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A message of love, compassion and the spiritual unity of humankind from one of India’s visionary teachers Vivekananda’s message gives us hope for the future. His love for humanity gave him the mandate for his message, and his innate purity gave him an irresistible power that nobody could...

KARMA-YOGA AND BHAKTI-YOGA describes the method of reaching perfection through daily work and of sublimating human affection into divine love.

Until now, Kashmir Shaivism was an esoteric field accessible only to a few scholars and other specialists. In his book Swamiji presents the wisdom of this powerful tradition and explores Consciousness, the most intimate experience of life. "Swami Shankarananda has succeeded in making Kashmir Shaivism...

Honen Shonin (1133-1212 A.D.) founded the largest Buddhist sect in Japan (Pure Land, or Shin). This edited biography contains an Introduction by renowned Buddhist scholar, Alfred Bloom.

Le grand disciple, qui allait reprendre l’héritage spirituel de Ramakrishna et semer sur le monde le grain de sa pensée, était, physiquement et moralement, son antithèse absolue. Nul n’échappait à la magie de ce regard, qui pouvait aussi bien envelopper de son charme irrésistible,...

The Upanishads are Hindu scriptures that constitute the core teachings of Vedanta. They do not belong to any particular period of Sanskrit literature: the oldest, such as the Brhadaranyaka and Chandogya Upanishads, date to the late Brahmana period (around the middle of the first millennium BCE), while...

* This is the extended edition including an extensive preface by Swami Vivekananda, the chief disciple of the 19th century mystic Ramakrishna Paramahansa and the founder of the Ramakrishna Math and the Ramakrishna Mission. He gives us deep insights about Yoga and the Ultimate Goal of Life. Yoga is...

Raja-Yoga describes the methods of spiritual concentration, meditation, and psychic development.

Sir John Woodrooffe was a British Orientalist, who often wrote under the pen name Arthur Avalon. He translated many works from Sanskrit concerning the Hindu Tantra. Shakti and Shakta is a >400 page series of essays on the Tantra.

This 1927 classic is a systematic introduction to Hindu mysticism as it evolved in India through the ages. This book gives a brief general outline of some of the most important types of mysticism, indicating their mutual relations, sometimes genetically and sometimes logically. These include early...

The girl who would marry no one but God. She lived a life of innocence, purity and total dedication to her God and was finally united with Him.

How to Conduct Puja to Saraswati is part of a 9 volume set of new paperbacks published by Parijata Publications, Periplus Line LLC (www.periplusbooks.com), 1999 -2009. Each booklet is 5.25" tall x 4.25" - full color cover - b&w illustrations - Sanskrit transliteration & English translation...

One of India’s greatest epics, the Ramayana pervades the country’s moral and cultural consciousness. For generations it has served as a bedtime story for Indian children, while at the same time engaging the interest of philosophers and theologians. Believed to have been composed by Valmiki sometime...

Kalidasa probably lived in the fifth century of the Christian era. This date, approximate as it is, must yet be given with considerable hesitation, and is by no means certain. No truly biographical data are preserved about the author, who nevertheless enjoyed a great popularity during his life, and...