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"HOW
I BECAME A DISCIPLE OF BABAJI", 2nd edition by M. Govindan. 190 pages. From early years of seeking through ascetic trials in India and Sri Lanka, filled with adventure and difficulties, the author shares a rare story with unusual candor and courage. His inspiring story provides rare insights into a little known world. 90 pages. 38 photographs, 6" x 9" inches. Softcover. ISBN 978-1-895383-04-1. US$7.75, CA$9.98 (inc gst) plus US$4.50 for shipping and handling to the US or CA$3.50 within Canada. US$9.00 for overseas airmail.
(NEW!) "GREEN
YOGA"By Georg Feuerstein & Brenda Feuerstein. 164 pages. US$16, CA$16.80 (inc gst) plus US$4.50 for shipping and handling to the US or CA$3.50 within Canada. US$15.45 for overseas airmail. ISBN 978-0-9782138-2-4. Softcover.
GREEN YOGA is a crucially important book. It addresses the vital interrelationship between self-transformation and the preservation of our natural environment. The worldwide environmental crisis ("Sixth Mass Extinction") demands that we now do out utmost to help restore Earth's balance, so that future generations may have a habitable planet to enjoy and to support both their mundane and spiritual aspirations.
GREEN YOGA is a passionate clarion call to contemporary Yoga practitioners to translate the yogic wisdom teachings into viable "green" lifestyle, which treats both the inner and outer environments with reverence.
GREEN YOGA reviews the numerous problems we are facing: global warming and global dimming; pollution of land, water, and air; alarming extinction rate, deforestation, loss of top soil, decline of drinking water, and so forth. The authors also spell out in straightforward terms what is needful now. It is must-reading for anyone seeking to practice Yoga or indeed and other spiritual tradition in a meaningful and responsible manner in the twenty-first century.
Georg Feuerstein, Ph.D., is internationally renowned for his seminal contributions to the East-West dialogue. He has authored over 30 books, including the award-winning Shambhala Encyclopedia of Yoga, The Yoga Tradition, Yoga Morality, and Aha! Relflections on the Meaning of Everything.
Brenda Feuerstein, Georg's wife, is a former music teacher, health and fitness consultant, and Yoga instructor, as well as the present director of Traditional Yoga Studies and co-director of Green Yoga Initiative.
The authors live a simple life dedicated to helping people understand the unusual and perilous moment in which we live.
TRADITIONAL YOGA STUDIES www.traditionalyogastudies.com
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"THE
POETS OF THE POWERS", 2nd editionby Kamil V. Zvelebil, 1993. Price: US$8.45, CA$9.45 (inc gst) plus US$4.50 for shipping and handling to the USA or CA$3.50 within Canada. US$15.45 for overseas airmail. ISBN 0-941255-32-8.Softcover. 5.5 x 8 inches.
This reprint of the classic work first published in 1973 is largely based upon interviews with Yogi S.A.A. Ramaiah, a direct disciple of Babaji. It was the first academic study of the culture of the 18 Siddhas of South India and presents many fascinating details which will be of great interest to the student of Babaji's Kriya Yoga. The Siddhas or "Accomplished Ones" were masters of yoga, spiritual heroes, miracle workers and minstrels in ancient times. Their poetry reflects their deep spiritual yearning, insight and experience. It also reveals that they were outspoken critics of conventional religion and morality. Kamil Zvelebil, Ph.D., is a world-renowned authority on Tamil language and culture, and pioneer of Tamil studies and university professor in the Netherlands.
"YOUR
MIND: THE OWNERS MANUAL", 2nd editionby Linda Joy Rose, Ph.D., 1999. 190 pages. Price: US$14.95, CA$18.85 plus US$4.50 for shipping and handling to the US or CA$8.55 within Canada. US$15.45 for overseas airmail. Available in English or Spanish. ISBN 978-1-895383-09-6. Softcover. 6 x 9 inches.
CONGRATULATIONS! You are now the owner of the most sophisticated computer that has ever been invented, capable of complex reasoning, deductions, analysis and with an unlimited capacity for learning and data storage. It was gifted to you at birth: Your mind - but it did not come with a user's manual, so you are not using more than 3-5 percent of its potential!
Aside from its ability to process and store information, your mind is also the key to the creation of your destiny. In your formative years you may have received much "programming" which does not serve your present needs and goals, and may even be sabotaging their realization. Although we desire to make changes in our lives, we usually fail because we don't have the slightest idea of how to go about it. Now you can learn to make full use of the mind's potential with a practical, easy-to-understand, and fun guide.
Learn about the operation, structure, and dynamics of your mind. Access the "Power Supply" of your mind through suggestion. Discover your "Tool Kit" to create a healthy lifestyle, overcome negative habits, addictions, fear, depression and anger. A variety of methods for releasing emotional and physical stress. Techniques for healing and pain control. Exercises for enhancing self-esteem, creativity, intuition, and personal relationships. With the skills and understanding provided in this book, you will witness miraculous changes in your life.
"A wealth of intelligent, positive, and clear information that is bound to increase anyone's self-understanding. This book deserves to become a reference manual on our shelves and in our lives." - Joya Pope, author of "Upcoming Changes"
"A healing book filled with love and wisdom".
- Doreen Virtue, Ph.D. Author of "Divine Guidance"
"This book contains ancient wisdom and cutting edge techniques for living life to the fullest in the 21st century. A highly practical and inspiring guide for knowing one's mind." - Lucia Capacchione, Ph.D. author of "Visioning: Ten Steps to Designing the Life of Your Dreams"
Written by Linda Joy Rose, Ph.D., an international expert on subconscious dynamics and the power of suggestion. Her original system for uncovering and treating childhood trauma, Hypno-Potential, has become standard practice in many countries.
"BABAJI'S
KRIYA YOGA JOURNAL"US$13.00, CA$13.65 or CA$14.67 in Quebec (includes applicable taxes). Shipping by regular mail in Canada and by airmail in US and overseas included. (Note: the journal is sent out via pdf e-mail by default. If you would prefer to have a hardcopy mailed out please indicate this in shipping preference.)
"Satsang" is the sharing of truth between fellow travellers along a spiritual path. While satsang most often implies a close physical proximity between those who are sharing, its essence knows no limits, and so, even a journal such as this may bring us together, though we may be thousands of miles apart. We invite you, dear reader, to share with your fellow readers of this journal articles which you may author, letters to the editor, poems, jokes, recipes, questions, book reviews, news and notes. In this issue you will find regular columns pertaining to each of these. This journal will also serve to keep you informed of upcoming activities involving Kriya Yoga around the world, as well as recent important events which may be of importance to you."
"Through this sharing may we all become a little closer and a little wiser, and may we find, perhaps, the support and encouragement that we often need to continue the path of discipleship. Through this journal we believe that you will come to know Babaji more and more intimately, first in yourself, then in your brother and sister disciples and ultimately in everyone and everything in the Universal Vision of Love."
"THE
YOGA OF SIDDHA AVVAI"by S.N. Kandaswamy, Ph D, 2005. 370 pages. Price: In USA: US$17.95 In Canada: CA$23.05 (inc gst). Shipping and handling to US by surface US$4.50 or CA$8.55 in Canada. US$15.45 for overseas airmail. ISBN: 978-1-895383-28-7
from the foreword by M. Govindan
Avvai is considered to be one of the most influential sages among the Tamil speaking people of south India. Her poems and literary works, dating from the first millenium of the modern era are recited by millions of Tamil speaking school children in south Asia to this day. A huge statue of her stands along Marina Beach Drive, in Chennai, along the shore of the Indian ocean. The values and wisdom which her poems convey however, has a source. It is this source which the present volume, "The Siddha Yoga Tradition of Avvai and Her Literary Work: Vinayakar Akaval," sheds much new light upon. The author takes us on a literary, historical and spiritual tour of ancient Indian culture, and in so doing, helps us to understand her origins and greatness.
Like her illustrious forebearer, the Siddha Thiruvallavar, whose influence on Tamil culture and values, through his magnus opus Thiru Kural, is universally acknowledged, Avvai was also a Siddha Yogi. While Thiruvallavar was a disciple of Agastyar, and brother disciple of Babaji Nagaraj, the originator of Kriya Yoga, Avvai claims that her Guru was the sound of Aum, the Pranava itself, personified in the form of Ganesha, who taught her Kundalini Yoga. Her poetry invokes the presence of the Guru, and then ignites within the reader the flame of spiritual consciousness. It also points to the esoteric practice of Kundalini Yoga as the path which leads to enlightenment and God realization. Her's is a wonderful example of arrupadai, the Siddha's ideal of showing the path to others. If the purpose of human knowledge is to alleviate human suffering, then that knowledge or wisdom which eliminates suffering completely is the most valuable. Like all of the Siddhas, she shared her wisdom with this purpose. Their teachings are universal, non-sectarian, and very much needed in today's suffering world.
Students of Kriya Yoga, Kundalini Yoga, Jnana, and Tantra as well as devotees of Ganesha (Vinyakar) and students of Tamil literature and culture will all find much insight and greater understanding of their path as a result of studying this volume. Readers familiar with Avvai's moral sayings may be surprised to learn of the origins of her wisdom, and be inspired themselves to apply themselves to Yogic sadhana.
On a personal note, in 1981, I had a vision of Avvai at a shrine which was dedicated to her in the Babaji's Kriya Yoga ashram where I resided for a number of years beginning in 1972. Located at 13 AR Street, in Kanandukathan, Chettinad, Tamil Nadu, the large granite shrine contained a large number of rare and ancient palm leaf manuscripts written by the Siddhas. A murthi, or granite statue of Avvai sat adopt the granite sarcophagus like repository of these manuscripts. Sitting in this shrine one day, in front of her murthi, I had a vision of her, and she told me "If you remain faithful to us, we will work through you." So, I trace my efforts to preserve, translate and publish the writings of the Siddhas to that moment. - M. Govindan Satchidananda.
"THE
YOGA OF THE EIGHTEEN SIDDHAS: AN ANTHOLOGY"Edited by T.N.Ganapathay, Ph D, 2005. Foreword by W Neelakantan. 670 pages. Price: In USA: US$27.00 In Canada: CA$30.45 (inc gst). Shipping and handling to US by surface US$5.50 or CA$9.70 in Canada. US$47.50 for overseas airmail. ISBN: 978-1-895383-24-9
"The Yoga of the Eighteen Siddhas: An Anthology should be studied by every serious student of Yoga and Tantra as well as scholars and philosophers. It contains the revolutionary statements of those great men and women who have reached the furthest heights of human potential, and who left behind a roadmap for the rest of us. The "Eighteen Yoga Siddhas" is a tradition referred to in the ancient Tamil language literature. Its illustrious members travelled all over the world, had extremely long lives and performed what most of us would consider to be miracles. They did not like to be autobiographical, preferring to identify themselves with that deathless jivatma, being-consciousness-bliss. Consequently, they consciously changed bodies as easily as we change clothes, when necessary, laughing at the limitations of ordinary humans. They were not only mystics in the truest sense, but revolutionaries against human nature, and they envisioned and embodied Divinity, as a result of tremendous efforts of self-mastery and self-surrender to their God-head.
They left behind their teachings in the form of poems, written on palm leaves, or edus. These works, have been badly neglected by scholars to date, because of the difficulty in deciphering them. The Siddhas wrote in what has been referred to as a "twilight language," to obscure the meaning from all but the most sincere students, and prompting the reader to seek the deepest meaning within themselves.
The Siddhas represent the best of what we can all aspire to become. Their illuminating writings, so filled with the light of God realization, leave a profound impact upon the hearts and mind of the reader. They also provide a unique source of understanding of both the means and results of Kundalini Yoga, a great esoteric art and science.
"THE
YOGA OF SIDDHA BOGANATHAR" VOLUME 1by T.N. Ganapathy, 2003. 375 pages total. Price: US$21.50, CA$24.10 (inc gst) plus US$5 for shipping and handling to the US or CA$8.55 within Canada. US$30.50 for overseas airmail. ISBN 978-1-895383-19-5. Softcover. 6X9 inches.
Boganathar was the Siddha guru of Kriya Babaji Nagaraj, the famed Himalayan master, of whom much has been written. Boganathar lived an extremely long life through the use of alchemical rejuvenation formulae and special breathing techniques. He traveled all over the world, chronicled the lives of Siddhas much older than himself, and provided his disciples an illumined path to Self-realization and integral transformation of human nature into divinity. His astounding life provides a shining example of our human potential. The present work provides a biography of Boganathar, as we can glean it from his writings alone, as well as introductory chapters on the Siddha tradition and Kundalini Yoga.
The present work also provides a translation and commentary of about seventy-five selected poems, which serious students of all traditions of Kundalini Yoga and Tantra will find illuminating. By meditating upon the verses, the reader will be able to draw much inspiration.
The present work provides a word-by-word translation, with alternative meanings, as well as a literal translation, and finally an interpretative translation, to balance the need for precision and understanding and to facilitate a deeper meditative approach to the various layers of meaning of each verse.
"The Yoga traditions of India have been frequently neglected. This book, the first in a new series, seeks to remedy this situation. Dr Ganapathy and his team have labored hard to launch this series, and they do so with one of the most illustrious masters of Siddha Yoga - Bogar. This volume is a great starting point for exploring the Tantric Yoga of the Siddhas." - Georg Feuerstein, Ph. D., author of "The Shambhala Encyclopedia of Yoga".
"The Yoga of Siddha Boganathar" by T.N. Ganapathy, Ph. D., is the first in a series of publications produced by the Yoga Siddha Research Project sponsored by Babaji's Kriya Yoga Order of Acharyas and Yoga Research and Education Center.
"THE
YOGA OF SIDDHA BOGANATHAR" VOLUME 2 by T.N.Ganapathy, Ph D, 2005. Foreword by M.Govindan. 450 pages. Price: In USA: US$25.00, In Canada: CA$27.83 (inc gst). Shipping and handling to US by surface add US$5.50 or CA$9.70 in Canada. US$47.50 for overseas airmail. ISBN: 978-1-895383-26-3
From the foreword by M. Govindan Satchidananda
"The Yoga of Siddha Boganathar volume 2" by Dr. T.N. Ganapathy takes us further into the little known world of the Siddhas, adepts of Yoga, who for millennia, have explored the furthest reaches of human potentiality and spiritual development. Boganathar was not only one of the greatest adepts of Yoga of all time, but also a great scientist. In our present scientific age, the study of his works is especially rewarding. For the past 500 years, our western civilization has suffered from a schism between the rational, scientific view of life, and the spiritual or religious view. This divide, created in the politically charged period of the Reformation still haunts us. So, it is instructive to see in both the life of Boganathar, recorded in volume 1, and the writings on Yoga, in volume 2, how one great man married the two views.
Dr. T.N. Ganapathy has rendered a great service to all lovers of spirituality and science in the present work. For the first time ever, the writings of Boganathar, the greatest scientist of the Siddha tradition, have been translated into English, and a useful commentary on these profound and difficult texts has been rendered. The present volume contains poems which all lovers of Kundalini Yoga and Tantra will find inspiring.
By contemplating the poems of this present volume, the cit-sakti or consciousness-energy of Boganathar may be absorbed, and the reader will enter a higher state of consciousness. This subtle process, referred to as swadhya or self-study, by Patanjali, in sutra 2.1 of his Yoga-Sutras is an important part of the sadhana of every student of Kriya Yoga and Tantra. While the poems have many layers of meaning, and such meanings can provide much useful guidance to the practitioner, it is this process of Self-realization and transformation which is most important in the contemplation of the works of the Siddhas like Boganathar. For this reason, one should not read these poems as one would read an ordinary poem. After invoking Boganathar by name and with reverence, one should first repeat the words of the poem in the original language of Tamil. By so doing, one may enter into the spirit of the work and communion with the author. Then one should review the meaning of each word, then the literal translation, then the summary translation, and finally the commentary. Afterwards, one should meditate on the poem and with practice one may receive intuitively its hidden meaning. Each poem is like a key, and like a key it must be turned carefully in a lock to allow one to enter into a new space. By contemplating the poems in this way, one may enter into a new space, where the hidden meaning is revealed. Otherwise, the poem will remain as ink on paper just as a key is a useless piece of metal if unused. The Siddhas like Boganathar would typically meditate for up to one year before writing a poem, and the poem would serve as a point of departure for the disciple to contemplate, leading to all that the Siddha intended to communicate. In this way, the teachings of the Siddhas were revealed only to the most sincere persons, who were prepared to purify themselves by yogic sadhana, self-study and devotion to the Lord.
Dr. Ganapathy has so applied himself, and as a result, he has been able to a large extent able to decipher the meaning of the poems of Boganathar. It has been a joy for myself and my wife, Durga, to assist him in this process, and to contribute to the commentaries herein. It has been a process of discovery, and I invite the reader to continue it.
I recommend this work to all practioners of Yoga and Tantra and to all who are seeking for an example of how the science and spirituality can combine. - Marshall Govindan Satchidananda
"BREATHE
LIKE YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON IT"by Rudra Shivananda, 2005. 208 pages. 56 Illustrations. Price: In USA: US$17.00. In Canada: CA$18.90 (inc gst). Shipping and handling to US by surface US$4.50 or CA$3.50 in Canada. US$15.45 for overseas airmail. ISBN: 1-931833-04-4
Imagine living a life, protected from stress and ill-health, with strength and wisdom. This is the fruit of controlling and expanding life-force energy. Explore the secrets of Life-force control and expansion for self-Healing, strength and vitality. Powerful,simple, and beneficial practices which utilize the life-force in the breath, to rejuvenate the body and transform our emotional, mental and spiritual being.
"YOGA
OF PURIFICATION AND TRANSFORMATION"by Rudra Shivananda. 220 pages. Price: In USA: US$1700. In Canada: CA$18.90 (inc gst). Shipping and handling to US by surface US$6.00 or CA$8.55 in Canada. US$15.45 for overseas airmail. ISBN: 1-931833-10-9
Attain Peace of Mind in this Life and Terminate the Cycle of Suffering Caused by Negative Karma. Learn about the five restraints or yamas, and the five self-disciplines or niyamas: what they are, why they are important, and how to practice them, in the context of Self-realization. The development of the yamas will lead to freedom from emotional and mental disturbances, as well as the elimination of negative karma. The niyamas are the essential habits that develop the mental state of a spiritual practitioner, and immunize against the obstacles that prevent attainment. This is an inspirational and informative presentation with many relevant stories, examples and practices for everyone on the spiritual path.
"CHAKRA
SELFHEALING BY THE POWER OF OM" by Rudra Shivananda. 140 pages. Price: In USA: US$15.00. In Canada: CA$16.80 (inc gst). Shipping and handling to US by surface US$4.50 or CA$3.50 in Canada. US$15.45 for overseas airmail. ISBN: 1-931833-02-8
A series of powerfully effective, yet simple-to-learn techniques for the progressive tuning, balancing, energization,and transformation of the energy centers or chakras in the body-mind-soul complex. Discover and release your untapped potential for Health and Happiness, eliminating fatigue and depression, relieving anxiety and stress,calming the mind and developing your intuition
"The
Yoga of Tirumular: Essays on the Tirumandiram"
by Dr. T.N. Ganapathy, Ph.D and Dr. KRA Arumugam,
Ph.D, Read the Book Review by The Hindu
This book fulfills a longtime need for a comprehensive introduction and commentary in the English language for one of Yoga's greatest source works: the Tirumandiram or “Holy Garland of Mantras,'described by Dr. Georg Feuerstein Ph.D “as important as the Yoga-Sutras of Patanjali, the Bhagavad Gita and the Yoga-Vashistha combined.” Tirumandiram is considered to be the greatest and earliest seminal work of the Siddhas, the greatest adepts of Yoga, and an encyclopedia of philosophical and spiritual wisdom rendered in verse form. It is a book of Yoga, tantra, alchemy, mysticism, mantra, yantra and philosophy. But without a commentary, it has been difficult for most English readers, unfamiliar with much of its underlying philosophical concepts, to clearly understand.
This new book explain clearly the most important themes and philosophical concepts which are woven throughout the Tirumandiram. These include: Saivism; the nature of Siva and the relationship which the soul or jiva has with the Lord; the philosophical school of Saiva Siddhantha ; the concepts of God, the soul, the world, liberation, the paths to liberation; the bonds or impurities which keep the soul in bondage; the concept of Grace; Love; meditation; jnana ; the Yoga of Tirumandiram: Astanga-Yoga, Khecari-yoga, Pariyana-Yoga (tantric yoga), Chandra-Yoga (literally “moon” yoga), Kundalini-Yoga; mysticism, the concept of the human body and its transformation into a divine body; the concept of the guru; the social concerns of the Tirumular. With an understanding of the basic ideas, the reader will then be stimulated to make a detailed study of the Tirumandiram itself.
It is the sixth publication in a series produced by scholars ot the Yoga Siddha Research Center, in Chennai, south India, sponsored by Babaji's Kriya Yoga Order of Acharyas and the Yoga Research and Education Center. The present work benefits from the great familiarity which the authors have developed over many years of full time study of much of the massive body of palm leaf manuscripts written by the Siddhas.
“The Yoga of Tirumandiram: Essays on the Tirumandiram” may be ordered from Babaji's Kriya Yoga and Publications. In USA: US$27.00, In Canada: CA$30.45 (inc GST). Shipping and handling to US by surface add US$5 or CA$9.70 in Canada. US$30.50 for overseas airmail. ISBN 978-1-895383-21-8. 558 pages softcover.
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