In the epic Ramayana, Sage Valmiki mentioned that when Lord Ram was born, the sun was located in Aries, saturn was in Libra, Jupiter & the moon were in Cancer, Venus was seen
While building a modern economy and a democratic, secular society, India has inherited a rich civilization with an unparalleled diversity of ethnic, linguistic and religious groups going back many thousands...
Select Hymns devoted to various deities, with descriptive notes, transliteration and translated into English by an authority on the subject. Perhaps the best book about the Vedas for the lay...
Provides knowledge of five basic truths and the relationship of each truth to the other: These five truths are Krishna, or God, the individual soul, the material world, action in...
The Bhagavad Gita tells the story of how Arjuna, the great warrior, is seated in his chariot about to engage in battle, when he sees his own kinsmen and his...
"Like old coins which do not circulate in new times, even the ancient words of the Bhagavad Gita need the imprint of modern times to reveal the ways their wisdom...
The Crystal Sands: The Chronicles of Nagara Śrī Dharrmarāja
Hindu canonical text; critically edited Sanskrit text with English translation.
Gurcharan Das turns to the Mahabharata in order to answer the question, why be good?, and discovers that the epic's world of moral haziness and uncertainty is closer to our...
Philosophical Foundations of Hinduism: The Vedas, the Upanishads, and the Bhagavadgītā : a Reinterpretation and Critical Appraisal
The Upanisads, the basic philosophical texts of Hinduism, represent the height of Vedic philosophy. Many of the older Upanisads can be dated in the eighth and seventh centuries BCE. This...