Resouces & Tools




Therefore let the scriptures be your guide in what to do and what not to do.
Understand their teachings; then act in accordance with them.

Krishna, Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 16:24

Here are various resources that are used by our satsang members, either for group study and discussion purposes in the meetings or privately for personal mystical studies or devotional purposes.


The Bhagavad Gita

Gita scriptural text and commentaries by translation or author


Note: Click the active link to open. PDF files may require a local download and/or the use of a PDF reader application.


Gita study aids



The Upanishads

Upanishads studies

  • Scripture text sources and commentaries

    • Eknath Easwaran: "The Upanishads" (text and commentary)

    • Eknath Easwaran: "The Upanishads" (at BooksVooks)

    • 108 Upanishads with commentary by Swami Nirmalananda Giri, compiled by Richard Sheppard (PDF file)



  • Thematic teachings

    • Essence of the Upanishads: A Key to Indian Spirituality by Eknath Easwaran (audiobook)

    • Essence of the Upanishads: A Key to Indian Spirituality by Eknath Easwaran (PDF file)

    • Yogi Ramacharaka: "The Spirit of the Upanishads" (A Collection of Texts, Aphorisms, Sayings, Proverbs)

    • Upanishads by Sri Aurobindo Kapali Shastry Institute of Vedic Culture (PDF file)





Learning Tools and Supplemental Materials

Slide presentations, charts and tables

Slide presentations

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Charts and tables


Supplemental study - lectures & talks, documentaries and presentations

Swami Tadatmananda on YouTube


Sadhguru on YouTube


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Meditation Practice Tools

Suggested Gita passages for contemplation and meditation

Be aware of me always, adore me, make every act an offering to me, and you shall come to me;
this I promise; for you are dear to me.

The Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 18:65, Easwaran translation


Whatever I am offered in devotion with a pure heart—a leaf, a flower, fruit, or water—I accept with joy. Whatever you do, make it an offering to me—the food you eat, the sacrifices you make, the help you give, even your suffering. In this way you will be freed from the bondage of karma, and from its results both pleasant and painful. Then, firm in renunciation and yoga, with your heart free, you will come to me… those who worship me with love live in me, and I come to life in them… All those who take refuge in me… will attain the supreme goal… Fill your mind with me; love me; serve me; worship me always. Seeking me in your heart, you will at last be united with me.

The Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 9:26–34; Easwaran translation


Abandon all supports and look to me for protection. I shall purify you from the sins of the past; do not grieve.

The Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 18:66; Easwaran translation


I give you these precious words of wisdom; reflect on them… Those who meditate on these holy words worship me with wisdom and devotion.

The Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 18:63 & 70; Easwaran translation


The impermanent has no reality; reality lies in the eternal.
Those who have seen the boundary between these two have attained the end of all knowledge.
Realize that which pervades the universe and is indestructible; no power can affect this unchanging, imperishable reality.

The Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 2:16-17; Easwaran translation


One believes he is the slayer, another believes he is the slain. Both are ignorant; there is neither slayer nor slain.
You were never born; you will never die. You have never changed; you can never change.
Unborn, eternal, immutable, immemorial, you do not die when the body dies.

The Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 2:19-20; Easwaran translation


On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure.
Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear.

The Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 2:40; Easwaran translation


For those whose minds are attached to the unmanifest, the path of realization is full of tribulations.
Worship of the unmanifest is exceedingly difficult for embodied beings.
Fix your mind on Me alone and surrender your intellect to Me.
There upon, you will always live in Me. Of this, there is no doubt.

If you are unable to fix your mind steadily on Me, O Arjun,
then practice remembering Me with devotion while constantly restraining the mind from worldly affairs.
If you cannot practice remembering Me with devotion, then just try to work for Me.
Thus performing devotional service to Me, you shall achieve the stage of perfection.
If you are unable to even work for Me in devotion, then try to renounce the fruits of your actions
and be situated in the self.

Better than mechanical practice is knowledge; better than knowledge is meditation.
Better than meditation is renunciation of the fruits of actions, for peace immediately follows such renunciation.

The Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 12:5, 8-12; Mukundananda translation


The form which you are seeing with your transcendental eyes cannot be understood simply by studying the Vedas,
nor by undergoing serious penances, nor by charity, nor by worship. It is not by these means that one can see Me as I am.
My dear Arjuna, only by undivided devotional service can I be understood as I am, standing before you, and can thus be seen directly. Only in this way can you enter into the mysteries of My understanding.

Bhagavad-gita, As It Is: Chapter 11:53-54; Bhaktivedanta translation


Be fearless and pure; never waver in your determination or your dedication to the spiritual life.

The Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 16:1; Easwaran translation


That one is dear to me who runs not after the pleasant or away from the painful, grieves not, lusts not, but lets things come and go as they happen.

The Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 12:17; Easwaran translation


Guided meditations, timers and other practice tools

Meditation Timer (for use in silent meditation sitting)


Guided Meditation (with audio-visual guidance)


Ambient Meditation Music (for brain entrainment or meditative mind engagement and relaxation)