One of the seeming miracles in the story of man is the spread of ideas, across the barriers of formidable mountains, vast oceans and national boundaries. The warm acceptance of concepts from distant lands goes to underline the deep similarity...

Sanskrit & English. Candipatha, a part of the Markandeya Purana, which is one of the eighteen major Puranas, is its most important segment. Apart from Sridurgasaptasati, which forms the core of Candipatha, there are, preceding and succeeding it, several hymns...

These Studies in Philosophy represents all the published and only a few unpublished writings of Krishna Chandra Bhattacharyya. These published writing date back 1908, but his characteristic philosophical position assumes definite shape in the writings during the year 1928-36. The...

The book very clearly the problem of suffering and prescribes measures for their annihilation. It prescribes ways and means for achieving Egolessness, purification of mind, the cessation of the cycle rebirth and the total absorption of the personal soul into...

Yoga has come to be an Icon of Indian culture and civilization and it is widely regarded as being timeless and unchanging. Based on extensive ethnographic research and an analysis of both ancient and modern texts, Yoga in modern India...

This book is the first critical edition of a comprehensive Sanskrit version of the Nasiketa myth, with a full translation into English. The text is composed of several manuscripts belonging to the same branch of the story development and is...

Samadhi is a topic of great curiosity, amazement, astonishment and mysteriousness. There are stories of people sitting quietly in Samadhi for years together. Stories of Uddhava, Hanumana in Samadhi are startling for many people. Drk-Drsya Viveka, however, explains the concept...

Baudhayana Srautasutram: Bhavswamikrit-Kalpvivranen Sametam (5 Vols.): The Baudhayana Srautasutra with the Commentary of Bhavasvamin

Ocean of Nectar is first complete commentary in english to Chandrakirti's classic guide to the middle way, one of the most important scriptures in Mahayan Buddhism and regarded to this day as the principal text on emptiness, the ultimate nature...

Buddhism does not recognize a concept of the existence of God (theos) such as found in Christianity, but here theos is not used to refer only to an absolute deity like the Christian god. By "theology" the author means the...

Jainism is one of the World's oldest religious traditions. Is it still a living and dynamic faith? The Indian religion of Jainism, whose central tener involves non-violence to all creatures, is one of the world's oldest and at the same...

The Original Gita, which predates the Bhagavad Gita, focuses on the basic philosophical and practical essentials of life and living. Here dualism is addressed and shown to be illusionary, since every pair of opposites implies a third element: the notion...