English translations of the world’s Sacred Texts.
Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 1
भगवद्गीता Bhagavad-Gita Recension By William Quan Judge Chapter I The Despondency of Arjuna OM! DHRITARASHTRA: Tell me, O Sanjaya, what the people of my own party and those of Pandu, who are... Read more
Shankaracharya’s Catechism Theosophical Quarterly, January, April, July, October, 1913 ———— INTRODUCTION This charming little treatise bears in Sanskrit the title Tattva Bodha, which m... Read more
Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras
Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras An Interpretation by Charles Johnston Theosophical Quarterly, October, 1909; January, April, October, 1910 & January, April, July, October, 1911 First Edition, 19... Read more
Natural Psychical and Spiritual Bodies (Gaudapada’s Mandukya-Karika)
Natural Psychical and Spiritual Bodies [Mandukya Upanishad with Gaudapada’s Poem (Karika)] Theosophical Quarterly, October, 1908; January, April, 1909 The shortest of all the older Upa... Read more
Bhagavad Gita
भगवद्गीता Bhagavad Gita “Songs of the Master” Translated with an Introduction and Commentary by Charles Johnston Theosophical Quarterly, January, April, July, October, 1906 & January, Ap... Read more
Buddha’s Renunciation Being an Original Translation from the Sanskrit of Ashvaghosha’s Buddha-Charita. Theosophy, August-September 1897 & Universal Brotherhood, November, 189... Read more
King Nala’s Rivals (Mahabharata)
King Nala’s Rivals Oriental Department, November, 1896 MAHABHARATA, iii, vi, 53, 5. When a fair time had come, and a lucky day and hour, King Bhima called the lords of the earth to the choos... Read more
Shankara’s Catechism (Tattva Bodha)
Shankara’s Catechism Oriental Department, January-March, 1895 INTRODUCTORY. In the “Awakening to the Self” [Atma Bodha], and, still more, in the “Crest-Jewel of Wisdom”, Shankara the T... Read more