Lord Biography of Aurabindo

Biography of Sri Aurabinbo

By

K R Srinivasa Iyengar

This book is published by Sri Srinivas Iyengar, The first draft of this book was completed in feb 1942 it was taken up and enlarged, and put into its present shape, rewritten and enlarged, and put into the present shape in no 1943. Srinivasa has incorporated into the the book some paragraphs and stray sentences from three of his other published books 1. The personality of Sri Aurabindo-july 1943, 2, sri Aurabindo as a literary artist, 3, The poetry of Sri Aurabindo.

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Sankara, the Missionary
Published bt chinmaya mission Trust , Mumbai
Contents
Introduction
1, Religious development
2, Early life
3, Dig Vijayam
4, Works of sankara
5, Sankaras legacy
6, Mutha-s and disciples
7, Philosophy of sankara
8, Sankara and mandana
9, Das sloka
10, List of works
Introduction
Sankara is not and individual to the students of the Advaita philosophy, Sankara is an institution No single person could ever have achieved what he had achieved in his short span of life. No master or prophet had ever achieved so much, for so many in so short was an avatara.
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Lord The Web of Indian Life By Nivedita

THE WEB OF INDIAN LIFE

BY

THE SISTER NIVEDITA

(MARGARET E. NOBLE)

OF RAMAKRISHNA-VIVEKANANDA

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY

SIR RABINDRANATH TAGORE

" IN sending this book out into the world, I desire to record my thanks to Mr. Romesh Chunder Dutt for his constant interest and encouragement, and also to Prof. Patrick Geddes, who, by teaching me to understand a little of Europe, indirectly gave me a method by which to read my Indian experiences "

NIVEDITA, Of Ramakrishna-Vivekananda.

This is a collection of essays by Sister Nivedita, Margaret E. Noble, an Anglo-Irish Hindu convert who moved to India and devoted herself to helping poor women of all castes. It includes an appreciative introduction by Rabindranath Tagore, the Nobel laureate writer, one of her many friends in the Bengali artistic community.
Although long out of print, this book was a sensation when it was originally published. Nivedita here espouses Hindu pan-Indian nationalism, while also rationalizing some of the aspects of Indian life such as the caste system. She deals with the historical background of religious tolerance in India, including the contributions of Muslims and Buddhists, and the ability of Hinduism to assimilate compatible doctrines, no matter what their source.
Nivedita has a unique and much beloved position in Indian history as one of the few westerners who took up the cause of Indian independence. You will come away from reading this book with a new appreciation for the problems which India faced in forging a democratic nation based on diversity.


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Lord The Home and the World by Tagore

The Home and the World

by Rabindranath Tagore

[1861-1941]

Translated [from Bengali to English]

by Surendranath Tagore

London: Macmillan, 1919

[published in India, 1915, 1916]

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Lord How i became a Hindu by David Frawley

HOW I BECAME A HINDU
My Discovery of Vedic Dharma
by
David Frawley
(Pandit Vamadeva Shastry)

The following book unfolds an intellectual and spiritual journey from the West to the East such as a number of people have traveled in recent times. This journey moves from the western world of materialism to the greater universe of consciousness that permeates India and was the basis of her older civilization. As an inner journey it is more pilgrimage to the spiritual heart of India than an outer visit. Yet it is also a story marked by meetings with important people, friends and teachers who connected me with deeper teachings and guided me along the way. This journey is not only through space but also through time, into the ancient world and its spiritual culture, such as India has maintained better than any country. It is a re encounter with the spiritual roots of humanity that we have long forgotten or denigrated. The book shows how the ancient Vedic world can come alive and touch us today, not only as a relic of the past but as an inspiration for the future. It is a return to the formative stages of humanity, before we directed our energy to the outer world and were still connected with our cosmic origins.
How I Became a Hindu – David Frawley Hopefully, the book can help reawaken this original creative vision of the species that holds the key of transformation for our present darker world. In my books to date I have written little about myself. This book is a departure and is centered on my own life-experience. The book is autobiographical in tone, but it is not so much an account of my personal life as about how certain changes occurred in my psyche. It focuses on an inner transformation that fundamentally altered who I am and changed my perception of both self and world. In my case I simply didn’t build bridges to the East, I crossed over them and left them far behind. I immersed my being in the soul of the East so completely that I almost ceased to be a westerner, not only in my thoughts but also in my instincts.

Contents

Introduction

Early Years

Spiritual Paths And Discovery of The Vedas

India and Hinduism, the Spiritual Traditions

Discovery Of Social And Political Hinduism

Journalistic Work

Ancient India And Vedic Knowledge

Hindu Groups In The West

Additional Studies Of Christianity And Islam

Return Of The Pagans

Debate With The Archbishop Of Hyderabad

The Debate Goes On

Systems Of Vedic Knowledge

Towards a New Western Hinduism

Conclusion

The Meaning Of The Term Hindu

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Lord Kali the Mother by Sister Niveditha

Kali The Mother By Sister Niveditha (Margaret E Noble )
Published in 1899
Contents
CONCERNING SYMBOLS
THE VISION OF SIVA
TWO SAINTS OF KALI
THE VOICE OF THE MOTHER
A VISIT TO DUKINESHWAR
AN INTERCESSION
THE STORY OF KALI FOR A WESTERN BABY
KALI THE MOTHER
Works of Vivekananda
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OUR daily life creates our symbol of God. No two ever cover quite the same conception.It is so with that symbolism which we know as language. The simple daily needs of mankind, seem, the world over, to be one. We look, therefore, for words that correspond in every land.Yet we know how the tongue of each people expresses some one group of ideas with especial clearness, and ignores others altogether. Never do we find an identical strength and weakness repeated: and always if we go deep enough, we can discover in the circumstances and habits of a country, a cause for its specific difference of thought or of expression.In the North we speak of a certain hour as "twilight," implying a space of time between the day and night. In India, the sane moments receive the name of "time of union," since there is no period of half-light,--the hours of sun and darkness seeming to touch each other in a point.The illustration can be carried further. In the word gloaming lies for us a wealth of associations,--the throbbing of the falling dusk, the tenderness of home-coming, the last sleepy laughter of children. The same emotional note is struck in Indian languages by the expression at the hour of cowdust
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Lord Thought Relics by Ravendranatha Tagore

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LAST night I dreamt that I was the same boy that I had been before my mother died. She sat in a room in a garden house on the bank of the Ganges. I carelessly passed by without paying attention to her, when all of a sudden it flashed through my mind with an unutterable longing that my mother was there. At once I stopped and went back to her and bowing low touched her feet with my head. She held my hand, looked into my face, and said: "You have come!"In this great world we carelessly pass by the room where Mother sits.

Her storeroom is open when we want our food, our bed is ready when we must sleep. Only that touch and that voice are wanting. We are moving about, but never coming close to the personal presence, to be held by the hand and greeted: "You have come!" IN my early years, I did not know that my sight had become impaired. The first day when, by chance, I put on a pair of eye-glasses I found that I had suddenly come nearer to everything. I felt I had gained the world twice as much as had been given to me the moment before.There is such a thing as coming to the nearer presence of the world through the soul. It is like a real home-coming into this world. It is gaining the world more than can be measured--like gaining an instrument, not merely by having it, but by producing upon it music.
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Lord Sadhana: The Realisation of Life by Tagore

SADHANA

THE realization OF LIFE

From

Rabindranath Tagore

Writer of 'Gitanjali'

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I. THE RELATION OF THE INDIVIDUAL TO THE UNIVERSE

2. SOUL awareness

3. THE PROBLEM OF EVIL

4. THE PROBLEM OF ego

5. Realization IN LOVE

6. Realization IN ACTION

7. THE realization OF BEAUTY

8. THE REALISATION OF THE INFINITE

THE RELATION OF THE INDIVIDUAL TO THE UNIVERSE

The civilization of ancient Greece was brought up within metropolis walls. As a matter of fact, all the advanced civilizations have their places of origin of brick and mortar. This walls give their label inscrutable in the minds of humankind. They bring about a principle of "separate and rule out our mental mind-set, which begets in us a use of assuring all our conquering by arming them and distinguishing them from each other. We separate country and land, knowledge and cognition, man and nature. It covers in us a firm intuition of whatever is beyond the roadblocks we have built up, and everything has to fight firmly for its entryway into our identification.
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Introduction
A couple of weeks agone I told to a recognized Bangla doctor of medicinal drug, `I know no German language, still if a version of a German language poet had displaced me, I would attend British Museum and discover book in English language that would narrate me something of his biography, and of the story of his thinking. But although this prose renderings by Rabindranath Tagore have aroused my blood as nil has for a long time, I shall not acknowledge anything of his life story, and of the drifts of thought that have caused them possible, if some bharat traveler won't narrate me.'

It appeared to him raw that I had better be displaced, for he told, `I study Rabindranath each day, to read one line of his is to leave all the distracts of the humanity.' I said, `An Englishman existing in British capital in the rule of Richard the 2d had he been shown versions from Francesco Petrarca or by Dante, would have discovered no books to reply his inquiries, but would have queried a few Florentine banker or Langobard merchant as I query you..continued

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Thou hast made me endless, such is thy pleasure. This frail vessel thou emptiest again and again, and fillest it ever with fresh life.

This little flute of a reed thou hast carried over hills and dales, and hast breathed through it melodies eternally new.

At the immortal touch of thy hands my little heart loses its limits in joy and gives birth to utterance ineffable.

Thy infinite gifts come to me only on these very small hands of mine. Ages pass, and still thou pourest, and still there is room to fill.

When thou commandest me to sing it seems that my heart would break with pride; and I look to thy face, and tears come to my eyes.

All that is harsh and dissonant in my life melts into one sweet harmony---and my adoration spreads wings like a glad bird on its flight across the sea.

I know thou takest pleasure in my singing. I know that only as a singer I come before thy presence.

I touch by the edge of the far-spreading wing of my song thy feet which I could never aspire to reach.
Drunk with the joy of singing I forget myself and call thee friend who art my lord

GITANJALI
Song Offerings
A collection of prose translations
made by the author from
the original Bengali
with an introduction by
W. B. YEATS
to WILLIAM ROTHENSTEIN

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