Eleven books, read in order
Swami A. Parthasarathy wrote eleven books over seventy years of study and teaching. They are read in order, and most people start with The Fall of the Human Intellect. His flagship work, Vedanta Treatise: The Eternities, is in its seventeenth edition. All of his writing is collected in The Complete Works of Swami Parthasarathy.
The three that most people read first
The Fall of the Human Intellect
The difference between intelligence, which schools give you, and the intellect, which you build yourself. The best introduction to the whole subject.
About the book SecondGoverning Business & Relationships
Self-management, value systems, work ethics, stress, leadership and time, and one’s relationship with the world. The book behind our programmes for organisations.
About the book ThirdVedanta Treatise: The Eternities
The seminal work: over sixty years of research on the purpose and goal of a human life, now in its seventeenth edition.
About the bookAll eleven, in reading order
The Fall of the Human Intellect
The first read: intelligence and intellect, and why the second one matters.
Governing Business & Relationships
Eleven chapters, from time management to the ultimate management.
Select English Poems
Twenty poems, read for the philosophy inside each one.
Vedanta Treatise: The Eternities
The seminal work, called the book of the planet.
Bhaja Govindam & Atmabodha
Two eighth-century texts by Adi Shankaracharya.
Bhagavad Gita
The text, transliteration, translation and commentary the Sunday class reads.
Choice Upanishads
Four Upanishads: Kena, Isavasya, Kaivalya and Mundaka.
The Symbolism of Hindu Gods and Rituals
What the symbols, rituals and festivals mean. The youth course reads it.
Thesis on God
A study of the nature of God, for reflection.
The Holocaust of Attachment
His latest book: attachment, and the intellect that frees you from it.
The Complete Works
Eight titles in one volume, printed in Finland.
Swami A. Parthasarathy
Swami A. Parthasarathy, known as Swamiji, is the philosopher whose books the community studies. Over seventy years of study and teaching he wrote eleven books that put the ideas of Vedanta beside the ordinary challenges of a life. Three became bestsellers. He founded the Vedanta Academy in Malavli, India, in 1988, where Vyasa trained, and for over five decades he conducted the Gita Gnana Yajna, a public lecture series on the Bhagavad Gita across India and the world.
His talks are on Vedanta World, on YouTube and in the app.
Digital editions
E-books of the eleven titles are on the way. Tell us which one you want and we will let you know the moment it is available.
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