Challenges the popular view that yoga is timeless and unchanging by examining the history of yoga, focusing on its emergence in modern India and its dramatically changing form and significance in the twentieth century. Alter argues that yoga's transformation into a popular activ…
Challenges the popular view that yoga is timeless and unchanging by examining the history of yoga, focusing on its emergence in modern India and its dramatically changing form and significance in the twentieth century. Alter argues that yoga's transformation into a popular activ…
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA: a contemporary reader
Philosophy, in its widest etymological sense, means 'love of knowledge'. It is a search for knowledge of oneself, the world and God. This volume provides an authoritative introduction to the central ideas and tenets of Indian philosophy. Indian philosophy denotes the philosophic…
"With penetrating insight, Abbot George Burke illumines the Bhagavad Gita's practical value for spiritual seekers. With a unique perspective form a lifetime of study and practice of both Eastern and Western spirituality, Abbot George presents the treasures of the Gita in an easi…
"This anthology is meant to give lovers of yoga a reference book in which they will be able to easily find cherished passages from some of the most revered yoga scriptures and commentary in India's history"--Introduction.
"This anthology is meant to give lovers of yoga a reference book in which they will be able to easily find cherished passages from some of the most revered yoga scriptures and commentary in India's history"--Introduction.
