[PDF] Living A Bhakti Life eBook

Author : A. R. Pashayan
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 31,53 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1475970331

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In Living a Bhakti Life, author A. R. Pashayan recounts experiencing a “spiritual download” in 2004 during meditation that literally changed her life. She was tormented with repetitive dreams of death, night after night, brought on in part by a death in the family, stress from work, and no alone time. She, along with a friend, tried analyzing the dreams. Nothing was clear until she took a month-long break in a place that looked like Heaven—Telluride, Colorado, where she finally left her old self behind. Her dreams made sense now. Her spiritual download paved the way for a new level of understanding life, illness, stress, and practical spirituality. She started practicing Bhakti yoga and meditation, and she finally found calm. Bhakti yoga is defined as a spiritual path described in Hindu philosophy used for fostering love, utter faith, and surrender to God. There is only one path to God: the path to grace, or Bhakti. Through yoga and quiet contemplation on top of the mountain, she soon discovered that it was possible to literally “be” unconditional love. In Living a Bhakti Life, Pashayan opens a pathway to enlightenment and God’s love through Bhakti yoga through divine power and divine love.

Author : Mahatma Das
Publisher :
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 11,84 MB
Release : 2019-08-15
Category :
ISBN : 9781088671528

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We see others doing something we consider wrong, and we want them to change. Yet when we recognize our own shortcomings, we're often reluctant to make improvements in ourselves.Living the Wisdom of Bhakti addresses this problem by facilitating honest and insightful introspection. Mahatma Prabhu gently pushes us to take a closer look at where we are and were we are going by asking questions that are sometimes difficult to face but profoundly rewarding to answer."This is a real Bhakti spiritual self-help book, something that is greatly needed in the devotee community. I also find it valuable as a practical reference for my own teaching and counselling."Guru Prasada Swami"In Living the Wisdom of Bhakti, Mahatma Prabhu reveals his expertise by addressing our daily challenges through insighful analysis and problem solving strategies that address the core of our problems."Gunagrahi Dasa Goswami"Mahatma Prabhu shows us how to align our lives with what we believe. You'll find this book a unique adventure into the core of your heart. Be ready to be changed in a profound and powerful way."Mahadevi Dasi

Author : Ram Dass
Publisher : Harmony
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 38,18 MB
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0307421422

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For centuries, readers have turned to the Bhagavad Gita for inspiration and guidance as they chart their own spiritual paths. As profound and powerful as this classic text has been for generations of seekers, integrating its lessons into the ordinary patterns of our lives can ultimately seem beyond our reach. Now, in a fascinating series of reflections, anecdotes, stories, and exercises, Ram Dass gives us a unique and accessible road map for experiencing divinity in everyday life. In the engaging, conversational style that has made his teachings so popular for decades, Ram Dass traces our journey of consciousness as it is reflected in one of Hinduism’s most sacred texts. The Gita teaches a system of yogas, or “paths for coming to union with God.” In Paths to God, Ram Dass brings the heart of that system to light for a Western audience and translates the Gita’s principles into the manual for living the yoga of contemporary life. While being a guide to the wisdom of the Bhagavad Gita, Paths to God is also a template for expanding our definition of ourselves and allowing us to appreciate a new level of meaning in our lives.

Author : Swami Vivekananda
Publisher : editionNEXT.com
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 36,53 MB
Release : 2015-08-26
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Bhakti yoga is a spiritual path or spiritual practice within Hinduism focused on the cultivation of love and devotion toward God. It has been defined as a practice of devotion toward God, solely motivated by the sincere, loving desire to please God, rather than the hope of divine reward or the fear of divine punishment. It is a means toward a state of spiritual liberation or enlightenment through the "realisation", or the attainment of "oneness" with God. Bhakti yoga is often considered by Hindus to be the easiest way for ordinary people to attain such a spiritually liberated state, because although it is a form of yoga, its practice is not as rigorous as most other yogic schools, and it is possible to practice bhakti yoga without needing to become a full-time yogi. The origins of Bhakti can be seen in the upanishads, specifically the Shvetashvatara Upanishad. The Bhagavad Gita, and the Puranas are important scriptures that expound the philosophy of bhakti yoga. Hindu movements in which bhakti yoga is the main practice are called bhakti movements – the major schools of which are Vaishnavism, Shaivism, and Shaktism.

Author : Mahatma Das
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,1 MB
Release : 2023-02-16
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Living the Wisdom of Bhakti addresses the challenge of aligning the head and the heart by facilitating honest and insightful introspection. Mahatma Prabhu gently pushes us to take a closer look at where we are and where we are going by asking questions that are sometimes difficult to face but profoundly rewarding to answer. Volume Two continues the self-exploration done in Volume One with an additional 38 chapters divided into six sections. Each chapter encourages you to look deeper into your mind and heart to find your inspiration as well as to identify the obstacles on your path. And many chapters contain exercises that will help you put the knowledge you are gaining into practice. This book is not passive. It's not meant to just be interesting or informative. Living the Wisdom of Bhakti is meant to change the way you look at yourself and your bhakti on a fundamental level. "In Living the Wisdom of Bhakti, Mahatma Prabhu reveals his expertise by addressing our daily challenges through insighful analysis and problem solving strategies that address the core of our problems." Gunagrahi Dasa Goswami "This is a real Bhakti spiritual self-help book, something that is greatly needed in the devotee community. I also find it valuable as a practical reference for my own teaching and counselling." Guru Prasada Swami

Author : Tamal Krishna Goswami
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 10,69 MB
Release : 2012-07-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0199796637

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An illuminating examination of the theology of A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, the founder of the Hare Krishna movement.

Author : Julian Lynn
Publisher :
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 13,71 MB
Release : 2017-12-05
Category :
ISBN : 9780692942710

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Offering hatha-yoga practitioners a gentle hand onto the path of a spiritual life, Yoga's Devotional Light, walks readers through a year of living devotional yoga. Included in this book are brief, daily entries, inviting a return to wonder, generously poetic notes on some of yoga's key concepts and classic texts, as well as personal, documentary essays, granting rare glimpses into one bhakti-yoga practitioner's life. Teachers, students and the curious alike will delight in the opportunity to revisit and fall in love with the Self, enhance their existing practice or embark on their own bhakti-inspired journey, with a refreshed heart and a bold, new awareness of the world. #julianlynn #yogasdevotionallight

Author : Paramahamsa Sri Swami Vishwananda
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 42,60 MB
Release : 2023-04-05
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 3963430982

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The Nārada-bhakti-sūtra, compiled by Sage Nārada, is a foundational text in the path of bhakti and Vaishnavism. As one of the Lord’s greatest devotees, Sage Narada stands as a role model and an expert guide to all aspiring devotees. In these bhakti sūtras, he has extracted the essence of devotion and presented it concisely in only 84 verses. Each sūtra is infused with the insight of one who truly lives bhakti to its fullest. Maximising the effect of this wisdom by His commentary, Paramahamsa Vishwananda has added the only missing ingredient: practical application. How can I actually live such elevated principles today? How do I walk this path in this present time and in my current circumstances?

Author : B. T. Swami
Publisher : Golden Age Media
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 17,44 MB
Release : 2020-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1885414080

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“I ask you to dedicate this one life to the Lord. I do not want you to undergo the process of sansara, of repeated birth and death, any longer. Engaging wholeheartedly in the process of bhakti is not too difficult a sacrifice for attaining eternal existence. To be free of enemies, once and for all, to be permanently liberated from ongoing negative bombardments that we are forced to face every single day- whatever price we have to pay for that, it is worth it.”

Author : William K. Mahony
Publisher : Sarvabhava Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 11,71 MB
Release : 2014-12-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0991546814

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The Bhakti Sūtra attributed to Nārada is a collection of 84 aphoristic statements in Sanskrit, dating to the tenth to eleventh centuries in India, on the nature of love for Divinity, which the text describes as the highest, most exquisite form of love. Translating, explaining and interpreting 21 of those statements, William K. Mahony brings these teachings into our contemporary world through his thoughtful and articulate extended reflections on the qualities of this love and on the contours of a life oriented toward strengthening, refining and elevating it. The book also includes Mahony’s translation of Nārada’s Bhakti Sūtra in its entirety. Basing his reflections on the understanding that God is absolute Love, Mahony speaks of a divine Heart present in our own human sentiments and expressions of love in all its modes, directions and degrees of intensity. He offers readers guidance into ways a Heart-centered spiritual life can open them ever more fully to the reality of Love itself.