Felicitavia: A Spiritual Journey, a Novel

Devashish

Good Karma Publications

For thousands of years, the ancient discipline known as yoga has provided a scientific and easily accessible method of spiritual development. It has been practiced, in one form or another, by most of the world's great saints. In these conversations, a modern Indian saint discusses the common difficulties and dilemmas that spiritual seekers face in their quest for realization. With the infallible good sense of a true adept, Acharya Chandranath tells us how to avoid the obstacles and pitfalls of the path and gives us the practical advice we need to achieve success in our spiritual life.

When the Time Comes

Acosta, Devashish Donald

Religion & Spirituality

Innerworld Publications

Set in the picturesque hills of Topanga Canyon, within hailing distance of the glitter and hype of modern-day Los Angeles, The Ashram gives us a fictional look at Southern California's colorful esoteric community, where the forces of Western commercialism and the mystic traditions of the East meld to form the beginnings of a new spiritual culture. Against this backdrop, we follow the journey of a young yogi in his search for enlightenment, from his childhood initiation by a mysterious sage to his romantic encounter with the woman who is destined to open his heart to the suffering in the world around him, a stark reality that he must come to terms with before he can complete his inner journey. In the process, the reader is ushered into the primal landscapes of the human spirit, where the final reckoning of who we are is determined by how we respond to the challenges that life places in our path.

The Ashram

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Fresh from a painful divorce, Rodrigo Arroyo boards a plane for India where he plans to spend his one-year sabbatical writing his long-dreamed-of first novel, a work of historical fiction set in India that he hopes will finally launch his quest for artistic immortality. He finds the perfect place to write: a clean, quiet ashram in the foothills of the Himalayas where no one will bother him as he sends his thoughts into the clear mountain air. He soon finds out, however, that the goddess has other plans for him. A chance encounter with an Indian holy woman and the unsought-for company of seekers and yogis soon transform his artistic quest into a journey of spiritual awakening, and his search for personal redemption into a tryst with the laughing eyes of the goddess.

Devi

While Paramahansa Yogananda may have been better known, Anandamurti was arguably the twentieth century’s most interesting and controversial spiritual figure. Considered by some to be a social revolutionary with secret intentions of overthrowing the Indian government and by others to be a powerful Tantric with supernatural powers, Anandamurti kept himself scrupulously hidden from the public eye throughout his lifetime. His only interaction with the public was through Ananda Marga, the spiritual and service organization he founded in 1955, and its thousands of orange-robed monks who by the late 1960s had become so ubiquitous in northern India that they began drawing daily mention in the press and literature of the time. While Ananda Marga gained great notoriety, Anandamurti himself remained a mysterious figure in India until his death in 1990. Based on the oral histories of his disciples, colleagues, and family, Anandamurti: The Jamalpur Years unveils a remarkable portrait of this often misunderstood saint and social thinker. Rather than being an academic study of one man's life, Anandamurti is primarily a collection of devotional and mystical stories set in a biographical framework that provides the reader with a portal into the magical world of Indian mysticism, yoga, and Tantra.
"A fascinating story. Devashish has risen to the challenge of capturing this extraordinary life with grace and eloquence. I highly recommend it."
— Dada Nabhaniilananda, Meditation teacher and author of Close Your Eyes and Open Your Mind

Anandamurti: The Jamalpur Years

For many centuries the islands of Haiti and Borikén had been home to the Taino people, the peace-loving inhabitants of the Greater Antilles whose carefree society led Columbus to believe that he had stumbled across the earthly paradise that stirred the imagination of most fifteenth-century Europeans - until he and the Spanish conquistadors initiated the most terrible genocide our planet has ever witnessed. This is the story of the epic encounter between two alien civilizations in the lands that the Spanish renamed Española and Puerto Rico, between a unique culture that would soon vanish from the earth - though its legacy lives on throughout the Caribbean - and a crusading nation whose lust for gold and missionary zeal brought the fires of hell to a new world that was as old as its own.

Song of the Taino

Genre Fiction

In this evocative and entertaining fictional memoir, nineteen-year-old Dan Hennessey takes us on a journey to the epicenter of the beat movement - San Francisco 1956, the year of Howl and The Dharma Bums. As he gets swept up in the fervor of the San Francisco Renaissance, he meets cultural icons such as Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, and spiritual figures like Alan Watts and Jiddu Krishnamurti, each of whom serves as a catalyst for his awakening. But the man who becomes his spiritual and musical mentor, the man the poet Gary Snyder called the jazz master, is a tenor saxophonist, ex-Zen monk who teaches him Zen through the art of jazz. Filled with reflections on art, society, and spiritual life, The Jazz Master is both a tale of spiritual awakening and a portrait of a unique and colorful era that paved the way for the revolutionary changes of the sixties and seventies. If you love spiritual fiction, as I do, then you won't want to miss The Jazz Master. It is beautifully crafted, engaging and, above all, profound - a real spiritual shot in the arm. - Dada Nabhaniilananda, author of Close Your Eyes and Open Your Mind

The Jazz Master

Aunque Paramahansa Yogananda sea más conocido, Anandamurti es probablemente el personaje espiritual más interesante y controvertido del siglo veinte. Algunos lo consideraban un revolucionario social con intenciones secretas de derrocar el gobierno de India, mientras que otros lo consideraban un poderoso tántrico con poderes sobrenaturales. Anandamurti se mantuvo escrupulosamente oculto a la vista del público durante toda su vida; su única interacción con el público fue a través de Ananda Marga, la organización espiritual y de servicio social que fundó en 1955, y sus miles de monjes de hábitos naranja, que para finales de los años sesenta eran tan ubicuos en el Norte de India que empezaron a ser mencionados en la prensa y la literatura de la época. Mientras la reputación de Ananda Marga aumentaba, hasta su muerte en 1990, Anandamurti continuó siendo un personaje misterioso en India.  Basado en las historias de sus discípulos, colegas y familia, Historias de un maestro tántrico revela un retrato admirable de este tantas veces incomprendido santo y pensador social. En vez de ser un estudio académico de la vida de un hombre, es más que nada una colección de historias místicas y devocionales, enmarcadas en forma biográfica, que provee al lector una entrada al mundo mágico del misticismo indio, del yoga y del tantra.  - Una historia fascinante. Devashish se mostró a la altura del desafío de captar esta vida extraordinaria con gracia y elocuencia. Ciertamente lo recomiendo.  Dada Nabhaniilananda, Profesor de meditación y autor de  Cierra los ojos y abre la mente

Historias de Un Maestro Tantrico (Spanish Edition)

In the Land of the Saints

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