Sanskrit for Seekers

Sanskrit for Seekers
Author: Dennis Waite
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
Total Pages: 149
Release: 2014-05-30
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1782792260

Learn the rudiments of Sanskrit to enable you to read the script, pronounce words and look them up in a dictionary. Sanskrit for Seekers utilizes the ITRANS transliteration scheme commonly found on the Internet. ,

An Essential Guide to Sanskrit

An Essential Guide to Sanskrit
Author: Dennis Waite
Publisher:
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2005
Genre: Hindu philosophy
ISBN:

An Essential Guide To Sanskrit Provides A Two-Level Introduction To The Sanskrit Language. Level One Introduces The Transliterated (Anglicised) Alphabets Used By Books And The Internet For Reproducing Sanskrit. Level Two Teachers The Devanagari Script Used For The True Language And Describes The Main Rules For Combining Letters And Words. Correct Pronunciation And Writing Are Explained. A Number Of Examples From Hindu Scriptures Are Used To Illustrate Simple Translation. There Is A Comprehensive Glossary Of Commonly Encountered Spiritual Words.

Advaita Made Easy

Advaita Made Easy
Author: Dennis Waite
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2012-07-27
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1780991851

Who are you? What happens when you die? Is there a God? Is the universe created? Advaita is a teaching with a tradition of thousands of years which provides totally reasonable answers to all such questions. This essential introduction from the acclaimed author of numerous books on the subject will demonstrate why it is so successful. ,

Answers... to the Difficult Questions

Answers... to the Difficult Questions
Author: Dennis Waite
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
Total Pages: 464
Release: 2020-03-27
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1789042216

All spiritual seekers encounter problems. A question arises which appears to challenge the veracity of their chosen path. If an answer is not found quickly, there is a great danger that the particular teaching will be abandoned and another sought. Dennis Waite draws on traditional Advaita teachings to answer all seeker-related questions. He first invited questions to his website in 2005 and this book collects questions and answers in a comprehensive volume for experienced and new spiritual seekers. One answer often leads to a new worry, and his website adavaita-vision.org continues to accept questions. No question is too difficult for Advaita Vedanta and all answers are reasonable.

A-U-M

A-U-M
Author: Dennis Waite
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2015-09-25
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1782799974

Gaudapada was one of the world’s greatest philosophers in seventh-century India. He invokes the mystical symbol ‘AUM’ (pronounced as ‘ohm’) pointing to the three states of consciousness (waking, dreaming and deep sleep) and the nature of reality itself. In the text on which this book is based, he writes that the waker, dreamer and deep-sleeper are like the roles that an actor plays at various times. All three states are the result of ignorance and error. Who we really are is the fourth aspect – the actor himself. If you see or feel a ‘thing’, then that ‘thing’ is not ‘real.’ So the waking world is no more real than the dream. ‘You’ have never been born. Nothing has ever been created. Causality is a myth. Discover your true nature to be Existence-Consciousness, without limitations, undivided and infinite, prior to time and space. Incredible? Read...and be convinced by the irrefutable logic of Gaudapada.

The Supplicate Order

The Supplicate Order
Author: Patricia Mary Brown
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 507
Release: 2009-04
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 0595443672

Supplication captures a universal, cross-cultural approach to spirituality. Authored by Dr. Patricia Brown, The Supplicate Order defines supplication as an expression for the laws and principles that guide a spiritual aspirant toward communion with the sacred (mysteries), progressing toward an expanded perception of life and grateful reception of blessings, positive creativity, healing, and wisdom. It shows how humanity bridges the manifest explicate order and the unmanifest implicate order. Offering a fresh perspective on supplication, The Supplicate Order carries four messages that pertain to spiritual aspirants at any level: Don't abandon yourself (to self-loathing or to another person's or group's absolute power over you) Start with what you know to do (don't be too eager to get exotic or far removed from your resonant spiritual persuasion) Never think you know everything Don't give up Brown explains how key universal principles verify the human capacity to bring forth "gifts of the spirit," while psychological health and development determine invocatory efforts and receptive capacities. The Supplicate Order integrates global spiritual wisdom and psychological knowledge with the trends of new science, highlighting the human invocation of the sacred.

The Battle for Sanskrit

The Battle for Sanskrit
Author: Rajiv Malhotra
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2016-01-10
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9351775399

There is a new awakening in India that is challenging the ongoing westernization of the discourse about India. The Battle for Sanskrit seeks to alert traditional scholars of Sanskrit and sanskriti - Indian civilization - concerning an important school of thought that has its base in the US and that has started to dominate the discourse on the cultural, social and political aspects of India. This academic field is called Indology or Sanskrit studies. From their analysis of Sanskrit texts, the scholars of this field are intervening in modern Indian society with the explicitly stated purpose of removing 'poisons' allegedly built into these texts. They hold that many Sanskrit texts are socially oppressive and serve as political weapons in the hands of the ruling elite; that the sacred aspects need to be refuted; and that Sanskrit has long been dead. The traditional Indian experts would outright reject or at least question these positions. The start of Rajiv Malhotra's feisty exploration of where the new thrust in Western Indology goes wrong, and his defence of what he considers the traditional, Indian approach, began with a project related to the Sringeri Sharada Peetham in Karnataka, one of the most sacred institutions for Hindus. There was, as he saw it, a serious risk of distortion of the teachings of the peetham, and of sanatana dharma more broadly. Whichever side of the fence one may be on, The Battle for Sanskrit offers a spirited debate marshalling new insights and research. It is a valuable addition to an important subject, and in a larger context, on two ways of looking. Is each view exclusive of the other, or can there be a bridge between them? Readers can judge for themselves.

Kundalini science- a spiritual psychology

Kundalini science- a spiritual psychology
Author: Premyogi vajra
Publisher: Premyogi vajra
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2020-11-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

It is the first book of Kundalini science series. The second, third, and fourth books of this series named as “Kundalini science- A spiritual psychology-2, 3, 4” respectively are also available now on same platforms. This book is the compiled form of blog-posts till date. Those posts are written by Premyogi vajra, a mystic yogi. He is enlightened as well as he has his kundalini awakened. These all posts are related to kundalini. One post corresponds to one chapter. Premyogi vajra is writing about Kundalini since 3 years ago, when his kundalini awakened after one year long continued kundalini yoga meditation. He became amazed on seeing that nowhere Kundalini had been mentioned or described completely. Even Kundalini had not been defined properly. He searched and read many kundalini awakening experiences, but he found none as genuine and complete. Although he found Samadhi as mentioned in Patanjali Yoga Sutras as equivalent to Kundalini, but that was described in a mystic and ancient way that was difficult to be understood by the laymen type general public. Therefore inspired by these shortcomings, he decided to present every know-how about kundalini in very simple or childish way keeping everything at ground level, true, experiential, scientific, original, practical and intuitive. That genuine, honest and humane effort resulted into the origination of this wonderful book. That is why this book appears as a blessing for kundalini seekers. Because it is not comfortable to read so many blog posts together on glare producing screens, therefore those posts were presented in the form of a kindle e-book that is comfortable and enjoying to read. As a result, it is fully hoped that readers will find this book spiritually uplifting and comfortable to read. The description of Tantra and Kundalini is clear, simple, true, natural, practical and scientific as described by Premayogi Vajra. Such description is not visible anywhere else. Premayogi Vajra was born in the year 1975 in a small village in the beautiful basket valley of Himachal Pradesh, India. He is naturally fond of writing, philosophy, spirituality, yoga, public service, applied science and tourism. He has also done commendable work in the field of animal husbandry and veterinary medicine. He is also fond of polyhouse farming, organic farming, scientific and water conserving irrigation, rainwater harvesting, kitchen gardening, cow farming, vermicomposting, website development, self-publishing, music (especially flute playing) and singing. He has also written close to ten books on almost all these subjects, whose descriptions are available on Amazone Author Central, Author Page, Premyogi vajra. The description of these books is also available on his personal website demystifyingkundalini.com. He had also been a Vedic priest for a short period of time, when he performed religious rituals in people's homes with the help of his Vedic priestly grandfather. He has gained some advanced spiritual experiences (enlightenment and Kundalini awakening). His autobiography, along with his unique experiences, is particularly shared in the book "Physiology Philosophy - A Modern Kundalini Tantra (A Yogi's Love Story)" written in Hindi. The matching equivalent of this book in English is “Love story of a Yogi- what Patanjali says”. This book is the most prominent and ambitious book of his life. This book contains the most important 25 years of his life’s philosophy. He has worked very hard for this book. In a quality and unbiased review on Amazon.com, this book has been reviewed as a five-star, best, must-read and excellent book. Google Play Book Review also found five stars for this book, and this book was rated as good (cool). Premyogi vajra is a mysterious person. He is like a polymorphic man, who has no fixed form of his own. His actual form depends on the size and type of the trance/Samadhi that he is continuously experiencing in his mind, no matter what he looks like from outside. He is enlightened (self realized), and his Kundalini has also awakened. He had self realization or enlightenment naturally / through love yoga, and Kundalini awakening through artificial means / Kundalini yoga.

Sanskrit-Computers

Sanskrit-Computers
Author: Anand Bharadwaj Sastry
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2020-05-30
Genre:
ISBN:

This book is for those seekers who want to make a revisit to the 1984 statement: Sanskrit is best suited language for computer programming and connects to 21st century initiatives of A.I for Human Languages.The presentation plan used is over-view of 'language-technology relations, initiatives status and technology-trends emerging which impact human language future in digital space and devices. Three specific goals are explored to understand the legacy inheritance and ground reality for further planning to achieve the goals: 1. Identify the best technology options to facilitate research and outreach of Sanskrit to 2040- language user communities' without 5D- damages? (5D's: are distortions, digestion, dilution, degeneration, disconnection). 2. Revisit Panini studies to identify pathways to align Techno-linguistic models to get aligned to Brahmi Human language models, facilitating design and deployment of methods and systems delivering A.I for Non-English languages, Interactive Voice Interfaces for Brahmi language families, starting with Sanskrit? 3. What does it mean and take, to see Sanskrit as a programming language using brahmi native linguistics appropriate phonetics, semantics and morphology as provided in native grammars, lexicons documents and usage? Making Sanskrit stand on equal footing with other programming languages using Roman alphabet character set and romanization model? This book is a research- resource material Sanskrit-Computer: Language Appropriate Technology Course and Program offered by the author/s. Guiding thought for preparing this book is that Paninian Grammar rules and language model has the potential to deliver above goals. How to measure Progress by direction and benefit? What barriers to overcome? Language technology (L.T, currently anchored to representation of human languages through Romanization needs to evolve as Language Appropriate Technology (L.A.T) to serve non English like languages of nations by native natural scripts and user voices. De-Romanization and De-Anglicization of technology is the true beginning of Natural Language Processing in Language-Technology.Following are the visioned economic, social and national benefits of upgrade from L.T to LAT. (a)Skilled Job Creation in Language-Technology domain: Expand IT and .A.I. application markets elevated from the current framework of Romanization anchored Anglicized technology and address the needs of greater markets of Natural National Non-English like languages-market. (b) Technology that suits and serves the national language, languages of nation eliminates the language override and endangerment threats. (c) Natural language appropriate technology markets are fifty times bigger, diverse, stable and long lasting with cultural continuum in nations. More advanced technology is needed to deliver the solutions for this new global market. Language Appropriate Technology (LAT) is an inclusive and comprehensive evolution of the core concepts in 'Language-Technology (LT)' and Natural Language Processing (NLP).It is an effort to De-Romanize Human Language representation in Technology and imbalances triggered due to Anglicized Technology. It is an effort to eliminate the fears expressed as colonized web, digital death of language, mono-lingual web, Machines overtake, English override on non-English- non roman script languages. It is an effort to empower all human languages with equal rights and opportunities to enjoy the benefits of technology, using their native script, voices and grammars, without a dependency on Romanized representation in Anglicized technology frame. It is a perceived path way to eliminate the threat of techno-linguistic digestion of human languages to technology frame work. Natural language appropriate technology markets are fifty times bigger, diverse, stable and long lasting with cultural continuum in nations. More advanced technology is needed to deliver the solutions for this new global market.