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Rabindranath Tagore's Gitanjali in Santhosh Kana's voice. An Audio Series based on Eighteen selected poems from the Malayalam Translation of Gitanjali by Shri. K Jayakumar, IAS (Poet, Lyricist, Translator). It is a creative experiment, a meditative journey blending poetry with Hindustani music in Sitar by Shri. Paulson K J. Released on Santhosh Kana's Youtube channel on 7th August, 2021, on the death anniversary of Tagore.Credits:Voice : Santhosh KanaTranslation : Shri. K Jayakumar, IASSitar : Paulson K JMusic Programmed, Mixed and Mastered : Anandu Pai

Aham Bharatham - The Voices of a Timeless Nation. Discover the heartbeat of India through stories, insights, and timeless wisdom. From ancient traditions to modern reflections, we bring you the heritage, culture, and spirit of Bharat in its purest form. Aham Bharatham - Because India is not just a country, it is a timeless consciousness. ahambharatham.substack.com

This volume of short essays and other pieces by C.S. Lewis is part of a larger collection, C.S. Lewis: Essay Collection and Other Short Pieces. In addition to his many books, letters, and poems, C.S. Lewis wrote a great number of essays and shorter pieces on various subjects. He wrote extensively on Christian theology and the defense of faith but also on ethical issues and the nature of literature and storytelling. Within these pages is a treasure trove of Lewis' reflections on diverse topics.

This classic, definitive account of totalitarianism traces the emergence of modern racism as an "ideological weapon for imperialism", beginning with the rise of anti-Semitism in Europe in the 19th century and continuing through the New Imperialism period from 1884 to World War I.

Friedrich Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra is a profound exploration of humanity’s potential for self-overcoming and the search for meaning in a godless world. Presented in powerful spoken form, Nietzsche’s ideas come alive through the voice of Zarathustra, delivering a poetic and provocative vision of living authentically and embracing life’s challenges with courage and creativity.

The explanations of transcendent phenomena given by saints, sages, and near-death experiencers—miracles, immortality, heaven, God, and transcendent awareness—are fully congruent with scientific discoveries in the fields of relativity, quantum physics, medicine, M-theory, neuroscience, and quantum biology. The Physics of God describes the intersections of science and religion with colorful, easy-to-understand metaphors, making abstruse subjects within both science and religion easily accessible to the layman—no math, no dogma. 

How to Eat is part of a charming series of books from Zen Master, Thich Nhat Hanh, exploring the essential foundations of mindful meditation and practice. How to Eat explains what it means to eat as a meditative practice and that the results of mindful eating are both global and personal. Eating a meal can help develop compassion and understanding, reminding practitioners that there are things they can do to help nourish people who are hungry and lonely. It can however also encourages moderation and will aid readers to achieve an optimum health and body weight.

How to live a better life. One of the most important books on Western philosophy - a powerful and inspirational guide for the complicated world of today 'Refreshing and restorative' GUARDIAN 'An ancient work of spiritual reflection which remains a powerful reminder of how we could live a more...

The Buddhist saint Nāgārjuna, who lived in South India in approximately the second century CE, is undoubtedly the most important, influential, and widely studied Mahāyāna Buddhist philosopher. His greatest philosophical work, the Mūlamadhyamikakārikā - read and studied by philosophers in all major Buddhist schools of Tibet, China, Japan, and Korea - is one of the most influential works in the history of Indian philosophy. Now, in The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way, Jay L. Garfield provides a clear translation of Nāgārjuna's seminal work.

Unblock your natural creativity with help from Reflections on the Artist's Way, Julia Cameron's groundbreaking audiotape on unleashing your inner artist. Her unique system helps instill the creativity habit and yields powerful results. God's greatest gift to you, she teaches, is your creativity...

Daniel Everett, then a Christian missionary, arrived among the Pirahã in 1977 - with his wife and three young children - intending to convert them. What he found was a language that defies all existing linguistic theories and reflects a way of life that evades contemporary understanding. The Pirahã have no counting system and no fixed terms for color. They have no concept of war or of personal property.

Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by accomplished voice actor Ben Arogundade who is known for his voice work in Doctor Who and Horizons. This definitive recording includes an Introduction by William Bynum and the cover design is by Damien Hirst. The Origin of Species...

The Origins and History of Consciousness draws on a full range of world mythology to show how individual consciousness undergoes the same archetypal stages of development as human consciousness as a whole. Erich Neumann was one of C. G. Jung's most creative students and a renowned practitioner of analytical psychology in his own right. In this influential book, Neumann shows how the stages begin and end with the symbol of the Uroboros, the tail-eating serpent.

Another incredible novel from the #1 internationally bestselling author of The Alchemist. July 14, 1099. The city of Accra awaits the invasion of the crusaders who have surrounded the gates. There, within the city walls, men and women of every age have gathered to hear the words of a mysterious...

A landmark work from the intellectually auspicious author of Orientalism, this book explores the long-overlooked connections between the Western imperial endeavor and the culture that both reflected and reinforced it. This classic study, the direct successor to Said's main work, is read by Peter Ganim ( Orientalism).

Scientists are learning more and more about how brain activity controls behavior and how neural circuits weigh alternatives and initiate actions. As we probe ever deeper into the mechanics of decision making, many conclude that agency—or free will—is an illusion. In Free Agents, leading neuroscientist Kevin Mitchell presents a wealth of evidence to the contrary, arguing that we are not mere machines responding to physical forces but agents acting with purpose.

Thomas Nagel's Mortal Questions explores some fundamental issues concerning the meaning, nature, and value of human life. Questions about our attitudes to death, sexual behavior, social inequality, war, and political power are shown to lead to more obviously philosophical problems about personal identity, consciousness, freedom, and value.

महान दार्शनिक जे. कृष्णमूर्ति की वार्ताओं तथा लेखन से संकलित संक्षिप्त उद्धरणों का यह क्लासिक संग्रह 'ध्यान' के संदर्भ में उनकी शिक्षा का सार प्रस्तुत करता है-अवधान की, होश की वह अवस्था जो विचार से परे है, जो समस्त द्वंद्व, भय व दुःख से पूर्णतः मुक्ति लाती है जिनसे मनुष्य-चेतना की अंतर्वस्तु निर्मित है। इस परिवर्द्धित संस्करण में मूल संकलन की अपेक्षा कृष्णमूर्ति के और अधिक वचन संगृहीत हैं, जिनमें कुछ अब तक अप्रकाशित सामग्री भी सम्मिलित है।

Slavoj Žižek's first book is a provocative and original work looking at the question of human agency in a postmodern world. In a thrilling tour de force that made his name, he explores the ideological fantasies of wholeness and exclusion which make up human society. 

Lord Shiva, the most mystical and enigmatic deity of the Vedic pantheon, remains the most popular and yet, the least understood personality.From being the destroyer to the most compassionate, being the personification of anger to the one who is easily pleased, living a life of complete...