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Books available This section allows us a peek at the inspirational content of some of the publications produced by or for Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math, with which the Lotus Room is affiliated. These books are authoritative and potent; a full storehouse of transcendental wealth to assist all souls in their quest for the goal of life. Books are available for purchase. Contact us to enquire. Meanwhile, some of the books are available for free download in pdf format or in audio format on their respective description pages. Home Comfort by Swami BR Sridhar Our real home is full of freedom and comfort. It is a place where there are natural transactions of faith, love and affection. Misusing our free will, we have somehow gone astray. But now we are being called, “Come home, back to God and back to home, the highest position, the land of love.” ~ Swami BR Sridhar A thought-provoking booklet that serves as an introduction to genuine spiritual life and a practical guide for living life more fully every day, Home Comfort is a selection from Swami BR Sridhar's discourses introducing the subject of revolutionary theistic life. Download Home Comfort as an e-book Download Home Comfort as an audio file Purchase @ € 4.00 Inner Fulfillment by Swami BR Sridhar Our inner hankering is for satisfaction, happiness, sweetness, love, beauty and mercy. Really the inner analysis of our heart is that we are all hankering for sweetness, for rasa, but we are wandering hither and thither for that rasa, and frustrated we come back with a slap on our cheek. The materialists are searching and thinking they are getting something; but by money and women they are becoming frustrated. What is apparent is not real. They are being deceived in such a way all through their lives, more or less. ~ Swami BR Sridhar This book addresses the need of every one of us in this world: to solve the real problem of suffering caused by our existence in this mortal world. The solution is well-known to those special souls who are truly acquainted with the eternal spiritual realm, and they are able to impart that to others. It is the introduction to these secrets which is being expressed in this booklet, Inner Fulfillment. Download Inner Fulfillment as an e-book Purchase @ € 4.00 In Search of the Original Source by Swami BS Govinda How will I go back to the hotel? My driver knows, “This is the way.” He will not miss the way. So, we must search, but with proper guidance. If you want Newcastle coal, you must go to Newcastle; if you want Ganges water go to the Ganges; if you want Thames water go to the Thames. If you want something, go to the source. In this way your searching will take you there. ~ Swami BS Govinda Swami BS Govinda is renowned for his clear and practical explanation of the goal of life and the process to achieve it. In this lecture, Swami BS Govinda gives much reason, inspiration and guidance on the search for the Original Source. Download In Search of the Original Source as an audio file Purchase @ € 1.00 Ocean of Nectar by Swami BR Sridhar “And at last I find that I am captivated. My entire being, within and without, has been captured by a particular sweet force. I can't help being prey to such a sweet power. I can't give any proper description of this.” Again and again tasting nectar the soul dives and surfaces in the ever increasing ocean of ecstatic joy. ~ Swami BR Sridhar This book is a concise collection of particularly beautiful excerpts from the writings of Swami Bhaktivinod Thakur and Swami BR Sridhar (including his translation of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu's Shikshastaka). Ocean of Nectar also contains an introduction to the Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math and its founder Swami BR Sridhar. Download Ocean of Nectar as an e-book Purchase @ € 2.00 Sri Sri Prema Dhama Deva Stotram by Swami BR Sridhar deva-siddha-mukta-yukta-bhakta-vrinda-vanditam papa-tapa-dava-daha-dagdha-dukha-khanditam krsna-nama-sidhu-dhama-dhanya-dana-sagaram prema-dhama-devameva-naumi-gaura-sundaram All glories unto my golden Lord Gaurasundara the beautiful, the divine abode of pure love. Demigods, mystics, salvationists, yogis and pure devotees of Lord Krishna – all sing constantly his praise. He removes at once the miseries of all tortured souls who are scorched by the heat of their own sins and consequently are burning incessantly within the great forest fire of the material world. Blessed is the Lord who is a vast ocean of divine generosity, the abode of the sweet nectars that are the holy names of Krishna. I fall at the feet of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, the Golden Volcano of Divine Love. ~ Swami BR Sridhar The combination of the Pastimes of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu as well as the achintya-bhedaabedha-siddhanta, or philosophy of inconceivable simultaneous oneness and difference, contained within this stotram has brought about such a wonderful harmony between poetic beauty and philosophical depth that the learned consider the stotram to be in line with the foremost devotional scriptures. Download Sri Sri Prema Dhama Deva Stotram as an e-book Purchase @ € 2.00 Srimad Bhagavad-Gita The Hidden Treasure of the Sweet Absolute One who is always satisfied within by both knowledge and realisation, who is always fixed in his spiritual nature, who is sense-controlled and who has the vision of equality for a clod of earth, a rock, or gold—it is said that such a person has attained yoga. Such an eminent yogi has the vision of equality towards a well-wisher, a friend, an enemy, an indifferent person, a mediator, a hateful person, a relative, a saint and a sinner. 6:8-9 When a yogi withdraws the mind from mundane thoughts and centres it unwaveringly in the self, then, free from mundane desires, he is said to be actually situated in yoga, or linked with the Absolute. 6:18 For one who sees Me in everything and everything in Me, I am never lost to him, and he is never lost to Me. 6:30 Swami BR Sridhar's clearly expressed commentary and interpretation of this timeless Vedic scripture reveal his fine insight on its inner meaning. Includes Sanskrit Verse Index and Glossary. Hardback cover. Download Srimad Bhagavad Gita as an e-book Download Srimad Bhagavad Gita in English as an audio file Download Srimad Bhagavad Gita in Sanskrit as an audio file Purchase @ € 7.00 Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu~Life and Precepts by Swami Bhaktivinode Thakur The religion preached by Sriman Mahaprabhu is universal and non-sectarian. The church of kirttan invites all classes of men, without distinction as to caste or clan, to engage in the highest cultivation of the spirit. ~ Swami Bhaktivinode Thakur Particularly appealing to the Western mind, this book by Swami Bhaktivinode was the first literature describing the teachings of Sri Chaitanya in the English language to reach the West. In the agony of separation from Sri Krishna, volcanic eruptions of ecstasy flow from the heart of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, and His teachings (Sikshastakam) flow like streams of golden lava from His lips in this compelling narrative biography. A penetrating exposition on the psychology of Divine Love. Download Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu as an audio file Purchase @ € 8.00 The Golden Volcano of Divine Love by Swami BR Sridhar A man should be judged by his ideal, his aspiration for higher things. If the ideal is great, the man is great. What should be the highest ideal? Love. Love is the supreme thing. It is the most rare and precious thing. Divine love and beauty is the highest thing ever known to the world. The wonderful characteristic of divine love of Krishna is that although externally, it works like fiery lava, internally it is like sweet nectar that fills the heart with the greatest joy. ~ Swami BR Sridhar In the agony of separation from Sri Krishna, volcanic eruptions of ecstasy flow from the heart of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, and His teachings (Sikshastakam) flow like streams of golden lava from His lips in this compelling narrative biography. A penetrating exposition on the psychology of Divine Love. Download Golden Volcano of Divine Love as an e-book Purchase @ € 8.00 The Search for Sri Krishna by Swami BR Sridhar You will have to dive deep, not into the plane of body and mind, but into the plane of soul. You will have to dive deep into the reality that is within us. Eliminate both your physical and mental encasements and find out your own self. There you will find the key, the clue to the proper world where life is worth living. Oh you sons of nectar, sons of the nectarian ocean sea. Please listen to me! You were born in nectar. You were born to taste nectar. You must not allow yourselves to be satisfied by anything but nectar. Awake! Arise! And search for that nectar. Search for Sri Krishna, Reality the Beautiful. ~ Swami BR Sridhar A penetrating look into the Center of the Infinite, this book describes the origin of the soul and subjective evolution, explores the levels of divine awareness and the six philosophies of India, gives a Gaudiya Vaisnava analysis of Christianity, and addresses contemporary issues from drug problems to World War III. The dramatic conclusion summarises the essence of Vaisnava theology. A provocative guide for your journey inward. Download The Search for Sri Krishna as an e-book Download The Search for Sri Krishna as an audio file Purchase @ € 8.00 Sri Guru and His Grace by Swami BR Sridhar To err is human. To err is inevitable for all imperfect beings. Still, no one wants to remain imperfect. There is an element within all that is animate that tends towards perfection. If it were not so, we would feel no want at all. Our tendency towards perfection is certainly very weak and limited, otherwise we could attain the goal at once. Our limited capacity and tendency for perfection makes room for Sri Guru and His Grace. ~ Swami BR Sridhar The most definitive book in existence on the complex subject of guru. Swami BR Sridhar explains the universal conception of guru, and shatters the mindless fanaticism of personality cults. He describes both the traditional and modern conceptions of guru, how to recognise a genuine guru, and explains the guru-disciple relationship including how to deal with the disappearance of one's guru. Furthermore he explains the meanings of different mantras, their importance, and their effects. Download Sri Guru and His Grace as an e-book Purchase @ € 8.00 Loving Search for the Lost Servant by Swami BR Sridhar “Why did you stay away? Why have you been living away from home for so long? How was it possible for you? How could you bear My separation? You left Me, and you have been passing lives after lives without Me. Still I know what trouble you took to return to Me. You have searched for Me everywhere, and went to beg from house to house, and you were chastised by many, ridiculed by many, and you shed tears for Me. I know all these things. I was with you. And now, after great trouble, you have again come back to Me.” ~ Swami BR Sridhar Although the Lord is full in all respects, still He feels pangs of separation from every one of us, and He attempts again and again to reclaim us. A step-by-step explanation of the beginning of transcendental realisation through the intermediate stages and onwards into higher realms of the esoteric teachings of the great saints. Includes explanations of the Bhagavad Gita, the Vedas, the Bhagavat Purana and the esoteric meanings of mantras and divine service. A lavishly illustrated publication, hardback cover. Download Loving Search for the Lost Servant as an e-book Purchase @ € 8.00 Subjective Evolution of Consciousness The Play of the Sweet Absolute The revealed Truth is found in varying degrees in the Bible, the Koran, the Vedas, and the other scriptures of the world. It is partially revealed in different places of the world in proportion to the thinking and capacity of each particular group of people. In a higher stage of realisation we can detect consciousness everywhere: within glass, stone, earth, wood – in all the innumerable shapes and colours in which matter may appear. The physical world is only a meager portion of reality, and the subtle world, which is at present in the background, is far more vast. The mental world is a huge and vast reality, and the physical world is but a small cover over that mental world. ~ Swami BR Sridhar Swami BR Sridhar compares the views of Descartes, Berkeley, and Hegel in the West, to Buddha, Shankara, and Sri Chaitanya in the East, and shows that consciousness is not a product of the world (objective evolution), but that the world is a product of consciousness (subjective evolution). Subjective Evolution of Consciousness transcends the existential doubt of science and surpasses the esoteric wisdom of mysticism, and then takes an unexpected leap into the plane of ecstasy. Download Subjective Evolution of Consciousness as an e-book Purchase @ € 7.00