Banaras City Of Light, Shiva, Varanasi, Benares Shakti Yoga

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BANARAS: CITY OF LIGHT

By Diana L. Eck

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In Banaras, Diana Eck... has written a notable book about this greatest of Indian pilgrimage sites.... Her brilliant, comprehensive book seems likely to remain for a long time the definitive work on this great Indian city. (Washington Post)

The most beautiful book... on India. (Journal of the American Academy of Religion)

A major event among studies of India. (John Stratton Hawley Asia)

Eck is a master of tone here. She begins as dry scholar, allows her personal voice to emerge and then, through judicious use of lyric quotations, advances to a striking level of exaltation and triumph.... To take us gently off this high, Eck buttresses us-and her arguments-with a truly amazing display of addenda; glossaries, calendars and appendices. One ends filled with admiration and awe, not just for the vision given us, but for the scholarship and dedication that made it possible. (Los Angeles Times)
Book Description

This is the acclaimed study and interpretation of Banaras, the holy place of the Hindus.
About the Author

Diana L. Eck is professor of comparative religion and Indian studies and director of The Pluralism Project at Harvard University. She is the author of many books, including Dar´san: Seeing the Divine Image in India and the editor of On Common Ground: World Religions in America, a multimedia CD-ROM, both published by Columbia.
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Paperback: 448 pages
Publisher: Columbia University Press (September 15, 1998)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0231114478
ISBN-13: 978-0231114479
Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 1 x 9.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars 14 customer reviews

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The rays of the early-morning sun spread across the river and strike the high-banked face of this city, which Hindus call Kashi—the Luminous, the City of Light.”

Are there not many holy places on this earth?
Yet which of them would equal in the balance on speck of Kashi’s dust?
Are there not many rivers running to the sea?
Yet which of them is the River of Heaven in Kashi?
Are there not many fields of liberation on earth?
Yet not one equals the smallest part of the city never foresaken by Shiva.
The Ganges, Shiva, and Kashi: where this Trinity is watchful, no wonder there is found the grace that leads one to perfect bliss.

(Kashi Khanda 35. 7-10 – from the Skanda Purana, a Hindu Holy book)