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Recommended Reading & Listening

Thom Knoles Maharishi Vyasananda Saraswati

My teacher, Thom Knoles, is considered the world's leading authority on Vedic Meditation and knowledge in the world today. Listen to Thom in conversation with leaders, teachers, authors and professors from all over the world as they examine a variety of topics through the Vedic lens via his Podcast The Vedic Worldview.

Vedic Meditation / Transcendental Meditation specific

  • TRANSCENDENCE: HEALING AND TRANSFORMATION THROUGH TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION   Norman E. Rosenthal

  • THE TM TECHNIQUE   Peter Russell

  • THE SCIENCE OF BEING AND THE ART OF LIVING   Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  • CATCHING THE BIG FISH   David Lynch

General

  • THE POWER OF NOW   Eckhart Tolle

  • A NEW EARTH   Eckhart Tolle

  • DISSOLVING THE EGO, REALISING THE SELF   Dr David R Hawkins

  • LETTING GO – A PATHWAY TO SURRENDER   Dr David R Hawkins

  • POWER VS FORCE   Dr David R Hawkins

  • AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A YOGI   Paramahansa Yogananda

  • BE HERE NOW   Ram Dass

  • I AM THAT: TALKS WITH SRI NISARGADATTA MAHARAJ   Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  • BIG MAGIC   Elizabeth Gilbert

Ayurveda and Health

  • PERFECT HEALTH   Deepak Chopra

  • THE AYURVEDIC COOKBOOK   Amadea Morningstar

  • ESSENTIAL AYURVEDA: WHAT IT IS AND WHAT IT CAN DO FOR YOU   Shubhra Krishan

  • THE COMPLETE BOOK OF AYURVEDIC HOME REMEDIES   Dr Vasant Lad

  • AYURVEDA - THE SCIENCE OF SELF HEALING   Dr Vasant Lad

  • AYURVEDIC HEALING: A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE   Dr David Frawley

  • AYURVEDA AND THE MIND: THE HEALING OF CONSCIOUSNESS   Dr David Frawley

  • A WOMAN’S BEST MEDICINE   Nancy Lonsdorf

  • FOR A BLISSFUL BABY: HEALTHY AND HAPPY PREGNANCY WITH MAHARISHI VEDIC MEDICINE   Dr. Kumuda Reddy, Linda Egenes and Margaret Mullins

Science

  • THE NEUROPHYSIOLOGY OF ENLIGHTENMENT   Robert Keith Wallace

  • THE BRAIN THAT CHANGES ITSELF  Norman Doidge

  • THE BIOLOGY OF BELIEF   (Also a YouTube video lecture – search for Bruce Lipton)

  • CONSCIOUSNESS (MAPPING SCIENCE)   Rita Carter

  • THE RELAXATION RESPONSE   Herbert Benson

  • RELAXATION REVOLUTION: SCIENCE AND GENETICS OF MIND BODY HEALING   Herbert Benson

  • THE INFORMATION: A HISTORY, A THEORY, A FLOOD   James Gleick

  • THE ELEGANT UNIVERSE   Brian Greene

  • A SHORT HISTORY OF NEARLY EVERYTHING   Bill Bryson

  • SAPIENS: A BRIEF HISTORY OF HUMANKIND   Yuval Noah Hazart

  • WHY ZEBRAS DON’T GET ULCERS   Robert Sapolsky

Vedic Texts

Vedic texts can be read on many levels – from the story itself to the many layers of symbolic meaning contained within them. If you haven’t read any Vedic texts before and are interested in trying some of the books listed below, a great place to start is with the Maharishi’s commentary of the Bhagavad Gita. In it he extrapolates these layers and meaning for the reader.

  • MAHARISHI MAHESH YOGI ON THE BHAGAVAD-GITA: A NEW TRANSLATION AND COMMENTARY, CHAPTERS 1-6   Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  • THE MAHABHARATA   Ramesh Menon

  • THE RAMAYANA   Ramesh Menon

  • THE DEVI BHAGAVATAM   Ramesh Menon

  • BHAGAVATA PURANA   Ramesh Menon

  • THE PRINCIPLE UPANISHADS   S. Radhakrishnan

  • SEARCHING FOR VEDIC INDIA   Devamrita Swami

  • SHANKARA’S CREST-JEWEL OF DISCRIMINATION - THE VIVEKACHUDAMANI   Shankara