All about Hindu theologies and worship
Taken from my stickied post in the Hinduism subreddit
Introductory stuff
- Ramayana(authored by Valmiki) ,paraphrased by Rajagopalachari (pdf)
- Mahabharata(authored by Vyasa) ,paraphrased by Rajagopalachari (pdf)
- Of particular importance is What you need to know about Gurus,and all about Gurus (pdf)
Advaita Vedanta
- An introduction to advaita Vedanta by K Ramakrishna
- A summary of Adi Sankara's Vedanta commentary compiled by V Swaminathan (pdf)
- Dakshinamurthy Stotra with a commentary. (pdf)
- Sadananda Yogindra's Vedanta-sara,with comments by Swami Nikhilananda (pdf)
- The Bhagavad-Gita,with Adi Sankara's commentary (pdf)
- The Vedanta-Sutras,with Sankara's commentary (pdf)
- Sri Madhusudanasaraswati's Vedanta-kalpa-latika (pdf)
- Hagiography of Adi Sankara,the founder of the school of Advaita Vedanta
- Biography of Appayya Dikshita,an exponent of Sivadvaita
- Works of Appayya Dikshita
Dvaita Vedanta
- Dvaita Vedanta—Madhva's Vaishnava theism by KR Paramahamsa (pdf)
- Philosophy of Sri Madhvacharya by Dr. BNK Sharma (pdf)
- Madhva's Bhagavad-gita-bhasya and tatparya-nirnaya translated by Nagesh D Sonde (pdf)
Visistadvaita Vedanta (Sri Vaishnavism)
- A dialog on Hinduism (pdf)
- Visistadvaita—A Philosophy of Religion by KR Paramahamsa (pdf)
- The life of Acharya Ramanuja (pdf)
- Handbook of Sri Vaishnavism (pdf) by Sri Rama Ramanuja Achari
- A paraphrase on Acharya Ramanuja's commentary on the Gita (pdf)
- A translation of Vedantadesikan's Tattvamulakalpam (pdf)
- Ramanuja's commentary on the Vedanta Sutras -The Sri Bhashya in two volumes: Volume 1 and Volume 2 (pdfs)
- Yoga from a Vaishnava perspective (pdf)
Achintya Bhedabheda (Gaudiya Vaishnavism)
- Bhagavad Gita-Its feeling and philosophy (pdf) by Swami BV Triprurari. Another commentary by BV Narayana Maharaja
- The Fundamentals of Vedanta by Neal Delmonico (where Sadananda Yogindra,and Baladeva Vidyabhusana are presented together).
- The Vedanta-Sutras of Badarayana with the commentary of Baladeva by Rai Bahadur Srisa Chandra Vasu (This is the Govinda-Bhasya commentary)
- The Nectar of Instruction (Upadesamrta)- A commentary by Swami BR Sridhara another edition with commentaries by Sri Radharamanadasa Goswami , Sri Bhaktivinoda Thakura and Sri Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakura (both pdfs)
- Sri Siksastakam, with commentary of Swami BV Tripurari Maharaja (pdf)
- A drop from the ocean of the Nectar of Devotion (Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu-bindu) by Sri Vishwanatha Chakravarti Thakura (pdf)
Shaktism
- God as Mother by Swami Chidananda
- Discourses of Sri Chandrashekhara Saraswati on Soundarya Lahari-Part 1 and Part 2 (both pdfs)
- Devi Gita
- Devi Bhagavatam
- Shakti and Shakta by Arthur Avalon
- The World as power by Arthur Avalon (pdf)
- Varnamala by Arthur Avalon (pdf)
- Lalitasahasranama Stotra-an insight by Swami Shantananda Puri
- Lalitasahasranama stotra with Ashtalakshmi Stotra(an explanation and translation)
- Saundarya Lahari with meaning
- Lalita Sahasranama-translation and meaning
- Devi Mahatmayam translated, Sanskrit verses in IAST script and its significance
- Amazon list
Kashmir Saivism
- Kashmir Shaivism-the secret supreme (pdf) by Swami Lakshmanjoo
- The Doctrine of Vibration (pdf) by Mark Dyczkowsky
- Shiva Sutras-the supreme awakening (pdf)
Saiva Siddhanta (includes texts of the Nandinatha lineage as well)
- Facets of Saivism (pdf) by Swami Harshananda
- Notes on Saiva Siddhanta by Dr. K Ganesalingam
- A compilation of Saiva Siddhantika texts.
- Periyapuraanam-lives of the 63 Nayanars by Sekkizar
- Living with Siva (Himalayan academy,which is from the Nandinatha lineage)
- Merging with Siva:Hinduism's contemporary metaphysics (Himalayan Academy,which is from the Nandinatha lineage)
Virashaivism (Lingayats) , founded by Basava
- Introduction
- Pancha-acharyas (The five 'founder'(for lack of a better words) acharyas of Virashaivism)
- Akka Mahadevi
- Series of vachanas
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