CONTENTS OF
GEMS FROM THE OCEAN OF SPIRITUAL HINDU THOUGHT
Foreword By Swami Paramarthananda
Preface
CHAPTER 1: COUNTLESS NAMES FOR THE NAMELESS
- The first Prostration to the Lord of Lords – Vinayaka
- Lord Subrahmanya
- Idol Worship
- One Truth, Many Expressions
- Glory of the Lord’s Name
- Power of Names of God
- Mantra
- Aum, Rama, Krishna, Narayana & Shiva
- Esoteric Significance of Aum
- ‘Rama’ as Taraka Mantra
- Narayana & Hare Krishna
- The Shiva mantra and the Rudram chapter
- The greatness of the Tryambaka mantra
- Litanies of Thousand Names
- Each name a capsule of Divinity
- Each name a scriptural epitome
- Secret of Avatara of Krishna in Vishnu Sahasranama
- Secret of Avatara of Rama in Vishnu Sahasranama
- Fourteen Special Names
- From the three hundred names of Lalita
- Names from the Ashtottara of Bhagavan Shri Satya Sai Baba
CHAPTER 2: AN INITIAL EXPOSURE TO THE SPIRITUAL ASCENT
- The Animal Passions of Man
- A Six-party Discussion on the concept of God
- The three fundamental Urges of M an
- Detachment, the King-pin Perception
- Five Cardinal Virtues
- Six Monumental Witnesses
- The Dance Divine
- The Cosmic Rhythm and the Symbolism of the Tandava
- Evolution of the Chidambaram Temple Complex
- Miraculous Recovery of the Tevaram Hymns
- The story of Nandanar
- A Dialogue on Free Will vs. Divine Will
CHAPTER 3: MEET THE ANCIENT SCRIPTURES
- Shruti
- SmRti
- Itihasa
- Purana
- Sarasvati and Lakshmi
- Who will do the Research on ‘Solar Energy in the Vedas’?
- I nterlink of Ganga and Kaveri through Deepavali
- Mother Goddess
- Aagama
- Darshana
CHAPTER 4: THE ABSOLUTE AS IT IS
- TIP of the Iceberg
- Satyam Jnanam anantam brahma
- From the Upanishads
- Difference and Non-Difference
CHAPTER 5: A TOUCH WITH THE GITA
- A Capsule Overview of the Gita
- Yoga Sadhana (From the Sixth Chapter of the Gita)
- One in a Million (From the Seventh Chapter of the Gita)
- The Magic of Maya
- Mathematics and Adhyaropa-apavada
- I am neither the doer nor the experiencer
- Posing the Problem
- Two ‘Selves’
- Jiva, the Empirical Self
- Who is the Knower?
- Doer-Experiencer
- Perfection of Actionlessness
- Five Tenets of Practical Advaita
EPILOGUE: The Light of Lights – A Manana Exercise from the Br. Upanishad
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
CONTENTS OF
GEMS FROM THE OCEAN OF DEVOTIONAL HINDU THOUGHT
Foreword By H.H. Jagadguru Shankaracharya of Kamakoti Peetham, Kanchipuram
Preface
CHAPTER 1: SUNDARA-KANDA TRIAD – VALMIKI, KAMBAN & TULSI
CHAPTER 2: GEMS FROM SHRIMAD BHAGAVATAM
Bhagavatam is born
Kapila Gita
Prahlada Charitam
Story of Jada-Bharata
Dhruva-stuti
The Devotee calls the tune
Raasa Lila of Krishna
Shruti Gita
CHAPTER 3: SPEAK TO GOD THROUGH PRAYERFUL CONTEMPLATION
- A Note on Bhakti and Prayer
- Selections from Narayaneeyam
- Selections from Soundaryalahari
- A Garland of other selections
CHAPTER 4: THE GURU
- Devotion to the Guru
- The Hymn to the Guru of all Gurus
- Miraculous Lineage of Mysitic Masters
- Shankara
- Ramanuja
- Jnaneshvar
- Vedanta Desika
- Madhva
- Appayya Dikshidar
- Raghavendra
- Sai Baba of Shirdi
- Massive Spiritual Revival of the 20th century
- Ramana Maharishi’s Ulladu Naarpadu
- Kanchi Mahaswamigal
- Shankara’s Message of Oneness
- The Non-Absolutist School
- Seventy-five Apostles of God-intoxication
- Peria Puranam
- The Sixty-three Shaiva Nayanmars
- Appar
- Tirujnana-sambandar
- Sundarar
- Manickavachagar
- Kannappar
- Tirumoolar
- The Twelve Vaishnava Alvars
- Nammalvar
- Twelve Gems of Superlative Devotion
- Namdev
- Kabirdas
- Chaitanya
- Purandaradasa
- Eknath
- Tulsidas
- Bhattatiri
- Bhaskararaya
- The Trinity of Carnatic Music
- Shrila Prabhupada
- From Kanchi Mahaswamigal’s Discourses on Advaita Sadhana
- R.Visvanatha Sastri
- ‘Jivanmukta’ by Jivanmuktas
- Sadashiva Brahmendra
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX