The hymns to the Devi in this volume (introduced by a stotra to Her Spouse, the Kalabhairava) are taken from the Tantra, Purana, Mahabharata, and Sankaracarya, who was the incarnation of devotion (bhaktavatara) as well as a great philosopher; a fact which is sometimes ignored by those who do not wish to be reminded that he, whose speculative genius they extol, was also the protagonist of the so-called idolatrous Hinduism. As his great example amongst many others of differing race and creed tell us, it is not, from the view of religion, the mark of discernment (even though it be the mode) to neglect or disparage the ritual practice which all orthodoxies have prescribed for their adherents.

ISBN 13: 9788178224480

ISBN 10: 8178224488

Year: 2014

Language: ENGLISH

Pages etc.: 347p., 24cm.

Binding: Paperback

Subject(s): Collected and Selected Works, T