An Arrow to the Heart: A Commentary on the Heart Sutra. An Arrow to the Heart is an exciting, trail-blazing, non-traditional translation and commentary of the Heart Sutra, an ancient and highly revered text in Mahayana Buddhism. This sutra is a concise presentation of the emptiness of all experience. Almost cryptic in its brevity, it [...]
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An Arrow to the Heart: A Commentary on the Heart Sutra
Posted in Buddhism, Mahayana, Sacred Texts, Spirituality, Sutras, tagged book review, Buddhist book, Buddhist scripture, Heart Sutra, Mahayana Buddhism, religion, spiritual on August 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Secret Teachings of the Vedas: The Eastern Answers to the Mysteries of Life Volume One
Posted in General Hinduism, Hinduism, Sacred Texts, Sutras, tagged religion, fruitive work, fruitive activities, bodily platform, middle planetary system, conditioned soul, lower planetary systems, hellish planets, illusory energy, higher planets, karmic reactions, mandapa hall, bodily conception, spiritual sky, vedic literature, spiritual planets, heavenly planets, spiritual platform, sinful reactions, lower planets, devotional service, other living entities, sense gratification, functioning temple, false ego, hilltop temple, Stephen Knapp on June 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Secret Teachings of the Vedas: The Eastern Answers to the Mysteries of Life Volume One.
Stephen Knapp’s book focus on eastern answers to the mysterious horizons explaining the theories about the universe, the souls, life after death and the ideas of the Absolute Lord. It’s an indepth introduction to vedic teachings. The easter philosophy is [...]
Rgveda for the Layman: A Critical Survey of One Hundred Hymns of the Rgveda, With Samhita-Patha, Pada-Patha and Word-Meaning and English Translation
Posted in General Hinduism, Hinduism, Sacred Texts, Sutras, tagged Hinduism, veda, hindu book, Rgveda, Hindu Dharma, Hindu Hymn on May 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This book provides a complete view of the world’s most ancient scripture, the Rgveda. Here each Vedic word, which at first sight appears cryptic and mysterious has been explained in lucid terms after analyzing it down to its root and sound, so that the real intention of the rsi who compiled the Hymn is made [...]
Commentaries on the Vedas, the Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita: The Three Branches of India’s Life-Tree
Posted in Bhagavad Gita, General Hinduism, Hinduism, Sacred Texts, Sutras, Upanishads, Upanishads, tagged Agama Books, Bhagavad Gita, hindu book, Hinduism, Sri Chinmoy, Upanishad, veda on May 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This book brings toge ther in one volume Sri Chinmoy’s commentaries on the Vedas the Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita three ancient Indian scriptures which are the foundations of Hindu spiritual tradition. His approach is clear and practical and at the same time profound and richly poetic. In a style unmistakably his own Sri Chinmoy [...]
Wisdom of the Vedas
Posted in General Hinduism, Hinduism, Sacred Texts, Sutras, tagged Agama book, hindu book, Hinduism, J. C. Chatterji, monotheistic religion, veda on May 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Very few persons have taken the time to read the entire collection of writings comprising Vedantic wisdom. Some have read the Upanishads; many more the Bhagavad Gita. Very few have read these and the most ancient texts — the four Vedas. In this very short book, Chatterji, a respected Indian scholar presents the “gist” of [...]




