Translated by Swami Vimuktananda. — Kolkatta: Advaita Ashram, 2018. — 12 p. The Aparokshanubhuti (Sanskrit: अपरोक्षानुभूतिः) is a famous work attributed to Adi Shankara. It is a popular introductory work (prakran grantha) that expounds Advaita Vedanta philosophy. It describes a method that seekers can follow to directly experience the essential truth of one's one nature. Thus,...
Source Material: Ra. Ganapthy’s ‘Deivathin Kural’ (Vol.6) in Tamil published by Vanathi Publishers, 4th edn. 1998. — English rendering : V. Krishnamurthy. — 2006. — 192 p. Essence of the philosophical schools. Advaita is different from all these. Appears to be easy – but really, difficult. Moksha is by Grace of God. Takes time but effort has to be started. ShraddhA (Faith)...
Publication details not specified. — 884 p. Mahapuranas are deemed to be the upper corpus of Puranas. Traditionally there are 18 Maha-puranas. Each Maha-purana lists eighteen canonical puranas, but the contents of each list vary reflecting differences in time and place. These eighteen maha-puranas are divided into three groups and each group has six texts. The Mahapuranas is a...
Shree Shree Anandamayee Charitable Society, 1984. — 252 p. Didi Gurupriya Ananda Giri was closely associated with Sri Ma from when she first met Sri Ma at the end of 1925. She was her closest companion. As health permitted, for the rest of her life, she kept a diary, which was subsequently published in Bengali in multiple volumes. This book consists of Volume I of English...
Shree Shree Anandamayee Charitable Society, 1986. — 312 p. Didi Gurupriya Ananda Giri was closely associated with Sri Ma from when she first met Sri Ma at the end of 1925. She was her closest companion. As health permitted, for the rest of her life, she kept a diary, which was subsequently published in Bengali in multiple volumes. This book consists of Volume II of English...
Shree Shree Anandamayee Charitable Society, 1986. — 248 p. Didi Gurupriya Ananda Giri was closely associated with Sri Ma from when she first met Sri Ma at the end of 1925. She was her closest companion. As health permitted, for the rest of her life, she kept a diary, which was subsequently published in Bengali in multiple volumes. This book consists of Volume III of English...
Shree Shree Anandamayee Charitable Society, 1988. — 285 p. Didi Gurupriya Ananda Giri was closely associated with Sri Ma from when she first met Sri Ma at the end of 1925. She was her closest companion. As health permitted, for the rest of her life, she kept a diary, which was subsequently published in Bengali in multiple volumes. This book consists of Volume IV of English...
Shree Shree Anandamayee Charitable Society, 1990. — 187 p. Didi Gurupriya Ananda Giri was closely associated with Sri Ma from when she first met Sri Ma at the end of 1925. She was her closest companion. As health permitted, for the rest of her life, she kept a diary, which was subsequently published in Bengali in multiple volumes. This book consists of Volume V of English...
Shree Shree Anandamayee Charitable Society, 1997. — 168 p. Didi Gurupriya Ananda Giri was closely associated with Sri Ma from when she first met Sri Ma at the end of 1925. She was her closest companion. As health permitted, for the rest of her life, she kept a diary, which was subsequently published in Bengali in multiple volumes. This book consists of Volume VI of English...
Shree Shree Anandamayee Charitable Society, 2016. — 141 p. Didi Gurupriya Ananda Giri was closely associated with Sri Ma from when she first met Sri Ma at the end of 1925. She was her closest companion. As health permitted, for the rest of her life, she kept a diary, which was subsequently published in Bengali in multiple volumes. This book consists of Volume VII of English...
Shree Shree Anandamayee Sangha, 1995. — 60 p. This is Volume I consisting of fragments of personal advice and suggestions which formed part of replies dictated by Sri Ma in response to letters received from the devotees. Letters and responses have been translated from the Bengali by Atmananda.
Shree Shree Anandamayee Charitable Society, 1977. — 313 p. This is Volume II consisting of fragments of personal advice and suggestions which formed part of replies dictated by Sri Ma in response to letters received from the devotees. Letters and responses have been translated from the Bengali by Atmananda. The volume also includes some excerpts from conversations which have...
Shree Shree Anandamayee Sangha, 1995. — 160 p. This book contains a selection from Sri Anandamayi Ma’s replies to oral questions, recorded at meetings of large and small groups. They deal with meditation, the spiritual path and Self-Realisation; with a great variety of problems – practical, philosophical, and metaphysical as encountered by seekers during their search for Truth;...
Pondicherry, India: Sri Aurobindo Ashram Press, 1998. — 614 p. Vol.13 The complete works of Sri Aurobindo This collection of short prose works,written by Sri Aurobindo between 1909 and 1950 and published during his lifetime,deals primarily with aspects of spiritual philosophy and yoga. Essays from the Karmayogin 1909 – 1910 The Yoga and Its Objects (circa 1912) Writings from...
Sheriar Foundation, 1995. — 433 p. Meher Baba’s Discourses throw the light of true knowledge on many of life’s most perplexing problems. Inspiring and practical, the Discourses provide an ever-fresh framework of spiritual perspective on the challenges of everyday life. The Discourses not only provide descriptions of the spiritual path and its disciplines but also shed powerful...
Shree Shree Anandamayee Sangha, 2018. — 234 p. The book is a brief life-sketch of Sri Ma which has been condensed into a single volume. Authors main aim was to have a book which can serve as an effective introduction about Ma and Her teachings.
Allahabad: Published by Sudhindranatha Vasu. 1912. — 336 p. No apology is needed for including the Bhaktiratnavali in the series of the sacred Books of the Hindus. The two treaties on Bhakti Sastra that have already appeared in this series treat the subject of Bhakti in its philosophical aspect. The treatment in them is necessarily abstruse because the form of dealing with the...
Shree Shree Anandamayee Sangha, 2004. — 82 p. This book has been authored by Bhaiji who was the foremost disciple of Sri Ma. He has written, not a biography, but a little sketch, which introduces a few facts of his own direct experience to show how she opened up a fountain of life in his own almost parched-up soul (his own words). This book has a mysterious power to invoke Sri...
New York: The Sri Krishna Samaj, 1904. — 567 p. This book gives an account of the Creation in so many ways such as the science of Creation, steps of Creation, Cyclic Motion of Changes, etc. Also, it talks about different ages (Yugas), i.e. the Golden Age, the Silver Age, the Copper Age and the Iron Age. The different cycles, Karma, Bhakti Yoga are also given in detail. In...
Shree Shree Anandamayee Sangha, 1995. — 155 p. This book contains text portion of the profusely illustrated original full book which covers Sri Anadamayee Ma’s life in great details. The original full book includes 55 pa intings depicting Sri Ma’s life.
Mumbai: Central Chinmaya Mission Trust, 1997. — 84 p. Tattva Bodha of Sankaracharya is a book that exhaustively deals with the fundamentals of Vedanta. For liberation or achieving perfection, the process of discrimination should be employed. The Truth is mixed up with, or confused with untruth and therefore a discriminative enquiry (Viveka) is needed. This enquiry and...
Mount Abu, India: Prajapati Brama Kumaris Ishwariya Vishwa-Vidyalaya, 2003. — 223 p. Brahmacharya - A book on Celibacy: Complete Purity as a Rajyogi's way of Life. Brahmacharya means to have personality such as Brahma (Avi-dev aka first human being). In world, Brahmcharya is termed and it means purity in simple form. But God teaches us much more than purity (celibacy). This...
ÅBO, 2010. — 395 p. In this book, Marie-Thérèse Charpentier explores the phenomenon of Indian female guru-hood in contemporary Hinduism by investigating the spiritual careers of an impressive sample consisting of seventy gurus, with a particular focus on four of them. As a point of departure, she makes use of the key question: ‘How does one become a (female) guru?’ That...
Motilal Banarsidass, 2006. — 190 p. This book contains miracle-laden incidents and strange little happenings depicting Shree Shree Ma Anandamayee's infinite compassion for her children. Each narrative carries one particular message the message of solace and compassion for her devotees. The stories of miracles described in the volume corroborate the fact that Shree Shree Ma...
Shree Shree Anandamayee Charitable Society, 1978. — 138 p. Author's Notes About the Book: Shree Anandamayee Ma was born in Bengal and lived there for over thirty-three years. Naturally, she has numerous devotees and admirers in Bengal. Hence, I wrote a book in Bengali under the title Mayer Lila-Katha. But in view of the fact that MA has at present a fast-growing vast number of...
YogiVinceBooks LLC, 2014. - 28 p. The author tells about how he met Tat Wale Baba in 1969; Tat Wale Baba's message to the world; the murder of Tat Wale Bab; and the author's return to the Tat Wale Baba Ashram some decades later to interview the sole remaining devotee and caretaker. Beautifully presented with twenty-five photographs. This book is a tribute to one of the world's...
Mr. Ajit C. Patel; Mahavideh Foundation, 2006. — 108 p. The common understanding of the word celibacy is ‘not to marry’. One takes a vow to remain unmarried throughout his life, and considers himself to be a celibate. However, there is much more to it, and as one understands this term in its deeper and complete perspective, he enjoys his journey on the path of establishing...
Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, 2009. — 76 p. Who is Srila A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada? Yes, he is the jagad-guru of modern-day Gaudiya Vaisnavism, the world guru, whom some know as their spiritual master, while others are also his disciples but know it not. He has built a bridge from East to West and crossed it back and forth, planting seeds of bhakti in the West while...
Shree Shree Anandamayee Charitable Society, 1987. — 189 p. Prof Amulya Kumar Datta Gupta had started publishing records of Sri Ma Anandamayi's life as articles in Ananda Varta magazine when it came into being during 1938. This collection of articles cover a period from October 1935 up to 1946 and have been later published as a series of three volumes. This book comprises Volume...
Shree Shree Anandamayee Charitable Society, 1991. — 157 p. Prof Amulya Kumar Datta Gupta had started publishing records of Sri Ma Anandamayi's life as articles in Ananda Varta magazine when it came into being during 1938. This collection of articles cover a period from October 1935 up to 1946 and have been later published as a series of three volumes. This book comprises Volume...
Shree Shree Anandamayee Charitable Society, 1986. — 229 p. Prof Amulya Kumar Datta Gupta had started publishing records of Sri Ma Anandamayi's life as articles in Ananda Varta magazine when it came into being during 1938. This collection of articles cover a period from October 1935 up to 1946 and have been later published as a series of three volumes. This book comprises Volume...
Avatar Meher Baba Perpetual Public Charitable Trust, 2002. — 548 p. This unique and remarkable volume documents one of the major phases in Meher Baba’s life: his work with the “masts” or God-intoxicated. Superbly written and closely detailed, this book stands alone in spiritual literature as the only full-scale treatment of this category of spiritually advanced personality....
The Acorn Press, 2004. — 118 p. In this book you will find the last teachings of Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, the final dialogues he had with the people who had come from all over the world to hear his words.
Durham, North Carolina: The Acorn Press, 2004. — 216 p. The wisdom contained in this collection, edited by Jean Dunn, emerged from dialog with those who came from all over the world to leran the mysteries of life at the feet of Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, one of the most revered holy men of India. The conversations in Seed of Consiousness and a companion volume, Prior of...
Chetana, 1998. — 166 p. This Book is based on the talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj whose first collection of talks were published under the title I Am That . Jean Dunn, a close follower of Maharaj, edited this and two other volumes that make up a triology of Maharaj's talks, Seeds of Consciousness and Consciousness and the Absolute.
New Leaf Distributing Company, 2014. — 247 p. Nisargadatta Maharaj is undoubtedly the Ultimate Alchemist and his non-dual teachings, the Ultimate Alchemy. This book is a live satsang with Satguru Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, covering rare and unpublished conversations with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj which have been transcribed by his 'evening' translator, Mohan Gaitonde, who had the...
Shree Shree Anandamayee Charitable Society, 1980. — 55 p. This is a small booklet, long out-of-print, and contains a delightful collection of interesting and insightful episodes from Anandamayi Ma's life as recorded by Anil Ganguli who is a very old and close devotee of hers.
The Indian Institute of Philosophy Almaner. 312 p. G. R. Malkani (1892-1977) in one of the eminent Indian philosophers of the recent past. As the Director of the erstwhile Indian Institute of Philosophy at Amalner, and also as the Editor of the Philosophical Quarterly, he has contributed, along with his contemporaries, viz., K. C. Bhattacharyya, Ras Vihari Das, T. R. V. Murti,...
The Indian Institute of Philosophy Almaner. 234 p. G. R. Malkani (1892-1977) in one of the eminent Indian philosophers of the recent past. As the Director of the erstwhile Indian Institute of Philosophy at Amalner, and also as the Editor of the Philosophical Quarterly, he has contributed, along with his contemporaries, viz., K. C. Bhattacharyya, Ras Vihari Das, T. R. V. Murti,...
The Indian Institute of Philosophy Almaner. 172 p. G. R. Malkani (1892-1977) in one of the eminent Indian philosophers of the recent past. As the Director of the erstwhile Indian Institute of Philosophy at Amalner, and also as the Editor of the Philosophical Quarterly, he has contributed, along with his contemporaries, viz., K. C. Bhattacharyya, Ras Vihari Das, T. R. V. Murti,...
Sanskrit Text with English Translation, Notes, Introduction and Glossary of Technical Terms by Jaideva Singh . — Delhi, Motilal Banarsidass, 2006. — 198 p. — ISBN: 81-208-0322-1. This little work is a digest of the Pratyabhijna system of Kashmir Saiva philosophy, prepared by Ksemaraja, the illustrious disciple of Abhinavagupta. It avoids all polemics and gives in a very...
Delhi: Indological and Oriental Publishers, 1998. — 137 p. — (Sri Satguru Publications). — ISBN 81-7030-257-9. Preface Introduction Tattvas. Sadadhvan. Matrikacakra. Pratibimbavadah. Upayas. Vak. Malas. Pramatrin. Pramatrin. Pancakrityavidhih. The Five States of the Individual Subjective Body. The Five Fold Contacts of Masters and Disciples. The Manifestation of Tantras. Moksa...
Shree Shree Anandamayee Charitable Society, 1974. — 199 p. In this book which is a collection of memoirs of Sri Hari Ram Joshi, the author has written various interesting facts about the life of Sri Ma in his own style. He was an ardent devotee of Sri Ma.
Bombay: Printed by B. Miller. 1925. — 1028 p. A manuscript from my friend, Mr. Hiralal P. Shroff, Principal, Shri Sayaji Vijaya High School, Baroda. It belongs to a Petlad Library. It is thus almost complete. It contains 230 p., having 10 lines on an average on each page, each line having on an average 30 letters. It is in Nagari characters and is generally correct. It is...
Anandashram, 1964. - 260 p. In this autobiography of Mother Krishnabai (rendered into English by Swami Ramdas), she describes in her own inimitable style her years of great struggle, fiery ordeal, intense aspiration and providential meeting with her Guru, culminating in her realisation of the Supreme within a very short period.
Element Books, 1996. — 133 p. Anandamayi was a simple country girl from a remote village on the easternmost border of India who became a personality of the highest spiritual distinction. Like her great predecessor, Shankaracharya, she encompassed all castes, faiths and creeds on a journey which took her to all four extremities of the Indian subcontinent. Drawing extensively on...
Shree Shree Anandamayee Charitable Society, 1982. — 182 p. Ma’s words have been extracted from the periodicals namely Ananda Varta, Matri Darshan and have been translated from the original Bengali into English. This invaluable source of Sri Ma’s words and sayings have been presented under many different headings for ease of understanding and convenience.
Nisargadatta Maharaj Talks. — Acorn Press, 1997. — 550 p. This collection of the timeless teachings of one of the greatest sages of India, Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, regarded by many as a "modern spiritual classic" is a testament to the uniqueness of the seer's life and work "I Am That" preserves Maharaj's dialogues with the followers who came from around the world seeking his...
Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, 1996. — 234 p. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj was one of the important spiritual teachers of the twentieth century. A realized master of the Tantric Nath lineage, he lived and taught in the slums of Bombay, India. A steady stream of students, Indians and Westerners, fortunate enough to discover Maharaj during his lifetime, came to sit at his feet in...
Tiruvannamalai: Sri Ramanasramam, 2002. — 78 p. Doubts occur to all seekers on the spiritual path. The precise answers given by Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi in these pages represent the quintessence of Divine Wisdom. Bhagavan speaks from the peak of spiritual expeience. Every word represents the essence of Upanishadic wisdom. The devout reader who studies these pages to...
Anandashram, 2016. - 60 p. This small booklet outlines the vision and mission of Anandashram, as well as the Sadhanas prescribed by the Anandashram Masters in the form of easy to comprehend questions and answers.
Anandashram, 2016. - 63 p. ‘In Search of Papa’ is an earnest attempt to delve into the blessed life and ennobling spiritual teachings of our Beloved Papa Swami Ramdas, the Founder-Master of Anandashram, who, with a burning aspiration and total dedication sought for, and ultimately found the Highest in life, and lived a beatific life in constant communion with the Divine, whom...
Sufism Reoriented, 1968. — 88 p. When Meher Baba's book titled 'God Speaks' first came out in 1955, it gave rise to certain follow up questions related to metaphysical detail. Meher Baba’s answers to these follow up questions have been compiled into a set of 13 essays which form part of this book. A few of these sample essays have titles such as: “The Advancing Stream of Life”,...
Sufism Reoriented, 1997. — 313 p. This unparalleled exposition on the theme of God and Creation explains how God, the sole Existence and Reality, comes to know Himself through the medium of His own imagination or dream. Encompassed in the discussion are such topics as: God’s whim to know Himself, the evolution of consciousness, reincarnation, the drop-soul’s involutional...
Malabar: Palghat, 1942. — 127 p. Sri Sankaracharya is a pre-eminently outstanding figure in the realm of Hindu philosophy, whose teachings have exercised a potential influence over the majority of the Hindu population, and have, of late, begun to win increasing appreciation and admiration of the deep thinkers among the oriental savants of the west. A merciless critic of the...
Shree Shree Anandamayee Sangha, 1995. — 62 p. In this short book, Bithika Mukerji has provided a beautiful and concise summary of Sri Ma’s life, along with selected sayings of Sri Ma.
Shree Shree Anandamayee Sangha, 2009. — 411 p. This is Volume 1 of Dr. Bithika Mukerji's book which is a record of Sri Anandamayi Ma's early life which was spent mostly in Bengal. The narrative of events is largely derived from the diaries of her devotees. They are authentic descriptions of happenings. the interpretation of their significance demands extraordinary spiritual and...
Shree Shree Anandamayee Sangha, 2011. — 422 p. This is Volume 2 of Dr. Bithika Mukerji's book which is a record of Sri Anandamayi Ma's early life which was spent mostly in Bengal. The narrative of events is largely derived from the diaries of her devotees. They are authentic descriptions of happenings. the interpretation of their significance demands extraordinary spiritual and...
Shree Shree Anandamayee Sangha, 2014. — 221 p. This is Volume 3 of Dr. Bithika Mukerji's book which is a record of Sri Anandamayi Ma's early life which was spent mostly in Bengal. The narrative of events is largely derived from the diaries of her devotees. They are authentic descriptions of happenings. the interpretation of their significance demands extraordinary spiritual and...
2nd edition. — Munshiram Manoharlal, 1986. — 392 p. The Criterion of Reality. The Nature of Reality and Falsity. The Theory of Knowledge. Identity and Difference. Causation. The Conceptions of Isvara and may a. The Philosophy of World. The Philosophy of Individual Soul. The Doctrine of Mukti. Concluding Remarks. Notes for Reference.
Compiled by the Students of Sri Parasara Jyotish Center. — Boston, 2010. — 217 p. For those in search of spirituality series of lectures given by famous Indian astrologer Sri P.V.R. Narasimha Rao, testing Guru, Guru with Ego, about mantras, Gayatri mantra meaning, Spirituality vs Living in Material World, Internal conflicts, Japa, Pronunciation of Mantras, Homam Procedure,...
Bangalore: Visva Madhva Mahaparisat. — 150 p. — ISBN: 81-903336-0-7. A text highlighting the glory of Visnu in O&A format with neat illustrations. Benediction Pujya Kulapati's Blessings The Mahamahopadhyaya Speaks The Author Submits The Publisher's Note Sarnskrt Guide The Cast Invocation Visnu - Who? Visnu - His 1000 Names Visnu - Meaning of the Name Visnu - The Omnipresent...
Himalayan Institute, 2007. - 338 p. The book Living with the Himalayan Masters is written by Swami Rama, one of the greatest masters of the 20 th century. He is the founder of the Himalayan Institute. He was born in northern India and raised in the Himalayas from early childhood by the Himalayan sage, Bengali Baba. He entered into maha-samadhi in 1996 after sharing the timeless...
The Rama Tirtha Publication League, 1922. - 222 p. Heart of Rama is a collection of selected instructive teachings of Swami Rama Tirtha which have culled from his Complete English Works with a foreword by his chief disciple R.S. Narayana Swami.
The Rama Tirtha Publication League, 1956. - 627 p. This is a collection of 265 thought provoking parables culled from the complete works of Swami Rama Tirtha (In Woods of God Realisation). While going through the Complete Works of Swami Rama, “In Woods of God Realization” one is struck with the vast number of simple stories, so profusely used by Swami Rama to illustrate the...
Anandashram, 1928. - 99 p. This book collates heart pourings of Swami Ramdas from during the early years of his itinerancy as a God-intoxicated Sadhu who saw only his Beloved Ram in everyone and everything.
Anandashram, 1944. - 110 p. This book contains a compilation of significant spiritual utterances of Swami Ramdas which have been culled out from his letters to the devotees all over India and abroad.
Anandashram, 2016. - 191 p. This book is filled with valuable advice to spiritual aspirants which has been culled out from the letters of Swami Ramdas.
Anandashram, 1957. - 134 p. The theme of Swami Ramdas’ first book, IN QUEST OF GOD, is the dawn of his new life and its un-foldment during the first year of the great change that came over him. He was wandering from place to place all over India in a state of complete surrender to God. He had no thought of the body; he had no thought of food; he did not know where to rest. His...
Anandashram, 1957. - 403 p. In continuation to the book IN QUEST OF GOD, Swami Ramdas wrote this book, recording his itinerancy throughout the country as a God-realised Sadhu. He experienced that he was living and moving in a new world in which he felt that there was none other than himself and his Great Master, his all in all. Even intellect and emotion seemed to have ceased...
Anandashram, 1957. - 207 p. This is a collection of 108 stories and parables which have been beautifully narrated by Swami Ramdas in his inimitable style bringing out the moral and spiritual truths.
Abhijnana, 2002. — 176 p. Sankara is one of the most misunderstood thinkers of India. Later writers claiming to be his followers have misrepresented him, and his critics have damned him relying almost entirely on these later writers. Padmapada's Pafichapadika (and the glosses over it), Vimuktatman's Ishtasiddhi and to an extent Vachaspati's Bhamati have been responsible for the...
Shree Shree Anandamayee Charitable Society, 1973. — 161 p. Sad Vani is the very first collection of Sri Ma’s teachings to appear in print, originally in Bengali, in 1935 as recorded by J.C.Roy also known as Bhaiji (probably Sri Ma’s closest disciple, who understood her best).
Ganga Press, 2002. - 122 p. Book offers innumerable compelling reasons to become vegetarian. The reasons are ethical, spiritual, moral, environmental, scientific and universal. None of the reasons given by Pujya Swamiji rests on a particular religion or theology. He relies in this book on reasons which apply to everyone – regardless of one’s religious, cultural or spiritual...
Ganga Press, 2004. — 317 p. This book is a collection of Swamiji's teachings which is in two parts. The first half being a collection of articles by Swami Chidanand and the second half being collection of heart touching and inspiring stories. Each one is a type of fable, but for modern times with a comment by the author. Also containing such gems as Beauty Secrets by Audrey...
Ganga Press, 2001. - 172 p. Book offers wisdom for each member in a household. It does so by capturing the spontaneous, divinely guided words of Pujya Swamiji, whether spoken in general “counseling sessions,” or in private talks, letters and e-mails which devotees have voluntarily shared for the sake of this book.
Ganga Press, 2006. - 203 p. This book aims at addressing following five aspects associated with peace: 1. Peace within ourselves 2. Peace in our families 3. Peace in our communities 4. Peace in the world 5. Peace on the Earth As rungs on the ladder of eternal harmony, these aspects have to be taken in a sequential order. Even if our ultimate goal is only world peace, still we...
Anandashram, 2014. - 288 p. This book compiles gist of replies to devotees and synopsis of messages delivered on various occasions by Swami Satchidananda who was a direct disciple of Swami Ramdas.
Dvaita Vedanta Studies and Research Foundation, Bangalore 2005. — 248 p. Blessings The Author submits Man, Mighty but Helpless Man's Discovery of God God's Nature and Functions Visnu alone is Brahman Visnu in Rgveda Upanisadic Brahman is Visnu Alone Purusa-sukta is Yienu-sukta Gayatri-mantra is Visnu-mantra 'Brahman' and 'Visnu' are synonyms Visnu alone is Independent and...
Electronic edition, Central Chinmaya Mission Trust, Bombay, 1996. — 30 p. An Eighth Century text by Shankaracharya. Tattva means Reality or True Nature of Self and Bodha means Knowledge, thus the meaning of Tattvabodha is Knowledge about the Reality or Knowledge about the True Nature of Self. Every one of us is seeking happiness only, happiness which is permanent. The nature of...
Shree Shree Anandamayee Sangha, 2010. — 45 p. This book contains a collection of ten inspiring stories which have been narrated by Sri Ma during Matri Satsangs. These all have been translated from Bengali.
Shree Shree Anandamayee Sangha, 2005. — 179 p. This book is a collection of selected lectures and papers which were presented at Mahajati Sadan in Kolkata in 1997 on the special occasion of Sri Ma’s birth centenary.
Group of Authors. Shree Shree Anandamayee Sangha, 1995. — 101 p. This book is a collection of papers from a number of writers, Indian and Non-Indian, on what each of them thinks about Mother Anandamayi and of the reaction of each to the influence of Her superb personality. It seems, however, that all of them have been deeply impressed with Mother’s sanctity, wisdom and love,...
Shree Shree Anandamayee Sangha, 2019. — 647 p. The Holy Chronicle covers the period between 1958 and 1964. It is an attempt, to provide a detailed record of MA’s daily activities, travels, discussions, satsangs, questions and answers, pujas, utsavs, and celebrations, throughout which, is illustrated, at every moment, in every saying, in every glance, in every action, HER Kripa...
International Vedanta Mission, 1996. — 16 p. With meaning in hindi and English. Adi Shankara was an early 8th century Indian philosopher and theologian who consolidated the doctrine of Advaita Vedanta. He is credited with unifying and establishing the main currents of thought in Hinduism. His works in Sanskrit discuss the unity of the ātman and Nirguna Brahman "brahman without...
2nd Edition. — India: HarperCollins, 2018. — 286 p. — ISBN: 9353023963. Sri Ramakrishna is one of the greatest spiritual masters to have walked this earth. His life was a demonstration of the true meaning of spirituality and the harmony of all religions. This book brings out the endearing simplicity and catholicity of Sri Ramakrishna. He was not a serious, formidable figure of...
Electronic edition. English translation by Dr. H. Ramamurthy «आत्मसाक्षात्कारātmasākṣātkāra», 2007. — 10 p. Source: Collected Works of Sri Ramana Maharshi. Chapter of the Sarvajnanottara Agama. Atma Sakshatkara means “witnessing of the Atman” (i.e. self-realization), and is the name of a chapter within the jnana-pada (knowledge section) of the Sarvajnanottara Agama, an obscure...
A Divine Life Society Publication, 1998. - 99 p. Even among the inspiring books of Sri Gurudev, this is a unique book. It was written with the special intention of having the entire matter recorded on the gramophone disc. For this purpose Gurudev had given in this book the very essence of his own teachings. Hence, this book was chosen for being sent to every new member of the...
National Book Organization, 1995. — 183 p. Dr Premlata Srivastava had been asked by Sri Ma several times to write something. In this book she writes about the life and times of Sri Ma, including specific chapters with details about her Devotees, Saints and Sri Ma’s teachings.
Routledge, 2019. — 755 p. — (Routledge Library Editions: Hinduism). — ISBN10: 0367145359, 13 978-0367145354. Hinduism is a term often used to summarize the aspirations of the majority of the Indian people. But any simple definition of it is difficult, if not impossible. This is partly owing to the nuances of the Sanskrit language, in which many texts are written, and partly to...
Publication details not specified, 84 p. The ecstatic transmutation of celibacy can be by far the most exciting experience one can ever have! Learn and master the greatest secrets ever told of how to enjoy utterly fantastic bliss and unlimited sexual energy! Just as humankind has learned to master and control many natural forces in the world, a yogi (or yogini) is a very...
Tiruvannamalai: Sri Ramanasramam, 2006. "Sri Bhagavan always stressed the one essential truth that was necessary for Liberation, that there is only one Self and nothing but the Self. Know that and everything else is known. This cannot be repeated too often. You are the Self, he tell us, nothing but the Self, anything else is just imagination, so BE the Self here and now. There...
Sri Caitanaya Sangha, 2011. — 237 p. Widely acknowledged as a masterpiece of prose, philosophy, and translation, Aesthetic Vedanta beautifully illuminates the timeless Sanskrit poem rasa-lila, the sacred love affair of Radha and Krishna. Interspersed with original poetry and renderings of medieval verse of several Hindu mystics, this book reveals the means to access the...
Mandala Publishing, 2010. — 613 p. The Bhagavad-gita is India’s most concise expression of the perennial philosophy. Speaking directly to the soul, it pinpoints the cause of all suffering — material attachment — and offers a remedy to this common human malady: the paths of right livelihood, mystic insight, devotion, and ultimately unconditional love. In this edition, Swami B.V....
Audarya, 2003. — 196 p. This edition is the first definitive English rendering of Gopala-tapani Upanisad, the most important Upanisad for those following the path of Krishna bhakti. It includes the original Devanagari Sanskrit script, English transliteration, word-for-word meaning, English translation, and an extensive commentary that is both traditional and contemporary....
Sri Caitanya Sangha, 2012. — 45 p. Joy of Self is an introduction to the devotional Vedanta of Sri Caitanya. Sri Caitanya, the fifteenth-century Krishna avatara who personified a life of divine love, left in writing only eight Sanskrit stanzas. Yet his immediate followers churned these drops of nectar into an ocean of literature on divine love. This introduction draws from...
Harmonist Publishers, 2011. — 121 p. While analyzing the mindset of the spiritual seeker while living in the holiest of places, Sri Vrindavan, I began to develop the chapters of this book. It is a book about just how different sexuality is from spirituality and how, ironically, the two, sex and the soul, are at the same time inseparable. Pure sexuality is the purest...
Mandala Publishing, 2005. — 168 p. Sri Krishna Caitanya is perhaps the best example the world has seen of devotional ecstasy in love of God. He was a towering figure of golden complexion from whose lotus eyes hot tears of spiritual rapture poured constantly — a golden mountain erupting in ecstasy, its lava consuming everything in its path. He melted hearts as he heralded the...
Harmonist Publishers, 1998. — 45 p. Sri Bhaktisidhanta Saraswati Thakura gave shape to the divine vision of Kedarnatha Thakura Bhaktivinoda, establishing sixty-four monasteries throughout India and a prolific publishing arm. His mission also reached out to the West beyond the borders of India. However, the shape of his mission led some to believe that he had deviated from the...
Harmonist Publishers, 2011. — 201 p. Tattva-sandarbha is a classic medieval work of Eastern philosophy written in Sanskrit prose more than four hundred years ago. It is an introduction to a larger work, Jiva Goswami’s Sat-sandarbha. The original manuscript seeks to explain the esoteric significance of the Bhagavat Purana, arguably the most important volume of India’s sacred...
N.p., 2003. — 200 p. Sri Ranjit Maharaj was a co-disciple of the well-known teacher, Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj. Both were disciples of Sri Siddharameshwar Maharaj, the great "unknown sage" who left his body in 1936. The Way of the Bird is the way of Self-enquiry that begins with the question "Who am I?" and ends in the final understanding called Self-realization or...
Shree Shree Ma Anandamayi Ashram, 1988. — 168 p. Swami Virajananda had originally written these volumes in Bengali, taking the material from Sri Ma’s own lips. First two volumes serve as introduction to the next two volumes. Specifically, Vol 1 is about Ma’s ancestral lineage, Her parents and Her homes, along with a discussion about Her birth.
Shree Shree Ma Anandamayi Ashram, 1983. — 96 p. Swami Virajananda had originally written these volumes in Bengali, taking the material from Sri Ma’s own lips. First two volumes serve as introduction to the next two volumes. Specifically, Vol 2 depicts Her entire childhood Lila, ending with Her entry into Grihastashram (Householder life) including a portrayal of Her unique seva...
Shree Shree Ma Anandamayi Ashram, 1983. — 96 p. Swami Virajananda had originally written these volumes in Bengali, taking the material from Sri Ma’s own lips. Specifically, in Vol 3 Ma reveals Her Svarupa. Throughout this volume, there is this revelation that in all the objectives of all sadhanas it is Bhagavan only in those forms.
Shree Shree Ma Anandamayi Sangha, 2009. — 246 p. Swami Virajananda had originally written these volumes in Bengali, taking the material from Sri Ma’s own lips. Specifically, Vol 4 deals with details related to Asanas, Pranayama and Mantras.
Gaudiya Vaisnava Society & Gosai Publishers, 1996. — 102 p. This book by Swami B. B. Visnu documents the exchanges between Pujyapada Sridhara Maharaja and Iskcon’s GBC. It also chronicles the intimate relationship of Srila Prabhupada and Srila Sridhara Maharaja from their early days together, sharing quarters during the difficult days in the Gaudiya Matha and after Srila...
Advaita Ashram. — 108 p. — ISBN10: 817505087X ; ISBN13: 97-81-7505-087-7. If one asks, how Vedanta can be made practical in our day-to-day life, here is a book which provides the answer. It contains some of the most important lectures delivered by Swami Vivekananda in London regarding the application of Vedanta in our daily lives. Highly practical, this book helps the readers...
London: New Yoga Publications, 2011. — 80 p. Wilberg P. New Spanda-kariki (In English) The New Spanda Karikas. Illustrations. Spanda, Skriabin and the Inner Nature of Music. Spanda and the Fifth Dimension of Awareness. Spanda and the Metaphysics of "Dark Matter". Spanda and the Structure of Awareness Units.
YogiVinceBooks LLC, 2006. - 37 p. A brief personal account, as related by one of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's closest associates, of the very early days of the Transcendental Meditation movement. Charles F. Lutes, a Los Angeles concrete and steel salesman, was closely involved in the early efforts of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi to introduce the practice of Transcendental Meditation around...
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