Based on lectures given by Prof. Hiriyanna at Mysore University, this volume presents a connected, comprehensive account of the development of Indian philosophical thought through the Vedic period, the early post-Vedic period, and the age of systems.

The Pancadasi of Sri Vidyaranya Swami is a post-Shankara Advaita Vedanta classic of great celebrity. The present volume provides the original text in Devanagari script followed by English translation (but no English transliteration), and necessary explanatory notes.

A short work on the philosophy of Advaita and the contemplation of Om. Includes the Varttika (verse commentary) of Sri Sureswaracharya. Text and Varttika in Devanagari, word-for-word meanings, English translation, commentary, and glossary.

Presents a surprising parallel study of two figures, the Hasidic Tzaddik, Reb Menahem Mendl of Kotzk, and the Christian mystic and father of Existentialism, Soren Kierkegaard.

The author's admonitions to steadfastness, fearlessness and self surrender are the call of the innermost soul to itself.

Religious experience and the diverse ways to its realization viewed through comparative study and synthetic vision.

A collection of essays on various techniques of meditation according to different paths and faiths.