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	An Introduction to Hinduism 3.78 avg rating — 362 ratings — published 1996 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Tantric Body: The Secret Tradition of Hindu Religion 3.78 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2005 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beyond Phenomenology: Rethinking the Study of Religion really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1999 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Blackwell Companion to Hinduism 3.88 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2003 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Ascetic Self: Subjectivity, Memory and Tradition 3.86 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2004 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Importance of Religion: Meaning and Action in our Strange World really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2011 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hindu Monotheism (Elements in Religion and Monotheism) 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Body and Cosmology in Kashmir Saivism it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1993 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Truth Within: A History of Inwardness in Christianity, Hinduism, and Buddhism it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2013 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Oxford History of Hinduism: Hindu Practice 2.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The term yoga, derived from the Sanskrit root yuj, ‘to control’, “to yoke’ or ‘to unite’, refers to these technologies or disciplines of asceticism and meditation which are thought to lead to spiritual experience and profound understanding or insight into the nature of existence. Yoga is the means whereby the mind and senses can be restrained, the limited, empirical self or ego (ahamkara) can be transcended and the self’s true identity eventually experienced. It is this aspect of Hinduism which is not necessarily confined to any particular Hindu worldview [...] The concept of yoga as a spiritual discipline not confined to any particular sectarian affiliation or social form, contains the following important features: — consciousness can be transformed through focusing attention on a single point; — the transformation of consciousness eradicates limiting, mental constraints or impurities such as greed and hate; — yoga is a discipline, or range of disciplines, constructed to facilitate the transformation of consciousness.”
― Gavin D. Flood, An Introduction to Hinduism

tags: hindu-philosophy, hinduism, yoga, yoga-practice

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“The origin of the doctrines of karma and samsara are obscure. These concepts were certainly circulating among the Sramanas, and Jainism and Buddhism developed specific and sophisticated ideas about the process of transmigration. It is very possible that karma and reincarnation entered mainstream brahmanical thought from the s§ramana or renouncer traditions. Yet on the other hand, although there is no clear doctrine of transmigration in the vedic hymns, there is the idea of ‘redeath’: that a person, having died in this world, might die yet again in the next. Ritual procedures are meant to prevent this eventuality. From the notion of redeath the idea of a return to this world could have developed. We also have in the Rg Veda the idea that different parts of a person go to different places upon death: the eyes go to the sun, the breath (atman) to the wind, and the essential ‘person’ to the ancestors. Rebirth into this world could have developed from this partite view of a person.”
― Gavin D. Flood, An Introduction to Hinduism

tags: hinduism, indian-culture, karma, theology, vedas

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