Abbot George Burke Swami Nirmalananda Giri: 12 books

Learn how you can effectively lead a spiritual life in the modern world.The Dhammapada for Awakening brings a refreshing and timely perspective to ancient wisdom and showing seekers of inner peace practical ways to improve their inner lives today.It explores the Buddha's answers...

”“Where am I?…How did I get here?” is more than a trite line from nineteenth century melodramas and novels. It is a query put forth by potential sages throughout the history of conscious mankind.When asked on a cosmic scale, it is bold indeed: What is this universe I keep finding myself...

At the beginning of the twentieth century, a young crippled boy in North India met a spiritual teacher in the Nath tradition of the great teachers Matsyendranath and Gorakhnath, who imparted to him the precious knowledge of yoga meditation. The boy began to apply himself to this meditation practice...

A new translation of the most important spiritual classic which India has produced. Often called the "Bible" of Hinduism, the Bhagavad Gita is found in households throughout India and has been translated into every major language of the world. Literally billions of copies have been handwritten...

Fifty years ago few people in the west had even heard of meditation, while today the concept of meditation is well known, and meditation methods are to be found everywhere. With so much information about meditation, how is a sincere seeker to find a meditation method which is both proven and effective?...

"From the very beginning there were two Christianities." While the rest of the Apostles dispersed to various areas of the Mediterranean world, the apostle Thomas travelled to India, where growing evidence shows that Jesus spent his "Lost Years," and which had been the source...

An in-depth explanation of the foundational principles of Patanjali's Ashtanga Yoga: Yama and Niyama.Yama and Niyama are often called the Ten Commandments of Yoga, but they have nothing to do with the ideas of sin and virtue or good and evil as dictated by some cosmic potentate. Rather...

It is very beneficial for students of Indian thought, of the Bhagavad Gita, the Upanishads, the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, and other Indian scriptures and philosophical works to expand their vocabularies to include the sanskrit terms included in them. English books about these works often contain many...

A growing number of people are open to the subject of past lives, and the belief in rebirth—reincarnation, metemphsychosis, or transmigration—is becoming commonplace. But it often thought that belief in reincarnation and Christianity are incompatible. But is this really true? May a Christian believe...

The health benefits of a vegetarian diet are well known, as are the ethical aspects. But the spiritual advantages should be studied by anyone involved in meditation, yoga, or any type of spiritual practice.Although diet is commonly considered a matter of physical health alone, since the Hermetic...

“The old adage is still true: All that glitters is not gold.”“Over and over people have mistaken trivial and pathological conditions for enlightenment, written books, given seminars and gained a devoted following. I have encountered quite a few myself, including people who believed they...

This sanskrit glossary contains full translations and explanations of many of the most commonly used spiritual sanskrit terms, and will help students of the Bhagavad Gita, the Upanishads, the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, and other indian scriptures and philosophical works to expand their vocabularies...