Books By Indian Authors
- Breaking India By Rajiv Malhotra & Aravindan Neelakandan
- Snakes in the Ganga: Breaking India 2.0 By Rajiv Malhotra & Vijaya Viswanathan
- India, that is Bharat: Coloniality, Civilization, Constitution By J. Sai Deepak
- Urban Naxals: The Making Of Buddha In A Traffic Jam By Vivek Agnihotri
- Who Killed Shastri?: The Tashkent Files By Vivek Agnihotri
- The Bhagavad Gita By Eknath Easwaran
- Journey Of The Upanishads To The West By Swami Tathagatananda
- Roots By Kadambi Srinivasan
- Bhagavad-Gita As It Is By A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
- God Talks with Arjuna: The Bhagavad Gita By Paramahansa Yogananda
- Mahabharata By C. Rajagopalachari
- Why We Do What We Do By Chinmaya Mission
- Saffron Swords: Centuries of Indic Resistance to Invaders by Manoshi Sinha Rawal & Yogaditya Singh Rawal
- Shivaji: His Life and Times by Gajanan Bhaskar Mehendale
- The Wonder That Was India By A.L. Basham
- All About Hinduism By Swami Sivananda
- Ramayana Unravelled: Lesser Known Facets of Rishi Valmiki’s Epic by Ami Gañatra
- Filme Aur Sanskriti by Dheeraj Sharma
- Who Am I By Ramana Maharshi
- Freedom from the Known By J. Krishnamurti
- Autobiography of Yogi By Paramahansa Yogananda
- Mahabharata Unravelled: Lesser-Known Facets of a Well-Known History by Ami Gañatra
- Savarkar: Echoes from a Forgotten Past, 1883–1924″ (Part 1) by Vikram Sampath
- Savarkar: A Contested Legacy, 1924-1966″ (Part 2) by Vikram Sampath
- India, Bharat & Pakistan: The Constitutional Journey of a Sandwiched Civilization By J. Sai Deepak
- Unbreaking India: Decisions On Article 370 & The CAA by Sanjay Dixit
- Rescuing India From Distorted History By Dr Anand Ranganathan
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The Brahman forms everything that is living or non-living. The wise man knows that all beings are identical with his self, and his self is the self of all beings. ~ Isha Upanishad
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The India They Saw By Meenakshi Jain
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Books By Western Authors
- The Hindu Yogi Science of Breath By William Walker Atkinson (Yogi Ramacharaka)
- Proof of Vedic Culture’s Global Existence By Stephen Knapp
- The Story of Mankind By Hendrik van Loon
- American Veda By Philip Goldberg
- The Bhagvat-Geeta – Dialogues of Kreeshna and Arjoon By Sir Charles Wilkins
- The Story Of Civilization – Our Oriental Heritage By Will Durant
- The World as Will and Idea By Arthur Schopenhauer which was influenced by the Chandogya Upanishad
- Siddhartha By Herman Hesse
- Bhagavad Gita: A New Translation By Stephen Mitchell
- Hinduism – The Eternal Tradition By David Frawley
- The Hidden Glory of India by Steven J. Rosen (Bhaktivedanta Book Trust)
- Karma: A Guide to Cause and Effect By Jeffrey Armstrong
- Vegetarianism: Recommended in Vedic Scripture By Stephen Knapp
- Vedanta For The West By Carl Jackson
- The Wishing Tree (2008) By Subhash Kak
- Sapiens By Yuval Noah Harari
- A New Earth By Eckhart Tolle
- Be Here Now By Ram Dass
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All this is Brahman. Everything comes from Brahman, everything goes back to Brahman, and everything is sustained by Brahman. ~ Chandogya Upanishad
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Brahman alone is real; the universe is mithya – neither fully real nor unreal, but an appearance. The individual self (jiva) is none other than Brahman itself, not separate or different. This is the true teaching of the scriptures, as revealed by Vedanta. ~ Verse 20 from Brahma Jnānavali Māla
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