Swami Ashokananda - Works

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The Swami rendered great service to the cause of the Vedanta movement in the West by his clear and thorough expositions of Vedantic teachings through lectures and classes for nearly four decades. During his ministry the Vedanta Society expanded its activities greatly, adding to it two sub-centres and two forest retreats and a new temple in San Francisco. He also promoted Swami Vivekananda's view of active humanitarian service.

From 1953 onward the Swami's lectures were recorded on tape. Some of them have been transcribed and published.

  • Meditate while you work - a new path for a new age
  • When the many become One
  • Spiritualising everyday life
  • Swami Vivekananda in San Francisco
  • Swami Brahmananda
  • Swami Premananda
  • Memoirs of Swami Shivananda
  • The Teacher-Prophets of Vedanta
  • The Theory and Practice of Monism
  • The Razor's Edge
  • Ritualism : ITs place in Spiritual Life
  • When the heart cries for God
  • God and God-men in Vedanta
  • Meditation, Ecstasy and Illumination
  • Avadhuta Gita is his translation of Avadhuta Gita, an ancient treatise on Advaita philosophy by Dattatreya avadhuta.
  • Shafts of Light ISBN 978-0-9706368-3-6 is a compilation of over 800 directives of Swami to his disciples.
  • His disciple Sister Gargi has written Swami's biography - A Heart poured Out ISBN 978-0-9706368-1-2.

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