McDermott, Robert A.

The Bhagavad Gita and the West : the esoteric significance of the Bhagavad Gita and its relation to the epistles of Paul by Rudolf Steiner( Book )

5 editions published between 2008 and 2009 in English and held by 55 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"This combination of two volumes in Rudolf Steiner's Collected Works presents Steiner's profound engagement with Hindu thought and, above all, the Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita as they illuminate Western Christian esotericism. In his masterly introduction, Robert McDermott, a longtime student of Rudolf Steiner, as well as Hindu spirituality, explores the complex ways in which the "Song of the Lord," or Bhagavad Gita, has been understood in East and West. He shows how Krishna's revelation to Arjuna--a foundation of spirituality in India for more than two and a half millennia--assumed a similarly critical role in the Western spiritual revival of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In the West, for instance, leading up to Steiner's engagement, he describes the different approaches manifested by Emerson, Thoreau, H.P. Blavatsky, and William James. In the East, he engages with the interpretation of historical figures such as Mahatma Gandhi and Sri Aurobindo, relating them to Steiner's unique perspective. At the same time, and most valuable, he illuminates the various technical terms and assumptions implicit in the worldview expressed in the Bhagavad Gita. The main body of The Bhagavad Gita and the West consists of two lecture courses by Rudolf Steiner: "The Bhagavad Gita and the Epistles of Paul" and "The Esoteric Significance of the Bhagavad Gita." In the first course, his main purpose, as McDermott shows, is to integrate the flower of Hindu spirituality into his view of the evolution of consciousness and the pivotal role played in it by the Mystery of Golgotha--the incarnation, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Steiner views Krishna as a great spiritual teacher and the Bhagavad Gita as a preparation, though still abstract, for the coming of Christ and the Christ impulse as the living embodiment of the World, Law, and Devotion, represented by the three Hindu streams of Veda, Sankhya, and Yoga. For him, the epic poem of the Bhagavad Gita represents the "fully ripened fruit" of Hinduism, whereas Paul is related but represents "the seed of something entirely new." In the last lecture, Steiner reveals Krishna as the sister soul of Adam, incarnated as Jesus, and claims Krisha's Yoga teachings streamed from Christ into Paul. In the second lecture course, given five months later, Steiner engages the text of the Bhagavad Gita on its own terms, as signaling the beginning of a new soul consciousness. To aid in the understanding of both these important cycles, this volume includes the complete text of the Bhagavad Gita in Eknath Easwaran's luminous translation. In our age, when East and West are growing closer together and we live increasingly in a global, intercultural, religiously pluralistic world, The Bhagavad Gita and the West is necessary reading for all concerned with a truly spiritual approach to the new reality."--Publisher's website

Steiner and kindred spirits by Robert A McDermott( Book )

1 edition published in 2015 in English and held by 21 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"The kindred spirits in this book include His Holiness the Dalai Lama, C. G. Jung, Teilhard de Chardin, Martin Buber, Sri Aurobindo, Rabindranath Tagore, Gandhians, feminists, ecologists, and more. Steiner went as far up the spiritual ladder as any modern individual but, unlike some enthusiasts for Steiner, McDermott is also impressed by other religious thinkers and spiritual practitioners who have been helpful to those of us in need of encouragement and guidance and whose vistas and insights may not have been researched or explained by Steiner."--Back cover

Essays in psychical research by William James( Book )

3 editions published between 1986 and 2003 in English and held by 20 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Sri Aurobindo: the prophet of life divine by Haridas Chaudhuri( Book )

2 editions published in 1973 in English and held by 17 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Six pillars : introductions to the works of Sri Aurobindo( Book )

1 edition published in 2012 in English and held by 12 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Sri Aurobindo (1872-1950) was one of the great twentieth-century figures of India. Over the course of his lifetime, he helped India's struggle for freedom and became a leading yogi, philosopher, and poet of his time and culture. In his teaching, Sri Aurobindo went well beyond Eastern philosophy and religion

The basic writings of S. Radhakrishnan by S Radhakrishnan( Book )

1 edition published in 2007 in English and held by 7 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, 1888-1975, philosopher and former president of India

Vorbote eines Neuen Zeitalters by Aurobindo Ghose( Book )

2 editions published in 1991 in German and held by 6 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Six pillars : introd. to the major works of Sri Aurobindo( Book )

1 edition published in 1974 in English and held by 3 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The mind of light by Aurobindo Ghose( Book )

1 edition published in 1971 in English and held by 1 WorldCat member library worldwide

Our relationship to the universe as a whole by Renée Weber( Visual )

1 edition published in 1990 in English and held by 1 WorldCat member library worldwide

The presenters discuss how mystics and scientists view the inner reality of the cosmos, looking not only at the latest scientific theories of cosmologies, but also comparing them with ancient views as found in the writings of illumined sages