Eight lectures delivered by Swami Ashokananda to American audiences which provide a comprehensive view of the Vedanta philosophy and which will inspire spiritual aspirants along whatever path they may be following. Chapter titles include:

The Teacher-Prophets of Vedanta

The Theory and Practice of Monism

The Razor's Edge

Meditate While You Work: A New Path for a New Age

Ritualism: Its Place in Spiritual Life

When the Heart Cries For God

God and God-men inVedanta

Meditation, Ecstasy, and Illumination

Raja Yoga Lectures by Swami Sarvagatananda 1977 - 1981. What distinguishes this book from others on the same subject is its extremely exhaustive treatment of each aphorism and its intensely practical approach.

An excellent study and reference work presenting the means of valid knowledge accepted by the Vedanta tradition which lead to Self-realization.

Most of the chapters in this book are lectures given by Swami Satprakashananda in the late 1950s and 1960s at the Vedanta Center in St. Louis.  The chapters are as follows:  Mind, According to Vedanta;   How to Purify the Mind;  The Mind and the Soul;  The Mind and its Ways;  The Mind and the Senses;  The Mind and its Control;  Waking, Dreaming and Deep Sleep;  Samadhi or Superconscious Experience;  Meditation: Its Purpose and Practice;  Psychiatry and Vedanta.

A discussion of some of the problems which obscure the spiritual awareness of man in the present age.

A collection of articles originally published in the 1990 special issue of the Vedanta Kesari. This handbook presents in clear terms the monastic ideal and provides a glimpse into several monastic traditions that have arisen from that ideal.

Awareness of the reality of the motherhood of God opens up a joyful, natural, sublime path for the spiritual aspirant to follow.

Charlotte Sevier, inspired by Swami Vivekananda, played a crucial role in the early history of the Ramakrishna movement. Founder, with her husband, of the Advaita Ashrama, Mayavati, she spent the remainder of her life guiding it and writing extensively on advaita Vedanta for the journal Prabuddha Bharata.