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The Play of Consciousness
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An autobiography of Swami Muktanada detailing his spiritual development and specific mystical experiences of Chakra ascension, meditation, mantra, tapasyas (austerities), and kundalini yoga. Excellent overview for any serious meditator seeking enlightenment. This edition celebrates 30 years in print.
$15.95
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Bhagawan Nityananda of Ganeshpuri
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This compilation of Swami Muktananda's talks and writings about his guru, Bhagawan Nityananda, forms an absorbing biography and loving portrait of one of the greatest spiritual masters of modern India.
$12.95
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The Stanzas on Vibration
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The Stanzas on Vibration: The Spandakarika With Four Commentaries : The Spandasamdoha by Ksemaraja, the Spandavrtti by Kallatabhatta. Series in the Shaiva Traditions of Kashmir.
$40.95
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The Triadic Heart of Shiva
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Kaula Tantra in the Non-Dial Shaivism of Kashmir. The primary textual basis for the
book is provided by Abhinavagupta's Paratrishika-laghuvrtti, a
short meditation manual that centers on the symbolism of the
Heart-mantra, SAUH.
$29.95
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The Yoga of Vibration and Divine Pulsation
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The text prescribes a continuous refinement of perception in order for that aspect of spanda which continuously subsides into infinity to be discovered in the awareness of the practitioner. Through prescribed use of mantra, the yogi develops a continuous attentiveness to the presence of the spanda--the spanda that reveals itself to her as an ecstatic flashing forth within her own awareness.
$18.95
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The Aphorisms of Shiva
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The Aphorisms of Siva: The Siva Sutra with Bhaskara's Commentary, The Varttika.
Considered the most important scripture in the Trika system of Kashmir Shaivism, these revealed truths explain the nature and cause of bondage and the means to liberation.
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How to Know God: Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali
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Patanjali's system of yoga, which he expounded in the fourth century, explains diffferent methods for the attainment of the state of yoga or samadhi, in which the movements of the mind stop and the Witness rests in its own bliss. This commentary, written by Swami Prabhavananda and the western novelist and playwright Christopher Isherwood, is lucid and interesting for contemporary readers.
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A Trident of Wisdom
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"I have prepared a trident of Wisdom in order to cut asunder their bondage." -- Abhinavagupta
This is a long commentary on a short Tantra. One of the most authoritative and venerated texts in Kashmir Shaivism, it deals with the nature of Ultimate Reality and with methods of realization focusing on the theory and practice of Mantra. Abhinavagupta presents his metaphysics of language, of the Word (Vak), and its relation to consciousness. He calls it, "trikasatra-rahasya-upadesa: The teaching of the secret of the Trika doctrine."
$24.50
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The Crest Jewel of Discrimination
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Shankara's teachings on how to discriminate between what is eternal and what is ephemeral. Through such study, the realization comes that the individual soul is none other than the Universal Soul. A lucid, thoughtful commentary that has become a classic.
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A Thousand Teachings
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Most of Sankara`s work are commentaries on other classics of Indian thought, like Upanisads, the Bhagavadgita, and the Brahmasutra. The Upadesasahasri, or "A Thousand teachings", here critically edited and translated into English, is however, the only independent and non-commentary work that can safely be attributed to him; the other independent writings traditionally ascribed to him are all probably spurious.
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Encounters with God in Augustines's Confessions
This reappraisal of the middle section of Augustine's Confessions covers the period of Augustine's conversion to Christianity. The author argues against the prevailing Neoplatonic interpretation of Augustine.
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