Devi Mahatmya Ram Lal Kapoor Trust Mode of performing the ancestral

Mode of performing the ancestral rites 345 118

In the literary world

Guidelines to Enlightened Living 226 2

I am especially pleased to introduce this book because I have myself been advocating a somewhat similar interpretation of the Gild

the Gild is a truly unique text advocating a middle ground between the rampant self-indulgent ritualism on the one hand and the escapist path of renunciation from the world on the other- It advocates selfless action for the betterment of the world as the essential factor of any and every path

Devi Mahatmya Ram Lal Kapoor Trust Mode of performing the ancestralThe Devi Mitheitmya is well known to both devotees and scholars of the Indian Great Goddess. Composed some 1500 years ago, it is the first comprehensive account of the Goddess in Sanskrit, and it has maintained its centrality in the Goddess (Sakta) tradition to the present day. Like so much in that tradition, however, the text has until now resisted careful study from an historical perspective. It is this study that the present volume accomplishes.