Yogi Heroes and Poets
Title | Yogi Heroes and Poets PDF eBook |
Author | David N. Lorenzen |
Publisher | State University of New York Press |
Pages | 249 |
Release | 2011-11-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1438438923 |
This book provides a remarkable range of information on the history, religion, and folklore of the Nāth Yogis. A Hindu lineage prominent in North India since the eleventh century, Nāths are well-known as adepts of Hatha yoga and alchemical practices said to increase longevity. Long a heterogeneous group, some Nāths are ascetics and some are householders; some are dedicated to personified forms of Shiva, others to a formless god, still others to Vishnu. The essays in the first part of the book deal with the history and historiography of the Nāths, their literature, and their relationships with other religious movements in India. Essays in the second part discuss the legends and folklore of the Nāths and provide an exploration of their religious ideas. Contributors to the volume depict a variety of local areas where this lineage is prominent and highlight how the Nāths have been a link between religious, metaphysical, and even medical traditions in India.
Yogi Heroes and Poets
Title | Yogi Heroes and Poets PDF eBook |
Author | David N. Lorenzen |
Publisher | State University of New York Press |
Pages | 246 |
Release | 2012-12-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9789381406168 |
Yogi Heroes and Poets
Title | Yogi Heroes and Poets PDF eBook |
Author | Professor Centre of Asian and African Studies David N Lorenzen |
Publisher | |
Pages | 249 |
Release | 2014-05-14 |
Genre | RELIGION |
ISBN | 9781441699091 |
An exploration of the history, religion, and folklore of the Naths, a Hindu lineage known for Hatha yoga practice.
Gorakhnāth and the Kānphaṭa Yogīs
Title | Gorakhnāth and the Kānphaṭa Yogīs PDF eBook |
Author | George Weston Briggs |
Publisher | Motilal Banarsidass Publ. |
Pages | 416 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9788120805644 |
The cult of the Kanphata Yogis is a definite unit within Hinduism, and its study is essential for understanding this phase of the religious life of India. In analysing the different aspects of this cult the author has drawn upon various sources, such as the legends, folk-lore and the formulated texts of this sect. The book is divided into three sections. The first two sections comprising chapters 1-13 deal with the cult and history of this sect. The third section containing chapters 14-16 opens with the Sanskrit Text Goraksasataka and its English rendering and annotations. It proceeds with the analysis of physiological concepts, chief aims and methods and then comes to conclusion. The subject matter of this study has been so arranged that the first two sections serve to illustrate the third. The book is fully documented. It has a Preface, Glossary, Bibliography, Plates and General Index.
Songs of the Saints from the Adi Granth
Title | Songs of the Saints from the Adi Granth PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | SUNY Press |
Pages | 324 |
Release | 2000-10-19 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780791446843 |
An accessible translation of the songs of the saints from the Adi Granth, the Sikh holy book.
Praises to a Formless God
Title | Praises to a Formless God PDF eBook |
Author | David N. Lorenzen |
Publisher | SUNY Press |
Pages | 324 |
Release | 1996-02-15 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780791428061 |
Discusses and translates important compositions by famous Nirguni poets--poets dedicated to the worship of a formless God.
Sayings of Gorakhnath
Title | Sayings of Gorakhnath PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 241 |
Release | 2019-02-15 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0190935103 |
Sayings of Gorakhnath presents a translation of late-medieval texts in Old Hindi, traditionally attributed to one of the founders of the Order of Nath Yogis. The Naths are associated with the creation and development of hatha yoga, with important historical and ideological links to Hindu tantra and alchemy. The texts gathered in this collection on the one hand provide a criticism of religious authority based on external knowledge lacking personal experience, while on the other hand they celebrate the path of yoga and its methods of engagement with the subtle body and its centres of occult energy and miraculous powers. The ultimate goal of the style of yoga described in the Sayings of Gorakhnath concerns the attainment of immortality and divinization of its adepts. This is achieved by redirecting the trajectory of the seminal fluid, which in the process transforms into the elixir, the amrt. In order to accomplish that goal, a regime of yogic practices is suggested, consisting of the assumption of a steady posture, breathing exercises, mantra chanting, and meditation. Djudjevic and Singh's translations are preceded by an introduction and accompanied by notes, which contextualize and elucidate the subject matter.