This book presents original translations and a penetrating analysis of hymns from the Rg Veda, the earliest literary document of the Indian tradition. For many years the Rg Veda has been a source of interest and inspiration to Western readers. Composed in the predawn of recorded history it narrates the struggle of the Aryans as they tried to unify the world around them by sharing a common vision.

This book presents a new translation of the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius de Loyola, of his Spiritual Diary, of his Autobiography, and some of his letters.

This book presents original translations and a penetrating analysis of hymns from the Rg Veda, the earliest literary document of the Indian tradition. For many years the Rg Veda has been a source of interest and inspiration to Western readers. Composed in the predawn of recorded history it narrates the struggle of the Aryans as they tried to unify the world around them by sharing a common vision.

In an age of disembodied speakers and digitized voices, when the uninterrupted flow of language is the skin of our sensations and the interruption of its disembodied flow a capital or political offense, a book clamoring for “disruption” of this phonetic movement should raise our anxieties to a level that even our bodies might register. Should we read such a book? Is the author a native; is he on drugs? What’s wrong with him? Why dig beneath the troubled surfaces of (...) our lives? What does he want? (shrink)