Books

Essential Readings
for understanding Hinduism

Basic Traditional Scriptures:

Bhagavad Gita.
This book contains the essence of
India's spiritual teachings.
Gita < click
Gita verse by verse

Upanishads.
Hinduism's most ancient philosophical treatise
on the nature of God, Soul and the universe.

Click below on underlined words

(Pages featuring extracts from Upanishads)

Chhandogya Upanishad
Wisdom versus Knowledge

Katha Upanishad
Preyas-Sreya

Mandukya Upanishad
Consciousness- three states

Mundaka Upanishad
Wisdom versus knowledge

Mundaka Upanishad
Creation

Svetasvatara Upanishad
Self-realisation

Upanishads

How to know God:
The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali. A rational and psychological
explanation of yoga. It will especially appeal to those who want
religion to make sense.

Vivek Chudamani
Shankara's Crest Jewel of Discrimination

Self-knowledge
Shankara's classic treatise on the nature of the self.

Spiritual Instructions of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi

Who Am I?
By Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi
Who Am I?< Click

Be as you are
The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi

Upadesa Saram
Sri Ramana Maharshi

The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
Translated into English by Swami Nikhilananda
Sri Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math, India

Kathamrita
The words emanated from Sri Ramakrishna's holy lips and kept carefully
unalloyed by M. are translated word for word from Bengali to Hindi by Smt.
Ishwar Devi Gupta and from Hindi to English by Sri Dharm Pal Gupta
Click below for the English translation
http://www.kathamrita.org/kathamrita.htm

They Lived With God
By Swami Chetanananda, Advaita Ashrama

God Lived With Them
By Swami Chetanananda, Advaita Ashrama

Ramakrishna as we saw him
By Swami Chetanananda, Advaita Ashrama

Autobiography of a Yogi
By Paramhansa Yogananda
http://www.yogananda-srf.org/ay/index.html

 

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