If you do not understand the rules of the game you cannot play in the top league.In the same way you cannot be happy, healthy and successful until you understand the Laws of Life.

This book offers a definitive, accessible guide to mastering life and when practised at the highest level, it contains the keys to heaven (less)

The early years. 2.

Truth is God. 3.

Paths to spirituality. 4.

Unity of all religions. 5.

A spiritual force. 6.

Gandhi and Gandhigiri. Bibliography.

"Beginning with his childhood and early years in South Africa, Gandhi: A Spiritual Journey explores the search for truth and the spiritual transformation of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Influenced by western thought in his youth, Gandhi underwent a deep inner conflict that drew him to the study of comparative religion.

His experiments with spiritual ideas, derived from a living faith in God, led him to propagate the principles of ahimsa and satyagraha. Gandhi was as much in politics as he was in search of God and the desire for God-realisation was the mainspring of all his actions, both political and social.

Could Gandhi have internalised his quest for God and still remained a leader of the masses? What is Gandhi's spiritual legacy that continues to inspire so many (less)

’ This major new interpretation of the life of Gandhi adds a new dimension to our understanding of this extraordinary figure of twentieth-century history. Drawing on material neglected by earlier biographers, Kathryn Tidrick provides a highly original account of Gandhi’s beliefs, their origins, and their expression in his political views and personal behaviour.

She revealingly examines Gandhi’s ideas about the relationship between sexual temptation and spiritual power, and the bizarre and scandalous behaviour that resulted. The fresh light that Tidrick throws on her subject reveals not the secular saint of popular myth but a difficult and self-obsessed man driven to pursue the world-changing destiny that he believed was marked out for him.

Gandhi’s conception of his personal destiny grew out of the religious influences to which he was exposed as a student in London and developed in the context of the Indian independence (less)

2. Apollonius of Tyana or the spectacle of wisdom/Chiara Cremonesi.

3. Kinds of doctrinal transmission in late ancient Judaism/Piero Capelli.

4. The master-disciple relationship in Christianity: some introductory observations/Franco Macchi.

5. The interior master in the understanding of the first friends/Pier Cesare Bori.

6. Master and disciple in the Islamic Sufi tradition in the writings of 'Abd al-Qadir-al-Jilani/Angelo Scarabel.

7. Encounters with Khidr: saint-immortal, protector from the water, and guide of the elected ones beyond the confluence of the two oceans/Thomas Dahnhardt.

8. The Guru and death/Gian Giuseppe Filippi.

9. The custodians of truth/Giovanni Torcinovich.

10. Authority, devotion, and trials: teachers and pupils in the Mahabharata/Cinzia Pieruccini.

11. The Guru-gita or "Song of the Master" as incorporated in the Guru-caritra of Sarasvati Gangadhar: observations on its teachings and the Guru institute/Antonio Rigopoulos.

12. The function of the Guru in Tantric traditions/Monia Marchetto.

13. The twenty-four Guru-s of (less)

1. The transliterated alphabet.

2. The Devanagari script.

3. Some practical examples.

4. Resources on the internet.

Glossary of Sanskrit terms. Dictionary of common Sanskrit spiritual words.

Appendices. Bibliography.

Index. "An Essential Guide to Sanskrit provides a two-level introduction to the Sanskrit language.

Level one introduces the transliterated (Anglicised) alphabets used by books and the internet for reproducing Sanskrit. Level two teaches the Devanagari script used for the true language and describes the main rules for combining letters and words.

Correct pronunciation and writing are explained. A number of examples from Hindu scriptures are used to illustrate simple translation.

There is a comprehensive glossary of commonly encountered spiritual words. The book will appeal to all serious spiritual seekers interested in eastern scriptures (Upanishads, Bhagavad Gita, etc).

The aim is to teach the reader sufficient to enable them to be able to look up Sanskrit words in a dictionary (less)

I. The Background: 1.

History of massage. 2.

Human physiology. 3.

Science of Marma (Vital areas). II.

What is Ayurvedic Massage?: 1. What is Ayurveda?.

2. Benefits and general guidelines of massage.

3. Cold massage.

4. Beauty massage for women and men.

5. Auto massage.

6. Massage movements.

7. Oils, pastes and essences.

8. Colors and their effects.

9. Urine Therapy massage.

10. Benefits of Ayurvedic massage.

11. Ayurvedic massages of Kerala: Pizhichil, Navarakkizhi, Dhara.

12. Doing massage with legs.

III. Healing Through Massage: 1.

Case study summaries. 2.

Healing through massage. 3.

Ayurvedic herbs and food combinations. IV.

Spiritual Energy Massage: 1. Kundalini.

2. Chakras.

3. Chakras and the Endocrine Glands.

4. Techniques of spiritual energy massage.

Appendices: 1. Acupressure.

2. Reflexology (Zone Therapy).

3. Yoga Nidra.

Kayakalpa. Charts of Marmas.

Names and addresses of Ayurvedic Medical Centres in Kerala. New findings: a.

Shirovasti (Read before ‘Doing Massage with Legs’ on (less)

Ryuho Okawa, founder and spiritual leader of the Institute for Research in Human Happiness (IRH), has devoted his life to the exploration of the Truth and ways to happiness. He was born in 1956 in Tokushima, Japan.

After graduating from the University of Tokyo, he joined a major (less)

"For the first time, two classic biographies - Dhan Gopal Mukerji's The Face of Silence (1926) and Swami Nikhilananda's Sri Ramakrishna (1942) - are brought together to provide a fuller understanding of the life and spiritual significance of Sri Ramakrishna as well as the systems of Indian religious thought intimately connected with him. Pairing legend with fact, memory with history, this unique volume - including an Introduction to Sri Ramakrishna's God-consciousness by Swami Adiswarananda - succeeds in intimately examining the teachings of Sri Ramakrishna and conveying the true story of this great mystic, whose leaping flame of spiritual realization continues to influence the modern spiritual (less)

According to spiritual teacher Ryuho Okawa, the way to deal with these situations is with an unshakable mind. In this book, he describes ways to build inner confidence and achieve spiritual growth, adopting a spiritual perspective as the basis.

With a willingness to learn from everything that life presents you, good or bad, any difficulty can be transformed into nourishment for the soul (less)

He is also the author of Nanakism--A New World Order--Temporal and Spiritual, and The Sikh Religion (less)

1. The Vedas.

2. The Upanishads.

3. The Bhagavad Gita.

4. The Yoga of knowledge and action.

5. The Yoga of devotion.

6. Sikhism.

Bibliography. Index of writers.

"Hinduism means incorporating all forms of belief and worship without necessitating the selection or elimination of any. This book incorporates literature from ancient sacred text of India considered as the Kernel of Hinduism.

"Jaico’s 366 readings series is the first comprehensive collection of the spiritual literature of the whole world presented in accessible form. It is aimed at people who wish to broaden their spiritual outlook, and also at the much larger group who have little or no attachment to a religious community, but seek spiritual wisdom.

"Each volume in the series contains major writings of one of the world’s spiritual traditions, presented in the form of an annual cycle of daily readings. "366 Readings from Hinduism includes: The Vedas, the ancient hymns (less)

This exotic spiritual odyssey is a rare combination of truth, myth, imagination and inspiration. Ultimately it is a story about being able to forgive our past and believe in our future (less)

The Golden Laws reveals how Buddha's Plan has been unfolding on Earth, and outlines five thousand years of the secret history of humankind. Once we understand the true course of history, through past, present and into the future, we cannot help but become aware of the significance of our spiritual mission in the present age (less)

The fundamental tenets of the Buddhist understanding of life, such as The Eightfold Path, The Six Paramitas and the Laws of Causality, are clearly explained in modern and accessible terms, along with the need for self-reflection, the nature of karma and reincarnation, and other teachings of the Buddha.Enlightenment is a potential achievement for every sentient being.

The path towards it is an expansion of consciousness, moving from material concerns to an increased awareness of the unseen spiritual reality. This, and the practice of a love that gives, rather than just expecting to be loved, is the only path to happiness, and a better world (less)

Through five tenets for living an enlightened life, Cohen empowers you to wholeheartedly participate in the process of change, shaping your spiritual practice. Evolutionary Enlightenment not only makes deep sense of life today; it shows you how to play an active role in shaping the world of tomorrow.

The universe, born 14 billion years ago, slowly evolved into matter, then life, then consciousness and culture, and finally you--a human being with the power to self-reflect and the freedom to choose.Are you ready to discover the timeless freedom of spiritual awakening, the vastness of this evolving cosmos, and most (less)

Through five tenets for living an enlightened life, Cohen empowers you to wholeheartedly participate in the process of change, shaping your spiritual practice. Evolutionary Enlightenment not only makes deep sense of life today; it shows you how to play an active role in shaping the world of tomorrow.

The universe, born 14 billion years ago, slowly evolved into matter, then life, then consciousness and culture, and finally you--a human being with the power to self-reflect and the freedom to choose.Are you ready to discover the timeless freedom of spiritual awakening, the vastness of this evolving cosmos, and most (less)

Tantra--its meaning, scope and extent. 2.

Salient features of the language of the Tantras. 3.

The supreme reality in the Saiva Tantras. 4.

Nature of man in the Saiva Sakta Tantras. 5.

Spiritual discipline (Sadhana Kriya)--and the supreme goal. 6.

Saktipata and Guru. 7.

Diksa (initiation). 8.

Nature and role of Mantra in spiritual practices in the Tantrika tradition. 9.

Modes of spiritual discipline (Sadhanakriya) in the Tantrika tradition. 10.

The supreme goal, Sivatva. Select bibliography.

Glossary. Index.

"This book opens with an account of the nature, origin and development of Saiva-Sakta Tantras, their classification under different schools, the wealth of literature available belonging to these schools, etc. It also sheds light on the principal metaphysical tenets of Saiva and Sakta Tantras, relevant to the study of Tantra-Yoga.

The topics covered in this book are the concepts of divine grace or Saktipata, Guru and his different kinds, the process of initiation (diksa) (less)