Religion is the root of Indian culture. Rituals and believes are the integral part of Hindu Religion. It becomes more powerful when a devotee develops reverence into it. Fundamentally a society, which has faith in religion, believes in their own deities or gods and goddesses and pay their homage to them. Apart from ritual commodities, mantras and its chanting, yantras or mandalas play a special and important role in ritual ceremony. It is considered that if mantras are devatas (deities) then yantras are the abode of them. Without yantras, the ritual of deities remains incomplete. In order to attain perfection in worship, it is suggested that puja with yantras of their related deities is more beneficial.

Yantra Images

Dilip Kumar

Indica Books

TantrasÈra is an extensive digest and recension of TantrÈloka, a magnum opus by ¶cÈrya AbhinavaguptapÈda. The author himself created this digest to have a comprehensive study of the voluminous text, as this great and important text is not easy to absorb by everyone in a larger study material form. The complete text (10th century A.D.) is a compendium of all TÈntrika rituals and philosophical essence of Tantra, drawn from the light of all pre-precepts on Indian Tantra till the time of the creator. This text consists of thirty seven chapters. It reflects on Tantra from the background of Kashmir aivism which is known as the monistic philosophy of aivism with the technical term Pratyabhij¤È. Abhinavagupta explains here in a lucid way about the ways to worship the Supreme Consciousness in order to attain this state of Absolute ecstasy and liberation in one single life of mankind. This work is before the English-speaking world for the first time in a hermeneutic way.

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Abhinavagupta

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Swami Maheshvarananda

Satya Prakash Singh and

Abhinavagupta Tantraloka (Vol. 3) (English translation with Sanskrit Text)

Satya Prakashan Singh

Sanskrit - English Dictionary

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Selina Thielemann

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The Crisis of the Modern World

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World

An introduction to the Sanskrit languages from many different view-points. In this book, Sanskrit is described into two points of view: what the native speakers knew and felt about their language, and what the foreign scholars discovered in their historical and comparative quest.

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Worship & Devotion

<p>This major contribution to the study of urban culture, first published in 1999 as the magnificent photographic book Benares Seen From Within, is now issued in a more accessible format and a reduced price, its text substantially revised. Among other themes, Lannoy writes about the metaphysical substructure of the city, the ancient cults of the pillar and the sun-wheel, the Buddha, yoga, commerce and weaving, pilgrimage and extends its survey up to the present, with Hindu-Muslim conflicts, the tension between religion and secularism, and a lively account of the great woman-saint Anandamayi Ma. Illustrated with many photographs by the author.</p>

Benares: A World Within a World

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