Bhagavad Gita (The non-dual view)


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A study on Bhagavat Gita with a different perspective.




Church Comes Home


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People have lost faith in all collective institutions: government, corporations, the media, and the church. We are in the midst of a spiritual disaster, a flood of biblical proportions, and house churches provide lifeboats for people who are seeking a more authentic, life-giving form of Christian community. Many people remember that the early church started in homes, but they don’t understand that house churches are still a legitimate and viable model today. House churches can create the intimacy so many people are hungry for. They can nurture life-changing discipleship for individuals and create justice-centered communities. Networked house churches can become truly diverse, multi-ethnic communities that spread the Gospel by emphasizing practices over programs. These communities de-center the preacher, opting instead for grassroots organizing, but they are not leaderless — they are leader-full. This book provides an alternative model for denominations and established churches to consider. It will help pastors reconnect with the traditions of community organizing, itinerant preaching, and discipleship training that sparked Methodism and other church movements in the United States. Church Comes Home offers alternative ways to look at some of the problems facing our church and our culture.




Bhagavad-Gita as it is


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Mud and Water


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The fourteenth-century Zen master Bassui was recognized as one of the most important Zen teachers of his time. Accessible and eloquent, these teachings cut to the heart of the great matter of Zen, pointing directly to the importance of seeing our own original nature and recognizing it as Buddhahood itself. Bassui is taking familiar concepts in Buddhism and recasting them in an essential Zen light. Though he lived centuries ago in a culture vastly different from our own, Zen Master Bassui speaks with a voice that spans time and space to address our own modern challenges - in our lives and spiritual practice. Like the revered Master Dogen several generations before him, Bassui was dissatisfied with what passed for Zen training, and taught a radically reenergized form of Zen, emphasizing deep and direct penetration into one's own true nature. And also like Dogen, Bassui uses powerful and often poetic language to take familiar Buddhist concepts recast them in a radically non-dual Zen light, making ancient doctrines vividly relevant. This edition of Mud and Water contains several teachings never before translated.




Exploring the Depths A Journey through Self and Beyond


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This book delves into the profound journey of self-discovery, drawing on the timeless wisdom of the *Bhagavad Gita* to explore identity, transcendence, and the nature of existence. It examines key themes such as the balance between inner and outer realities, overcoming fear through self-realization, and embracing impermanence and change. Through chapters on meditation, consciousness, and surrender, the book offers a path to inner peace and harmony. It emphasizes the importance of living in the present moment, transcending duality, and finding liberation through deeper spiritual understanding.




Steps to Self-realization as thought in The Bhagavad Gita


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The only book ever written by Swami Atmanandendra Saraswati, a direct disciple of Swami Satchidanandendra Saraswati of Holenarasipura. The heart of Bhagvad Gita for Self Realization.







Advanced Yoga Practices - The AYP Plus Lessons


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The AYP Plus Lessons eBook is offered as a resource for off-line study, covering nearly 1,000 lessons and additions on practices and experiences. Until now, this large amount of instructional content has only been available through the AYP Plus online service. Full Scope Yoga, consisting of eight limbs, opens the doorway between our outer and inner reality, leading us to Abiding Peace, Unity and Joy in all aspects of life. The Advanced Yoga Practices (AYP) Lessons provide detailed instructions on how to open the doorway of our nervous system - aiding us in unfolding our full potential and destiny in this life. Deep Meditation, Spinal Breathing Pranayama, and Yoga Asanas form the foundation of daily practice in a short routine compatible with modern life, with extensive refinements and many additional practices provided in the lessons as experience in human spiritual transformation advances over time. Prudent Self-Pacing of practices for comfort and safety is a core teaching throughout the lessons. The AYP Lessons began in 2003 as an online resource. Over the years, the teachings have expanded to populate several websites, more than 15 books, and translations into more than a dozen languages. The two original AYP Easy Lessons for Ecstatic Living books, published in 2004 and 2010, cover nearly 500 lessons combined. As the writings continued, the AYP Plus online service was launched in 2015, eventually providing nearly 500 additions to the original lessons, expanding and refining the teachings based on the questions and experiences of hundreds of practitioners. Yogani is the author of ground-breaking books on highly effective spiritual practices, including the Advanced Yoga Practices lesson books, the concise AYP Enlightenment Series books, and The Secrets of Wilder spiritual adventure novel. Over the years, the AYP writings have been praised as one of the most comprehensive and accessible instructional resources on Full Scope Yoga - See hundreds of testimonials in the back of the book. With the publication of this large eBook, the full teachings contained in the AYP Plus Lessons are being made available in book form for the first time.




Universal Message of the Bhagavad Gita


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Among the several modern commentaries on the Gita, this one is unique in the sense it is both down to earth and fascinatingly erudite. In explaining every verse, the author, the 13th President of Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission, relates its real connotation and significance to not only what Shankaracharya said in his introduction to the Gita, or how Sri Ramakrishna and Swami Vivekananda interpreted it in terms of practical Vedanta, but also how it conforms to the thinking of some of the greatest Greek philosophers like Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle.The author also takes the readers on an enlightening voyage of discovery, where they meet Buddha, Mahavir, Tao, Christ and most of the thinkers in the West and he relates their thought by an ingenious interaction with the message of Sri Krishna. Even scientists like Einstein, famous neurologists like Charles Sherrington and poets like Wordsworth and Shelley and philosophers like Julian Huxley and Bertrand Russell are brought in by the author to give the readers an in-depth understanding of this great scripture. The author weaves every verse into the requirements of modern life and throws light on how man should lead his life while involved in his daily chores and fulfil his duties in accordance with the philosophy of action as taught by Sri Krishna. The book contains the Sanskrit slokas in Devanagari script, their English transliteration, simple meaning in English followed by explanation in English.




Journey Beyond: A Non-Dual Approach


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Everyone is searching for everlasting happiness. Yet, none can find it by pursuit; at the same time, none can stop the pursuit. This seems to be the tragedy of human life—nay, the life of every being. Every pursuit is limited space-wise, time-wise and object-wise. Any pursuit that is limited cannot give everlasting happiness. Some promise eternal happiness after death if one follows their path. Yet, no one has returned to claim that they achieved it by following that path. One sage declares that ‘truth is a pathless land’. Vedanta ascertains that the truth is beyond the space-time-object-wise limitations, and you are that truth–tat tvam asi. The journey beyond space and time limitations is the central theme of the discussions in this text.