You can find here a selection of books on Vedanta and related topics which are available in our Ashram's Books Department in Rishikesh. To order books you can send a mail to us with book titles and ISBN-numbers and we will get them sent to you.
Japa - 29 pages Arsha Vidya Research and Publication Trust Chennai, India ISBN - 978-81-906059-9-1
"There is space between the role and the person. But it is not spatial. Role-playing without losing self-awareness is possible through sadhana backed by knowledge. Japa is the sadhana."Swami Dayananda Saraswati
Gurupurnima - 21 pages Arsha Vidya Research and Publication Trust Chennai, India ISBN - 978-93-80049-7-7
"Guru is a human being as well as an institution. The guru, a human being, provides us with a day for worshipping and celebrating the institution that transcends biographies." Swami Dayananda Saraswati
Daanam - 13 pages Arsha Vidya Research and Publication Trust Chennai, India ISBN - 978-81-906059-8-4
"The capacity to give without a murmur is accomplishment, siddhi. The way to this siddhi is deliberate will-based giving - daanam."Swami Dayananda Saraswati
Can We - 21 pages Arsha Vidya Research and Publication Trust Chennai, India ISBN - 978-93-80049-03-8
"We change ourselves by our own initiative. This small booklet discusses some useful areas, which deserve our attention and effort to bring about that change."Swami Dayananda Saraswati
Do all Religions have the same goal - 29 pages Arsha Vidya Research and Publication Trust Chennai, India ISBN - 978-81-906059-5-3
"Do all religions have the same goal? I wish they had! Then the differences among religions would only be cultural. By its own commitment to a theology, each faith-based religion has its own belief of an end which differs from that of every other faith. The vision of Vedanta being what it is, the end is in the form of knowledge, not belief."Swami Dayananda Saraswati
Conversion is Violence - 27 pages Arsha Vidya Research and Publication Trust Chennai, India ISBN - 978-81-906059-6-0
"What hurts a person, his or her family, and the community is violence. Religious conversion hurts all this, it is rank violence." Swami Dayananda Saraswati
Isavasya Upanishad proclaims - "tena tyaktena bhunjithah." Enjoy through Renunciation. This means that the happiness lies in Renunciation and thus, through Renunciation one gains happiness.
Teaching Tradition of Advaita Vedanta - 43 pages Arsha Vidya Research and Publication Trust Chennai, India ISBN - 978-81-906059-9-1
"The teaching tradition of Vedanta is as important as even its vision of oneness. This is so because, the vision is solely dependent on the method of handling the words unfolding the vision." Swami Dayananda Saraswati