Centuries ago, it was proclaimed of the Mahabharata: "What is not in it, is nowhere." But even now, we can use the same words about it. He who knows it not, knows not the heights and depths of the soul; he misses the trials and tragedy and the beauty and grandeur of life. The Mahabharata is not a mere epic; it is a romance telling the tale of heroic men and women, and of some who were divine. It is a whole literature in itself, containing a code of life, a philosophy of social and ethical relations, and speculative thought on human problems that is hard to rival.

    This collection includes 242 ACK titles and 6 special issues as mentioned below.) A Bag of Gold Coins Abhimanyu Adi Shankara Ajatashatru Akbar Amar Singh Rathor Amrapali Anand Math Ancestors of Rama Andhaka Angulimala Aniruddha Aruni and Uttanka Ashoka Ashwini Kumar Ayyappan Babasaheb Ambedkar Bagha Jatin Bahubali Bajirao Baladitya and Yashodharma Banda Bahadur Bappa Rawal Basaveshwara Battle of Wits Bhagat Singh Bheema and Hanuman Bheeshma Bikal the Terrible Bimbisara Birbal the Clever Birbal the Genius Birbal the Inimitable Birbal the Just Birbal the Wise Birbal the Witty Birbal to the Rescue Buddha Chaitanya Mahaprabhu Chanakya Chand Bibi Chandra Shekhar Azad Chandragupta Maurya Chandrahasa Chandralalat Chokha Mela Dasharatha Dayananda Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das Devi Choudhurani Dhruva and Ashtavakra Draupadi Drona Durgadas Elephanta Ellora Caves -The Glory of the Rashtrakootas Fa-Hien Friends and Foes: Animal Tales From The Mahabharata Gandhari Ganesha Ganga Garuda Ghanshyamdas Birla Ghatotkacha Gopal and the Cowherd Gopal the Jester Guru Arjan Guru Gobind Singh Guru Nanak Guru Tegh Bahadur Hanuman Hanuman to the Rescue Harishchandra Harsha Hitopadesha : Choice of Friends Hitopadesha: How Friends are parted Hiuen Tsang Indra and Shachi Indra and Shibi J.R.D. Tata Jagadis Chandra Bose Jagannatha of Puri Jahangir Jallianwala Bagh Jamsetji Tata Jataka Tales : Deer Stories Jataka Tales : Elephant Stories Jataka Tales : Jackal Stories Jataka Tales : Monkey Stories Jataka Tales : Nandivishala Jataka Tales : Stories of Courage Jataka Tales : Stories of Wisdom Jataka Tales : Tales of Misers Jataka Tales : True Friends Jataka Tales: Bird Stories Jataka Tales: The Giant and the Dwarf Jataka Tales: The Mouse ...

    Through these ancient aphorisms you will learn how to control your mind and achieve inner peace and freedom. Although these methods were taught over 2,000 years ago, they are as alive and effective today as they have ever been. The 2008 edition has been reset and now has an extensive index for reference.

    Poet Valmiki describes Rama as a dutiful son, loving brother, devoted husband, fierce warrior and wise statesman, of pleasant manners and speech. Rama is above all an upholder of Dharma so it is no wonder that he is hailed as an avatar or incarnation of Lord Vishnu.

    The song of birds, the thunder of rain clouds, and the glow of the morning sun revealed life's secrets to Satyakama. Coming face to face with the lord of death, Nachiketa found the key to immortality. The lessons the two seekers learned were priceless, for they opened to others the door to eternal bliss.

    It is not sufficient to be a Hindu by birth. One must be a convinced and conscious Hindu to be able survive when Hindu society is under attack from several Quarters.

    From the author of The Complete Commentary by Sankara on the Yoga Sutras, this book deals with the karma-yoga meditation practice and the realization of the supreme self as described in the Bhagava Gita yoga.

    The special feature of this book is the detailed description of the various kinds of samadhi. Devanagri text with English translation and notes.

    Each Upanishad, or lesson, takes up a theme ranging from the attainment of spiritual bliss to karma and rebirth, and collectively they are meditations on life, death and immortality. The essence of their teachings is that truth can by reached by faith rather than by thought, and that the spirit of God is within each of us - we need not fear death as we carry within us the promise of eternal life.Older cover edition for ISBN 9780140441635.

    The original text has been printed in Devanagari type with running lucid English translation. Footnotes have been added wherever necessary. The Candi is divided into 13 chapters and consists of 700 mantras and hence it is called the Saptasati. Three aspects of the Divine Mother have been depicted in the book and they are (1) Mahakali (Chapter I), (2) Mahalaksmi (Chapters II to IV) and (3)Mahasarasvati (Chapters V to XIII) and meditation on each of them has been added with English translation. The whole of Devi-Mahatmyam is chanted on sacred occasions, especially during the Durga-Puja (Navaratri).

    His family doted on him. The people were proud of him. Even wild animals showed him respect. Then why did this handsome, noble, generous prince give up everything and endure years of hunger and hardship? To gain three incomparable jewels - right belief, right knowledge and right conduct and that was how, 2,500 years ago, he found the path to complete happiness.

    To his devotees, he is a divine incarnation. Summing up the life of Sri Ramakrishna, Will Durant, in his The Story of Civilization, writes: "All religions are good, he taught his followers; 'All rivers flow to the ocean. Flow and let others flow too!' He tolerated sympathetically the polytheism of the people and accepted humbly the monism of the philosophers; but in his own living faith God was a spirit incarnated in all men and the only true worship of God was the loving service of mankind."

    This volume contains the text of the Upanishad and Gaudapada's Karika in Devanagari, their translation, and also the translation of Shankaracharya's commentaries on them along with exhaustive notes. A critical and scholarly preface by the learned translator adds to the worth of the book.It is difficult to imagine how the abstruse subject matter of this Upanishad and Shankaracharya's commentary could be made more easy of comprehension.

    'Chinmaya' means true knowledge, and it is what Swami Chinmayananda taught the world.

    It analyses the entire range of human consciousness in the three states of waking (jagrat),dream (swapna) and dreamless sleeo (susupti) which are common to all men.It asserts unequivocally that the Absolutely Reality is non-dual (advaita) and attributes (nirguna). It has a unique method of approach to Truth.It provides symbol for meditation in the mono-syllable AUM-comprising of three sounds A,U,M, detailing it's philosphical implications.According to Muktikopanisad,it forms the epitome of all the hundred and eight Upanisad-s which have been accepted as authentic.

    The book is a treasure house of stories of the devotees of Lord Vishnu. Through each story the author seeks to prove that God does not forsake him who has implicit faith. The repeated attempts on the life of innocent Chandrahasa not only failed to materialise, but also finally boomeranged on the villain himself because of Chandrahasa’s implicit faith in the Lord.

    This book presents an English translation and expansion of the Mahaviri, with the original text, word-by-word meanings, translation, commentary, detailed notes, prosody, musical notation, verse index and word index of the Hanuman Chalisa. The book is a must-have for reciters and singers of the Hanuman Chalisa who want to understand the deep essence of Tulsidas' timeless hymn to Hanuman. "... Shri Nityanand Misra has translated and annotated the text based on the acclaimed Hindi commentary Mahaviri (1983) by Swami Ramabhadracharya. This throws a great deal of light on the deeper meaning of Tulasi Das's famous work, and will be welcomed by scholars and laymen alike." -Dr. Karan Singh "Inspired in equal measure by profound devotion and immense knowledge, the Mahaviri commentary on the beloved and revered Hanuman-Calisa will be welcomed by the many devoted reciters of this praise-poem who would like to explore its deeper meanings ... Nityananda Misra's careful English translation, scholarly yet readable, will make these insights accessible to a broader audience." -Philip Lutgendorf, Professor of Hindi: University of Iowa "One of the very few books which have inspired me to make positive changes in lifestyle. Gives a new dimension to the world of devotion. A must-read." -Anup Jalota "My love and blessings to Nityananda Misra for this effort." -Sri Sri Ravi Shankar "This elaborated edition ... will certainly exhilarate hundred thousands of devotees and other readers also. The editor-translator Sri Nityanand Misra and the publisher Niramaya publishing house both deserve profuse felicitations on this new arrival." -Devarshi Kalanath Shastri (Sanskrit scholar, Jaipur)

    They are a treasure-house of wisdom, understanding, and entertainment. For this reason, every Indian interested in his own culture seeks to go back to them. The present series is an attempt to fulfil this need. Starting with the epics of Ramayana and Mahabharata and moving on the works of Mahakavi Kalidas and other writers of note, this series strives to present Sanskrit and Hindi classic in simple, readable English. The series depicts well known Indian classics in a condensed form and simple English. Explanatory notes and exercises are given at the end of each book. The series is most suitable to serve as supplementary readers for middle and higher classes.

    While the Upanishads lay the foundation of the loftiest reach possible for humanity and the Brahmasutras logically elucidate the intricate issues involved in the Upanishads, the Bhagavadgita blends together the Transcendent and the Immanent features of the Ultimate Reality, bringing together into an integrated whole knowledge and action, the inner and the outer, the individual and the society, man and God, all which are portrayed as facets of a Universal Operation, presenting entire life and all life as a perfectly complete organic wholeness, leaving nothing unsaid and attempting to solve every problem in life.

    Tirumantiram is the seminal text of Saiva-Siddhanta which has produced a galaxy of saints and has powerfully influenced the day-to-day life of millions in South India,generation after generation.It’s author Tirumular was according to legend, a yogi who took compassion on a herd of cattle that had lost their shepherd and entering the body of the shepherd by his yogic power,continued to look after the flock.So when we find in this great classic,such splendid gems as ""Anbe Sivam’-God is Love-we realize that the great yogi preached only what he lived.His fervent message that the ultimate Reality is One and all of us belong to the same family has special relevance to us moderns,who have lost our moorings of faith and and are ‘wandering between two worlds,one dead,the other powerless to be born.’Apart from the literasry merits,Tirumantiram blazes a number of spiritual trails any of which the aspirant can follow with the full confidence that the Goal Suprerme is within the reach.The English translation and part of the notes are by the Late Dr.B.Natarajan who was not only a profound tamil scholar but also a noted economist.The book has the original Tamil verse and the English translation.

    English Translation available by Swamy Nithya Swarupananda, John Richards, Hari Prasad Shastri.‘Ashtavakra Gita’ is one of the advaitic masterpieces. Without mincing matters it comes out with the advaitic truth, the whole truth and nothing but advaita which is the Truth. This book embodies Ashtavakra’s teaching to King Janaka which vouched him Self-Knowledge between the time he placed one foot upon the stirrup of his horse and lifted himself to place the other foot on the other stirrup.However, as can be seen from the following quote, Bhagavan Ramana said that there is no time involved at all in Self-Knowledge.“…. When I entered the hall the story of how the Ashtavakra Gita came to be taught was being recounted in English for the benefit of the above Raja and other visitors. After the story was read out, Bhagavan said, ‘Because Brahma Jnana is not something external, which is somewhere faraway where you can go and get it, you cannot say that it will take so long or so short a time to attain it. It is always with you. . . . All that is necessary is to surrender yourself completely to the Guru, to surrender your notion of ‘I’ and ‘mine’ ….” Of course, that is what King Janaka did. He surrendered his notion of ‘I’ and ‘mine’ to Sage Ashtavakra. Has not Bhagavan said that surrender and Self-enquiry are the only two ways to Self-Realisation?Bhagavan has also made other references to this great book.Sri Ramakrishna persuaded Narendra to read ‘Ashtavakra Gita’ which had a stupendous impact on the young devotee who later flowered into Swami Vivekananda, the doughty Advaitic evangelist.The Sanskrit script is in Bhagavan’s own handwriting cut out from an Archival Publication of the Ashram.

    This book highlights the educational initiatives during the reigns of the Pallava, Pandya, Chola, Vijayanagara, Nayaka and other kings.The inscriptions across the Tamil country talk about Sanskrit education in detail. Agraharas, ghatikas, temple-colleges and mathas were the main educational institutions propagating Sanskrit texts. The teachers were handsomely paid and bhatta-vritti was the norm of the day; villages were donated to them either as ekabhoga or as agrahara (brahmadeya). There were poets and composers among the rulers, as an embodiment of their dedication to education. The numerous grants act as authentic sources of information on the reigns of these rulers, scholars, composers and educational institutions across many centuries beginning from the Pallava times.Giving a deep insight, this book is an invaluable source of information for students and researchers in the ancient and medieval history of India.

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    The evolution of the Vedic thought starting from adoring the various natural forces as manifestations of the Divine, to the ultimate proclamations of oneness with the Divine, forms the vast body of Vedic literature.Upanishads which contain the highest Vedic philosophy, often referred to as Vedanta, are the crown of Vedic literature. The highest importance and significance of Vedas can be understood from the fact that, in Bharat, no auspicious activity can start without chanting of Vedic hymns at the beginning.Veda Puspanjali is a bouquet of Vedic blossoms from the students of Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, at the Divine Lotus Feet of the Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba, the Veda Purusha Himself. At a time when generally the teaching of Vedas even in traditional schools, is confined to mere chanting of Veda mantras without going into either a study of their meaning or a contemplation on their experience, pains and efforts taken by the student compiler is worth appreciating as essential purport of the various hymns in English along with their Sanskrit text in Devanagiri script and their transliteration in English is given which makes this a unique collection.

    

    The first volume of Srimad Bhagavata Mahapurana, consisting of the verses from Section 1 to Section 8 of the original Sanskrit text, along with its English translation.

    Together with the monumental work on the Brhadaranyaka Upanisad by Swami Madhavananda, which is also published by us, it brings to completion the English translation of the commentary of Sankaracarya on all the ten principal Upanisads.

    (But) when to the knower of Brahman everything has become the Self, then what should one smell and through what, what should one hear and through what, what should one speak and through what, what should one think and through what, what should know and through what? That owing to which all this is known - through what, O maitreyi should one know the knower?"The Brhadaranyaka Upanishad is considered by some to be the greatest Upanishad. Likewise, the commentary of Shankara is also regarded as his greatest. The theme is the all-embracing Brahman. The commentary shows how the great truth of the Brahman-Atman identity forms the main purport of all the Vedantic texts in general, and this Upanishad in particular. With Devanagri, Sanskrit and English, translation and commentary.Brhadaranyaka Upanishad is the primary (Mukhya) Upanishad amongst all the Upanishads. It is the commentary on White (Shukla) Yajur Veda and is associated with Shatapatha Brahmana. The last five chapters from the fourteen volume of Shatapatha Brahmana is the Brhadaranyaka Upanishad. It is supposedly written by Sri Yogeeswara Yagnavalkya.Brihadaranyaka Upanishad is as old as the Shukla Yajur Veda, exact time is unknown. Brhat means big and aranya means forest; together put, it means a book that has many chapters and which should be read in a forest, where there is solitude and peace. It contains deep spiritual knowledge and so it better to read it when there is inner and external peace.In the ancient times, sages would prefer to meditate in forests; it may be with the same motive. Another reason, why it is called as Brhadaranyaka may possibly be because sage Yagnavalkya wrote it in the forests. That era, sages spent lot of their time in the forests.

    OM is one of the shortest Sanskrit words, and yet is considered the most powerful word and a mystic mantra in Hinduism. The OM Mala gives eighty-four names of OM as per classical, epic, and medieval Sanskrit texts and explains their various meanings in 109 sections or beads, corresponding to 109 beads in a mala (108 chanting beads and one ‘sumeru bead’). Each bead of this book presents simple meaning of one name (or more than one related names) of OM and offers an explanation along with listing the relevant traditions, explaining the etymology, and quotations. The book includes rare names of OM like ‘shrutipada’ and ‘rasa’ as well as its common names like ‘om’, ‘udgitha’, and ‘pranava’. Both popular meanings of OM (like the trinity of Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva) and its rare meanings (like inhalation, holding the breath, and exhalation) are included.

    Chaitanya Mahaprabhu showed a simple path to reach God, which later came to be known as Gaudiya Vaishnavism. Chaitanya not only stemmed the tide of conversion to Islam, but also provided a new life force to Hindu religion. While explaining a number of ways by which devotees can reach Him, Krishna mentions this simple one in the Gita: "Sarvadharman parityajya mamekam sharanam vraja" (Forsaking all dogmas of religion, take refuge in me.). This complete surrender to God, know to Vaishnavites as 'Prapattivada,' leads to Krishna or Rama (incarnations of Vishnu). In the medieval age, a number of ways were suggested to effect this complete surrender. Chaitanya emphasised the 'gopibhava', the method of worship adopted by the damsels (gopis) of Vraja. They expected nothing from Krishna, and yet were deeply in love with him. Chaitanya also preached that all men are equal. "Don't ask a Vaishnava what his caste is," said the Vaishnavites, "because he who worships Vishnu is His". But even while preaching love and brotherhood, Chaitanya taught the people not to yield to injustice and untruth. Perhaps, the first ever non-co-operation movement (satyagraha, as Gandhiji later called it) was launched by Chaitanya. When the Kazi of Nabadwip forbade the singing of bhajans in the open, Chaitanya ordered peaceful mass-singing. What is more, he led a peaceful procession of hundreds who sang all the way to the house of the Kazi. The Kazi, it is said, was converted by Chaitanya. Such was the power of Chaitanya.

    Though these six systems are different in their approaches to the truth, they are unanimous as far as the final goal of humankind is concerned, which is, total eradication of suffering and attainment of state of eternal peace.

    This book is an excellent transalation of the lectures on Guru-tattva-the concept of the Educator-delivered in Tamil by Pujyasri Chandrasekharendra Sarasvati Svami, Acharya of the Kanchi Kamakoti Pitha, popularly known as "Peryival", during the long sojourn of the Acharya in the metropolita city of Madras and its suburbs between October 1957 and about the end of the year 1959. The translation into English has been done by R.G.K., formerly assistant editor of the The Illustrated Weekly of India. The translation of the speeches on the Guru-tattva printed in this volume is elegant. It is so simple as can be easily understood. The Gurudeva's discourses on the concept of the Guru covered in this work emcompasses the entire ambit of preceptors and teachers from the sage-gurus, the preceptors and teachers from the sage-gurus, the preceptors of gurukulas of the distant past and adhyapakas of pathasalas down to the college professors and schoolteachers of the present time. The patient reader will not fail to note the wide gulf separating the value-based, devoted, disciplined and systematic study that prevailed in olden times - with the consequent attainment by the student of good and perfect knowledge for its own sake-and the educational set-up of today which is devoid of any affectionate or intimate contact between teacher and taught and which for its aim the securing of degrees-deservedly or otherwise-as passports to mere material prosperity with the resulting decay in human values and the rise of problems like indiscipline in our educationl institutions.