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AlOchanaamR^itaM
Yoga and the West
It
is becoming imperatively necessary that Indian knowledge should reveal in the
Western way its scientific foundations. For if we do not do it
ourselves, the Europeans will do it for us and do it badly,
discrediting the knowledge in the process.
For this society
of European and European-led inquirers [Max-Mueller, Theosophists etc.]
arose from an impulse on which
the Time-Spirit itself insists; their
object, vaguely grasped at by
them, was at bottom the systematic coordination,
explanation and practice of Oriental religion and Oriental mental and
spiritual discipline.
Unfortunately, as always happens to a
great effort in unfit hands, it stumbled at the outset and went
into
strange paths. ...
A vain attempt to thrust in modern physical
science into the explanation of psychical movements, - to explain
for instance pranayam in the terms of
oxygen and hydrogen! ... to
make a hopeless
amalgam and jumble of science, religion and philosophy all
expressed in
the terms of the imagination - this
has been the scientific method of
Theosophy. The result is that it lays its hands on truth and
muddles it so badly that it comes out to the world as an untruth. And
there now abound other misstatements of Indian truth, less elaborate
but almost as wild and wide as Theosophy's.
From this growing confusion we must deliver
the future of humanity.
Sri Nagaraj Tanguturu has kindly provided the following information about obtaining the pravachanams
in this page.
If you do like, please try to purchase these from
the source so that you will be contributing to the noble cause (Sri Ayyappa
Temple). Here are the contact details so that you can order whole lot of MP3
cd's. Also another set you can get is from Hyd. I am giving both here.
First source:
BramhaSri Malladi Chandra Sekhara Satri gave excellent talks on Bhagavatam,
Ramayanam, Mahabharatam and Kartika Puranam at Sankara Matt, Hyderabad. He
was their Asthana Kavi and retired at the age of 70 (after 50 years of
excellent service to community by doing research and conveying the
information in the form of Pravachanamulu). Each purana is for 9 days
spanning 10+ hours of talk. Also Sankara Mutt made it very economical.
Each CD with 10+ hours of MP3 cost only 100 rupees. (These talks came to
my life as God Given gift to me, when I visited India).
You can get them from SR communications, contact them at:
242 TRT Colony Vidya Nagar Hyderabad - 500044
Ph: (40)-55153327.
If you do get Kartika Puranam, please let me know.
Second Source:
Brahmasri Chaganti Koteswara Rao gaaru gave excellent Pravachanams on
Valmiki Ramayanam
Potana Bhagavatam
Siva Puranamulu
Soundarya Lahari
Sivananda Lahari
Lalitha Sahasranamamulu
All above set comes in around 45 discourses in MP3 CD's from Sri Ayyappa
Swamy Temple, Bhanu gudi junction, Kakinada.
srichaganti.net
Contact person: Sri Purushottam.
Please let me know where you are and any other pravachanams you do have.