The Inner Teachings of the Philosophies and Religions of India - Softcover

Yogi Ramacharaka, Ramacharaka; Ramacharaka; Yogi Ramacharaka

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1602066280 ISBN 13: 9781602066281

Publisher: Cosimo Classics, 2007

Synopsis

Excerpt from The Inner Teachings of the Philosophies and Religions of India

India - the Land of the Ganges - the home of San scrit, the root-language of the world - the Mother of Religions and Philosophies - the Twentieth Cen tury and the Western World greet thee! From thy sources have come the languages of the world, in which men have expressed the thoughts arising in their minds - thy word-symbols have made possible advanced thinking and expression of thought. From thy thinkers and teachers have come the root-ideas which have since grown into many a religious and philosophical tree, with bud, leaf, flower, and fruit. To thee may be traced the great philosophical con ceptions and religious truths that have animated and inspired man's thought for centuries. Thy hundred centuries of deep thought and meditation upon the Mysteries of Existence - the Secret of the Absolute have proved as the leaven which has lightened the bread of life, and has raised the sodden mass of ma teriality and changed its character so that it may be partaken of without harm by reason of the trans forming power of thy leaven!

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About the Author:

Born in Maryland in 1862, he began working life at 15 in his parent’s grocery store. He married at age 27, and became a successful attorney in Pennsylvania. However, stress and over-strain brought him to a physical and mental breakdown that ended in a financial disaster. He looked for healing and in the late 1880’s he found the principles of New Thought, and in applying them he restored his health, mental vigor and material prosperity. He began writing articles on the truths he had discovered. His “A Mental Science Catechism,” appeared in Charles Fillmore's ‘Modern Thought’ in 1889. By the early 1890’s he moved to Chicago, then a major center for New Thought, and became an active promoter of the movement as an editor and author. He wrote his first book, Thought-Force in Business and Everyday Life, in 1900, a series of lessons in personal magnetism, psychic influence, thought-force, concentration, will-power, and practical mental science. Soon after he met Sydney Flower, a well-known New Thought publisher, and in December 1901 he became editor of Flower's New Thought magazine (until 1905). He wrote dozens of articles in the magazine; and later on, he was a regular contributor to Elizabeth Towne’s Magazine, Nautilus. Throughout his subsequent career, Atkinson wrote and published over 100 different books, some under his own name and many under pseudonyms such as Yogi Ramacharaka, Theron Q. Dumont, Theodore Sheldon, Magus Incognito, Edward Walker, Three Initiates and Swami Bhakta Vishita. Among the first to develop the concept of Law of Attraction, Atkinson is considered, together with Orison Swett Marden and Wallace Wattles, the masters of self-development and positive thinking, and the real promoters of New Thought, a movement that came very much to life again with the Millennium He died November 22, 1932 in Los Angeles, California , after 50 years of successful career in law, business, writing, occultism, and a life surrounded by mysteries, including his own death.

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Followers of the early "New Age" movement known as New Thought, which was wildly popular at the turn of the 20th century, were intensely interested in gleaning the fruit of all of humanity's spiritual wisdom.

In this 1908 work, one of the most influential New Thought writers and editors shares with Western readers the "root-ideas" of Indian language, symbology, and philosophy that have given birth to much of the knowledge of all of humanity, casting the mysteries of the East in an easily comprehensive light. He discusses:

* the Sankhya system
* the Vedanta system
* Patanjali's yoga system
* Buddhism
* Sufiism
* the Vedas
* and more.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cosimo Classics
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1602066280
• ISBN 13: 9781602066281
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 376