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The Upanishads are the oldest and clearest expression of the perennial philosophy that is the inner core of all the great religions.

Although the role of the visual is essential to Indian tradition and culture, most attempts to understand its images are laden with misperceptions. Darsan, a Sanskrit word that means seeing, is an aid to our vision, a book of ideas to help us read, think, and look at Hindu images with tolerance and imagination.

An account of an exceptional life and a profound introduction to the ancient science of yoga and its tradition of meditation.

The Ramayana is the greatest of Indian epics - and one of the world's supreme masterpieces of storytelling. Telling the story, this work suggests that it can be enjoyed for its psychological insight, its spiritual depth and its wisdom - or as a tale of abduction, battle and courtship played out in a universe with heroes, deities and demons.

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One of the very best must-read SF novels of all time

Retells the story of Prince Rama - with its nobility of spirit, courtly intrigue, heroic renunciation, fierce battles, and triumph of good over evil.

A social scientist recreates his search for expanded consciousness, through the psychedelia of LSD to the final calm and inner wisdom of Rajah Yoga.

A much-needed, comprehensive and up-to-date thematic and historical survey of Hinduism.

Retells the story of a dynastic struggle, between the Kurus and Pandavas, for land.

Recorded in sacred Sanskrit texts, including the Rig Veda and the Mahabharata, Hindu Myths are thought to date back as far as the tenth century BCE. This book contains seventy-five seminal myths that features the many incarnations of Vishnu, who saves mankind from destruction.

Using a collection of paintings, sculptures and original writings, this book is a celebration of the Indian Goddess Kali, and a celebration of the rich meanings of feminine divinity.

Presenting an overview of Hinduism, this book offers an analysis of the challenges facing it in the twentieth century. It discusses key preoccupations of Hinduism, such as the centrality of the Veda as religious texts, the importance of epics such as the Ramayana, and also the place of women and dalits (untouchables) in contemporary society.

Comprises such sacred books of India as the hymns of the Rig-Veda , the world's first recorded poems, the stirring pantheistic speculations of the Upanishads and the Bhagavad-Gita , a cosmic drama of God's self-revelation in human history, on the field of human battle.

Goddess worship has long been a significant aspect of Hinduism. In this book, the author sorts out the rich yet often chaotic history of Hindu goddess worship.

Discusses the evolution of Hinduism's central systems of belief and codes of conduct, as well as popular cults and sects such as Bhakti, Tantrika and the mystics of North India, and describes the varying incarnations of its supreme deity, Krishna and Rama among them.

The first impact of this text about the Indianness of India is one of strangeness, bewilderment and disorientation. However, slowly the strange becomes familiar, and as Ka folds and enfolds the world of Deva and the Seven Seers, of Siva, and through to the advent of Budhha, all becomes clear.

Offers an encyclopaedic representation of human life in the world, and how it should be lived. This work encompasses topics as wide-ranging as the social obligations and duties of the various castes, the proper way for a righteous king to rule and to punish transgressors, relations between men and women, birth, death, taxes, karma, and rebirth.