Thought Power by Sri Swami Sivananda
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Sivānanda Saraswati was a Hindu spiritual teacher and a proponent of Yoga and Vedanta. Sivānanda was born Kuppuswami in Pattamadai, in the Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu. He studied medicine and served in British Malaya as a physician for several years before taking up monasticism. He lived most part of his life near Muni Ki Reti, Rishikesh.
He was the founder of The Divine Life Society (1936), Yoga-Vedanta Forest Academy (1948) and author of over 200 books on yoga, Vedanta and a variety of subjects. He established Sivananda Ashram, the headquarters of The Divine Life Society (DLS), on the bank of the Ganges at Sivanandanagar, at a distance of 3 kilometres from Rishikesh.
Sivananda Yoga, the yoga form propagated by his disciple Swami Vishnudevananda, is now spread in many parts of the world through Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres. These centres are not affiliated with Sivānanda's ashrams, which are run by the Divine Life Society.
Disciples who went on to grow new organisations:
Chinmayananda Saraswati, founder of the Chinmaya Mission
Jyotirmayananda Saraswati, President of the Yoga Research Foundation, Miami, USA
Lalitānanda Saraswati, Vice-President of the Yoga Research Foundation
Omkarananda Saraswati, founder of Omkarananda Ashram, Himalayas
Satchidananda Saraswati, founder of the Integral Yoga Institutes, Around the world
Satyananda Saraswati, founder of Bihar School of Yoga
Shantananda Saraswati, founder of Temple of Fine Arts (Malaysia & Singapore)
Sivananda Radha Saraswati, founder of Yasodhara Ashram, British Columbia, Canada
Vishnudevananda Saraswati, founder of the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres, HQ Canada
Venkatesananda Saraswati, inspirer of Ananda Kutir Ashrama in South Africa
Sahajananda Saraswati, Spiritual Head of Divine Life Society of South Africa
Vedula Satyananda Rao, founder of High-Tech Yoga Institute, Massachusetts, USA
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Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World | Audiobook with subtitles
Sketches Of The Fair Sex ANONYMOUS ( - )
Sketches of the fair sex, in all parts of the world. To which are added rules for determining the precise figure, the degree of beauty, the habits, and the age of women, notwithstanding the aids and disguise of dress. It is our design to present a pleasing and interesting miscellany, which will serve to beguile the leisure hour, and will at the same time couple instruction with amusement. We have used but little method in the arrangement: Choosing rather to furnish the reader with a rich profusion of narratives and anecdotes, all tending to illustrate the FEMALE CHARACTER, to display its delicacy, its sweetness, its gentle or sometimes heroic virtues, its amiable weaknesses, and strange defects—than to attempt an accurate analysis of the hardest subject man ever attempted to master, viz—WOMAN. (Summary from the book)
Genre(s): Humorous Fiction, *Non-fiction, Psychology
Chapters:
0:20 | 1. In the following pages. The first woman and her antediluvian descendants. Woman in the patriarchal ages. Women of ancient Egypt. Modern Egyptian women. Persian women.
17:02 | 2. Grecian women. Grecian courtesans.
23:50 | 3. Roman women. Laws and customs respecting the roman women.
37:44 | 4. Women in savage life. Eastern women.
50:40 | 5. Chinese woman. African women.
58:36 | 6. Great enterprises of women in the times of chivalry. Other particulars respecting females during the age of chivalry.
1:11:54 | 7. French women. Italian women.
1:22:24 | 8. Spanish women. English women. Russian women.
1:34:42 | 9. The idea of female inferiority. Female simplicity.
1:52:19 | 10. The mild magnanimity of women. Female delicacy. Influence of female society.
2:11:53 | 11. Monastic life. Degrees of sentimental attachment at different periods.
2:28:24 | 12. German women. A view of matrimony in three different lights. Betrothing and marriage.
2:42:20 | 13. Female friendship.
2:48:49 | 14. On the choice of a husband.
3:09:35 | 15. A letter to a new married man. Garrick's advice to married ladies.
3:19:08 | 16. Origin of nunneries. Description of the great convent at Ajuda in Rio Janerio. Ceremony of the initiation of a nun.
3:28:22 | 17. Wedded love is infinitely preferable to variety. Italian debauchery. Naked fakiers. Mahometan plurality of wives.
3:39:26 | 18. Women of otaheite. Crim. Con. Of Claudius and Pompeii. A word to a very nice class of ladies.
3:49:00 | 19. Custom in the moghul empire. Custom of the muscovites. Sale of children to purchase wives. Polygamy and concubinage. Eunuchs. Girls sold at auction. Sale of a wife.
4:05:04 | 20. Punishment of adultery. Anecdote of cæsar. Power of marrying.
4:13:04 | 21. Celibacy of clergy. Desperate act of euthira.
4:19:56 | 22. Luxurious dress of Grecian ladies. Grecian courtship.
4:26:05 | 23. Power of philters and charms. Eastern courtship. Long hair of saxons and danes.
4:33:11 | 24. St. Valentine's day. Courts of love. Immodesty at Babylon. Indecency at Adrianople.
4:41:12 | 25. Ancient Swedish courtship. Lapland and Greenland lady.
4:46:57 | 26. Education of women in Asia and Africa. Religious festivals of the Greeks. The deaths of Lucretia and Virginia. On looking at the picture of a beautiful female.
4:59:06 | 27. Art of determining the precise figure, the degree of beauty, the habits, and the age, of women, notwithstanding the aids and disguises of dress.
5:18:46 | 28. The ideal of female beauty; or a description of the famous statue of the Venus de Medici. The first kiss of love. The death of Cleopatra.
5:35:39 | 29. An essay on matrimony (part 1).
5:51:52 | 30. An essay on matrimony (part 2).
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Walden Audiobook by Henry David Thoreau | Audiobooks Youtube Free | Part 2
Walden by Henry David Thoreau is one of the best-known non-fiction books written by an American. Published in 1854, it details Thoreau’s life for two years, two months, and two days around the shores of Walden Pond. Walden is neither a novel nor a true autobiography, but a social critique of the Western World, with each chapter heralding some aspect of humanity that needed to be either renounced or praised. Along with his critique of the civilized world, Thoreau examines other issues afflicting man in society, ranging from economy and reading to solitude and higher laws. He also takes time to talk about the experience at Walden Pond itself, commenting on the animals and the way people treated him for living there, using those experiences to bring out his philosophical positions. This extended commentary on nature has often been interpreted as a strong statement to the natural religion that transcendentalists like Thoreau and Emerson were preaching. (Description amended from Wikipedia).
Genre(s): *Non-fiction, Nature, Philosophy
Walden
Henry David THOREAU
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea by Jules Verne | Part 1 of 2 | Audiobook with subtitles
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea (Version 3)
Jules VERNE , translated by F. P. WALTER
Originally published 1870, this recording is from the English translation by Frederick P. Walter, published 1991, containing the unabridged text from the original French and offered up into the public domain. It is considered to be the very first science fiction novel ever written, the first novel about the undersea world, and is a classic science fiction novel by French writer Jules Verne published in 1870. It tells the story of Captain Nemo and his submarine Nautilus, as seen from the perspective of Professor Pierre Aronnax - Summary by Michele Fry
Genre(s): Action & Adventure Fiction, Travel Fiction
Chapters:
1:15 | Introduction
12:20 | 1-1. A Runaway Reef
29:22 | 1-2. The Pros and Cons
43:22 | 1-3. As Master Wishes
55:22 | 1-4. Ned Land
1:12:15 |1-5. At Random!
1:27:56 | 1-6. At Full Steam
1:48:13 |1-7. A Whale of Unknown Species
2:05:17 | 1-8. Mobilis in Mobili
2:24:49 | 1-9. The Tantrums of Ned Land
2:41:04 | 1-10. The Man Of The Waters
3:02:02 | 1-11. The Nautilus
3:21:39 |1-12. Everything through Electricity
3:38:19 | 1-13. Some Figures
3:55:10 |1-14. The Black Current
4:22:52 | 1-15. An Invitation in Writing
4:41:57 | 1-16. Strolling the Plains
4:57:14 | 1-17. An Underwater Forest
5:14:02 | 1-18. Four Thousand Leagues Under the Pacific
5:34:33 | 1-19. Vanikoro
5:59:28 | 1-20. The Torres Strait
6:19:46 | 1-21. Some Days Ashore
6:44:41 | 1-22. The Lightning Bolts of Captain Nemo
7:09:26 |1-23. Aegri Somnia
7:29:58 | 1-24. The Coral Realm
7:49:50 | 2-1. The Indian Ocean
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Walden Audiobook by Henry David Thoreau | Audiobook with subtitles| Part 2
Walden by Henry David Thoreau is one of the best-known non-fiction books written by an American. Published in 1854, it details Thoreau’s life for two years, two months, and two days around the shores of Walden Pond. Walden is neither a novel nor a true autobiography, but a social critique of the Western World, with each chapter heralding some aspect of humanity that needed to be either renounced or praised. Along with his critique of the civilized world, Thoreau examines other issues afflicting man in society, ranging from economy and reading to solitude and higher laws. He also takes time to talk about the experience at Walden Pond itself, commenting on the animals and the way people treated him for living there, using those experiences to bring out his philosophical positions. This extended commentary on nature has often been interpreted as a strong statement to the natural religion that transcendentalists like Thoreau and Emerson were preaching. (Description amended from Wikipedia).
Genre(s): *Non-fiction, Nature, Philosophy
Walden
Henry David THOREAU
Chapters:
0:20 | Chapter 8 - The Village
14:26 | Chapter 9 - The Ponds
1:27:26 | Chapter 10 - Baker Farm
1:49:37 | Chapter 11 - Higher Laws
2:25:55 | Chapter 12 - Brute Neighbors
3:02:41 | Chapter 13 - House-Warming
3:45:41 | Chapter 14 - Former Inhabitants and Winter Visitors
4:24:45 | Chapter 15 - Winter Animals
4:51:42 | Chapter 16 - The Pond in Winter
5:29:56 | Chapter 17 - Spring
6:25:45 | Chapter 18 - Conclusion
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Auburn Coach Wife Kristi Malzahn Agrees with Match & eHarmony: Men are Jerks
My advice is this: Settle! That's right. Don't worry about passion or intense connection. Don't nix a guy based on his annoying habit of yelling Bravo! in movie theaters. Overlook his halitosis or abysmal sense of aesthetics. Because if you want to have the infrastructure in place to have a family, settling is the way to go. Based on my observations, in fact, settling will probably make you happier in the long run, since many of those who marry with great expectations become more disillusioned with each passing year. (It's hard to maintain that level of zing when the conversation morphs into discussions about who's changing the diapers or balancing the checkbook.)
Obviously, I wasn't always an advocate of settling. In fact, it took not settling to make me realize that settling is the better option, and even though settling is a rampant phenomenon, talking about it in a positive light makes people profoundly uncomfortable. Whenever I make the case for settling, people look at me with creased brows of disapproval or frowns of disappointment, the way a child might look at an older sibling who just informed her that Jerry's Kids aren't going to walk, even if you send them money. It's not only politically incorrect to get behind settling, it's downright un-American. Our culture tells us to keep our eyes on the prize (while our mothers, who know better, tell us not to be so picky), and the theme of holding out for true love (whatever that is—look at the divorce rate) permeates our collective mentality.
Even situation comedies, starting in the 1970s with The Mary Tyler Moore Show and going all the way to Friends, feature endearing single women in the dating trenches, and there's supposed to be something romantic and even heroic about their search for true love. Of course, the crucial difference is that, whereas the earlier series begins after Mary has been jilted by her fiancé, the more modern-day Friends opens as Rachel Green leaves her nice-guy orthodontist fiancé at the altar simply because she isn't feeling it. But either way, in episode after episode, as both women continue to be unlucky in love, settling starts to look pretty darn appealing. Mary is supposed to be contentedly independent and fulfilled by her newsroom family, but in fact her life seems lonely. Are we to assume that at the end of the series, Mary, by then in her late 30s, found her soul mate after the lights in the newsroom went out and her work family was disbanded? If her experience was anything like mine or that of my single friends, it's unlikely.
And while Rachel and her supposed soul mate, Ross, finally get together (for the umpteenth time) in the finale of Friends, do we feel confident that she'll be happier with Ross than she would have been had she settled down with Barry, the orthodontist, 10 years earlier? She and Ross have passion but have never had long-term stability, and the fireworks she experiences with him but not with Barry might actually turn out to be a liability, given how many times their relationship has already gone up in flames. It's equally questionable whether Sex and the City's Carrie Bradshaw, who cheated on her kindhearted and generous boyfriend, Aidan, only to end up with the more exciting but self-absorbed Mr. Big, will be better off in the framework of marriage and family. (Some time after the breakup, when Carrie ran into Aidan on the street, he was carrying his infant in a Baby Björn. Can anyone imagine Mr. Big walking around with a Björn?)