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1. Beyond The Mind/ David Frawley **
ISBN: 81-7030-607-8, Series: Sri Garib Das Oriental Series No. 28
About the Book
David Frawley is the author of many books on the spiritual traditions of India and is one of the few Westerners ever recognized in India as a Vedacharya or teacher of the Vedic Tradition. Beyond the Mind presents the essential knowledge and insights taken from his in-depth studies free of any technical terms for the benefit of the broader audience of all those interested in the fundamental issues of human life. Beyond The mind is a profound examination of the nature of the mind and of what we call reality. It raises fundamental questions as to the nature of the self and the nature of the world. It is a provocative challenge to all that we commonly believe and know that can help us move into an entirely different dimension of being, in which alone may be the solution to our present personal and collective problems.
2. Dzog Chen Meditation- rdor sems thugs kyi sgrub pa'i khrid yig rab gsal snang ba/ Explained in Tibetan by Khamtul Rinpoche in English and briefly annotated by Gareth Spartham, US$ 10
ISBN: 81-7030-407-5, , Series: Bibliotheca Indo-Buddhica Series No. 133
About the Author
Gareth Sparham is unusual in that he is a respected academic and also has been a Buddhist monk for twenty years. He presently teaches at Langara College in Vancouver, B.C. He is an accomplished Sanskritist whose work on the Indian Buddhist writer Haribhadra has been published by Motilal Banarsidass. He spends part of his time in Dharmsala, India.
3. Essence of Yoga: Reflections on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali/ Bernard Bouanchaud, **
ISBN: 81-7030-687-6, Series: Sri Garib Das Oriental Series No. 258
About the Author
Bernard Bouanchaud Internationally acclaimed yoga instructor Bernard Bouanchaud began studying yoga in 1961. He is the author of several books on Yoga including Le Yoga: Premiers Pas.
4. Ghreanda Samhita / S.C. Vasu, US$ 8
ISBN: 81-7030-807-0
About the Book
The Gheranda Samhita is one of the important texts of Hatha Yoga. The book is a discourse between the sage Gheranda and Candakapali. The book is divided into seven chapters, dealing with the training of the physical body, Asanas (postures), Mudras, Pratyahara (restraining the mind), restraining the breath (Pranayama), contemplation (Dhyana) and Samadhi (liberation). The book contains Sanskrit text in Devanagari along with English translation.
5. Hatha Yoga Pradipika / Pancham Singh, US$ 8
ISBN: 81-7030-808-9, Series: Sri Garib Dass Oriental Series No. 303
About the Book
The Hatha Yoga Pradipila of Svatmarama is one of the basic text of hatha yoga. The book is divided into four chapters. The first chapter deals with asanas (postures). The second chapter describes pranayama (control of breathing). The third chapter deals with mudras. The fourth chapters explains samadhi.
6. Meditation, Compassion & Lovingkindness: An Approach to Vipassana Practice/ Steve & Rosemary Weissman, **
ISBN: 81-7030-678-7
About the Book
If you practice mediation, this is the book you’ll want to take everywhere with you! Steve and Rosemary Weissman offer insights into the development process, because when you start to meditate, you eventually will look at all the problems that people on the spiritual path want to overcome. How do you deal with anger, fear, greed, aversion, or being judgmental? The Weissmans offer a guided meditation to help get rid of feelings of guilt and lack of self-worth; they present a way to learn how to look at the world around you with compassion and lovingkindness. Full of practical information, this is a resource that you’ll use over and over again, and you may want to give it to a friend. The Weissmans teach mediation retreats at the Wat Kow Tahm Meditation Center in Thailand. They also teach in the United States and at their center in Australia. This book was written at the request of people who have studied with them, for many students of Vipassana meditation wanted a ready reference to take home. Included with the text is basic instruction for working with meditation postures – sitting, standing, lying, and walking—so you can learn to use Vipassana mediation techniques everywhere you go.
7. Meeting The Monkey Halfway- A spiritual self-help book designed to take the self beyond the need for heil of any kind/ Ajahn Sumano Bhikkhu with Emily Popp **
ISBN 81-7030-679-5
About the Book
The world is full of confused people running around aimlessly, waiting for life to happen. Caught in maze of mirrors, we spend most of our time bumping into the walls of confusion and chaos we have created. In term of Buddhist reality, we have been swallowed up by our ego-1, which determines our relationship with world. Meeting the Monkey Halfway is a spiritual instruction book that presents perspectives from the Buddha's view of the world and is offered as a remedial treatment. just as medicines are intended to deal with dysfunction, illness and injury, this spiritual path is meant to serve as a tool to bring radiating peace into our hearts and return us to our natural state of bliss.
8. Mudras - Yoga in Your Hands/ Gertrud Hirschi **
9. On Being Mindless- Buddhist Meditation and the Mind Bodhy Problem/ Paul J. Griffiths, **
ISBN: 81-7030-606-X, Series: Bibliotheca Indo-Buddhica Series No.196
About the Book
Indian Buddhist philosophers say that it is possible to achieve, by specific meditational techniques, a distinctive ‘altered state’ which they call ‘the attainment of cessation’. In this state, the stream of mental events is temporarily brought to a complete halt: the practitioner becomes mindless. The possibility and desirability of such an altered state was extensively discussed by Buddhist thinkers in India. In these discussions, they were compelled to consider the causal connections between the mental and the physical, and thus to clarify their positions on what in the west has usually been called the mind-body problem. On Being Mindless presents these discussions to an English speaking readership for the first time, including analysis and translation of texts not previously available in English and, in some cases, of material not available in any Western language. Opposing fashionably relativistic approaches to non-Western philosophical traditions, Paul Griffiths critically comments upon the analyses of mindlessness given by Buddhist thinkers. He maintains that “the functions, nature, and limits of rationality are conceived similarly in all cultures” and rejects” that humility which, all too often in those Western academic circles where the study of Buddhist thought is carried on, refuses to take its material with philosophical seriousness”. On Being Mindless is a study in cross-cultural philosophy which should do much to increase awareness among Western scholars of the precision and subtlety of India Philosophical thinking. It may also encourage Western philosophers to look beyond the barriers of their own culture and language for serious philosophical analysis.
10. Samadhi-Self Development in Zen Swordsmanship and Psychotherapy/ Mike Sayama, **
ISBN: 81-7030-277-3, Series: Bibliotheca Indo-Buddhica Series No. 89
Contents: Interpenetration, Buddha's Enlightenment; Chozen-ji Line; Bodhidharma; Hui-neng Ta-Chien; Lin-chi I-hsuan; Hakuin Ekaku; Omori Sogen; Tanouye Tenshin; Zen Therapy; The Way: Philosophy of Life; Trancendent Unconscious and the True Self; Creative Problem Solving; Mind-Body Training; All Ways are One in the End
11. Siva Samhita / S.C. Vasu , US$ 8
ISBN: 81-7030-825-9, Series: Sri Garib Das Oriental Series No. 288
12. Vipassana- A Buddhist Universal Meditational Technique/ D.C. Ahir, US$ 13
ISBN: 81-7030-612-4, Series: Bibliotheca Indo-Buddhica Series No.201
About the Author
D.C. Ahir (born 1928, Punjab) is a reputed scholar of Buddhist studies, and has made notable contribution to the history of Buddhism during the last 42 years. He retired as Director to the Government of India in February 1986, and since then is fully engaged in enriching literature. He already has more than forty published works to his credit, besides numerous articles on Buddhism. In appreciation of his noble and notable contribution to the Buddhist Literature as a Distinguished Scholarand Author, the Maha Bodhi Society of India, Sarnath conferred on him on 30 November 2001 the Honorary Title of Buddha Sahitya Shiromani.
13. Yoga for Body Breath & Mind- A Guide to Personal Reintegration/ A.G. Mohan, ED. Kathleen Miller , **
ISBN: 81-7030-703-1
About the Book
Yoga combins movement with conscious breathing to relieve the mind of daily stress and to build the body's strength and stamina. Mohan's approach is breath-oriented. He focuses on relaxing the body through proper breathing, correct mental attitude, and fluid movements which increase the body's flaxibility, strength, and inner stability. In this book, he sheds clear insight on the yoga philosophy, meditation, yoga postures (asanas), and breathing (pranayama) that allow anyone to find a deep sense of relaxation and well-being. Over 300 illustrations and photographs will help you develop your own yoga practice from 20 essential asanas which can be adapted to anyone's body shape, age, level of fitness, and experience.
14. Yoga Sutras of Patanjali: Sanskrit Text & English Trans./ Trans. M.N. Dvivedi, US$ 8
ISBN: 81-7030-091-6
About the Book
The present book comprises the Sanskrit text in Devanagari and transliteration and English translation of the Yoga Sutras's of Patanjali, an introduction, an appendix and notes on each sutras based upon several authentic commentaries all in English. The introduction is refreshingly topical. the doctrine of the Guna's-the four fold developmental theory namely physical, mental, moral and spiritual. The eight limbs of yoga, mantra, and laya yogas and their utilities in the presents system have been discussed in details. The book shows how the sutras of Patanjali are nearer to Raj Yoga rather than Hatha Yoga.
15. Yoga Sutras of Patanjali- An Analysis of the Sanskrit with Accompanying English Translation/ Christopher Chappel and Yogi Ananda Viraj (Eugene P. Kelly Jr.), US$ 10
ISBN: 81-7030-244-7, Series: Studies in Indian Tradition Series No. 1
About the Book
This new translation, drawings its inspiration from both careful scholarship and yogic practice, offers innovative features in that it: provides a full grammatical analysis of each term used by Patanjali, including an analysis of word compounds. Emphasizes the style and flow of the central author, rather than deferring to later commentaries. Includes a concise introduction, surveying earlier scholarship on the text and highlighting what the translators perceive to be its central theme: the process of subtilization. Uses consistent translation of Sanskrit terms such as artha (purpose) and visaya (condition), whereas prior translations have often given more than one translation for the same Sanskrit word. Selectively retains technical vocabulary in the original, thus challenging the reader to expand his or her linguistic horizons by assimilating Sanskrit terms such as purusa, prakrit, guna and dharma. A Sannkrit word index and Bibliography of prior translations are included.
16. Yoga- A Study of the Mystical Philosophy of the Brahmins and Buddhists/ J.F.C. Fuller, US$ 10
ISBN: 81-7030-138-6, Series: Sri Garib das Oriental Series No. 63
From the preface:
"Much has been written about Yoga ever since the Theosophists "discovered" spiritual India, and not a little of a very uninformed nature which, in place of elucidating a complex mental science, has either perplexed the student or rendered the whole subject ridiculous. In this book it is my intention to abide by facts and simultaneously introduce sufficient cross references to other mystical systems, such as western magic and the Qabalah, to show that Yoga is one of a series of means of deliverance from worldly illusions. All these systems are closely related; for, in one sense, they and many others, such as Christian mysticism, Quietism, Buddhism, Taoism and Sufism, are spiritual languages the words of which differ in sound but the meanings of which are identical."
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