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| Panchatantra, the. by Vishnusharman. Ryder, Arthur W., trans. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press. 1964. | One of the world's greatest collections of tales, gathered in India, in the Vale of Kashmir, over 2,000 years ago. Told, so the story goes, to a king's three blockhead sons, the fables have traveled the world, illustrating wise conduct of life through the story-teller's art. Fairy-tales…suffused with a wisdom that is ironic, slightly bitter, wire-drawn-perfectly civilized. |
| Parables. by Chinmayananda, Swami. Bombay, India: Central Chinmaya Mission Trust. 1981. | These parables can bring out in all brilliance the total light in each facet of the great jewel of Vedanta. Those of you who read each one of them can give sufficient thought to its implication and can be much benefited in gaining a clearer glimpses into the subtle imports that are intelligently suggested by the pregnant mantras of the Upanishad and by the galloping stanzas of the Bhagavad Gita. |
| Parables of Rama. by Rama Tirtha, Swami. Lucknow, India: Swami Rama Tirtha Pratishthan. 1956. | To give the general public a taste of spiritual food in the most delicious and wholesome form, this present edition has been added to the series of similar volumes of "Heart of Rama" and "Poems of Rama" already published. We are confident that it will appeal equally to the highest cultured as well as the man in the street, and will not only serve its purpose to give a foretaste for the study of Rama's Complete Works but will also create an ardent desire for an unprejudiced an unbiased search after Truth, and a real and earnest longing to live the Higher Life of Self-realization and Eternal Happiness. |
| Parliament of the Birds, the. by Attar, Farid Al-Din. Nott, C. S., trans. New York, NY: Pir Press. 1954. | Also known as "The Conference of the Birds", it is one of the great works of world literature. As in the Arabian Nights, the reader is taken to exotic lands and entertained with beguiling stories full of humor and mystery. Farid ud-Din Attar, however, was not only a great artist, but also a great Sufi mystic, giving his poem, here in prose translation, rare depth and resonance. Stories are woven within stories in this allegory of the mystic path that leads to the realization of Truth. This masterpiece of twelfth-century Persian literature is timeless both as a literary classic and in its insights into the nature of transcendance. Attar's successor, Jallaludin Rumi, found profound inspiration in the works of his elder, and like him remains one of the great lights of Sufism, literature, and the spirituality of humanity. |
| Parzival. by Von Eschenbach, Wolfram. Paris, France: U.G.U. 1989. | With the Parzeval from Wolfram von Eschenbach, (Begin of the XIII century) the most important medieval German literature about Arthur is presented to the public. The Parzeval is the witness about the very confined cultural relationship between France and Germany, in the Middle Ages. In fact the German author used the work of Chrétien de Troyes, Perceval or Conte du Graal. The Characteristic of Parzival is that Wolfram is using for the issue of the nobleness from his epoch an ideal and utopia model of a society. There is presenting the ideal aristocratic and universal chivalry society, including the East and West which is directly at the service of God, without the intermediate of the church and which is the guard of the order, the fairness and the peace. This society has to be act for the goodness of all people and the author is also propagating since the Middle Ages the idea of the religious tolerance between the Christian and Muslims. |
| Play of God: Visions of the Life of Krishna, the. by Vanamali. San Diego, CA: Blue Dove Press. 1996. | Never before has the complete life of Krishna been told in a way that is so engaging and understandable, yet so faithful to the ancient epics of India. Spiritual seekers of all traditions will find inspiration and revitalized faith in these pages. |
| Pleasantries of the Incredible Mulla Nasrudin, the. by Shah, Idries, ed. New York, NY: Penguin Books. (Arkana Book). 1993. | The appeal of Nasrudin is as universal and timeless as the truths he illustrates. This delightful collection of teaching stories in which Mulla Nasrudin is the main actor is both an outstanding anthology of humor and a book of Sufi wisdom. Here are stories by the Sufi masters Rumi, Jami, and Attar, plus others collected by Idries Shah from the Persian, Afghan, Turkish, and Arabic cultures. |
| Portuguese Folk-Tales. by Pedroso, Consiglieri. London, England: The Folk-Lore Society. 1882. | The group of thirty Portuguese folk tales, which is largely represented in this present collection, is that which deals with the supernatural spouse who is temporarily condemned to assume an unattractive appearance. For the sake of convenience it is often designated in the Beauty and the Beast, or the Cupid and Psyche, group. |
| Prayer of the Frog, the. by De Mello, Anthony. Two volumes. Anand: Gujarat Shahitya Prakash. 1988. | "It is common to oppose a truth but impossible to resist a story…That is because the story will worm its way into your heart and break down barriers to the divine." (de Mello). Two volumes of down to earth story-meditations from a divine storyteller. Two volumes. "It is common to oppose a truth but impossible to resist a story…That is because the story will worm its way into your heart and break down barriers to the divine." (De Mello). Two volumes of down to earth story-meditations from a divine storyteller. |
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