Salvation through Renunciation - Based on Bhagavad Gita, Hindu Philosophy and Philosophy of Upanishads: True Appreciation of Salvation, Renunciation, Senses, Misery and Attachment, Greed and DesireWhy Let Your Darkness Sprout! O Mortal!Why Not Attain The Indestructible Bliss! O Mortal!Why Not Burn The Strings That Knit Your EgoWhy Not Explore The Quiescent AbsoluteWhy Not Silently Taste Your Ecstatic UnionWhy Not Taste The Finer Fare Of Your Soul! O Mortal!Alas! My Senses Have Drowned My Soul In Painful EmptinessAlas! My Senses Refuse To Ride The Chariot Of IntuitionBe Sure! I Can Feel The Invisible Guiding Of My DestinyBe Sure! I Can Feel The Joy Of Divine FragranceBe Sure! I Can Feel The Joy Of The Golden LightsBe Sure! I Can Feel The Vastness Of My SoulBe Sure! I Can Hear The Cosmic ThunderBe Sure The Lord Shall Relentlessly Pursue Your Soul! O Mortal!Have I Invited The Ire Of The Cosmos By Coveting More Than I NeedHave Thou Found Thy Enjoyment In Renunciation! O Mortal!Surely None Shall Realise Him, Unless They Know The Path Of LoveAlas! Why Do You Partition My Divine SoulAlas! Why Do You Allow My Garden To WhitherAlas! Why Do You Fragment My Unified SelfWhy Do You Make Me The Sacrificial LambBe Sure! It Is Greed That Blocks The Sea Of EcstasyBe Sure! It Was Greed That Created The Scarcity In ExistenceBe Sure! It Was Greed That Held Us From Drinking From The Divine CupBe Sure! It Was Greed That Made Us Hear The Evil WhispersBe Sure! It Was Greed That Made Us Spiritual PaupersRemember His True Design Shall Be Made Manifest! O Mortal!Why Does Your Soul Yet Remain Thirsty! O Mortal!Be Sure He Has Impregnated You With Hidden Mysteries! O Mortal!Be Sure There Is No God But He! O Mortal!Be Sure! "Death Shall Do You No Harm"Be Sure! "Time Has Come To Brave The Winds Of Frost"Be Sure! "Time Has Come To Distill Hope From Our Faith"Be Sure! "You Shall Discard Your Shadows! O Mortal!"Be Sure! "You Shall Live And Thrive Beyond The Shores Of Mortality"Be Sure! Gardens Of Perpetual Delight Awaits The MartyrBehold! "Time Has Come To Join The Battle Of Divinity" O Mortal!For They Shall Have The Mercy Of The Lord"Time Has Come To Join The Battle Of Prosperity" O Mortal!Did You Create The Temporary Darkness! O Mortal!Did You Not See The Sun And The Moon Prostrate Before You! O Mortal!Didn't You See The Stars Prostrate Before You! O Mortal!"Let Not Pride Be Your Undoing! O Mortal!"Why Have You Embraced The Darkness! O Mortal!Why Do You Seek Your Mortal Revenge! O Mortal!Why Does Darkness Consume Your World! O Mortal!

According to Hebrews, the Son of God appeared to "break the power of him who holds the power of death--that is, the devil--and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death." What does it mean to be enslaved, all our lives, to the fear of death? And why is this fear described as "the power of the devil"? And most importantly, how are we--as individuals and as faith communities--to be set free from this slavery to death?In another creative interdisciplinary fusion, Richard Beck blends Eastern Orthodox perspectives, biblical text, existential psychology, and contemporary theology to describe our slavery to the fear of death, a slavery rooted in the basic anxieties of self-preservation and the neurotic anxieties at the root of our self-esteem. Driven by anxiety--enslaved to the fear of death--we are revealed to be morally and spiritually vulnerable as "the sting of death is sin." Beck argues that in the face of this predicament, resurrection is experienced as liberation from the slavery of death in the martyrological, eccentric, cruciform, and communal capacity to overcome fear in living fully and sacrificially for others.

A study of how asceticism was promoted through Biblical interpretation, Reading Renunciation uses contemporary literary theory to unravel the writing strategies of the early Christian authors. Not a general discussion of early Christian teachings on celibacy and marriage, the book is a close examination, in the author's words, of how "the Fathers' axiology of abstinence informed their interpretation of Scriptural texts and incited the production of ascetic meaning." Elizabeth Clark begins with a survey of scholarship concerning early Christian asceticism that is designed to orient the nonspecialist. Section Two is organized around potentially troubling issues posed by Old Testament texts that demanded skillful handling by ascetically inclined Christian exegetes. The third section, "Reading Paul," focuses on the hermeneutical problems raised by I Corinthians 7, and the Deutero-Pauline and Pastoral Epistles. Elizabeth Clark's remarkable work will be of interest to scholars of late antiquity, religion, literary theory, and history.

"Stand and Deliver" is a practical manual for deliverance ministry. It is designed to present usable instruction for the conduct of deliverance ministry. (Christian Religion)

Renunciation Through Wisdom is a collection of essays originally written in Bengali and published by Srila Prabhupada in India during the 1940s. They were later translated into English by his disciples. In these essays Srila Prabhupada expands on themes found in the Bhagavad-gita, discussing such topics as why people are averse to God, the ultimate causes of suffering, and how the world’s troubles are extraordinarily fleeting when seen from the standpoint of eternity. Students of Srila Prabhupada will recognize the same common-sense writing style in Renunciation Through Wisdom as in his later, well-known works such as Srimad-Bhagavatam and Bhagavad-gita As It Is, as well as his expertise at distilling the essence of India's ancient Vedic wisdom into powerful, convincing, practical, and easily readable directives.

With a goal of improving retrieval in bibliographic environments, this volume takes stock of what we know about relationships in the overall bibliographic domain, with particular emphasis on relationships between subjects, relationships among bibliographic entities, and relationships between subject content and user needs. The volume presents the current state of the art in examining the expression of relationships in some of the best thesauri and classification schemes in use throughout the world. It also looks to the future by providing guidance for relational tasks now taking on greater significance, as retrieval systems increasingly operate in automated modes and as retrieval systems cross linguistic, cultural, and disciplinary boundaries. By bringing together in one place the perspectives of some of the most prominent persons working in this arena, this volume should be of interest to researchers from library and information science, as well as computer science (artificial intelligence, knowledge representation, information retrieval, natural language processing), and to many practitioners, including: developers of thesauri and classification schemes; developers of Web search engines and search directories; indexers and subject cataloguers; and professional searchers.