Tripura Rahasya or the Mystery Beyond the Trinity
Posted on | July 30, 2010 | No Comments
“Tripura Rahasya or the Mystery Beyond the Trinityis” an ancient prime text on Advaita in Sanskrit and was highly commended by Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi for study by seekers. There was no English translation of this scripture until the present one was made by Munagala Venkataramiah (Swami Ramanananda Saraswathi) in 1938. This book is not to be picked up, read through and put
away. The verses are full of Divine nectar which will quench the thirst of any earnest seeker who repeatedly reflects on their meaning and in right earnest attempts to implement the teachings.
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Tripura Rahasya
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Al-Kafi – Shia interviews with the Divine
Posted on | July 30, 2010 | No Comments
Al-Kafi is a fundamental and classic Shia-text written by the fourteen infallible family members of Prophet Muhammad, (Divine Supreme Covenant Body) to their followers. This volume of al-Kafi, which is about seven hundred pages, is considered to be a text of an interview with a person who possesses Divine authority. It is among Shia scholars an established fact that the words of Ahl al-Bayt, Allah’ Supreme Covenant Body, are in complete harmony. An interview with any one of them would serve as an interview with all and every one of them. To have an interview of that many words as those in this volume provides one a very good chance to know the personality of the person interviewed.
Download the hadith Al-Kafi here (763 pages):
Al-Kafi
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Buddhism for the Future
Posted on | July 30, 2010 | No Comments
Buddhism for the Future is a ebook about Buddhism in the modern globalized world. It explores Buddhism as a Force Against War, Unity in Buddhist Schools of Thought, Ecumenism, The role of the Sangha, The Bhikkhuni Order, Proselytization, Buddhist Values, The Third Millennium, The Lay Person, Social Concerns and much more.
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Buddhism for the Future
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St. Paul the Traveler and Roman Citizen
Posted on | July 29, 2010 | No Comments
St. Paul: The Traveler And Roman Citizen by Oxford University’s first professor of classical art and archaeology William M. Ramsay (1851-1939) is a breathtaking, guide and history of Christianity’s premier missionary and apostolic father St. Paul, both before and after his conversion in Palestine. A vivid, thoroughly researched, highly recommended study guide for any who wish to learn more about St. Paul’s missionary travels. Download the pdf ebook here:
St Paul the Traveler & Roman Citizen
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The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti
Posted on | July 29, 2010 | No Comments
The “Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti” is setup like a year-long Calendar, with each page commentary on a different topic – every day for a year. It is easy to read, profound, and great as a bedside book.
Download Krishnamurtis Book of Life here (172 pages):
The Book of Life by Krishnamurti
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Raja Yoga by Swami Vivekananda
Posted on | July 29, 2010 | No Comments
Raja Yoga is also know as “Classical Yoga” og “Royal Union Yoga. The foremost concern is the discipline of the mind, the postures, asanas, are the carriage. This book “Raja Yoga or Conquering the Internal nature” goes into details about breathing techniques, concentration and themes like non-attachment. From the foreword:
“The goal is to manifest this divine within, by controlling nature, external and internal. Do this either by work, or worship, or psychic control, or philosophy, by one, or more, or all of these—and be free. This is the whole of religion. Doctrines, or dogmas, or rituals, or books, or temples, or forms, are but secondary details.”
Download the ebook, Raja Yoga, here (230 pages):
Raja Yoga
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Hatha Yoga Pradipika – a guide to Hatha Yoga
Posted on | July 29, 2010 | 3 Comments
Hatha Yoga Pradipika by Yoga Swami Svatmarama with foreword by B K S Iyengar and commentary by Hans Ulrich Rieker is a fundamental book on the theories behind Hatha Yoga. You will find only a few positions here. From the foreword by B K S Iyengar:
“Hatha yoga, or hatha vidya (the science of hatha yoga) is commonly misunderstood and misrepresented as being simply a physical culture, divorced from spiritual goals. Hans−Ulrich Rieker shows the error of this idea by explaining the changes which take place, through the practice of hatha yoga, in the practitioner’s body, mind and self. He makes the reader aware of the subjective transformation that occurs as the consciousness penetrates inwards towards the Self, and as the Self diffuses outwards. He shows that hatha yoga is not just physical exercise, but an integrated science leading towards spiritual evolution.”
Download the ebook here (103 pages):
Hatha Yoga Pradipika
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Bardo Teachings
Posted on | July 28, 2010 | No Comments
Bardo teachings are about the continuity and ongoing nature of mind and experience. These instructions relate directly to everyday life as well as death. If we can recognize what is happening right here, while we are alive, we can go forward with confidence. If you are interested in the Tibetan Book of Living and Dying and bardo teachings you might like these two volumes:
A Modern Commentary on Karma Lingpa’s Zhi-Kro – Teachings on the peaceful and wrathfull deities
Commentary on Ngöndro Practice according to The New Treasure of Dudjom
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Inward Flowering by Jiddu Krishnamurti
Posted on | July 28, 2010 | No Comments
Inward Flowering is a transcription of a dialogue with Krishnamurti, students and staff at Brockwood Park in 1976. This short ebook (17 pages) explores the question about inward flowering – from the intro:
“We should ask, whether we are inwardly and perhaps also outwardly – they are really related – whether we are growing, not physically taller or stronger, but inwardly, psychologically, flowering. I mean by that word flowering that nothing hinders us, nothing blocks or prevents us from actually growing deeply, inwardly. Most of us hardly ever flower, grow, bloom. Something happens in the course of our life which stultifies us, deadens us, so that there is no deep inward nourishment.”
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Inward Flowering by Jiddu Krishnamurti
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The Fundamentals of Meditation Practice – a Zen guide
Posted on | July 28, 2010 | No Comments
“The Fundamentals of Meditation Practice” by Ting Chen is a Zen work about the basics of meditation posture and breathing techniques. Through 182 pages Ting Chen explains in details the best position of all the body parts and how to train for sitting in full lotus position. The first part of the book builds up the position for insight meditation which is also explained. The last part of “The Fundamentals of Meditation Practice” is a glossary of Buddhist terms used in the book.
Download the pdf. ebook here (182 pages):
The Fundamentals of Meditation Practice
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That is that – Essays About True Nature by Nirmala
Posted on | July 28, 2010 | No Comments
That is that – Essays About True Nature by Nirmala was published by Endless Satsang Press in 2009. The free ebook is a collection of essays and articles and it is intended to be an easy way to sample all of Nirmalas teachings. From one of the chapters:
“Spiritual practice can be boiled down to two simple instructions. The first is to notice your experience and be curious about it. This is really all that the practice of spiritual inquiry is about. It just points you to the experience you are having right now. Get curious about it. What’s going on right now? Who or what is listening? Who or what is breathing? Who or what is thinking? Curiosity is the willingness to see through everything. It is the natural tendency of our being to uncover more.”
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That is That
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Legend of the Gods
Posted on | July 27, 2010 | No Comments
Legend of the Gods is preserved in a papyrus in the British Museum. This papyrus was acquired by the late Mr. A. H. Rhind in 1861 or 1862, when he was excavating some tombs on the west bank of the Nile at Thebes. He did not himself find it in a tomb, but he received it from the British Consul at Luxor, Mustafa Agha, during an interchange of gifts when Mr. Rhind was leaving the country. Mustafa Agha obtained the papyrus from the famous hiding-place of the Royal Mummies at Der-al-Bahari, with the situation of which he was well acquainted for many years before it became known to the Egyptian Service of Antiquities. The work speaks about the creation of the world, the origin of the Egyptian Gods and their numerous adventures. Download “Legend of the Gods” in full length here:
Legends of the Gods
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Krishnamurti Meditations 1969
Posted on | July 27, 2010 | No Comments
Meditations is a short ebook by Krishnamurti about meditation. This is far from being a technical guide to meditation (for a more how-to oriented book try “Guide to Vipassana“), but it describes in a more poetic way Krishnamurtis views on meditation. From the book:
“Meditation is one of the most extraordinary things, and if you do not know what it is you are like the blind man in a world of bright colour, shadows and moving light. It is not an intellectual affair, but when the heart enters into the mind, the mind has quite a different quality: it is really, then, limitless, not only in its capacity to think, to act efficiently, but also in its sense of living in a vast space where you are part of everything. Meditation is the movement of love.”
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Krishnamurti Meditations 1969
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A guide to Japanese Buddhism
Posted on | July 27, 2010 | No Comments
“A guide to Japanese Buddhism” presents the history of Japanese Buddhism and the Buddhism in Japan today. It explains the origins and differences of the numerous schools and sects. We get the details of how Shinto, Zen and Rinzai Zen, Shinran, Shinshu, Honen, Soto Zen, Taoism and Pure Land Buddhism has evolved and shaped the Japanese society. The ebook is nicely illustrated with infographics. Download the pdf ebook here:
A Guide to Japanese Buddhism
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Nature and Grace by Thomas Aquinas
Posted on | July 27, 2010 | No Comments

Thomas Aquinas was born in 1225, he was an Italian priest of the Catholic Church in the Dominican Order, and an immensely influential philosopher and theologian in the tradition of scholasticism, known as Doctor Angelicus (the Angelic Doctor) and Doctor Communis or Doctor Universalis (the Common or Universal Doctor).
Here is his work “Nature and Grace: Selections from the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas” in full text for your download pleasure (1,5 MB, 335 pages):
Thomas Aquinas Nature and Grace
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The Apostolic Fathers – Fathers of the first, second, third and fourth century
Posted on | July 26, 2010 | No Comments
Here are 3.000 pages for your reading joy. This trilogy is the accounts of the early Apostolic Fathers written by Philip Schaff and edited by Alexander Roberts, D.D. & James Donaldson, LL.D. These version where published in 1885 and the ambitious aim has been to present English translations of the complete works and whereabouts of the early church Fathers down to the date of the first General Council held at Nice in A.D. 325. The trilogy gives an amazing insight into Christianity as it evolved in its earliest years. As written in the foreword of the first book:
“Those were times of heroism, not of words; an age, not of writers, but of soldiers; not of talkers, but of sufferers.”
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Fathers of the First Century – The Apostolic Fathers Vol I
Fathers of the Second Century Vol II
Fathers of the Third and Fourth Centuries Vol III
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Popol Vuh – 3 English translations
Posted on | July 26, 2010 | No Comments
Today I have goodies for you. Popol Vuh is one among a very few full text books that exists from the meso-americans cultures. Popol Vuh describes the Mayans creation myth, its epic tales of the Hero Twins Hunahpú and Xbalanqué and other spectacular stories.
The title Popol Vuh translates “Book of the Community,” “Book of Counsel” and has been mentioned as the Bible of the Mayans. Here you are spoiled with three different versions, keep in mind that these translations all origin from the same Maya documents:
Popol Vuh – Sacred Book of the Quiche Maya People by Allen J Christenson
POPOL VUH – THE MAYAN BOOK OF THE DAWN OF LIFE translated by Dennis Tedlock
POPUL VUH – The Book of the People -Translated by Delia Goetz and Sylvanus Griswold Morley
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Autobiography of Madame Guyon
Posted on | July 25, 2010 | No Comments
Autobiography of Madame Guyon – from the introduction:
“IN THE HISTORY of the world few persons have attained that high degree of spirituality reached by Madame Guyon. Born in a corrupt age, in a nation marked for its degeneracy; nursed and reared in a church, as profligate as the world in which it was embedded; persecuted at every step of her career; groping as she did in spiritual desolation and ignorance, nevertheless, she arose to the highest pinnacle of pre-eminence in spirituality and Christian devotion. She lived and died in the Catholic Church; yet was tormented and afflicted; was maltreated and abused; and was imprisoned for years by the highest authorities of that church.”
Download the book here (168 pages):
Madame Guyon Autobiography
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J. Krishnamurti – Public Talks in Washington DC 1985
Posted on | July 25, 2010 | No Comments
J. Krishnamurti – Public Talks in Washington DC 1985 is the transcriptions of two talks Krishnamurti held in Washington.From the foreword by Mary Zimbalist:
This When Krishnamurti agreed to speak in Washington in April 1985, it was in a sense to a new audience, one to which in the compression of only two talks he wished to convey as much of his teaching as possible.
On both days the hall was filled with a varied, seriously-interested audience and as Krishnamurti spoke there seemed an intangible response, a quality in which the listeners joined in his communication. Krishnamurti felt it and although there were to be other talks before his death ten months later, on those two days in April 1985, at the age of ninety, Krishnamurti spoke from the summit of his life and teaching.
Download the free full book ‘J. Krishnamurti – Public Talks in Washington DC 1985′ as pdf here (64 pages) :
Krishnamurti Public Talks in Washington DC 1985
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The Buddhist Way
Posted on | July 23, 2010 | No Comments
The Buddhist Way presents in a simple and understandable manner the various rites that are performed by Buddhists on happy and sad occasions in their lives. It describes for example how Buddhist funerals takes place, Buddhist Taboos, education, Buddhist view on magic and much more.
Download ‘The Buddhist Way’ here (50 pages):
The Buddhist Way

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Krishnamurti Education and the Significance of life
Posted on | July 23, 2010 | No Comments
J Krishnamurti’s ‘Education and the Significance of life’ was published in 1981. From the book:
“The freedom to create comes with self-knowledge; but self-knowledge is not a gift. One can be creative without having any particular talent. Creativeness is a state of being in which the conflicts and sorrows of the self are absent, a state in which the mind is not caught up in the demands and pursuits of desire.”
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J Krishnamurti Education and the Significance of Life
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Sri Aurobindo VOL 3-4 Collected Plays and Stories
Posted on | July 22, 2010 | No Comments
Collected Plays and Stories contains all Sri Aurobindo’s original dramatic works and works of prose fiction. The material, which occupies two volumes, is divided by type into three parts: complete plays, incomplete and fragmentary plays, and stories, complete, incomplete and fragmentary. The earliest of the pieces collected here was written in 1891, the lastest in 1915. Only one of them Perseus the deliverer, was published during Sri Aurobindon’s lifetime. The rest have been reproduced from his manuscripts.
Download the volumes here in full text (1018 pages) :
Sri Aurobindo VOL 3-4 Collected Plays and Stories
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The Master Game By Robert S. de Ropp
Posted on | July 22, 2010 | No Comments
The Master Game is CONCERNED with GAMES and AIMS.. Seek, above all, for a game worth playing. Such is the advice of the oracle to modern man. Having found the game, play it with intensity — play as if your life and sanity depended on it. (They do depend on it.) Follow the example of the French existentialists and flourish a banner bearing the word “engagement.” Though nothing means anything and all roads are marked “NO EXIT,” yet move as if your movements had some purpose. If life does not seem to offer a game worth playing, then invent one. For it must be clear, even to the most clouded intelligence, that any game is better than no game.
The Master Game is a DIY spiritual activism book, that suggest a playful and self-experimental way. Download Robert S. de Ropp work here in full text pdf.:
The Master Game By Robert S. de Ropp
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Augustins: City of God and On Christian Doctrine
Posted on | July 21, 2010 | No Comments
The “City of God” is the masterpiece of the greatest genius among the Latin Fathers, and the best known and most read of Augustins works, except the “Confessions.” It embodies the results of thirteen years of intellectual labor and study (from A.D. 413–426). It is a vindication of Christianity against the attacks of the heathen in view of the sacking of the city of Rome by the barbarians, at a time when the old Græco-Roman civilization was approaching its downfall, and a new Christian civilization was beginning to rise on its ruins. It is the first attempt at a philosophy of history, under the aspect of two rival cities or communities,—the eternal city of God and the perishing city of the world. Read more
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Egyptian Book of the Dead
Posted on | July 21, 2010 | No Comments
Egyptian Book of the Dead was initially published in modern times in the aftermath of Napoleons expeditions to Egypt. First the Egyptian Book of the Dead was considered to be the ‘Bible’ of the ancient Egypt and was therefore treated with great respect and consideration. The Book of the Dead (often presented with the subtitle ‘The Papyrus of Ani’ or ‘The Book of Coming [or Going] Forth By Day’) was intended to assist the deceased in the afterlife and comprised a collection of hymns, spells and instructions to allow the deceased to pass through obstacles in the afterlife. In this sense the work has similarities with ‘The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying’
Download the entire ebook Egyptian Book of the Dead here:
Egyptian Book of the Dead
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