Kategoria BISAC: Philosophy >> Eastern

Sri Aurobindo was an Indian nationalist, philosopher, yogi, guru, and poet. This book is an enquiry into the integral philosophy of Aurobindo and its contemporary relevance. It offers a reading of Aurobindo s key texts by bringing them into conversation with religious studies and the hermeneutical traditions. The central argument is that Aurobindo s integral philosophy is best understood as hermeneutical philosophy of religion.

Such an understanding of Aurobindo s philosophy, offering both substantive and methodological insights for the academic study of religion, subdivides into...

The Mandukya Upanishad is part of the Atharva Veda and belongs to a relatively remote period.  Though short, it sums up the entire metaphysical vision of the doctrine of the Upanishads. 

The Upanishad, which is of great initiatory interest, acquires greater value through the addition of Gaudapada’s karikas (Verse commentary), some of which are an integral part of the Upanishad.  

Gaudapada divides this work into four parts, naming them:

1.  Agama Prakarana, based on the scriptures or Shruti.  

2.  Vaitathya...

Although enormously attractive as sheer entertainment, Dervish tales were never presented merely on the level of a fable, legend or folklore. They stand comparison in wit, construction and piquancy with the finest stories of any culture, yet their true function as Sufi teaching stories is so little-known in the modern world, that no technical or popular terms exist to describe them. The material in Tales of the Dervishes is the result of a thousand years of development, during which Dervish masters used these and other teaching stories to instruct their disciples. The tales are...

Living Love is practical mysticism at its best. This rare and wonderful work, based in the ancient teachings of yoga, is a poetic and penetrating therapeutic guidebook for transformation and awakening.

It eloquently maintains the integrity of the ancient scriptures while bringing the teachings down to earth and.at the same time uplifting us into a sublime connection to our deepest truth.

All of us struggle at times with fears, angers, attachments, losses and disappointments. Have you ever wondered how to work with these...

Oskar Goldberg was an important and controversial figure in Weimar Germany. He challenged the rising racial conception of the state and claimed that the Jewish people were on a metaphysical mission to defeat race-based statism. He attracted the attention of his contemporaries--Walter Benjamin, Gershom Scholem, Thomas Mann, and Carl Schmitt, among others--with the argument that ancient Israel's sacrificial rituals held the key to overcoming the tyranny of technology in the modern world. Bruce Rosenstock offers a sympathetic but critical philosophical portrait of Goldberg and puts him into...

THIS book is dedicated to that part of Yoga which deals with the development and attainment of a healthy physical constitution. The information gathered in this book is a passing on of old knowledge in an effort to make it accessible to people from all walks of life.

Within the framework of the Science of Yoga this knowledge and instructions is called ‘Hatha Yoga’ and lies at the root of Yoga and its Higher Teachings. This knowledge comes naturally to each of us as our Instinctual Birth right. Often, through external influences like modern ways of living or misguided...

The fables and anecdotes in the text attempt to illustrate the falseness of human distinctions between good and bad, large and small, life and death, and human and nature. While other philosophers wrote of moral and personal duty, Chuang Tzu( Zhuangzi) promoted carefree wandering and becoming one with "the Way" (Dao) by following nature.

Though primarily known as a philosophical work, the Zhuangzi is regarded as one of the greatest literary works in all of Chinese history, and has been called "the most important pre-Qin text for the study of Chinese literature." A masterpiece of...