Jainism category: 52 books

This book contains immortal pearls of wisdom that can bring about a fundamental transformation in one's perspective on life. Through a series of four discourses that shake one's very roots, Pujya Gurudevshri Rakeshbhai points out where and how we often succumb to a faulty belief system, fall prey...

Jaina Sutras, Part II by Hermann Jacobi Part Two of the Hermann Jacobi translation of the Jaina Sutras. As is the practice at this site, the typography of the original has been preserved as far as possible. This means that italics are used to indicate distinctions between consonants...

Knowledge plays an important role in making a human life happy and peaceful. In the absence of knowledge, the man would spend an unhappy life even if surrounded by all the pleasures of the world. “Hitāśikṣā-Chatrīśī” is a small but invaluable text which can spread the light of knowledge...

End of the Jews: Radical Breaks, Remakes and What Comes Next explores a pattern of crisis followed by a radical break and remake as a persistent phenomenon in Jewish history. The Jewish people have collectively braved many turning points over the past four millennia and, in each instance, did so by making...

Why am I unhappy? Who is the‘I’? The body, the mind or something beyond? Am I the master of my mind or is the mind my master? How can I transcend the mind? Just as the mighty roar of a lion drives the jackal away, And herons flee at the crack of...

The exalted gift of renunciation is an invitation To light the lamp of divinity in a life filled with darkness, To illuminate it with wisdom and awareness. To revel in the love of the Divine To slip into meditation on the Divine To see through the eyes of the Divine To soar on the wings of...

We allowed others to control us Being reactive, we perceived as awareness In doership kept wasting our life So engrossed in extroversion were we That not only worldly activities Spiritual practises too were all in vain! Blessing this aimless life with...

All living beings desire happiness and strive to attain it, yet it is only the rare individual who succeeds in realising innate happiness because To venture out of your house, you have to cross its threshold To reach the opposite bank, you have to leave this bank To...

What does it mean to be truly alive? How can I lead a meaningful life? Is it possible to rise above the rat race that life has become? A Life Worth Living responds to the above – in a unique, poignant and realistic way. It captures the wisdom of the Enlightened and provides...

Do you yearn for peace and bliss? Do you desire a state of relaxation? Do you wish to embrace dharma and faithfully practise it to enjoy its sweet fruits? The dharma of the Enlightened is the only true refuge for all beings. It is when it makes the transition from being ‘someone...

Addressed to Jews and non-Jews alike, though aware that these two reader groups were likelyn to approach the book with very different presuppositions, Daiches sets out to define Judaism in relation to philosophy, to explain Kant’s philosophy through the superiority of halakhah, defend a biblically...

It is verily the supremely divine Lotus Feet, Of the living embodiment of love, wisdom and radiance, the Sadguru, That provide powerful inspiration for joyous worship. When the relationship between worship and the worshipped is understood, When prayerful feelings reach...

What is the Guru’s Grace? Can one attain liberation without a Guru? How can one label a Guru as God? Is surrendering to a Guru not dependency? What should I do to allow the Guru’s Grace to work on me? Such questions, and many others that have arisen, or...

The state of Israel was established in 1948 as a Jewish democracy, without a legal separation between religion and the state. Ever since, the tension between the two has been a central political, social, and moral issue in Israel, resulting in a cultural conflict between secular Jews and the fundamentalist,...