Del Norte Public Library

SET: GREAT RELIGIONS OF MODERN MAN.

The author of The Satanic Verses creates a fascinating family saga about the birth and maturity of a land and its people--a brilliant incarnation of the human comedy. "Rushdie has achieved a magnificent and unique work of fiction".--The Philadelphia Inquirer. Saleem Sinai was born at midnight, the midnight of India's independence, and finds himself mysteriously 'handcuffed to history' by the coincidence. He is one of 1,001 children born at the midnight...

Autobiography of a Yogi is at once a beautifully written account of an exceptional life and a profound introduction to the ancient science of Yoga and its time-honored tradition of meditation. Profoundly inspiring, it is at the same time vastly entertaining, warmly humorous and filled with extraordinary personages. Self-Realization Fellowship's editions, and none others, include extensive material added by the author after the first edition was published,...

"The Bhagavad-Gita has been an essential text of Hindu culture in India since the time of its composition in the first century A.D. One of the great classics of world literature, it has inspired such diverse thinkers as Henry David Thoreau, Mahatma Gandhi, and T.S. Eliot. Set on an ancient battlefield where the armies of rival cousins stand ready to fight, the Gita recounts the epic tale of the warrior-prince Arjuna as he confronts universal moral...

The world's oldest and most widely read guide to the pleasures and techniques of sex, the Kama Sutra was compiled in the fourth century A.D. by a Brahmin and religious scholar name Vatsyayana, who worked from texts dating back to the fourth century B.C. Until the present, the only English translation of his Hindu love classic was that of the famous English explorer Sir Richard Burton, published in 1883. Unlike Burton's version, Alain Daniélou's new...

The life story of spiritualist Yogananda from his childhood in India to the thirty years he lived and taught in America. It is also an eyewitness recountal of the extraordinary lives and powers of modern Hindu saints.

"... integrates Western science with Eastern mysticism to show that consciousness is the ground of all being"--Jacket.

"This comprehensive study of Hindu history moves swiftly but thoroughly through the ages, from the early emergence of the Vedic tradition to developments in contemporary Hinduism. A wealth of factual information is finely balanced with illuminating discussion of such problematic areas as the true origins of Hinduism and the controversy of the Aryan Invasion. Other features include: full coverage of all the major branches within the religion, and...

Explore the profound history and modern practice of Hinduism. This friendly guide gives you the lowdown on the core beliefs and values shared by Hindus and the diverse deities and practices that represent them.

This is the essence of India's Vedic Wisdom and one of the great spiritual and philosophical classics of the world.