The Hidden Brain
The Hidden Brain

Author: Shankar Vedantam

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2010-08-31

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 0385525222

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The hidden brain is the voice in our ear when we make the most important decisions in our lives—but we’re never aware of it. The hidden brain decides whom we fall in love with and whom we hate. It tells us to vote for the white candidate and convict the dark-skinned defendant, to hire the thin woman but pay her less than the man doing the same job. It can direct us to safety when disaster strikes and move us to extraordinary acts of altruism. But it can also be manipulated to turn an ordinary person into a suicide terrorist or a group of bystanders into a mob. In a series of compulsively readable narratives, Shankar Vedantam journeys through the latest discoveries in neuroscience, psychology, and behavioral science to uncover the darkest corner of our minds and its decisive impact on the choices we make as individuals and as a society. Filled with fascinating characters, dramatic storytelling, and cutting-edge science, this is an engrossing exploration of the secrets our brains keep from us—and how they are revealed.

Is There God?
Is There God?

Author: Yogesh S. Shah

Publisher: Page Publishing Inc

Published: 2024-07-10

Total Pages: 552

ISBN-13:

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Putting best in the author's words: "Wondering throughout my mature age for years about reality of God and the role that so-called God played ended once I learned the scientific facts about what really the universe was, how it evolved, how it functioned, and where we humans on this earth stood in the midst of it all. Once convinced that God could not be anything else but an undefinable entity and had no direct hand in our life and even functioning of the vast universe, I wondered, what was the use of religions preaching to us to pray to that God? But the answer to that query is not as simple as the other set of facts and puzzles, like those related to presence of spirits and their superhuman ability, existence of spiritual world, how to explain visualization of Jesus Christ that my son Virag witnessed and those NDEs (near-death experiences), and the reasons for the increasing moral deterioration of current-day humans wrapped in greed, selfishness, and ego kept popping in my head. How do we explain all that?" For that and a lot more interesting, inquisitive, and insightful thoughts, ideas, and other presentations just read the book about everything that interest you and enlighten you!

The Powers of The Mind
The Powers of The Mind

Author: Swami Vivekananda

Publisher: editionNEXT.com

Published: 2015-12-09

Total Pages: 50

ISBN-13:

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“The Powers Of The Mind” is a speech delivered at Los Angeles, California, on January 8, 1900 by Swami Vivekananda explained his thoughts on the Powers of the Mind. This book brings together that speech for followers everywhere in his exact words.

Vedanta or The Science of Reality
Vedanta or The Science of Reality

Author: K A Krishnaswamy Iyer

Publisher: Srikanth s

Published:

Total Pages: 558

ISBN-13:

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A great book by K A Krishnaswamy Iyer, teacher of Swami Satchidanandendra Saraswati of Holenarasipura, Karnataka, India.

Vedanta Treatise: The Eternities
Vedanta Treatise: The Eternities

Author: A. Parthasarathy

Publisher: A. Parthasarathy

Published: 2013-08-08

Total Pages: 215

ISBN-13: 9381094101

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For those seeking answers on the purpose and ultimate goal of human life, this is an intensive answer. Vedanta Treatise: The Eternities is the seminal work by A. Parthasarathy, and forms the core of the findings of over 60 years of research and study into the ancient wisdom of the Himalayas. The book expounds the ancient philosophy of Vedanta. It presents the eternal principles of life and living. Living is a technique that needs to be learnt and practised by one and all. The technique provides the formula for remaining active all through life while maintaining inner peace. It helps one develop a powerful intellect to meet the challenges of the world. Above all, the Treatise helps one evolve spiritually. It provides the knowledge and guidance to reach the ultimate in human perfection. The goal of Self-realisation.

The Scientific Approach of Shankara Vedanta
The Scientific Approach of Shankara Vedanta

Author: D B Gangolly

Publisher: Srikanth s

Published:

Total Pages: 123

ISBN-13:

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This is the ninth of a series of small books under the head "Satchidaananda Vaak-Jyoti' or "The Enlightening Words of Satchidaananda". All these booklets contain a free transliteration of the enlightening and immortal words and teachings of Shri Satchidaanandendra Saraswati Swamiji, of revered memory, found in his numerous Kannada books. Those readers who do not have the facility and advantage of reading and understanding books in the Kannada language will be immensely benefited by these English publications written in simple language and style. This small plan of publishing these 'gems of spiritual literature', unrivalled in their esoteric import and teachings of the highest order and based on the pristine pure original Bhashyas of Adi Shankara, was first mooted by Shri D. B. Gangolli, a devotee and admirer of Swamiji. It is an irony of our times that even that great Acharya's immaculate teachings of Atma Vidya or Self-Knowledge, purely based on the strength of the Upanishadic statements, their veracity based on Intuitive dialectics or ratiocination (called Anubhavaanga Tarka) and finally on the strength of the culmination or consummation of all those teachings in one's own Intuitive. experience here and now, have been distorted beyond recognition and redemption.

Human Being in Depth
Human Being in Depth

Author: Swami Ranganathananda

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 1991-09-27

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9780791406809

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This book shows that science and religion should not be antagonistic since both relate to each other in the search for unity and truth. Swami Ranganathananda believes that the modern age demands the meeting of the challenges of life with an adequate philosophy. That adequacy can be ensured only if the philosophy achieves a happy synthesis between the physical sciences and spirituality. This is the specialty of Vedanta. Human Being in Depth illustrates the kinship between Vedanta and modern science. Religion expounded as a verified and verifiable science has a message for all humanity: that spiritual life is a fact, that the consciousness within man is a spark of divinity, and that this same divine consciousness pervades nature and the universe of physics. Vedanta, with its various yoga disciplines, has been explored by the author in its role in mental and spiritual development.