It is the compelling story of one of the great mystics of our time Mother Anasuya Devi of Jillellamudi was revered by millions in southern India for her home-spun wisdom, motherly love and extraordinary spiritual powers. Her profound yet enigmatic...

The Great Mother is humanity's most primordial, pervasive, and fruitful image of reality. Either secreatly or openly she appears with extra-ordinary power wisdom and tenderness at the core of every noble culture. She illuminates the entire universe because she is...

Lakshmi Bandlamudi's description of her journey to Kailash and Manasarover, representing as they do Purusha and Prakriti, the masculine and the feminine nature of existence, is deeply moving because she connects it to her own inner spiritual quest. Replete with...

Thye Mudrarakshasa, unlike the majority of sanskrit plays, is purely a political drama. It has for its theme, besides elevation of Chandragupta to the throne of Magadha, wining over of Rakashsa, the hostile minister of the Nanda dynasty to the...

Muhurta Martanda: Shri Narayandaivagya Virachit: Sanskrit-Hindi Vyakhya sahit

This is a completely new translation of Nagarjuna's major work the Mulamadhyamakakarika, accompanied by a detailed annotation of each of the verses. The annotation identifies the metaphysical theories of the scholastics criticized by Nagarjuna and traces the source material and...

Mumbai Postcards : Notes to a Grandson is a beautifully written book that captures the essence of Mumbai (formerly Bombay) through the lens of personal experience, memory, and reflection. Harsha V. Dehejia, a prominent scholar, writer, and cultural commentator, has...

Music in the Sky offers a series of the Karmapa's profound teachings, an extensive selection of his poetry and a detailed account of his life and flight from his homeland. The amazing teaching and writing skills evident in this work...

Like Rumi from Persia or Kabir from North India, Jnaneshwar, considered the greatest of the Marathi poet-saints, captures the power and knowledge of his spiritual attainment in a few spare words. His poetry offers an exquisite combination of knowledge of...

It is wonderfully heartfelt and readable studies of the works of the Dalai Lamas. The Second Dalai Lama's mystical poems and lyrical visions are permeated with ecstasy of enlightenment and born of selflessness. The Tibetan tradition of mystical verse is...

The expression 'Mythicism' has come to be used to identify the negative side of the debate whether 'Jesus of Nazareth' was or was not a historical person. This book examines five major types of challenges to Jesus' historicity.

In Hindu Mythology Brahma is renowned as the creator of the three worlds and of the system of rules (dharma) that holds them and their inhabitants together. This is a substantially revised edition of a book originally published in 1983...