Follow the links below to read extended selections some of Easwaran’s core books. More titles will be added from time to time.
The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living
A three-volume translation with verse-by-verse commentary of India’s timeless and practical scripture presented as a manual for everyday use – Easwaran’s magnum opus. Excerpts from Volume 1, The End of Sorrow:
The Classics of Indian Spirituality
A three-volume collection of Easwaran’s bestselling translations and commentaries
The Bhagavad Gita
The Bhagavad Gita or “Song of the Lord” is India’s best-known scripture. For Easwaran, it was a personal guidebook.
The Dhammapada
Dhammapada means “the path of dharma,” the path of truth, harmony, and righteousness. Capturing the living words of the Buddha, this much-loved scripture consists of verses organized by theme: thought, joy, anger, pleasure, and others.
The Upanishads
The Upanishads capture the wisdom of the sages of ancient India, given in intense sessions of spiritual instruction in ashrams, in family gatherings, in a royal court, in the kingdom of Death himself. Easwaran shows how these teachings are just as relevant now as they were centuries ago.
God Makes the Rivers to Flow
This anthology of inspirational readings from major spiritual traditions includes Christian, Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim, and Native American passages. The readings have all been selected according to Easwaran’s guidelines – they are positive, practical, and life-affirming, chosen from the scriptures and from the great saints and mystics of the world.
Excerpt from the Introduction: “Make Your Life a Work of Art”
Love Never Faileth: : St. Francis, St. Paul, St. Augustine & Mother Teresa
Who better to teach us how to love than the great Christian mystics? Drawing on their living examples, Easwaran shows us how we too can stretch our capacity to love beyond what we believe possible by renewing ourselves, day in and day out, even when life is challenging.
Nonviolent Soldier of Islam
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (1890–1988), a Pathan (or Pushtun) of Afghanistan and a devout Muslim, raised the first nonviolent army in history to free his people from British imperial rule. This book tells the dramatic life story of this heroic and little-known Muslim leader.
Passage Meditation
This latest edition of Easwaran’s classic manual for meditation, retitled Passage Meditation to emphasize the method he developed. The book includes his instructions in passage meditation and the seven supporting spiritual disciplines which together make up his eight-point program for spiritual living – a program that enables us to stay calm, kind, and focused at work and at home.
Complete chapters: Follow the links in the left margin on each of these pages to read full instructions for each of the eight points.
