In this second anthology of writings and talks, Yogananda addresses the deepest needs of the human heart.

    it brings together in one complete source information that previously took hundreds of books to explain. This edition of the Bhagavatam, with elaborate commentary, is the most widely read and authoritative translation available to the English speaking world. Cantos One through Nine, as well as Chapters One through Thirteen of the Tenth Canto, are the products of the scholarly and devotional effort of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. After Srila Prabhupada departed from this world in 1977, his disciples complete the work by translating the balance of the Tenth Canto, along with the entire Eleventh and Twelfth Cantos.

    In this small book, Swami Sivananda Radha describes the extraordinary and inspiring circumstances through which she learned the Invocation and then goes on to provide detailed instructions for doing this practice. Following her instructions, readers learn to direct their imagination by filling themselves with Light, then extending this healing energy to others. Chapters include: History, Instructions, Tensing and Relaxing, Using the Imagination, Divine Light for Healing, Other Benefits, The Divine Light Mantra, Identifying with the Light, Enhancing Your Practice. Also available is an accompanying audio tape The Divine Light Invocation with further instructions and guided practice.

    This is also the central theme of the Hindu Tantras, and Dyczkowski provides new insight into the most literate and extensive interpretations of the Tantras.This book is significant from four points of view. First, it breaks new ground in Indian philosophy. According to the Spanda Doctrine, the self is not simply witnessing consciousness as maintained by Sānkya and Vedānta, but is an active force. Second, the ultimate reality is not simply a logical system of abstract categories, but is living, pulsating energy, the source of all manifestations. Third, the work elaborates the dynamic aspect of consciousness. It supplies and excellent introduction to the texts and scriptures of Kashmir Shaivism. Fourth, it suggests a Yoga for realization of self.

     This prediction is only a fragment of the vast knowledge of Shaiva wisdom, author Alain Danielou as assimilated and reviewed essential concepts of the Shaiva philosophy and its predictions. Clearly expressed in the ancient teachings, these concepts are in accord with, yet surpass, the boldest scientific speculations about consciousness, time, the nature of life and matter, and the history and destiny of the human race. Inherent in this body of knowledge is an understanding of the cycles of creation and destruction which, in conjunction with astronomical phases, determine the life span of the species. Since 1939, humankind has been in the twilight of the Kali Yuga age, or at the end of a cycle. The impending cataclysm, Danielou explains, is brought on by our own errors, and its date will be determined by our present and future actions. While the Gods Play examines how the visionaries of ancient times defined our rose in creation. It explains why and how we have abandoned this role, and reflects on what action can be taken to consciously and creatively influence our own destiny. Included are chapters on The Religion of Nature and The Religion of the City, The Transmigrant Body, Sexual Rites, the Castes, Sacrifice, Magical Powers, Monastic Orders, and Forestalling the Final Day.

    To these attainments he has added The Way to the Labyrinth—as vivid, uninhibited, and wide-ranging a memoir as one is ever likely to encounter, now translated and published in English for the first time.Born of a haute-bourgeoise French family—his mother an ardent Catholic who founded a religious order, his father an anticlerical leftwing politician who served as a minister under Aristide Briand, his older brother a priest who became a cardinal—Daniélou spent a solitary childhood in the country. Escaping from his family milieu, he went to Paris where he fell in with avant-garde, bohemian, sexually liberated circles, among whose luminaries were Cocteau, Diaghilev, Max Jacob, and Maurice Sachs. But all along, however ferevently he plunged into various activities, he felt some other destiny awaited him. After a number of journeys, some of them highly adventurous, he found his real home in India. He spent twenty years there, fifteen of them in Benares on teh banks of the Ganges. There he immersed himself in teh study of Sanskrit, Hindu philosophy, music, and the art of the ancient temples of Northern India, and converted to the Hindu religion. But times changes, and soon after India gained its independence, he returned to live again in Europe and devoted much of his great energy to the encouragement of traditional musics from around the world.