The Supreme Yoga: A New Translation of the Yoga Vasistha
author: Swami Venkatesananda
edition: 2013, New Age Books
pages: 777
ISBN-13: 9788178222608
Topic: Hinduism
Chapter 5 - The Story of Ahalya
This page describes The Story of Ahalya which is Chapter 5 on pages 118-119 in the book: The Supreme Yoga by Swami Venkatesananda. This is a modern English translation of the Yogavasishtha (तारा, yoga-vasishtha) in two volumes, entitled ‘the supreme yoga’. This page contains an online preview of the full text and summarizes technical terms, as well as information if you want to buy this book.
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You can look up the meaning of the phrase “The Story of Ahalya” according to 186 books dealing with Hinduism. The following list shows a short preview of potential definitions.
Laghu-yoga-vasistha [by K. Narayanasvami Aiyar]
The Story of the Deceitful Indra. Summary. Having shown that the universe is nothing but the mind manifesting as such only through the potency of Brahman, the author now proceeds to illustrate, in this story, the fact that the body with its organs, etc., is no other than mind. The creator of the incomparable worlds and the slayer of Atma (the Real) is the mind only. The actions of the mind alone are, indeed, actions; but not so, those of the body....
Read full contents: Part 5 - The Story of the Deceitful Indra
The Gautami Mahatmya [by G. P. Bhatt]
(description of Indra-tirtha or Ahalya-sangama-tirtha); Indra-tirtha or Ahalya-sangama-tirtha. Brahma said: 1. The holy centre named Ahalya-Samgama is one that sanctifies the three worlds. O excellent sage, listen to what happened and how it happened. 2. Out of great curiosity, O lord of sages, many types of beautiful girls possessing good qualities had been formerly created by me. 3-6. Among them I created a girl of exquisitely splendid features....
Read full contents: Chapter 16 - Indra-tirtha or Ahalya-sangama-tirtha
Ramayana of Valmiki [by Hari Prasad Shastri]
Shri Vishvamitra, chief among the eloquent, answered Rama, saying: “O Prince, hear the true story of this hermitage, I will relate to you who was its author and how he cursed it in anger. “O Rama, this place, a source of wonder even to the gods, belonged to the Rishi Gautama and resembled the abode of the celestials. Here with Ahalya, the sage practised Yoga for thousands of years....
Read full contents: Chapter 48 - Gautama’s hermitage
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[The Supreme Yoga: A New Translation of the Yoga Vasistha: index]
[Preface]
[Foreword]
[Introduction]