Bhakti Shakti

Bhakti Shakti
Author: Pranada Comtois
Publisher:
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2022-01-17
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 9781737891406

In the noble pursuit of claiming our true identity, Sri Radha, goddess of divine love, provides a framework for personal evolution and a methodology to have a first-hand experience of your true self.

A Guide to Shaktipat

A Guide to Shaktipat
Author: Swami Shivom Tirth
Publisher: Swami Shivom Tirth Ashram Inc
Total Pages: 162
Release: 1985
Genre: Hindu philosophy
ISBN: 9780961421502

Dialogues on the process of awakening shakti towards inner consciousness while performing Yoga.

Feminism and World Religions

Feminism and World Religions
Author: Arvind Sharma
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 316
Release: 1999-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780791440230

Addressing religion and feminism on a global scale, this unprecedented book contains a nuanced and fine-tuned treatment of seven of the world's religions from a feminist perspective by leading women scholars. The fact that these authors share a dual but undivided commitment both to themselves as women and to their traditions as adherents imparts to their voices a prophetic quality, and if Mahatma Gandhi is to be believed, even scriptural value.

An Introductory Dictionary of Theology and Religious Studies

An Introductory Dictionary of Theology and Religious Studies
Author: Orlando O. Espín
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Total Pages: 1566
Release: 2007
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780814658567

Spanning the gamut from "Aaron" to "Zwingli," this dictionary includes nearly 3,000 entries written by about sixty authors, all of whom are specialists in their various theological and religious disciplines. The editors have designed the dictionary especially to aid the introductory-level student with instant access to definitions of terms likely to be encountered in, but not to substitute for, classroom presentations or reading assignments. - Publisher.

Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines, Or, Seven Books of Wisdom of the Great Path, According to the Late Lāma Kazi Dawa-Samdup's English Rendering

Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines, Or, Seven Books of Wisdom of the Great Path, According to the Late Lāma Kazi Dawa-Samdup's English Rendering
Author: Walter Yeeling Evans-Wentz
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 468
Release: 2000
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780195133141

Focusing on the principal mediations used by Hindu and Tibetan gurus and philosophers, this companion volume to "Tibetan Book of the Dead" contains seven authentic Tibetan yoga texts, each accompanied by introductory notes and commentary. Includes photos and reproductions of yoga paintings and manuscripts. 9 halftones.

Tibetan Yoga and Its Secret Doctrines

Tibetan Yoga and Its Secret Doctrines
Author: W.Y. Evans-Wentz
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 434
Release: 2012-11-12
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 113619195X

This volume provides a faithful account of the yogic practices which Milarepa, the best known of the Tibetan yogins, successfully put to the test of practice. It explores some of the Kargylitpa School's chief doctrines from Indian Buddhistic sources.

Healthy Happy Sexy

Healthy Happy Sexy
Author: Katie Silcox
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2015-01-13
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1582704732

A Ayurvedic yoga teacher helps women live a more healthful, radiant life through a series of mental and physical exercises and meditations as well as natural remedies for a wide range of health and beauty needs. Original. 25,000 first printing.

Awakening Shakti

Awakening Shakti
Author: Sally Kempton
Publisher: Sounds True
Total Pages: 373
Release: 2013-02-01
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1604079444

How do you live a life of spiritual awakening as well as outer abundance, inner freedom as well as deep intimacy? How do you serve the world selflessly, yet passionately celebrate your life? The sages of Tantra have known for centuries that when you follow the path of Shakti—the sacred feminine principle personified by the goddesses of yoga—these gifts can manifest spontaneously. Yet most of us, women as well as men, have yet to experience the full potential of our inner feminine energies. When you know these powers for what they are, they heighten your capacity to open spiritually, love more deeply and fearlessly, create with greater mastery, and move through the world with skill and delight. In Awakening Shakti, you will learn how to recognize and invite: Kali, bringer of strength, fierce love, and untamed freedomLakshmi, who confers prosperity and beautySaraswati, for clarity of communication and intuitionRadha, who carries the divine energy of spiritual longingBhuvaneshvari, who creates the space for sacred transformationParvati, to awaken creativity and the capacity to love With a wealth of meditations, visualizations, mantras, teachings, and beautifully told stories, Awakening Shakti provides a practical guide for activating the currents of the divine feminine in every aspect of your life. “Sally Kempton's new book is a treasure that brings myth, meditation, and everyday revelation together in a way that will allow every woman to embody the divine feminine in her life. Sally enlivens the full spectrum of the goddess—from independent protector, to lover, to dynamic and powerful creatrix. I highly recommend this soon-to-be classic!” —Shiva Rea, yogini “Sally Kempton has given us a mythic manual for a new kind of feminism—a feminism of the soul. And this is a good thing, because humanity needs feminine power now as both a healing tonic and a source of reinvention.” —Elizabeth Lesser, cofounder of the Omega Institute, author of Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow

Shakti's New Voice

Shakti's New Voice
Author: Angela Rudert
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2017-10-04
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1498547559

Shakti’s New Voice is the first comprehensive study of Anandmurti Gurumaa, a widely popular contemporary female guru from north India known for offering spiritual teachings and music on satellite television and the Internet. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork and religious-historical research—as well as unexpected and unprecedented outsider contact with the guru—Angela Rudertoffers an intimate portrait of “Gurumaa” that will be of interest to the guru’s admirers as well as to scholars. To examine Gurumaa’s innovation, Rudert turns to examples drawn from fieldwork research in the guru’s ashram and from other locations in India and in the United States. These examples specifically discuss Gurumaa’s religious pluralism, her gender activism, and her embrace of new media, in order to illuminate elements of continuity and change within the time-honored South Asian tradition of guru-bhakti, devotion to the guru. Raised in a Sikh family, educated in a Catholic convent school and understood to have attained her enlightenment in Vrindavan, the famous Hindu pilgrimage site of Lord Krishna’s divine play, Gurumaa refuses identification with any particular religious tradition, or “ism,” yet her teachings draw from many. She speaks strongly, often harshly, about contemporary issues of gender inequality, while calling for women’s empowerment, and she has established a non-governmental organization called Shakti to promote girls’ education in India. In the case of Anandmurti Gurumaa and those spiritual seekers in her fold, innovations and re-interpretations of tradition come from within the pluralistic setting of Indian religiosity, while they exist and act within a global religious milieu.

One God, Two Goddesses, Three Studies of South Indian Cosmology

One God, Two Goddesses, Three Studies of South Indian Cosmology
Author: Don Handelman
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2013-09-25
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 900425739X

One, God, Two Goddesses presents three studies, one of Tamil myths of the god Murugan and two of goddess rituals: Gangamma in Tirupati and Paiditalli in Vizianagaram, both in Andhra Pradesh. All three essays search for lineaments of the cosmos that these deities inhabit and shape. These cosmoi are characterised by the dynamism of their incessant interior movement. Should they become still, they would die. Deities activate and regenerate such a cosmos. The dynamism of Murugan’s cosmos eliminates the chaotic. Through ritual, Gangamma regenerates her cosmos through feminising it. Through ritual, Paiditalli annually re-grows the historic little kingdom of Vizianagaram, regenerating its kingship. All three studies point to the need to rethink cosmology in South India.