Swami Chidananda Tirtha (2 results)

Hardbound. Condition: New. First Edition. This volume contains a free rendering of selected sections from the original Sanskrit text, translated to English and edited by Swami Pranav Tirtha, an erudite Sanskrit scholar and Hindu monk, and Swami Chidananda Tirtha, a British born scholar and initiate. This popular and influential Vedantic text is traditionally attributed to Valmiki, but the identity of the actual author is uncertain; the original dates from an era between the 10th and the 14th centuries CE. Scattered comments, in parentheses in the text, assist in the understanding of the material. A new copy with occasional letters within the text corrected by the author in ink. 162 pp. Size: 30 x 21 cm. …

Paperback. Condition: Good. no dj. The Yoga Vasishta Ramayana (YVR) is an eleventh century (CE) treatise on Vedanta, originally in two versions, Brihat and Laghu, the Great with about 36,000 verses and the Small of approximately 6,000. As is common to the Indian tradition in such matters, it is in dialogue form, between the sage Vasishta and Rama. However, unlike the Gita, which albeit very inspiring and wonderfully enriching as it meanders in a more worldly and human context, or the Upanisads with their esoteric message, the YVR goes directly to the point of Vedantik teaching and repeatedly drives home what is required for man's salvationan end to mentation, for everything in any world is just ideation. Not a book for the worldly-minded, so immense it is in its disclosure. As fresh today as it was no doubt when Valmiki wrote it a thousand odd years ago, the message is simple and compelling. This is a free rendering of pertinent selected sections from the original Sanskrit text as translated and edited by Swamis Pranav Tirtha and Chidananda Tirtha (aka Christopher Freeland), as part of the latter's apprenticeship. Book.…