The missing boy and the escapee

Charles, Jean Charlot

Adelphi Press

Hatha Yoga Pradipika Hatha Yoga Pradipika is among the most influential surviving texts on hatha yoga. The text describes asanas, purifying practices, shatkarma, mudras, finger and hand positions, bandhas, locks, and pranayama, breath exercises. The book explains the purpose of Hatha Yoga, the awakening of subtle energy kundalini, advancement to Raja Yoga, and the experience of deep meditative absorption known as samadhi. Yogi Swatmarama Yogi Swatmarama was a 15th and 16th century yogic sage in India. He is best known for compiling the yoga manual Hatha Pradipika or Light on Hatha Yoga. Swatmarama maitains throughout the text that Hatha Yoga's true purpose is the arousal of the Kundalini, until perfection in Raja Yoga is achieved, i.e. liberation.

Hatha Yoga Pradipika (Yoga Elements)

Swatmarama, Yogi

Religion & Spirituality

Gnani Yoga What is known as Gnani Yoga or Yoga of Wisdom deals with the scientific and intellectual knowing of the great questions regarding Life and what lies back of Life--the Riddle of the Universe. This book gives the highest Yogi teachings regarding the absolute and its manifestations. Yogi Ramacharaka Yogi Ramacharaka, born in India ventured out early in life to hunt for the truth. He spent many years trudging back and forth across the East, fasting, meditating, and digging through the libraries of countless lamaseries and monasteries. His complete manual of Pranayama breathing philosophy, Gnani Yoga and Raja Yoga books are among his best known works.

Gnani Yoga (Yoga Elements)

RAMACHARAKA, YOGI

History

A stolen treasure, a secret pact among four convicts, and two corrupt prison guards. The Sign of the Four also presents the detective's drug habit and humanises him in a way that had not been done in the preceding novel, A Study in Scarlet. It also introduces Doctor Watson's future wife, Mary Morstan. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, an Edinburgh born physician and writer most famous for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, considered a milestone in the field of crime fiction. A prolific writer whose other works include science fiction stories, plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction, and historical novels. After graduating from Edinburgh University he first worked as a surgeon on a wailing boat and later settled in Portsmouth on the English south coast dividing his time between medicine and writing.

The Sign of the Four (Sherlock Holmes)

Literature & Fiction

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

Classics

The Upanishads

Paramânanda, Swâmi

Reference

The Upanishads (Large Print)

Vedanta Philosophy

Abhedânanda, Swâmi

Karma Yoga

Karma yoga, also called Karma marga, is one of the several spiritual paths in Hinduism, one based on the yoga of action. Karma yogi believe that right work done well is a form of prayer. It is one of the paths in the spiritual practices of Hindus. Of the paths to spiritual liberation in Hinduism, karma yoga is the path of unselfish action. Swami Vivekananda was an Indian Hindu monk, a chief disciple of the 19th-century Indian mystic Ramakrishna. He was a key figure in the introduction of the Indian philosophies of Vedanta and Yoga to the Western world and is credited with raising interfaith awareness, bringing Hinduism to the status of a major world religion during the late 19th century.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Vivekânanda, Swâmi

Exercise & Fitness

Band of Arrogant and United Heroes: Story of the Royal Shakespeare Company's Production of the " Wars of the Roses "

Arts & Photography

Richard Pearson

Performing Arts

Carlton's Pride

Keith Hudson

Genre Fiction

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