VEDANTA SOCIETY OF WESTERN WASHINGTON BOOKSHOP CATALOG _____________________ Vedanta Society Bookshop 2716 Broadway Ave E. Seattle WA 98102-3909 USA Ph: (206) 323-1228 Fax: (206) 329-1791 Email: [email protected] Prices are subject to change without notice. Orders within Washington state must include 10.1% sales tax. We accept payment by: Cash, Check, VISA, Mastercard, Discover, and American Express. BOOKSHOP SPECIAL Your order of two or more books among the qualified titles below, authored or translated by Swami Bhaskarananda, are shipped FREE within the continental United States. No other discounts apply. Your order is delivered via surface mail. Extra shipping charges may apply to the remainder of your order. The qualifying titles are: 1. Essentials of Hinduism – A Comprehensive Overview of the World’s Oldest Religion Cat# VED-0692 2. Meditation, Mind & Patanjali’s Yoga Cat# MED-0759 3. Meditacion Yoga y Control de la Mente (Spanish translation of Meditation, Mind & Patanjali’s Yoga) Cat# MED-1328 4. Life in Indian Monasteries: Reminiscences About Monks of the Ramakrishna Order Cat# BGR-0758 5. Journey from Many to One: Essentials of Advaita Vedanta Cat# PHY-1009 6. Reminiscences of Swami Brahmananda Cat# DIR-1088 7. The Philosophical Verses of Yogavasishtha Cat# PHY-1220 8. The Wonder That is Sri Ramakrishna Cat# RKM-1243 9. How to Get Along with Others: Using Common Sense and Ancient Hindu Wisdom Cat# SLF-1329 10. One-Eyed Vision Cat# SUB-0588 TABLE OF CONTENTS Sri Ramakrishna 2 Meditation 24 Swami Vivekananda 5 Yoga 25 Holy Mother Sarada Devi 8 Epics, Puranas and Other Stories 26 Direct Disciples & Their Teachings 8 Indian Culture 27 Biographies 10 Sanskrit 28 Vedanta and Hinduism 12 Reincarnation 28 Philosophy 14 Comparative Religions 29 Scriptures 16 Children’s Books 31 Hymns, Chants and Prayers 20 Health & Self-Help 32 Spiritual Practices 22 Various Other Subjects 32 ©2017 Vedanta Society of Western Washington Bookshop, SeattleWA Bookshop Catalog November 2017 edition Order by: Ph: (206) 323-1228 Fax: (206) 329-1791 or email: [email protected] Sri Ramakrishna Belur Math: Headquarters of Ramakrishna Math and Holy Brindavan And Sri Ramakrishna And His Apostles Ramakrishna Mission Swami Ekatmananda Eight page brochure giving useful background information for Brief background of Vrajamandal in Brindavan and of those thinking of visiting Belur Math. RKM-0924 $0.25 Brindavan itself, followed by an account of the visits of Sri Ramakrishna, his apostles, and Sri Sarada Devi. 67 pp. Indian A Bridge To Eternity: Sri Ramakrishna And His booklet RKM-0415 $0.95 Monastic Order By Various Authors Holy Kamarpukar An anthology presenting Sri Ramakrishna as seen through the Swami Tejasananda eyes of his apostles, contemporaries, and Eastern and Western A brief description of Kamarpukar, Jayrambati and adjacent admirers. Also includes several articles on the Ramakrishna places along with short life-sketches of Sri Ramakrishna and Order. 538 pp. Indian ed. hbk RKM-0406 $10.95 Sri Sarada Devi the Holy mother. With photos. 49 pp. booklet RKM-0416 $0.75 The Early History of the Ramakrishna Movement Swami Prabhananda How to Live with God: In the Company of Ramakrishna Authentic details about the lives lived by each of Sri Swami Chetanananda Ramakrishna's monastic disciples, how Swami Vivekananda's pbk. Full description pending. RKM-0989 $19.95 leadership influenced them, Swami Vivekanananda's plan and realization of the Belur Math temple, and more. Includes photos, illustrations and maps. 543 pp. Indian ed. pbk RKM- How to Live with God: In the Company of Ramakrishna 0865 $10.95 Swami Chetanananda hbk. Full description pending. RKM-0990 $29.95 The Face of Silence Dhan Gopal Mukherji Journeys with Ramakrishna Full description pending. RKM-1202 $3.50 Swami Prabhananda Full description pending. RKM-1010 $5.95 First Meetings With Sri Ramakrishna Swami Prabhananda The Life of Ramakrishna A study of the early contacts of the intimate disciples with the Romain Rolland Master and the extent of influence he exercised on them from Full description pending. RKM-1208 $5.95 the very first. 416 pp. Indian ed. pbk RKM-0408 $5.00 Life of Sri Ramakrishna Flashes from Sri Ramakrishna Swami Nikhilananda Full description pending. RKM-0959 $0.50 Compiled from various authentic sources including "Sri Sri Ramakrishna Lilaprasanga," "The Gospel of Sri For Enquirers About Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna," and others. With Foreward by Mahatma Ramakrishna Mission Gandhi. A short but comprehensive chronological account. 504 Swami Tapasyananda pp. Indian ed. hbk RKM-0417 $8.95 Full description pending. RKM-0961 $0.50 The Master And The Disciple The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna D. S. Sarma M. Gupta. Tr. Swami Nikhilananda Revised and retold by Dr. M. Nagbhushana Sarama. With Conversations of a highly evolved spiritual teacher of 19th glossary and comprehension exercises. Small 116 pp. Indian century India considered by many to be an incarnation of God. ed. pbk RKM-0418 $1.95 988 pp. US ed. hbk RKM-0409 $35.50 Meaning and Significance of Worship Based on the The Condensed Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna Worship of Sri Ramakrishna M.'s own English translation of the Gospel of Sri Swami Achalananda Ramakrishna. 322 pp. Indian ed. hbk RKM-0411 $9.95 Full description pending. RKM-1030 $6.95 The Condensed Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna Ramakrishna Kathamrita and Ramakrishna (Memoirs M.'s own English translation of the Gospel of Sri Of Ramakrishna) Ramakrishna. 322 pp. Indian ed. pbk RKM-0412 $6.95 Swami Abhedananda This book is a modified Ramakrishna-Kathamrita in one Great Thinkers on Ramakrishna Vivekananda volume without the repetitions in the original Kathamrita. Institute of Culture With index. 260 pp. Indian ed. hbk RKM-0419 $6.95 Full description pending. RKM-1356 $6.95 The Message Of Ramakrishna Full description pending. RKM-1210 $0.50 2 Bookshop Catalog November 2017 edition Order by: Ph: (206) 323-1228 Fax: (206) 329-1791 or email: [email protected] More About Ramakrishna Swami Prabhananda Ramakrishna As We Saw Him Previously unpublished information and little known facts Ed. and Tr. Swami Chetanananda about Sri Ramakrishna. Contents: Who Gave the Name Forty inspiring reminiscences of Sri Ramakrishna by those Ramakrishna and When?; Sri Ramakrishna's Interaction with close to him describing his God-intoxicated life and teachings. Sikhism, Islam & Christianity; A Unique Painting; Early Many of these accounts are unknown to the West. Photos. 495 History of the Ramakrishna Sangha; and more. Photos, maps, pp. pbk RKM-0429 $22.95 tables, and illustrations. 276 pp. Indian ed. pbk RKM-0421 $4.95 Sri Ramakrishna: A Biography Swami Nikhilananda My Master This volume, forming the Preface of "The Gospel of Sri Swami Vivekananda Ramakrishna," contains a short biography as well as Booklet RKM-0422 $1.00 explanations of several relevant systems of Indian religious thought. Also describes the daily life of Sri Ramakrishna's Mystic Saints of India: Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa disciples after his death. 184 pp. Indian ed. pbk RKM-0430 Prem Lata $4.95 Full description pending. RKM-1042 $12.95 Sri Ramakrishna: A Biography in Pictures Photographs of Sri Ramakrishna-Sarada Devi An inspiring visual pilgrimage that helps us to enter into the Researched by Swami Vidyatmananda & Dr. (Ms.) Purba spirit of his great life better. The pictures have been made to Sengupta speak for themselves, as it were, by the choice of suitable A unique volume containing three photographs of Sri quotations and write-ups to accompany them. 108 pp. Indian Ramakrishna, thirty photographs of Sri Sarada Devi and notes ed. Oversized hbk RKM-0876 $16.95 regarding the photographs. To turn these pages and look at these unique personalities is a spiritual practice in itself. High Sri Ramakrishna's Dakshineswar quality photos with several illustrations besides. 92 pp. Indian Ed. Pravrajika Atmaprana ed. Oversized hbk RKM-0877 $10.00 Captures the spiritual atmosphere of the Dakshineswar Temple Garden and its surroundings during Sri A Portrait Of Sri Ramakrishna Ramakrishna's time. With photos, bibliography, and glossary. Akshay Kumar Sen 79 pp. Indian ed. pbk RKM-0431 $4.95 Tr. & Ed. Amrita Salm, Satchidananda Dhar & Prasun Kumar De. From the original Bengali Sri Sri Ramakrishna Punthi. Ramakrishna And His Message Akshay Kumar Sen was a householder disciple of Sri Swami Vivekananda Ramakrishna, and witnessed many episodes in His life. 888 Reminiscences and profound reflections of Swami pp. Indian ed. hbk RKM-0423 $29.95 Vivekananda about his beloved Master. 118 pp. Indian ed. booklet RKM-0433 $2.25 Ramakrishna And Christ or The Paradox of the Incarnation Sri Ramakrishna And His Unique Message Hans Torwesten Swami Ghanananda Full description pending. RKM-1075 $8.95 Foreword by Dr. Arnold Toynbee 172 pp. Indian ed. booklet RKM-0434 $2.95 Ramakrishna and His Disciples Christopher Isherwood Sri Ramakrishna Karnamritam: A Poetical Hymn on Sri The life of Sri Ramakrishna and his foremost disciples. With Ramakrishna photos, bibliography, notes on the illustrations and index. US Ottur Bala Bhatta ed. 348 pp. pbk RKM-0424 $18.95 Full description pending. RKM-1125 $1.50 Sri Ramakrishna and His Gospel - Vol. 1 Sri Ramakrishna's Life and Message for the Present Age Swami Bhuteshananda Swami Satprakashananda Based on the weekly discourses given by Swami Written by one who had the rare privilage of seeing Sarada Bhuteshananda, previously the President of the Ramakrishna Devi as well as many of Sri Ramakrishna's disciples. This Order. Goes to the heart of the Master's words and uncovers interpretive study reveals hidden treasures woven within the the deeper meaning behind his simple utterances. Guides us rich fabric of the phenomenon that was Sri Ramakrishna. Also towards a better comprehension of Sri Ramakrishna's sayings includes the author's reminiscences of Holy Mother and some in the light of the ancient scriptures as well as modern direct disciples.