Language of the Gods - Hardcover

Tyberg, Judith

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0930736001 ISBN 13: 9780930736002

Publisher: East West Cultural Center, 1976

Synopsis

A Contextual introduction to the spiritual ideas and terminology of hindu and Buddhist thinking.

About this title

From the Publisher

Latest book of Dr. Judith M. Tyberg, Founder of the East-West Cultural Center of Los Angeles, noted Sanskrit scholar and teacher, graduate of Benares Hindu University and one of the Wests leading authorities on Sanskrit and eastern Philosophy and its interpretation. This beautifully printed 300-page book contains the explanation of some 2000 Sanskrit spiritual, philosophical and religious terms of the wisdom-scriptures of ancient and modern India.

From the Author

Sanskrit is the ancient language of thousands of sacred scriptures of the Sanatana dharma or Eternal Truth revealed down the ages in India. Because these Sanskrit writings are still the living guides for the moral, aesthetic, intellectual and spiritual life of the Indian peoples, to be able to express and to understand the Sanskrit terms of this lofty wisdom is to discover the heart of the culture of this ancient people and a richly laden aspect of the Divine in manifestation.

Sanskrit is rich in words dealing with the inner mysteries and workings of the mind, heart, soul and spirit, with the many states of consciousness in waking, sleeping and after-death life, with the origin, evolution and destiny of beings of all realms, and with the glorious descriptions of the Divine and Its infinite manifestations. These words having been ringing with these high meanings for many ages for they have been kept alive with truth by an unending series of seers and sages and realized souls, called in India by many names: swamis, acharyas, sadhus, sannyasins, mahatmas, yogins, avataras and rishis.

In this age when men are responding to a spiritual need for unity and brotherhood among all nations of the world, we find a spiritual vocabulary being drawn from the rich treasury of Sanskrit terminology because these words are already mature and ripe with divine truths. Even our western sciences have adopted words from the Latin and Greek in order to express more clearly their conceptions. Why have they done this? Because modern languages were seemingly inadequate and the Latin and Greek languages already possessed appropriate roots and expressions for these ideas. The initial difficulty of learning the technical scientific terms is nothing compared to the vast fields of information open to us once we have mastered this terminology. So it will be with these Sanskrit mystical and philosophical terms and their meanings a great enlightenment will dawn with an ever-increasing intuitive faculty as a result of being able to delve deeper into the wisdom-treasury of Divine Revelation. "To know truly is to be" is one of the old Vedantic precepts helping the disciples on his path to God-Realization.

Edition details

• Publisher: East West Cultural Center
• Publication date: 1976
• ISBN 10: 0930736001
• ISBN 13: 9780930736002
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 328