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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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9789388292702 |
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954.6 KAU-S |
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edited by Kaul, Shonaleeka |
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Looking within : |
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life lessons from Lal Ded / |
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edited by Shonaleeka Kaul |
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India |
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Aleph Books |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
2019 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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124 p. |
| 365 ## - TRADE PRICE |
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INR |
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399.00. |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
India has produced some of the world’s greatest religious leaders, sages, saints, philosophers<br/>and spiritual thinkers. They were monks, nuns and renunciates, nationalists and reformers.<br/>No one religion had a monopoly on them. They range from Mahavira and Buddha, who lived<br/>over 2,500 years ago, to medieval saints like Chishti, Avvaiyar and Guru Nanak, to more<br/>recent philosophers and religious icons such as Vivekananda, Ramakrishna, Saint Teresa<br/>and many others. The spiritual and philosophical heritage they left behind is India’s gift to<br/>all Indians and the world.<br/><br/>In the ‘Life Lessons’ series we publish the essential teachings of some of India’s best-known<br/>spiritual teachers, along with commentaries and biographical notes. Each book will be a<br/>handy companion to help the reader along the difficult pathways of life.<br/>***<br/>Lal Ded (Granny Lal), as Lalleshwari was known, was a Shaiva mystic saint who lived in<br/>Kashmir, probably in the fourteenth century. Born into a Brahmin family of Pandrethan (near<br/>Srinagar), she is said to have had an early bad marriage and faced many domestic hardships,<br/>prompting a turn to spirituality. She renounced her marriage and material life and became<br/>a wandering mystic. She shared her wisdom in the form of vaakhs (sayings or utterances).<br/>These vaakhs (originally in the Kashmiri language) have seeped far and wide into popular<br/>usage and are part of the collective memory—through songs, proverbs and hymns—of<br/>Kashmiris of all stripes, through the generations. In these vaakhs, Lal Ded talked about the<br/>woes of the human condition, her disillusionment with the world, her anguished search for<br/>God, and, ultimately, her realization of God as pure consciousness. She rejected outward<br/>rituals, ostentation and extreme asceticism as paths to reach the truth. Her observations on<br/>the transience and futility of material pursuits and the emotions they generate, like greed,<br/>anger, pride and fear, apply to us all. While her sayings are deeply profound, her humanism<br/>makes it easy to relate to Lal and her teachings.<br/><br/>Translated and edited by Shonaleeka Kaul, the aphorisms in ‘Looking Within’ represent Lal<br/>Ded’s core teachings. |
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Śaivism |
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India--Jammu and Kashmir |
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Lal Ded |
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Life Lessons |
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