Vedanta for the Western world

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Hollywood: The Marcel Rodd Co. (1945)
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Vedanta is the philosophy of the Vedas, those Indian scriptures which are the most ancient religious writings now known to the world. ...

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1946, 1960, 1961, 1963

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B132.V3.V382

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0874810000   9780874810004   0353354856   0670000647   9388575202   933287123X   1294725920   1376215519

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An unpublished lecture.Swami Vivekananda
Brahman and Maya.Swami Adbhutananda
Chant the name of the Lord.Sri Chaitanya
Control of the subconscious mind.Swami Prabhavananda
Distractions.Aldous Huxley
Divine grace.Swami Prabhavananda
How to integrate our personality.Swami Yatiswarananda
Hypothesis and belief.Christopher Isherwood
Idolatry.Aldous Huxley
Introduction.Christopher Isherwood
Is mysticism escapism?Gerald Heard
Man and reality.Aldous Huxley
Meditation.Swami Adbhutananda
Prayer.John van Druten
Readings in mysticism.Aldous Huxley
Realize the truth.Swami Yatiswarananda
Reflections on the Lord's Prayer.Aldous Huxley
Religion and temperament.Aldous Huxley
Religion and time.Aldous Huxley
Samadhi or transcendental consciousness.Swami Prabhavananda
Self-surrender.Swami Prabhavananda
Seven meditations.Aldous Huxley
Sri Ranakrishna, modern spirit, and religion.Swami Prabhavananda
The Gita and war.Christopher Isherwood
The Sermon on the Mount.Swami Prabhavananda
The future of mankind's religion.Gerald Heard
The goal of yoga.Swami Prabhavananda
The minimum working hypothesis.Aldous Huxley
The power of the word.Swami Adbhutananda
The return to ritual.Gerald Heard
The yoga of meditation.Swami Prabhavananda
Towards meditation.Swami Yatiswarananda
Vedanta as the scientific approach to religion.Gerald Heard
Vivekananda and Sarah Berhnardt.Christopher Isherwood
Warnings and hints to the spiritual aspirant.Swami Yatiswarananda
What yoga is.Swami Prabhavananda
Words and reality.Aldous Huxley

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