CONTENTS OF
GEMS FROM THE OCEAN OF SPIRITUAL HINDU THOUGHT

Foreword By Swami Paramarthananda
Preface
CHAPTER 1: COUNTLESS NAMES FOR THE NAMELESS

• The first Prostration to the Lord of Lords – Vinayaka
•  Lord Subrahmanya
•  Idol Worship
•  One Truth, Many Expressions
•  Glory of the Lord’s Name
•  Power of Names of God
•  Mantra
•  Aum, Rama, Krishna, Narayana & Shiva
• Esoteric Significance of Aum
• ‘Rama’ as Taraka Mantra
• Narayana & Hare Krishna
• The Shiva mantra and the Rudram chapter
• The greatness of the Tryambaka mantra
•  Litanies of Thousand Names
• Each name a capsule of Divinity
• Each name a scriptural epitome
• Secret of Avatara of Krishna in Vishnu Sahasranama
• Secret of Avatara of Rama  in Vishnu Sahasranama
• Fourteen Special Names
• From the three hundred names of Lalita
• Names from the Ashtottara of Bhagavan Shri Satya Sai Baba

CHAPTER 2: AN INITIAL EXPOSURE TO THE SPIRITUAL ASCENT

• The Animal Passions of Man
•  A Six-party Discussion on the concept of God
•  The three fundamental Urges of M an
•  Detachment, the King-pin Perception
•  Five Cardinal Virtues
•  Six Monumental Witnesses
•  The Dance Divine
• The Cosmic Rhythm and the Symbolism of the Tandava
•  Evolution of the Chidambaram Temple Complex
•  Miraculous Recovery of the Tevaram Hymns
•  The story of Nandanar
• A Dialogue on Free Will vs. Divine Will

CHAPTER 3:  MEET THE ANCIENT SCRIPTURES

• Shruti
•  SmRti
•  Itihasa
• Purana
• Sarasvati and Lakshmi
• Who will do the Research on ‘Solar Energy in the Vedas’?
•  I nterlink of Ganga and Kaveri through Deepavali
•  Mother Goddess
• Aagama
•  Darshana

CHAPTER  4: THE ABSOLUTE AS IT IS

• TIP of the Iceberg
•  Satyam Jnanam anantam brahma
•  From the Upanishads
•  Difference and Non-Difference

CHAPTER  5: A TOUCH WITH THE GITA

• A Capsule Overview of the Gita
• Yoga Sadhana (From the Sixth Chapter of the Gita)
•  One in a Million (From the Seventh Chapter of the Gita)
•  The Magic of Maya
•  Mathematics and Adhyaropa-apavada
•  I am neither the doer nor the experiencer
• Posing the Problem
• Two ‘Selves’
• Jiva, the Empirical Self
• Who is the Knower?
• Doer-Experiencer
• Perfection of Actionlessness
• Five Tenets of Practical Advaita

EPILOGUE: The Light of Lights – A Manana Exercise from the Br. Upanishad
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX

CONTENTS OF
GEMS FROM THE OCEAN OF DEVOTIONAL HINDU THOUGHT

Foreword By H.H. Jagadguru Shankaracharya of Kamakoti Peetham, Kanchipuram
Preface
CHAPTER 1: SUNDARA-KANDA TRIAD – VALMIKI, KAMBAN & TULSI

CHAPTER 2: GEMS FROM SHRIMAD BHAGAVATAM

• 
  Bhagavatam is born
  Kapila Gita
  Prahlada Charitam
  Story of Jada-Bharata
  Dhruva-stuti
  The Devotee calls the tune
  Raasa Lila of Krishna
  Shruti Gita

CHAPTER 3: SPEAK TO GOD THROUGH PRAYERFUL CONTEMPLATION

• A Note on Bhakti and Prayer
• Selections from Narayaneeyam
•  Selections from Soundaryalahari
•  A Garland of other selections

CHAPTER  4: THE GURU

• Devotion to the Guru
• The Hymn to the Guru of all Gurus
• Miraculous Lineage of Mysitic Masters
• Shankara
• Ramanuja
• Jnaneshvar
• Vedanta Desika
• Madhva
• Appayya Dikshidar
• Raghavendra
• Sai Baba of Shirdi
• Massive Spiritual Revival  of the 20th century
• Ramana Maharishi’s Ulladu Naarpadu
• Kanchi Mahaswamigal
• Shankara’s Message of Oneness
• The Non-Absolutist School
• Seventy-five Apostles of God-intoxication
• Peria Puranam
• The Sixty-three Shaiva Nayanmars
• Appar
• Tirujnana-sambandar
• Sundarar
• Manickavachagar
• Kannappar
• Tirumoolar
• The Twelve Vaishnava Alvars
• Nammalvar
• Twelve Gems of Superlative Devotion
• Namdev
• Kabirdas
• Chaitanya
• Purandaradasa
• Eknath
• Tulsidas
• Bhattatiri
• Bhaskararaya
• The Trinity of Carnatic Music
• Shrila Prabhupada
• From Kanchi Mahaswamigal’s Discourses on  Advaita Sadhana
• R.Visvanatha Sastri
• ‘Jivanmukta’ by Jivanmuktas   
• Sadashiva Brahmendra

            BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX