Suggested Reading

The Universal Fellowship of Light promotes the enlightenment of humanity.

Books For Beginners

Siddhartha
by Hermann Hesse

Autobiography of a Yogi
by Paramahansa Yogananda

Jonathan Livingston Seagull
by Richard Bach

Illusions – The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
by Richard Bach

Sacred Journey of the Peaceful Warrior
by Dan Millman

Surfing the Himalayas
by Frederick Lenz

Snowboarding to Nirvana
by Frederick Lenz

Conversations With God
by Neale Donald Walsch

Celestine Prophecy
by James Redfield

Mount Analogue
by Rene Daumal

Dancing On Rooftops With Dragons – The Yoga of Joy
by Yuan Miao

More Advanced

Compassion Is Divine Service
by Annai Siddha Rajakumar Guruji

Living With The Himalayan Masters
by Swami Rama

At The Eleventh Hour
by Pandit Rajmani Tigunait

Tapaswiji – Saint who lived for 185 years
by T.S. Anantha Murthy

The Incredible Life of A Himalayan Yogi
The Times, Teachings and Life of Living Shiva
Baba Lokenath Brahmachari
by Shuddhaananda Brahmachari

Deva Bhumi – The Abode of the Gods in India
by Krishna Kumar (K.K.) Sah

Mother Reveals Herself
as recorded by Bhaiji (Jyotish Chandra Roy)
available from Shree Shree Ma Anandamayee Archive

Play of Consciousness
by Swami Muktananda

Tao Te Ching
by Lao Tsu

The Way of Chuang Tzu (Shambhala Library)
Thomas Merton

Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind
by Shunryu Suzuki

Zen Flesh, Zen Bones
by Nyogen Senzaki and Paul Reps

Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
by Eckhart Tolle

Simple Path
by Mother Teresa

Meetings with Remarkable Men
by G. I. Gurdjieff

Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux
by John G. Neihardt

The Autobiography of Saint Therese of Lisieux: The Story of a Soul
by Thérèse, de Lisieux

The Perennial Philosophy
by Aldous Huxley

In The Dark Places of Wisdom
by Peter Kingsley

Books about Shirdi Sai Baba

Shri Satcharita
by Govind R. Dabholkar (Hemadpant)

God Who Walked On Earth – The Life and Times of Shirdi Sai Baba
by Rangaswami Parthasarathy

Shri Sai Baba’s Teachings and Philosophy
by Lt. Col. M. B. Nimbalkar

Shirdi Sai Baba and Other Perfect Masters
by C.B. Satpathy

Books about Sri Ramakrishna

The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
by Mahendranath Gupta

My Guru and His Disciple
by Christopher Isherwood

Ramakrishna and His Disciples
by Christopher Isherwood

A Portrait of Ramakrishna
by Akshay Kumar Sen

Great Swan: Meetings with Ramakrishna
by Lex Hixon

Sri Ramakrishna – The Great Master
by Swami Saradananda

Books about Ramana Maharshi

The Spiritual Teachings of Ramana Maharshi

by Ramana Maharshi

Timeless In Time – Sri Ramana Maharshi
by A.R. Natarajan

Be as You Are: The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi
by Sri Ramana Maharshi

Indian Classics

Bhagavad Gita: A New Translation
by Stephen Mitchell

The Upanishads (Classic of Indian Spirituality)
by Eknath Easwaran

The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic
by R. K. Narayan (Penguin Classics)

The Ramayana: A Modern Retelling of the Great Indian Epic
by Ramesh Menon

Shankara’s Crest Jewel of Discrimination
by Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher Isherwood

Devi – The Devi Bagavatam Retold
by Ramesh Menon

Guru Charitra (Story of Dattatreya)
Shree Swami Samarth Vishwa Kalyan Kendra

Jnaneshvar: The Life and Works of the Celebrated
Thirteenth Century Indian Mystic-Poet
by S. Abhayanananda

Tukaram – The Poet Saint of Maharashtra
by Justin E. Abbot

The Kabir Book: Forty-Four of the Ecstatic Poems of Kabir
by Robert Bly

One Hundred Poems Of Kabir
by Rabindranath Tagore

Books about Tibetan Buddhism

Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism
by Chogyam Trungpa

Shambhala: Sacred Path of the Warrior
by Chogyam Trungpa

Masters of Meditation and Miracles
by Tulku Thondup

Guide to a Bodhisattva’s Way of Life
by Shantideva

The Way of the White Clouds
by Lama Anagarika Govinda

Tibet’s Great Yogi Milarepa
by W. Evans-Wentz

The Jewel Tree Of Tibet – The Enlightenment Engine of Tibetan Buddhism
by Robert Thurman

The Buddha Path
by Khenpo Choga Rinpoche

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