Author: Pragito Dove
Publisher: Penguin
Year: 2001
Language: English
Pages: 194
ISBN/UPC (if available): 0143028464
Description
Adapting ancient traditions - both Eastern and Western- into a thoroughly modern and accessible approach, Pragito Dove teaches us to bring awareness to our everyday actions and meditate while we eat, live, work, and laugh.
Meditation can be as enjoyable and uncomplicated way to link the sacred with our day-to-day existence. This book demystifies the practice of meditation and illuminates a path to enlightenment that does not require total silence, complicated breathing, or sitting lotus style in a bare room.
Adapting ancient traditions -both Eastern and Western- into a thoroughly modern and accessible approach, Pragito Dove teaches us to bring awareness to our everyday actions and meditate while we eat, live, work, and laugh.
Free your mind and unleash your spirit as you discover the art of relaxing, practicing nonjudgmental, developing patience, discovering trust, and opening out to love and compassion.
With practical, down-to-earth strategies, simple reminders, and flexible plans, this book can help all of us empty our minds, let go of stress, open our hearts, and tap our creative energy - anytime, anywhere.
Contents
Introduction
CHAPTER 1
MYTHS OF ORIGIN: EUROPE AND THE ARYAN HOMELAND QUEST
Biblical Origins
India, the Cradle of Civilization
The Aryans and Colonial and Missionary Discourse
German Aryanism
Two Centuries of Homeland Theories
Present-Day Homeland Hypotheses
Conclusion
CHAPTER 2
EARLY INDIAN RESPONSES
Hindu Nationalist Responses
The First Reactions: Hindu Religious Leaders
Conclusion
CHAPTER 3
VEDIC PHILOLOGY
The Racial Evidence
The West-to-East Geographic shift in Sanskrit Texts
Conclusion
CHAPTER 4
INDO-EUROPEAN COMPARATIVE LINGUISTICS: THE DETHRONEMENT OF SANSKRIT
The Law of Palatals and the Discovery of Hittite
Objections from India
Conclusion
CHAPTER 5
LINGUISTIC SUBSTRATA IN SANSKRIT TEXTS
Linguistic Innovations in Sanskrit
Evidence of the Loanwords
Terms for Flora in Indic Language
Place-Names and River Names
Indo-Aryans, or Dravidian and Munda Migrations?
Conclusion
CHAPTER 6
LINGUISTIC PALEONTOLOGY
Flora and Fauna
The Horse
Criticism of the Method
Conclusion
CHAPTER 7
LINGUISTIC EVIDENCE FROM OUTSIDE OF INDIA
Semitic Loans in Indo-European: Nichols’s Model
Finno-Ugric Loans
Other Traces of Indo-Aryan
The Avestan Evidence
The Mitanni Treaties
Conclusion
CHAPTER 8
THE VIABILITY OF A SOUTH ASIAN HOMELAND
Center of Origin Method
Dialectical Subgroupings: Gamkrelidze and Ivanov’s Model
Nichols’s Sogdiana Model
Conclusion
CHAPTER 9
THE INDUS VALLEY CIVILIZATION
Indra Stands Accused
The Religion of the Indus Valley
The Sarasvati
The Horse
The Chariot
The Indus Script
Urbanity and the Rgveda
Conclusion
CHAPTER 10
ARYANS IN THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECORDS: THE EVIDENCE OUTSIDE THE SUBCONTINENT
Identifying Aryans
The Northern Route
The Southern Route
Two Wave Theories
Conclusion
CHAPTER 11
ARYANS IN THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECORD: THE EVIDENCE INSIDE THE SUBCONTINENT
Gandhara Grave Culture
Jhukar Culture
Cemetery H Culture
Painted Gray Ware Culture
Aryans in the Skeletal Record
Continuity and Innovation
Conclusion
CHAPTER 12
THE DATE OF THE VEDA
Dating Proto-Indo-European
Dating the Veda
Astronomy and Vedic Chronology
The Mathematics of the Sulvasautras
Conclusion
CHAPTER 13
ARYAN ORIGINS AND MODERN NATIONALIST DISCOURSE
Nationalism and Historiography: General Comments
The Aryans in ‘Hindutva’ Ideology
Stereotypes and Counterstereotypes
Discourses of Suspicion
Conclusion
Conclusion
Notes
Works cited
Index