The book provides personal account and experiences of the author who visited devasthanam. They should worke interest and devision among the reades and reverance of the deity. The book deals with eternal questions like Is there God? If there is, how does He look? Have you seen Him? Or the seekers of truth who ask, How much of faith one should repose in God to earn His Support for Human endeavors? This book, perhaps has answers for such question.

Story of Sri Venkateswara, Hindu deity and his shrine at Tirupati, Hindu Vaishnava pilgrimage center; for children.

The ritual of offering food or Naivedyam to Lord Venkateshwara - a manifestation of Lord Vishnu - at the Tirumala Temple has existed since time immemorial, when Lord Vishnu decided to descend on Earth in the 'archa' form, or as an idol that can be worshipped. He commissioned Sage Vaikhanasa to prepare the ancient religious text Agama Shastra, which gives an elaborate description of the rituals to be conducted at the Tirumala Temple, the ingredients to be used to prepare prasadams, procedures for a priest to follow, precautions to be taken, and the Veda mantras to be recited at each step. With rare photographs and detailed step-by-step recipes, the book describes the various kinds of food offerings made, with specifications about the quantity, ingredients, preparation, variety of food, and particular times when they should be served. This sacred volume is a must-have for every Lord Venkateshwara devotee.

THE ETERNAL TRUTH ABOUT LEADERSHIP "Nations are made or marred by the calibre and moral character of their leaders. Here is a timely book, which tells the world how to re-establish leadership inspired by idealism." – V.K. Narasimhan, Former Chief Editor, Indian Express "The author's uncomplicated directness and crisp examples capture the imagination and curiosity of the most seasoned executives as well as young sceptics. The book delivers a passion for leadership through the lens of conceptual clarity. Excellent reading for leaders and those who want to be." – Wayne L. Strom, Ph.D., Professor of Behavioral Science, School of Business And Management, Pepperdine University, California "Corporate planners, government policy makers and those who want to contribute to society and the world in any way can derive immense insight, intuition and imagination from this book." – Bala. V. Balachandran, Ph.D., J. L. Kellogg Distinguished Professor, J. L. Kellogg Graduate School Of Management, Northwestern University, Chicago "This book can help to integrate and revitalise the American society for its world leadership role." – Dr. William M. Harvey – USA "On behalf of the Director-General of UNESCO, I acknowledge receipt of Mahavakya on Leadership. We appreciate the book as a useful resource material which will inspire UNESCO's activities on education for peace, human rights, democracy, international understanding." – Andri Isaksson, 29th November, 1995

This account relates some of the achievements of Satya Sai Baba. His followers believe him to be the reincarntion of Sai Baba of Shirdi who died in 1918. He appears to have been born with phenomenal powers, which he used in childhood and has employed constantly and openly ever since. The author, a westener devoted to science and logic, spent many months with Satya Sai Baba to substantiate these miracles.

This volume examines the multifarious dimensions that constitute the workings of the Hindu temple as an architectural and urban built form. Eleven chapters reflect on Hindu temples from multiple standpoints - tracing their elusive evolution from wayside shrines as well as canonization into classical objects; questioning the role of treatises containing their building rules; analyzing their prescribed proportions and orders; examining their presence in, and as, larger sacred habitats and ritua...

Exhaustive work on Vīraśaivism; text with Sanskrit commentary and English translation.

This introductory text covers the algebra of subsets and of rings and fields of sets, complementation and ideal theory in the distributive lattice, closure function, neighborhood topology, much more. Includes numerous exercises. 1960 edition.

COMPARABLE IN LASTING significance to the famous classics TheWay of a Pilgrim and Brother Lawrence's The Practice of the Presence of God, this book is an extraordinary spiritual autobiography. It recounts the story of a homeless monk's journey as he travels the dusty roads and paths of the Indian subcontinent, from the ancient temples of the south to the awe-inspiring, snow-covered Himalayas of the north. This is the tale of a pilgrimage, vividly and compellingly told, taken with the hallmarks of complete faith in the Creator and constant remembrance of God. Swami Ramdas did not accept money and treated all people he encountered as manifestations of his Beloved. The narrative contains many inspiring accounts of how his pure love transformed people who at first treated him very harshly. Whatever situation he was placed in, he didn't fail to notice the lighter side, which appealed to his keen sense of the comic and ludicrous in life. He never lost this quality, even after he became God-intoxicated and lived on the road in total, blissful surrender to the divine will. Many readers find themselves in a lifelong love affair with this story. This book is the first in a trilogy chronicling Swami Ramdas' pilgrimage to God-realization. The next two volumes, In the Vision of God, volumes I and II, are also available from Blue Dove Press.