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Darshana (Philosophy) </em>  : (♣ indicates a booklet)<br />
<a class="online" href="#about">About</a> |
<a class="online" href="#Advaita">Advaita</a> |
<a class="online" href="#Dvaita">Dvaita</a> |
<a class="online" href="#Mimamsa">Mimamsa</a> |
<a class="online" href="#Nyaya">Nyaya</a> |
<a class="online" href="#Samkhya">Samkhya</a> |
<a class="online" href="#Saivam">Saivam</a> |
<a class="online" href="#Vaishnavam">Vaishnavam</a>
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<a class="text" href="aspectsofvedanta00madriala.pdf" target="_BLANK">Aspects of the Vedanta (Essays)</a>
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Many of the papers collected together in this volume originally appeared in the Brahmavadin and in the Indian Review, while some others were delivered as lectures or written as papers by the gentlemen under whose names they appear. -- publisher
<br /><br /><a class="text" href="attitudeofvedant029330mbp.pdf" target="_BLANK">Attitude Of Vedanta Towards Religion (Abhedananda)</a>
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Attitude of Vedanta towards Religion is a thesis of universaljoutlook of thought. It attempts to prove the identity of the essence and ideal of Vedanta with religion. Its venture is to establish that philosophy is the theoretical and speculative side of religion, and religion is the practical side of philosophy; philosophy is the flesh and bone and religion is the blood and life. -- publisher
<br /><br /><a class="text" href="brahmadarsanam00achauoft.pdf" target="_BLANK">Brahma Darsanam (Ananda Acharya)</a>
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These lectures were given under the inspiration of such beliefs, formed partly from personal experience in teaching, and partly derived from the wisdom of our Hindu Rishis and Gurus. Intended especially for beginners, and delivered ex tempore, they do not claim to be a systematic treatise; they will serve their purpose if they succeed in persuading the reader that he and I are of one blood and one life. -- author
<br /><br /><a class="text" href="brahmanismhindu00moniuoft.pdf" target="_BLANK">Brahmanism and Hinduism (Monier-Williams)</a>
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THE present work is intended to meet the wants of those educated Englishmen who may be desirous of gaining an insight into the mental, moral, and religiousjcondition of the innabitants of our Eastern empire and yet are quite unable to sift for themselves the confused mass of informationaccurate and inaccurate spread out before them by innu merable writers on Indian subjects. Its aim will be to present trustworthy outlines of two important phases of religious thought and life in India, namely Brahmanism and Hinduism, as based on the Veda and other sacred books of the Hindus. -- author
<br /><br /><a class="text" href="cosmiccreation00chatuoft.pdf" target="_BLANK">Cosmic Creation (Sukumar Chatterji)</a> ♣
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COSMIC CREATION has been presented first, not only because it is the foundation of all Aryan philosophy and logic, but also because a comprehension of the modus operandi of the Aryan mind, from its inception to its conception, and from conception to ex pression, is essential to the understanding of the treatises which will follow, and which will deal with practical methods of mental disci pline and achievements. -- author
<br /><br /><a class="text" href="dialoguesonhindu00baneiala.pdf" target="_BLANK">Dialogues of the Hindu Philosophy (K.M.Banerjea)</a>
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THE objects aimed at in the following dialogues are, first, to give a correct and authentic statement of the doctrines of Hindu philosophy, and, secondly, to suggest such modes of dealing with them as may prove most effective to the Hindu mind. -- author
<br /><br /><a class="text" href="Colloquium04-Doxographies.pdf" target="_BLANK">Doxographies - Why six darœanas? Which six? </a>
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These days it is commonly held that there are six darœanas or systems of orthodox or astika Hindu philosophy. These are usually enumerated as three pairs: Nyaya and Vaiœe.ika, Sa.khya and Yoga, Mima.sa and Vedanta. The heterodox or nastika systems are typically enumerated separately: the Jaina, Buddhist and the Materialists (the Lokayatas/Carvakas). This paper explores why traditional doxographies are often preoccupied with enumerating only six systems and which systems they choose to enumerate. -- author
<br /><br /><a class="text" href="hinduphilosophy00boseuoft.pdf" target="_BLANK">Hindu Philosophy Popularly Explained (R.C.Bose)</a>
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The companion volume is to consist, besides an introductory chapter presenting the characteristic features of Hindu Heterodoxy, of four chapters on Buddha and his Philosophy, two chapters on Jainaism, one chapter on the Charvaka Epicurism, one on the Pseudo-Theism of the schools of Rainanuja and Ramananda, one on Kabir and his creed, and two on Guru Nanak and his creed, and an article on Esoteric Buddhism to be added as a supplement. -- author
<br /><br /><a class="text" href="indianwisdomorex00moniiala.pdf" target="_BLANK">Indian Wisdom (Monier-Williams)</a>
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<a class="text" href="indianwisdomwith00moniuoft.pdf" target="_BLANK"> 3rd Edn. </a>
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Its pages are also intended to subserve a further object. They aim at imparting to educated Englishmen, by means of translations and explanations of portions of the sacred and philosophical literature of India, an insight into the mind, habits of thought, and customs of the Hindus, as well as a correct knowledge of a system of belief and practice which has constantly prevailed for at least three thousand years, and still continues to exist as one of the principal religions of the Non- Christian world. -- author
<br /><br /><a class="text" href="mirrorofhinduphi00nilaiala.pdf" target="_BLANK">A Mirror of the Hindu Philosophical Systems (N.Nilakanta)</a>
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<i>The Mirror of the Hindu Philosophical Systems</i> was translated by Dr. Fitz-Edward Hall from the Hindi. The author, in a Paper on ' The Hindu Philosophies ', in the Indian Church Quarterly Review, for April, 1891, states that the technical terms of Hindu Philosophy are not always correctly rendered in English. -- author
<br /><br /><a class="text" href="natureofmanaccor033308mbp.pdf" target="_BLANK">The Nature of Man According to the Vedanta (John Levy)</a>
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Investigations from a curious seeker who went through the rigours of other religions.
<br /><br /><a class="text" href="outlinesofindian00srinrich.pdf" target="_BLANK">Outlines of Indian Philosophy (PT Srinivasa Iyengar)</a>
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I have, in the following pages, attempted to separate the varied threads of the tangled skein of modern Hindu philosophical thought and religious beliefs. -- author
<br /><br /><a class="text" href="rationalrefutati00gorerich.pdf" target="_BLANK">A Rational refutation of the Hindu Philosophical Systems (NNS Gore)</a>
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Essentially the same work as <i>A mirror of the Hindu philosophical systems</i> listed above.
<br /><br /><a class="text" href="thesarvadarsanas00madhuoft.pdf" target="_BLANK">Sarva Darshana Samgraha: Madhava (E.B.Cowell)</a>
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I WELL remember the interest excited among the learned Hindus of Calcutta by the publication of the Sarva-darsana- samgraha of Madhava Acharya in the Bibliotheca Indica in 1858. It was originally edited by Pandit Isvarachandra Vidyasagara, but a subsequent edition, with no important alterations, was published in 1872 by Pandit Taranatha Tarkavachaspati. -- translator
<br /><br /><a class="text" href="schoolsofvedanta033449mbp.pdf" target="_BLANK">The Schools of Vedanta (P.Nagaraja Rao)</a>
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Among the Hindus the values are conveyed through systems o Philosophy which are associated with the three great acaryas, Sahkara, Ramanuja and Madhva. Mr. NAGARAJA RAO gives us here in simple and clear language the central features of the three systems. As an introduction to their detailed study this book will serve a valuable purpose. -- Foreword by S. Radhakrishnan
<br /><br /><a class="text" href="ShankaraGC.pdf" target="_BLANK">Shankara's Commentary on the Vedanta Sutras</a> ♣
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Commentary on the Brahma-Sutra Bhasya.
<br /><br /><a class="text" href="studiesinhinduth00gangrich.pdf" target="_BLANK">Studies in Hindu Thought (Ganguli,Charuchandra)</a>
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Analysed Psychologically, Epistemologically and Ontologically after the Sankar Vedanta. -- author
<br /><br /><a class="text" href="studiesinvedanti00bhatiala.pdf" target="_BLANK">Studies in Vedantism (KC Bhattacharyya)</a>
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The following studies in Vedantism are not so much expositions of the traditional Vedanta as problematic constructions on Vedantic lines intended to bring out the relations of the system to modern philosophical systems. The work of construction has, however, been subordinated to the work of interpretation. A wide latitude of interpretation has been claimed throughout. -- author
<br /><br /><a class="text" href="SYSTEM INDIAN PHILOSOPHY.pdf" target="_BLANK">The Systems of Indian Philosophy (VR Gandhi)</a>
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`The Systems of Indian Philosophy' is published here for the first time. It contains lectures which late V. R. Gandhi delivered before American audience of the common people, while he was on his journey to attend the World Congress of Religions held for the first time in the United States of America in 1893 A.D.
<br /><br /><a class="text" href="ThreeLecturesOnTheVedantaPhilosophy.pdf" target="_BLANK">Three Lectures on the Vedanta Philosophy (Max Muller)</a>
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Delivered at the Royal Institution in March 1894.
<br /><br /><a class="text" href="universalityofve00prakrich.pdf" target="_BLANK">Universality of Vedanta (Prakashananda)</a>
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A lecture delivered at the Congress of Religious Philosophies, held under the auspices of P. P. I. E. at San Francisco in 1915
<br /><br /><a class="text" href="vedbegin.pdf" target="_BLANK">Vedanta for Beginners (Sivananda)</a>
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Introduces Vedanta to a seeker.
<br /><br /><a class="text" href="vedantaforthewes029280mbp.pdf" target="_BLANK">Vedanta For The Western World (Isherwood,Christopher)</a>
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A collection of essays on the principles of Vedanta by Indian and Western writers.
<br /><br /><a class="online" href="http://www.shastras.com/otherbooks/swamivivekananda/" target="_BLANK">Vedanta Future Religion? (Vivekananda)(online)</a><br />
(Delivered in San Francisco on April 8, 1900)<br />
Those of you who have been attending my lectures for the last month or so must, by this time, be familiar with the ideas contained in the Vedanta philosophy. Vedanta is the most ancient religion of the world; but it can never be said to have become popular. Therefore the question “Is it going to be the religion of the future?” is very difficult to answer. -- author
<br /><br /><a class="text" href="vedantaphilos00abheuoft.pdf" target="_BLANK">Vedanta Philosophy, Divine Heritage of Man (Abhedananda)</a>
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The topics covered include the existence and attributes of God, relationship of souls to Him and the divine principle in man.
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<a class="text" href="advaita_bodha_deepika.pdf" target="_BLANK">Advaita Bodha Deepika (Ramanasramam)</a>
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Sri Ramanananda Saraswathi (formerly Munagala Venkataramiah) a devotee of Bhagavan has by the grace of Sri Ramana rendered into English the eight chapters of the work now available. The last four chapters, Savikalpa Samadhi, Nirvikalpa Samadhi, Jivan Mukti, and Videha Mukti not being found in Tamil, Telugu or Sanskrit Manuscripts could not be translated into English. Information on the missing chapters is earnestly sought and will be gratefully acknowledged by the publisher.
This book is one of the few esteemed by Sri Maharshi and this translation was thoroughly revised in His Presence. So we are encouraged to present this small volume to the public with full confidence that the reader will benefit by it.
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Advaita Lectures: (Godavarisha Mishra)</span><br />
<a class="text" href="gmishra01mmas04.pdf" target="_BLANK">1. Advaita in Theory and Practice</a>
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<a class="text" href="gmishra02mmas04.pdf" target="_BLANK"> 2. A Journey through Vedantic History</a>
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<a class="text" href="gmishra03mmas04.pdf" target="_BLANK"> 3. Advaita Epistemology </a>
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<a class="text" href="gmishra04mmas04.pdf" target="_BLANK"> 4. Advaita Epistemology: Perception - Veridical and Erroneous </a>
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These lectures were delivered in Michaelmas Term (Oct.-Dec. 2003). They are intended to introduce the basic tenets of Advaita tracing it from the period of Gaudapada through Sankara to the present day Advaitins. They examine the philosophical subtleties of Advaita, its enrichment through productive dialogue with other schools and also its impact on the society. These are designed for students in Indian Philosophy, Theology and Religious studies and do not require in-depth understanding of Indian scriptures. However, they could also be of particular interest to advanced students of Indology and Sanskrit studies.
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<br /><br /><a class="text" href="AdvaitaManjari.pdf" target="_BLANK">Advaita Manjari (K. Sadananda)</a>
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(Advaitin List Moderator and a Disciple of H.H. Swami Chinmayanandaji)
<br /><br /><a class="text" href="Advaita Sadhana.pdf" target="_BLANK">Advaita Sadhana (Kanchi Maha SwamigaL)</a>
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Acknowledgement of Source Material: Ra. Ganapthy’s ‘Deivathin Kural’ (Vol.6) in Tamil published by Vanathi Publishers, 4th edn. 1998
URL of Tamil Original:
http://www.kamakoti.org/tamil/dk6-74.htmto http://www.kamakoti.org/tamil/dk6-141.htm
English rendering : V. Krishnamurthy
<br /><br /><a class="text" href="AyyarAdvaitaVedanta.pdf" target="_BLANK">Advaita Vedanta: A Presentation for Beginners (D. Krishna Ayyar)</a>
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A presentation for the beginners.
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Advaita Vedanta: Essays (Advayananda)</span><br />
<a class="text" href="Av-Essay1.pdf" target="_BLANK">1. What does Upanishad mean</a>
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To approach (Upa) + To be steadfast (Ni) + To destroy (Sad) Upanishad is that knowledge, which destroys the ignorance of those who approach its teaching and steadfastly abide in it. Sri Shankaracharya presents this idea in his commentary on the Katha Upanishad ....
<br /><br /><a class="text" href="Av-Essay2.pdf" target="_BLANK"> 2. Anubandha Chatustaya </a>
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The word means Chatustaya means ‘four’. Anubandha means ‘con-nection’. So Anubandha-Chatustaya literally means ‘the four connections’. Since it is only on enquiry into the above-mentioned four questions that one would decide to connect one-self with the text (by studying it), these four are called Anubandha-Chatustaya or the ‘four connections’. The word Anubandha-Chatustaya is loosely translated in English as the ‘four preliminary questions’ or the ‘four basic considerations ........
<br /><br /><a class="text" href="Av-Essay3.pdf" target="_BLANK"> 3. Saddhana Chatustaya - Part 1 </a>
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This first one of Sadhana Chatustaya is called ‘viveka’ and is translated as ‘discrimination’. Its full form is ‘nitya-anitya-vastu-viveka’ Vedanta Sara defines it thus: ”Discrimination between things permanent and transient consists of the discernment that ’Brahman alone is permanent and that all things other than It are transient’.” ...........
<br /><br /><a class="text" href="Av-Essay4.pdf" target="_BLANK"> 4. Saddhana Chatustaya - Part 2 </a>
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The word vairagya literally means the ‘state of absence (vigata) of attachment (raga) - vigataragasya bhavah vairagyah'. It can be translated as detachment, desirelessness or dispassion. Vairagya is of three types: manda (dull), madhyama (mediocre), and tivra(intense) ........
<br /><br /><a class="text" href="Av-Essay5.pdf" target="_BLANK"> 5. Saddhana Chatustaya - Part 3 </a>
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Samadhana is the constant concentration of the restrained mind on Sravana etc., and in those activities conducive to the Vedantic pursuit (like the service of the guru, the cultivation of values like humility, modesty, non-injury etc.) ....
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The yearning for liberation is very rare. The Bhagavad Geeta (VII, 3) says that among thousands, one rare individual strives for liberation. Why is it so? It is because of the strength of one’s visaya vasanas (pleasure seeking extrovert tendencies) which one has gathered through one’s sojourn through many lives......
<br /><br /><a class="text" href="Av-Essay8.pdf" target="_BLANK"> 7. Gurupasadhana - Part 2 </a>
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Do we require a Guru to guide us to the knowledge of brahman or is it possible to gain it without any guidance? Some people opine that one can dispense with both the Guru and the Sastras(Scripture), while others say that since the Guru only explains the Sastras he be dispensed ......
<br /><br /><a class="text" href="Av-Essay9.pdf" target="_BLANK"> 8. Four types of Adhikarins </a>
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What prompts the Guru to give this priceless wealth of Knowledge to the student? Only his deep compassion. And this is his very nature itself. He has not the least trace of expectation from the student for the Jnana he bestows. He has attained the Lord after which there is nothing more to attain. His life is fulfilled. Hence, even if the Sisya .....
<br /><br /><a class="text" href="Av-Essay10.pdf" target="_BLANK"> 9. Two types of Teaching </a>
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On listening to the pauranic description of Lord Siva or Visnu one gets only a paroksa-jnana i.e. indirect knowledge of them. In the same way the manda and madhyama attain only paroksa-jnana of the Self. From paroksa they have to make their journey to aparoksanubhuti or paroksa-jnana . The traces of mala and viksepa dosas, which are seen as the waverings of the mind, have to cease. For this to happen, the Guru gives them the upadesa ......
<br /><br /><a class="text" href="Av-Essay11.pdf" target="_BLANK"> 10. Maya </a>
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The student in his ignorance has already superimposed the world of names and forms on Brahman. The Guru in order to help him come out of this illu-sion of the existence of the world and to enable him to realise his true nature points out that Maya is the cause of the world of names and forms. In this essay we shall elaborate on the nature of Maya in advaita vedanta.....
<br /><br /><a class="text" href="Siddhi.pdf" target="_BLANK">Advaitasiddhisarasamgraha (Madhusudana Saraswati)</a>
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An attempt has been made in the booklet to give the Siddantas in Madhusudana's own words with the English translation. Page No. in the edition of Parimal Publications has been given at the end of each quotation. -- compiler
<br /><br /><a class="text" href="drgdrsyaviveka030903mbp.pdf" target="_BLANK">Drg-Drsya Viveka (Bhasyam: Nikhilananda)</a>
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The importance of <i>Drg-Drsya Viveka</i> as an aid to the study of Vedanta has been well pointed out by the learned Swami Nikhilanandaji in his introduction to this translation. The central theme of this work is that Brahman is realized through mystic or Yogic Samadhi (Concentration). After this state is attained, one can see Brahman wherever one turns one's eyes. -- Forward by V.Subrahmanya Iyer
<br /><br /><a class="text" href="advaitadialogue.pdf" target="_BLANK">A Step by Step First Exposure to Advaita</a>
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The following rambling conversation has been composed as an attempt to bring to the lay reader some truths of advaita, without venturing into long passages. So a conscious effort has been made to reduce each bit of the conversation to a single line on the web(with just eight exceptions). It has turned out to be a no-holds-barred dialogue, long and continuous. -- author
<br /><br /><a class="text" href="I_Am_That.pdf" target="_BLANK">I am That (Nisargadatta Maharaj)</a>
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That there should be yet another addition of I AM THAT is not surprising, for the sublimity of the words spoken by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, their directness and the lucidity with which they refer to the Highest have already made this book a literature of paramount importance. In fact, many regard it as the only book of spiritual teaching really worth studying. -- Foreword by Douwe Tiemersma
<br /><br /><a class="text" href="AdvaitaLight-iyerbook.pdf" target="_BLANK">Lights on Advaita (V. Subrahmanya Iyer)</a>
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Selected Teachings of V. Subrahmanya Iyer
<br /><br /><a class="text" href="Phillips.pdf" target="_BLANK">The Mind-Body Problem in Three Indian Philosophies, Sankara’s Advaita Vedanta, Gangesa’s Navya Nyaya, and Aurobindo’s Theistic Monism (Phillips)</a> ♣
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A theme of this paper is that there is no single mind-body problem but a family of related difficulties concerning the relationships between consciousness and matter. Like the proverbial lump in the rug, philosophers move the problem around, and none, I think, avoids it altogether. -- author
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An analytical study of Maya: the history of the word, the development of its concept and objections to the doctrine within the Vedanta.
<br /><br /><a class="text" href="Discourses of Shri Atmananda.pdf" target="_BLANK">Notes on Spiritual Discourses (Atmananda)</a>
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The subject discussed is the ultimate Truth or Peace. The approach is the direct perception method of Advaita (the strict Vicaramarga). The field of enquiry is the totality of human experience, comprised of the experiences of the three states and the awareness still beyond. The stand taken is strictly in the absolute Truth, and reference made only to the being inside. All this is discussed in detail in the ensuing pages. -- author
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An Advaitin list.
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The Siddhantalesa is much more than a catalogue of varieties of advaita dodrine. The author's mind has reacted on the views expounded and some evidence of it is found in the way he arranges the views on each topic. -- translator
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This document has been extracted from a discussion on the Advaitin E-group <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/advaitin/messages> during Nov 2003 to Jan 2004. The discussion was led by Ananda Wood; and the extraction is largely the work of Dennis Waite, who has kindly made a browser version available on his website <http://www.advaita.org.uk/atmananda1.htm>.
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This work by Swami Madhusudana Saraswati compares the views on Moksha of various philosophical schools and establishes the Advaita Vedantic theory as the correct one. PDF with English translation by R. D. Karmarkar (
http://www.advaita-vedanta.org/texts/)
<br /><br /><a class="text" href="WhenceAdhyasa.pdf" target="_BLANK">Whence Adhyasa? (S.Venkataraman)</a>
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A Discussion from the Advaitin List.
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Wood Ananda: Essays on the Advaita Philosophy</span><br />
<a class="text" href="NothingButTruth.pdf" target="_BLANK">Nothing but truth: An interpretation of Jnyaneshvara’s Cangadeva Pasashti</a> ♣
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<a class="text" href="WhereThroughtTurnsBack.pdf" target="_BLANK">Where thought turns back...</a> ♣
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Sri Madhvacarya, also known as Vasudeva, Ananda Tîrtha and Pürnaprajna, is one of India’s greatest theologians. He is the founder of dvaita philosophy, and along with ¸Sankaracarya, is one of the most important commentators on the Upanishads, Bhagavad-gîta and the Brahma-sütras. His doctrine asserts that this world is real and that there is an eternal and immutable difference between the individual soul and God. -- author in his brief life sketch
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A 1921 publication under 'The Heritage of India Series' about the development and philosophy of the Karma-Mimamsa.
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The translation of Jaimini s Piirva Mimamsa is now published and placed before the learned readers. The translator knows how difficult it was to understand the Mimamsa in interpreting the dead Vedic rituals of the ancient Aryans and is still not sure whether he has correctly explained them. It is for the public to judge it. -- author
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In the following pages I have made an attempt to present the main metaphysical doctrines of two of the Hindu Schools of Philosophy, the Vaisheshika and the Nyaya, constituting what may be called Hindu Realism. -- author
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Considerations of space have rendered it necessary to omit all mere philological discussion and all treatment of points of minor philosophic interest. On the same ground no effort has been made to trace the vicissitudes of either system in China or Japan, or to deal with either Buddhist or Jain logic save where they come into im mediate contact with the doctrines of the Nyaya and Vaiesika. -- author
<br /><br /><a class="text" href="primerofindianlo032215mbp.pdf" target="_BLANK">A Primer of Indian Logic (S.Kuppuswami Sastri)</a>
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This little book, called A PRIMER OF IKDIAW LOGIC, is primarily based on Annambhatta's Tarkasamgraha and is designed to serve as an introduction, not only to the btudy of Indian logic as embodied in the Nyaya-Vaisesika literature in Sanskrit, but also to the study of Indian philosophy in its diverse systems. -- author
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The Samkhya-karika, with the Commentary of Gaudapada (1933)(tr.Har Dutt Sharma)</span><br />
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The Samkhya-karika, with the Commentary of Gaudapda, edited in Sanskrit and translated into English by Har Dutt Sharma, 1933:
<br /><br /><a class="text" href="thesamkhyaphilos00sinhuoft.pdf" target="_BLANK">The Samkhya Philosophy (1915)(Nandlal Sinha)</a>
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An attempt, moreover, has been made to make the volume useful in many other respects by the addition, for instance, of elaborate analytical tables of contents to the Sdmkhya-Prauachana-Sutram and the Sdmhhya-Kdrikd, and of a number of important appendices. -- author
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A 1919 publication under 'The Heritage of India Series' about the development and philosophy of the Samkhya.
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"When any Science reaches a unity, it cannot possibly go any farther. You cannot go beyond this idea of the Absolute, the idea of the One, out of which everything in the universe has evolved. The last word of Advaita is Tattvamasi, That thou art." These are the words of the author of the present volume, at the end of the book.
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Saivite Hindu Religion:Children's Course 6 vols.(HA)</span><br />
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Saivite Hindu Religion Book 1 (Ages 5-7)
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Saivite Hindu Religion Book 2 (Ages 6-8)
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SAIVA DHARMA SASTRAS IS A POTENT EDICT, AN IRREVOCABLE COMMISSION TO MY ACHARYA SUCCESSORS, DETAILING THEIR FUTURE DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES. FURTHER, IT IS A DOSSIER DESCRIBING FOR CHURCH MEMBERS AND THE public our international headquarters, monasteries, missions and extended families, our Himâlayan Academy, ministry and initiations, our family and monastic paths, articles of faith and conduct. It explains our World Outreach Mission: to protect, preserve and promote the Íaivite Hindu religion, to foster the growth of all sects of Hinduism through Hindu solidarity and to teach monistic Íaiva Siddhânta for the spiritual unfoldment of the individual and the family through temple worship and daily sadhana. -- authorities.
<br /><br /><a class="online" href="http://www.himalayanacademy.com/resources/books/virtue/IntroVirtue.html" target="_BLANK">Saivite Virtues (HA)(online)</a><br />
Please study these daily lessons over and over again for several months. There is a short do-it-yourself test at the end of the book. You may wish to quiz yourself by taking it.
You should allot one-half hour, preferably at the same time each day, for your study. But if something happens that prevents you from spending the full thirty minutes, don't let that prevent you from spending as much time as you can, even if it is only ten or fifteen minutes. -- (HA)
<br /><br /><a class="text" href="studiesinsaiva00pilluoft.pdf" target="_BLANK">Studies in Saiva-Siddhanta (JM Nallasvami Pillai)</a>
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THE assemblage of papers that make up the present volume, records the harvest of twenty-years ceaseless research in a field of philosophy and mysticism, by one who is acknowledged on all hands to be one of the most well-informed interpreters of the Tamil developments of the great Agamic school of thought. -- author
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<a class="text" href="earlyhistoryofva00aiyauoft.pdf" target="_BLANK">Early history of Vaishnavism in South India (S. Krishnaswami Aiyangar)</a>
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THE following lectures, presented to the public as the fourth course of Madras University Special Lectures in the Department of Indian History and Archaeology, formed the subject on which I intended to send a paper to the International Congress of Orient alists, which was to have been held at Oxfotd but for the outbreak of the War. -- author
<br /><br /><a class="text" href="introtopancaratra.pdf" target="_BLANK">Introduction to the Pancarartra</a> ♣
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During the course of time and with the advent of the Kali-yuga, these sacrifices fell into disuitude, it was at this junction that the Agamas or Tantras became popular in order to fulfil the spiritual and practical needs of the masses. The Tantric tradition became divided into three systems according to theology; Vaishnava, Saiva and Sakta. The Vaishnava Tantric or Agamic tradition is divided into two sects which are known as the Pancaratra and the Vaikhanasa. -- publisher
<br /><br /><a class="text" href="vaishnavainitiation.pdf" target="_BLANK">Samasrayanam: Vaishnava Initiation</a> ♣
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The formal process by which one performs saranagati or takes refuge is known as samasrayanam and is a sine qua non for all members of the Srîvaishnava community. It is similar to confirmation of the Christians or Bar-mitzvah of the Jews, and one is not accepted as a fully fledged member of the community until the ceremony has been performed. -- publisher
<br /><br /><a class="text" href="shadangayoga.pdf" target="_BLANK">Shadanga Yoga: Surrender (SriRama Ramanuja Achari)</a> ♣
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Taking refuge in the Divine (Prapatti) is the easiest way to God-realisation and Liberation. In fact it is the means par excellence. In the Scriptures we find the anecdotes of Prapatti performed by animals such as Gajendra, Hanuman, Jatayu and Jambavant and women such as Draupadi and Kunti. Arjuna and his brothers performed Prapatti as did low-born characters like Sabari and Guha and myriads of other beings. It is a means open to everyone and has no restrictions of any kind. There are no restrictions as to time — Gajendra the King of the elephants performed Prapatti as he was about to expire. There are no restrictions as to place — Arjuna performed Prapatti on the field of battle, and not even restrictions as regards states of purity — Draupadi performed Prapatti when she was menstruating! -- publisher
<br /><br /><a class="text" href="yogaofvaishnavasources.pdf" target="_BLANK">An Exposition of Yoga from Two Vaishnava Sources (Rama Ramanuja Achari)</a> ♣
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Exposition from the Vishnu Purana and the Garuda Purana.
<br /><br /><a class="text" href="vaiphil.pdf" target="_BLANK">Sri Vaishnavism (RV.Seshadri)</a> ♣
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A brief on the philosophy of Vaishnavism.
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