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Being Different: An Indian Challenge to Western Universalism
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Mahatma Gandhi · 420 pages
Gandhi's non-violent struggles against racism, violence, and colonialism in South Africa and India had brought him to such a level of notoriety, adulation that when asked to write an autobiography midway through his career, he took it as an opportunity to explain himself. He feared the enthusiasm for his ideas tended to exceed a deeper understanding of his quest for truth rooted in devotion to God
The Difficulty of Being Good : On the Subtle Art of Dharma
Gurcharan Das · 434 pages
Why should we be good? What exactly is dharma? With the flair, wit, and effortless erudition that have made him a bestselling author around the world, Gurcharan Das talks about his own personal search for a more meaningful life. On this journey, he turns to the epic Mahabharata and sheds light on the central problem of how to live our lives in an examined way and reclaim a meaningful ideal of civi
The Upanishads: Translations from the Sanskrit
Anonymous · 143 pages
"When all the ties that bind the heart are unloosened, then a mortal becomes immortal." The Upanishads, the earliest of which were composed in Sanskrit between 800 and 400 BCE by sages and poets, form part of the Vedas -- the sacred and ancient scriptures that are the basis of the Hindu religion. Each Upanishad, or lesson, takes up a theme ranging from the attainment of spiritual bliss to karma an
An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World
Pankaj Mishra
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
Swami Satchidananda, Patanjali · 252 pages
Annihilation of Caste: The Annotated Critical Edition
B.R. Ambedkar · 97 pages
"A new annotated critical edition of B.R. Ambedkar's speech "Annihilation of Caste.""--
Nine Lives
William Dalrymple · 284 pages
From the Dust Jacket: A Buddhist monk takes up arms to resist the Chinese invasion of Tibet-then spends the rest of his life trying to atone for the violence by hand printing the best prayer flags in India. A Jain nun tests her powers of detachment as she watches her best friend ritually starve to death. A woman leaves her middle-class family in Calcutta, and her job in a jute factory, only to fi
The Secret of the Nagas
Amish Tripathi · 414 pages
Today, He is a God. 4000 years ago, He was just a man. The hunt is on. The sinister Naga warrior has killed his friend Brahaspati and now stalks his wife Sati. Shiva, the Tibetan immigrant who is the prophesied destroyer of evil, will not rest till he finds his demonic adversary. His vengeance and the path to evil will lead him to the door of the Nagas, the serpent people. Of that he is cert
Bhagavad-Gita As It Is
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada · 799 pages
Aghora: At the Left Hand of God
Robert E. Svoboda · 328 pages
The Great Transformation
Karen Armstrong · 496 pages
The Bhagavad Gita: A Walkthrough for Westerners
Jack Hawley · 224 pages
The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams Reaching Your Destiny
Robin S. Sharma · 216 pages
Includes a bonus excerpt of Robin Sharma's upcoming The Secret Letters of the Monk Who Sold His Ferrari. With more than four million copies sold in fifty-one languages, The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari launched a bestselling series and continues to help people from every walk of life live with far greater success, happiness and meaning in these times of dramatic uncertainty. The Monk Who Sold H
The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge
Carlos Castaneda
Exclusion & Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation
Miroslav Volf · 336 pages
"Life at the end of the twenty-first century presents us with a disturbing reality. Otherness, the simple fact of being different in some way, has come to be defined as in and of itself evil. Miroslav Volf contends that if the healing word of the gospel is to be heard today, Christian theology must find ways of speaking that address the hatred of the other. Reaching back to the New Testament metap
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
Miguel Ruiz · 164 pages
In The Four Agreements, don Miguel Ruiz reveals the source of self-limiting beliefs that rob us of joy and create needless suffering. Based on ancient Toltec wisdom, The Four Agreements offer a powerful code of conduct that can rapidly transform our lives to a new experience of freedom, true happiness, and love. A New York Times bestseller for over a decade An international bestseller publishe
First Darling of the Morning: Selected Memories of an Indian Childhood
Thrity Umrigar · 294 pages
First Darling of the Morning is the powerful and poignant memoir of bestselling author Thrity Umrigar, tracing the arc of her Bombay childhood and adolescence from her earliest memories to her eventual departure for the United States at age twenty-one. It is an evocative, emotionally charged story of a young life steeped in paradox; of a middle-class Parsi girl attending Catholic school in a predo
Kim
Rudyard Kipling · 345 pages
Kim is Rudyard Kipling's story of an orphan born in colonial India and torn between love for his native India and the demands of Imperial loyalty to his Irish-English heritage and to the British Secret Service. Long recognized as Kipling's finest work, Kim was a key factor in his winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907.