Dadu, the Compassionate Mystic


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Includes life and teachings of Dādūdayāla.




Dadu


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Sach Khand, 7


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Poet Saints of India


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The Hindī Biography of Dādū Dayāl


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During the past few decades some lengthy studies have been devoted to Dadu and the Dadupanth. When writing a biography of Dadu, authors often give a list of sources without apparently having consulted the works they mention, with the result that most literature on the subject now available is to a great extent merely the result of copying from earlier writers. Often, a mass of details about Dadu is given without a clear distinction being made between early documents and later information arising from tradition. In most cases the composition of an original work was followed by a wave of sectarian historians who indulged in laudatory embellishments to the point of the most fanciful miracle mongering. A critical edition of the Hindi Biography of Dadu, by Jan Gopal was urgently needed because it shows that within one generation after its redaction the original version was greatly expanded and delicate issues in it were `explained`. Both versions are given here, with an English translation and commentary.




101 Mystics of India


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101 Mystics Of India Is A Valuable Compilation By The Scholar-Artist-Author V. K. Subramanian, Whose Ten-Volume Series Sacred Songs Of India- The Result Of Loving And Laborious Research Spread Over Several Years Is Already Before The Discerning Public. 101 Mystic Of India Will Be An Invaluable Reference Book To Scholars Of Indiloogy And To All Those Sons And Daughters Of India Who Live Scattered Across The Globe A Precious Reminder Of Their Spiritual Heritage.




A Treasury of Mystic Terms


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The Guru In America


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The Guru Tradition


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The Guru Tradition: India’s Spiritual Heritage discusses the natures and roles of both the guru and the śiṣya, or disciple, as depicted in the Upaniṣads and Dharma Śāstras. The entirety of this analysis, of guru and disciple, is developed into a paradigm by which both the ancient and modern Guru Tradition can be more thoroughly understood. Four pivotal gurus from the twentieth century who have impacted the spiritual fabric of both East and West —Ramakrishna Paramahansa, Sri Aurobindo, Ramana Maharshi, and Paramahansa Yogananda— are juxtaposed and discussed alongside this paradigm. This study is conducted from the perspective of Advaita Vedānta, the Indian philosophical system of nondualism.




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