Sri Krishna Prem (1898–1965)
Autore di The Yoga of the Bhagavad Gita
Sull'Autore
Opere di Sri Krishna Prem
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Nixon, Ronald Henry
- Altri nomi
- Krishnaprem
- Data di nascita
- 1898-05-10
- Data di morte
- 1965-11-14
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- England (birth)
India - Luogo di nascita
- Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, UK
- Istruzione
- King's College, Cambridge (English Literature and Philosophy)
- Attività lavorative
- teacher
spiritual teacher - Organizzazioni
- University of Lucknow
Gaudiya Vaishnavite tradition
Utenti
Recensioni
Statistiche
- Opere
- 5
- Utenti
- 85
- Popolarità
- #214,931
- Recensioni
- 1
- ISBN
- 10
This remarkable man first went to India in the early 1920's. In 1930 he abandoned his conventional life as the English Professor Ronald Nixon and joined his guru in the foothills of the Himalayas as an initiated Hindu monk (sannyasin). At his death in 1965, he was a revered saint known throughout India and with disciples spread across the globe. His disciple andsuccessor Sri Madhava Ashish in his introduction to this book gives an outline of his life.
Sri Krishna Prem ranges with direct simplicity over the symbolic and practical issues of the spiritual life. The first chapter, 'Initiation into Yoga', makes available a booklet widely acclaimed and reprinted in India. Later chapters explore the tensions of the inner world and their projection in the outer world. 'The Forgotten Land' discusses death and the "deathlessnes of life", and the final chapter reflects on the counterpointing, as seen by a Westerner-turned-Hindu, of philosophy and religion.… (altro)