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Looking within : life lessons from Lal Ded (Record no. 568915)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9789388292702 |
| Paper back/Hardbound | hbk |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | eng |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 294.5924 |
| Item number | KAU |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Kaul, Shonaleeka |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Looking within : life lessons from Lal Ded |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | / edited by Shonaleeka Kaul |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | 1st ed. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | New Delhi |
| Name of publisher | Aleph |
| Year of publication | 2019 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | x, 124 p. |
| Other physical details | : ill. |
| Dimensions | ; 12 cm. |
| 490 ## - SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | Life lessons |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | India has produced some of the world’s greatest religious leaders, sages, saints, philosophers and spiritual thinkers. They were monks, nuns and renunciates, nationalists and reformers. No one religion had a monopoly on them. They range from Mahavira and Buddha, who lived over 2,500 years ago, to medieval saints like Chishti, Avvaiyar and Guru Nanak, to more recent philosophers and religious icons such as Vivekananda, Ramakrishna, Saint Teresa and many others. The spiritual and philosophical heritage they left behind is India’s gift to all Indians and the world. In the ‘Life Lessons’ series we publish the essential teachings of some of India’s best-known spiritual teachers, along with commentaries and biographical notes. Each book will be a handy companion to help the reader along the difficult pathways of life. *** Lal Ded (Granny Lal), as Lalleshwari was known, was a Shaiva mystic saint who lived in Kashmir, probably in the fourteenth century. Born into a Brahmin family of Pandrethan (near Srinagar), she is said to have had an early bad marriage and faced many domestic hardships, prompting a turn to spirituality. She renounced her marriage and material life and became a wandering mystic. She shared her wisdom in the form of vaakhs (sayings or utterances). These vaakhs (originally in the Kashmiri language) have seeped far and wide into popular usage and are part of the collective memory—through songs, proverbs and hymns—of Kashmiris of all stripes, through the generations. In these vaakhs, Lal Ded talked about the woes of the human condition, her disillusionment with the world, her anguished search for God, and, ultimately, her realization of God as pure consciousness. She rejected outward rituals, ostentation and extreme asceticism as paths to reach the truth. Her observations on the transience and futility of material pursuits and the emotions they generate, like greed, anger, pride and fear, apply to us all. While her sayings are deeply profound, her humanism makes it easy to relate to Lal and her teachings. Translated and edited by Shonaleeka Kaul, the aphorisms in ‘Looking Within’ represent Lal Ded’s core teachings. |
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| Topical Term | Hindu Religion |
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| Koha item type | English Books |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Full call number | Accession Number | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Anna Centenary Library | Anna Centenary Library | 3RD FLOOR, B WING | 28.11.2024 | 294.5924 KAU | 700023 | 25.03.2025 | English Books | ||||
| Anna Centenary Library | Anna Centenary Library | 3RD FLOOR, B WING | 28.11.2024 | 294.5924 KAU;1 | 700024 | 25.03.2025 | English Books |