reader will find it a synthesis of the philosophical background to the solar method and a comprehensive description of its application to every day life. Yogacharya Janakiraman, a long-time devotee of Bhagavan Sathya Sai Baba, was a recognized authority on Yoga who, for some years, combined the teaching of this discipline with his profession as an aeronautical engineer in Bangalore, India before moving to Europe. In 1986, he founded the International Aditya Yoga Association with Caroline Rosso Cicogna in Trieste, Italy. An accomplished devotional singer and a Yoga therapist, he trained Yoga teachers who are disseminating his method in Australia, India and Europe. Caroline Rosso Cicogna, a disciple of Sree Ananda Mayee Ma, is a simultaneous interpreter by profession. She lived many years in India and came in contact with some of the great living Masters of Yoga in India and underwent a thorough training in the disciplines she writes about in this book. In Italy, she taught Yoga with Sri Janakiraman at their centre in Trieste. She is now living in Nice, France where she dedicates her sadhana to Matri Yoga. Preface Salutations and adorations to surya Narayana, the Sun God. The sun is a visible manifestation of the Divine. It is the sustainer of life. It is the giver of life. There wouldn't be any form of life on this earth planet without the sun. The sun is the source of all forms of life on this earth. My salutations to Lord Shiva, the all auspicious one who is the expounder of Surya Yoga. Every man or woman in this world wants happiness. Nobody wants pain. No one needs to teach anyone to seek happiness. It is the innate, inherent Svabhava (nature) of everyone to seek happiness. Ananda (Bliss) is the embodiment of one's own nature. Fulfilment of desires cannot bring true peace of mind. Just as fuel when poured over the fire aggravates it, so also worldly enjoyment intensifies desires and makes the mind all the more restless. Fulfilment of desires will only bring disappointment. Disappointment comes because the object of one's imagination, when obtained, always falls short of all possible expectations. Yoga teaches the way to withdraw the mind from the objects of the world and to remove desire from the mind. But, before commencing the higher practices of Yoga, it is very important that one should have a sound body and mind. Without health, one cannot achieve anything in this world. Therefore, health is an essential factor for all achievements in this world whether they are secular or spiritual. The book SOLAR YOGA is the combined effort of Yogacharya Janakiraman and Sister Caroline. The book is divided in three sections. The first section contains a complete description of the essence, the history and the practices of Solar Yoga. The second section offers a detailed study of twenty-five classical Asanas or Yoga postures. The third section presents a thorough discussion of the practice of Pranayama or the art of breathing. Each subject is dealt with in great detail. It is a handbook for every Yoga seeker. The entire book makes very interesting study. The explanations are given in such a way that even a lay student can easily understand and practice on his own. Seekers in the West who are interested in Yogic practices naturally start reading every type of book on Hatha Yoga and similar subjects. Sometimes these books are confusing and can even be unintelligible. More often, they have been written by persons whose aim would be only to show off their learning rather than teach real Yoga. At times, some of the books have nothing to do with Yoga. The difference between such books and SOLAR YOGA is that its authors, Sri Janakiraman and Sister Caroline are themselves first-rate seekers. Whatever they have dealt with in their book is the result of their years of practice of Yoga and application in teaching. They themselves found immense benefit and they were not content to have the benefit for themselves alone. They sought to share their experience and knowledge with fellow seekers. It is with this aim that this book has been written. In it, Sister Caroline has taken great care in giving detailed and illustrated instructions regarding the technique of the postures so that the reader may follow them with great ease. I have known Sister Caroline for many years. She herself is a genuine seeker in the path of Yoga. She came in contact with great saints and sages of India and is spiritually bound to Sree Ananda Mayee Ma of sacred and hallowed memory. I am sure that many will be benefited by the study of this book and I hope that it will enjoy a wide circulation. May God bless you all with radiant health, long life, happiness and contentment. Foreword First, some thoughts on Religion and Science. As a practicing Muslim, I believe in the spiritual message of the Holy Koran. As a scientist, I believe in the truth of the manifestations of nature. The Holy Koran emphasizes the necessity for reflection on the laws of nature, with examples drawn from cosmology, physics and biology. I recall the words of Einstein, the most famous scientist of our century. The most beautiful experience we can have is of the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion, which stands at the cradle of true science. Whoever does not know it, and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed. It was the experience of mystery, even if mixed with fear, that engendered relgion.: The Abrahamic religions claim to provide a meaning to the mystery of life and death. These religions speak of a Lord, who not only created natural law and the universe in His glory, but also created us, the human beings in His own image, endowing them not only with speech but also with spiritual life and spiritual longings. The second aspect is of the Lord who answers prayers, when one turns to Him in distress. The third is of the Lord who, in the eyes of the mystic and the Sufi, personifies eternal beauty and is to be adored for this. The fourth is of the Lord who endows some humans, the prophets, and His chosen saints, with divinely inspired knowledge through revelations. The sages and mystics had revelations of the divine truths. Second, some thoughts about the authors of this book whom I know personally. Sri Janakiraman is known to me not only as a person with a scientific and technological background, but also as a spiritua being who has excelled in the art of teaching Yoga in a true spirit of sharing his knowledge with ardent seekers. And, his soul finds an even more intense expression when he can dedicate himself to devotional singing in praise of the divine. Caroline Rosso Cicogna, who has created the Aditya International Yoga Center along with Sri Janakiraman in Trieste, is a freelance simultaneous interpreter at the United Nations. She is a knowledgeable and sensitive Yoga teacher who has spent many years of her life in India, studying the cultural and philosophical background of the yogic practices. I give my hearty and sincere good wishes to the authors and to their Aditya Yoga Center.

Kyozan: A True Man of Zen

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(Zen Masters Series) by Osho Hardcover

The Rebel Publishing House ISBN 3893380809 Size: 8.4" X 5.8" Pages: 75 (Illustrated With B & W Figures) From the Jacket: Kyozan was a very simple man - not the philosophic kind, not a poet, nor a sculptor. Nothing can be said about him except that he was absolutely authentic, honest. If he does not know a thing he will say so, even at the risk of people thinking that he has fallen from his enlightenment. But this makes him a unique master. Zen is full of unique masters, but Kyozan's uniqueness is his simplicity. He is just like a child. About the Author: Osho has explained that his name is derived from William James' word 'oceanic' which means dissolving into the ocean. Oceanic describes the experience, He says, but what about the experiencer? For that we use the word 'Osho'. Later, He Came to find out that 'Osho' has also been used historically in the Far East, meaning "The Blessed One, on Whom the Sky Showers Flowers." From the Back of the Book: These are not sermons in a church: these are communications. A discourse, a sermon, remains within the limits of the mind. Only a communication can raise you beyond the mind, and that which is beyond the mind is Zen.

HSIN HISN MING The Book of Nothing

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OSHO Discourses on Sosan's Verses on the Faith-Min by Osho Hardcover (Edition: 2004) Tao Publishing Pvt. Ltd.

Tantra, Mantra, Yoga & Spiritual Bliss

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(The Holistic Yoga: Posture, Pranayama, Tattva-Shuddhi, Chakr by J. L. Gupta Chaitanya Hardcover (Edition: 2007)

Penman Publishers ISBN 8185504504 Size: 8.5" X 5.5 Pages: 462 (Color Illus: 7, Black & White Illus: 33)

From The Jacket Life is beautiful, divine and a constant celebration. Yoga, for our life, has been a potent power for the spiritual regeneration of people right from the days of yore. As a complete scientific guide, Yoga is designed for all who seek a full, happy and purposeful life. The discipline and training of Yoga embraces the body, the mind and the spirit. The perfection of body helps in the perfection of mind, mental efficiency is used to attain higher spiritual perfection, and collectively the three planes of perfection connote Happiness or Bliss. Indian sages first discovered Yoga in the Rigveda over 5000 years ago. The system of Yoga was developed and passed down primarily through oral teachings from Guru to disciple in an unbroken tradition. The practice of Tantra, Mantra and Yoga bestows one the bounties of life on earth fulfilling their wishes and attunes to the spiritual dynamic energy unfolding one's hidden potential. It enables people to begin from their immediate, present state of consciousness and move forward into a state of wholeness, wellbeing and enlightenment. The author has produced this masterful work with his unique blend of experience, intelligence and skill. It reflects on the aspects of Ashtangayoga & Hathayoga including Pranas, Nadis, Bodies, Postures & Pranayama, Mudras & Bandhas, Yoganidra, Bhutashuddhi, Chakra Meditation, Awakening of Kundalini Shakti, Mantra-Japa, Om, So'ham and Gayatri mantras and the science of breathing. The book is embellished with plenty of coloured and black-n-white illustrations. J. L. Gupta 'Chaitanya' was born at Sultanpur (U. P.), in 1958 into a family of farmers. His cousin grand-father was a freedom fighter who had served the army of Azad Hind Fauz. With brilliant academic career, Mr. Chaitanya obtained P. G. Dip. In Book Publishing (Editing) from the College of Vocational Studies, Univ. of Delhi, securing First Div. Earlier, he taught in private colleges, later worked with publishers as a Sr. Editor, Translator & Writer for more than two decades. Mr. Chaitanya was drawn to spirituality from the childhood itself and studied most of the Hindu scriptures from enlightened masters. He devoted his entire life to the study and contemplation of god and the human existence on the earth. He took to the discipline of Yogic Sadhana in early ninety's Pleased with his dedication and steadfastness in Sadhana, his Guru conferred on him the title of Acharya. He was anointed preceptor in succession to his Guru and now provides guidance in Dhyana Yoga. He is a prolific writer on various aspects of Indian culture and Yoga and has authored, edited and translated more than 20 books. His works on Tantra, Mantra, Yoga and Sanatana Dharma have got published from Chaukhamba Sanskrit Sanstha, Delhi and Indo-US Books, New York. He is also Founder of Penman Publishers, Delhi.

The Diamond Sutra

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by Osho Hardcover (Edition: 2004)

Tao Publishing Pvt. Ltd. ISBN 8172611307 Pages: 289 From the Jacket: I love Gautama Buddha because he represents to me the essential core of religion. He is not the founder of Buddhism- Buddhism is a by-product- but he is the begineer of a totally different kind of religion in the world. He's the founder of a religionless religion. He has propounded not religion but religionless. And this is a great radical change in the history of human consciousness. When a Buddha moves the wheel of dharma, it takes two thousand five hundred years for it to stop completely… The wheel that Buddha moved has stopped. The wheel has to be moved again. And that is going to be my and your life's - work - that wheel has to be moved again. Once it starts revolving it will again have twenty-five centuries' life.

Black Om In Lotus Zafu

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