Sacred Writings

The upanishads: is a collection of Sri Aurobindo's final translations of and commemtaries on every Upanishad or other Vedantic text he worked on. Upanishads...

No other Sanskrit work approaches the Bhagavadgita in the influence it has exerted in the West. Philosophers such as Emerson and the other New England Tran...

The great Indian epic rendered in modern prose India's most beloved and enduring legend, the Ramayana is widely acknowledged to be one of the world's grea...

"The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali are in themselves exceedingly brief, less than ten pages of large type in the original. Yet they contain the essence of practi...

The author of the popular new English version of "Tao te Ching" brings his gift for bringing new life into ancient sacred texts to one of the world's grea...

The Bhagavad Gita, also called The Song of the Lord, is a 700-line section of a much longer Sanskrit war epic, the Mahabharata, about the legendary conflict...

English translation with original Sanskrit and transliteration. Annotations based on the commentaries of Saṅkara, Rāmānuja, and Madhva ācāryas.It is t...