Vedic and Upanishadic Texts
The Advaita Vedanta of Brahmasiddhi
Study of the Brahmasiddhi tradition and major issues in Advaita metaphysics and epistemology.
Allen Wright Thrasher
The Vedas
General introduction to the Vedas, outlining their structure, themes, ritual setting, and long civilizational influence.
Chandrasekharendra Saraswati
Aitareya Upanishad
English edition or translation of the Aitareya Upanishad, highlighting creation, consciousness, and the identity of the self with ultimate reality.
Brhadaranyak Upanishad
English edition or translation of the Brhadaranyak Upanishad, highlighting selfhood, negation, sacrifice, and the search for brahman.
Chandogya Upanishad
English edition or translation of the Chandogya Upanishad, highlighting meditation, sacred speech, ritual symbolism, and the teaching of tat tvam asi.
Isha Upanishad
English edition or translation of the Isha Upanishad, highlighting renunciation, action, inner self, and the relation between knowledge and world-engagement.
Katha Upanishad
English edition or translation of the Katha Upanishad, highlighting death, the self, disciplined choice, and liberation through insight.
Kena Upanishad
English edition or translation of the Kena Upanishad, highlighting the limits of ordinary cognition and the grounding of mind and speech in brahman.
Maitrayaniya Upanishad
English edition or translation of the Maitrayaniya Upanishad, highlighting self-knowledge, mind, time, cosmology, and yogic discipline.
Mandukya Upanishad
English edition or translation of the Mandukya Upanishad, highlighting Om, waking-dream-sleep states, and the non-dual fourth state.
Mundaka Upanishad
English edition or translation of the Mundaka Upanishad, highlighting higher and lower knowledge, brahman, renunciation, and liberation.
Prashna Upanishad
English edition or translation of the Prashna Upanishad, highlighting six questions on prana, cosmology, Om, and the inner self.
Taittiriya Upanishad
English edition or translation of the Taittiriya Upanishad, highlighting the sheaths of the self, brahman as bliss, and the transmission of Vedic learning.
Light of the Vedas
Newsletter-style reflections and essays on Vedic spirituality, leadership, and contemporary applications of Vedic thought.
David Frawley
Rigveda a Historical Analysis
Historical reading of the Rigveda that uses textual evidence to discuss chronology, culture, and social setting.
Shrikant Talageri
The Riks
Selection and interpretation of Rigvedic hymns highlighting poetic vision, symbolism, and early Vedic spirituality.
Shri Paramasiva Iyer
The Secret of the Veda
Sri Aurobindo’s symbolic interpretation of the Vedic hymns as spiritual and psychological texts rather than merely ritual documents.
Sri Aurobindo
Treatise on Rigveda
Extended interpretive study of the Rigveda with attention to language, symbolism, and historical understanding.
Vedayana
Wisdom of the Ancient Seers
Introductory reflections on Vedic and Upanishadic insight framed for modern readers.
David Frawley
Gulmavrikshayurveda
Traditional treatise on plants, horticulture, and knowledge systems related to trees and cultivation.
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