This handbook of India's Timeless Wisdom, complete with full color, artistic teaching charts, is an expansive and comprehensive resource for students, practitioners, and teachers alike. A work in progress for over 15 years, Babaji Bob Kindler created hundreds of "dharma art wisdom charts" to express the practical and esoteric knowledge of Yoga, Sankhya, Vedanta, Advaita Vedanta, Tantra, Yoga Vasishtha, Kundalini, Buddhism, India's Luminaries, and more. These stunning wisdom charts cover an extensive array of topics in spiritual life: food, body, prana, mind, consciousness, Awareness, karma and reincarnation, Maya, spiritual practice, samadhi, stages of Enlightenment, the Bhakti Path, integration of the Four Yogas, and countless others. Each of the 299 full color charts are accompanied by detailed commentary. An extensive glossary of Sanskrit terms is included.
Author Biography:
Babaji Bob Kindler is the Spiritual Director of the Sarada Ramakrishna Vivekananda (SRV) Associations since 1993 with teaching centers on the Big Island of Hawaii and Portland, Oregon, USA. Babaji teaches Vedanta, Yoga, Sankhya and other philosophical systems of Truth with an emphasis on learning to live a divine life and the attainment of direct spiritual experience. He holds a twin spiritual heritage via initiation into the Ramakrishna lineage (Vedanta) and Kagyu Tibetan Buddhism. Editor of Nectar of Non-Dual Truth, A Journal of Universal Religious and Philosophical Teachings, he is also the author of over a dozen books on spiritual topics, including Twenty-Four Aspects of Mother Kali, Dissolving the Mindstream, A Quintessential Yoga Vasishtha, The Avadhut and His Twenty-Four Teachers in Nature. Babaji's spiritual discourses can be found on YouTube, Livestream, and on the official SRV Associations website: www.srv.org Babaji's emergence as a teacher of India's Wisdom occurred naturally with the creation of Jai Ma Music, an acclaimed sacred arts ensemble which he founded in 1980 as a vehicle for the exalted teachings of India through wisdom-oriented devotional music. He also received encouragement from his friend, Lex Hixon, the instigating force and co-founder of the national SRV Association of the West, based in New York state. Throughout the 1980's and 90's, Babaji and Jai Ma Music toured the United States offering concerts of bhajans and chanting, lectures, classes, workshops and seminars on the various aspects of Sanatana Dharma at temples, churches, schools and spiritual centers. Trained as a classical musician from the age of eleven, he also fulfilled a career as an instrumentalist, appearing as a professional soloist, accomplished chamber player and orchestral cellist for 30 years. His classical training in Yoga, Vedanta and the Fine Arts is reflected in his style of teaching at the SRV ashramas where the profound Wisdom of India's perennial philosophies are effectively integrated with devotional and instrumental music from both East and West.
