Eastern Philosophy Books available from Krishna Vidyā Publishing.
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The Bhagavad Gita, Remember Who You Are, Living Your Purpose, So You Want to Be a Bodhisattva, So, How About Those Gunas. Atman & Brahman – Wait… What!? and OM: It’s That Simple are now available through Amazon.
Welcome
If you’ve found your way here searching for Eastern Philosophy Books, you’re likely not just looking for something to read—you’re looking for something that resonates. Something that doesn’t just add information, but gently shifts how you see life, yourself, and the space between everything.
On KrishnaVidya.net, these Eastern Philosophy Books are offered in that spirit—less about instruction, more about remembrance. A quiet return to what’s already been known beneath the noise of daily life.
Bhagavad Gita – A Timeless Conversation on the Inner Self
$14.99
One of the core Spiritual Books available here is a fresh, accessible rendering of the Bhagavad Gita. This is not just a sacred text—it’s a living dialogue about confusion, clarity, action, and surrender.
What makes the Gita so enduring is how relevant it still feels. It meets you exactly where you are: in uncertainty, in transition, in the middle of questions that don’t always have neat answers. And instead of pushing for escape, it gently points inward.
This version is presented in a way that keeps it grounded and readable—something you can sit with, rather than study from a distance. Among all Spiritual Books, this one carries the tone of a steady companion rather than a distant authority.
Remember Who You Are – A Modern Reflection
$14.99
Alongside it is the second offering: Remember Who You Are.
This book speaks in a more conversational voice—like a quiet dialogue between traveler and traveler. It doesn’t try to define truth as much as it points toward what feels already familiar beneath thought. It’s about the subtle recognition that who you are isn’t something to become, but something to notice again.
If the Gita is the ancient river, this book is a stream running alongside it—still carrying the same essence, but in a more modern current. Together, they form a small collection of Spiritual Books designed not to overwhelm, but to soften perception.
Living Your Purpose – Dharma and the Freedom of Being Who You Are
$14.99
What if your purpose isn’t something you have to find?
What if it’s already there—quietly waiting beneath the expectations, the striving, the fear, and all the ideas about who you’re supposed to be?
Living Your Purpose: Dharma and the Freedom of Being Who You Are is an invitation to explore purpose in a different way.
Not as a job title.
Not as a fixed destiny.
Not as one more thing you have to figure out or achieve.
Instead, this book explores dharma as the freedom of living in greater alignment with who you truly are.
Through gentle reflection, personal insight, and practical wisdom, you’ll explore how family, culture, ambition, comparison, and expectation can shape the identity we learn to live from—and how becoming quieter can help us recognize what has been true underneath it all.
You’ll discover how to:
- Listen more deeply to your own life
- Recognize the difference between expectation and alignment
- Let go of the pressure to constantly become “enough”
- See purpose as something larger than a career
- Trust recurring callings, creativity, intuition, and joy
- Navigate change, uncertainty, and difficult seasons with greater lightness
- Take the next honest step without needing the entire map
This is not a book about having life figured out.
It is a book about remembering.
Remembering that you do not need to become someone else before your life can feel meaningful.
Maybe you’ve been yourself all along.
And maybe freedom begins with remembering.
So You Want To Be a Bodhisattva – Living the Path of Compassion In Everyday Life
$19.99
What if becoming a bodhisattva doesn’t require robes, a monastery, or a new spiritual identity?
What if it begins much more simply—with the way you listen, the way you love, the way you respond to suffering, and the quiet question:
How can I be of use here?
So You Want to Be a Bodhisattva is a warm, thoughtful, and often humorous exploration of what it might mean to live the bodhisattva path in ordinary modern life.
Written not as a scholarly Buddhist text, but from the perspective of someone walking the path himself, this book draws inspiration from Buddhism, the Bhagavad Gita, the Upanishads, and a lifetime of learning through music, photography, relationships, creativity, and service.
Along the way, you’ll explore:
- why the deepest vows may be the ones we live rather than announce
- how ordinary life can become your monastery
- why compassion does not require becoming a saint—or a doormat
- how the ego can turn spirituality into one more identity
- why helping others awaken is often more about example than instruction
- how study can become remembrance, and remembrance can become instinct
- why loving life and seeking liberation may not be opposites
- how service can become immediate, practical, and deeply human
At its heart, this is a book about embodiment.
Learn the teachings. Study them. Question them. Let them sink in deeply.
Then let them go.
Like a musician who no longer thinks about the scales while playing, or a photographer who no longer thinks about the camera while seeing, wisdom can eventually become something you simply live.
You don’t have to call yourself a bodhisattva.
You don’t have to look spiritual.
You don’t have to convince anyone of anything.
Just become a little more awake, a little more compassionate, and a little more available to the beings whose lives cross your path.
And when the moment comes, ask:
How can I be of use here?
Then listen.
So, How About Those Gunas: Understanding the Forces That Shape How We Think, Feel, and Live
$14.99
What if the forces shaping your thoughts, moods, desires, actions, and even your sense of self could be recognized more clearly?
So, How About Those Gunas? explores the ancient teaching of the three gunas—tamas, rajas, and sattva—as living forces we can observe in everyday life.
Tamas shows up as heaviness, inertia, confusion, and withdrawal.
Rajas appears as movement, ambition, desire, creativity, striving, and restlessness.
Sattva brings clarity, harmony, balance, and peace.
But the deeper teaching is not about judging one guna as bad and another as good, or about trying to become a perfectly sattvic person.
The gunas are part of nature.
They rise and fall.
They mix.
They shape our thoughts, relationships, work, creativity, choices, and culture.
The real freedom begins when we recognize that we are not the gunas themselves.
We are that which notices them.
Written from lived, experiential understanding rather than an academic or textbook perspective, this book offers a simple, approachable way to explore one of the Bhagavad Gita’s most practical and profound teachings.
It is an invitation to notice what is moving through your life, to become less identified with every passing state, and perhaps to remember something deeper beneath it all.
Atman & Brahman – Wait… What!?: Remembering Who You Are Beneath Who You Think You Are
$14.99
What if the person you’ve spent your whole life calling “me” is real… but not the whole story?
Atman & Brahman — Wait… What!? Remembering Who You Are Beneath the Person You Think You Are is a warm, personal exploration of one of the most profound teachings in the Bhagavad Gita: the distinction between the changing field of human experience and the deeper awareness that knows it.
Thoughts come and go.
Emotions come and go.
Roles change.
Bodies change.
Opinions change.
The personality has good days, bad days, and occasionally days that should probably be rescheduled.
And yet something is aware of all of it.
This book begins with a simple question:
Who am I?
From there, it explores the field and the knower of the field, the nature of Atman, the meaning of Brahman, the movement of the gunas, and the astonishing possibility that the deepest Self within us and the deepest Reality of existence are not ultimately separate.
But this is not a textbook on Hindu philosophy, and it isn’t written from the position of a guru, scholar, or spiritual authority.
It is written as one person walking beside another, saying:
This is what I found when the Gita asked me to look again.
With humor, curiosity, and lived reflection, the book explores what these teachings might mean in ordinary life:
How do we relate to fear, anger, success, failure, and conditioning when we no longer mistake them for our entire identity?
What happens when other people stop feeling quite so “other”?
How do we work with the gunas without turning them into new labels for ourselves?
And what does any of this mean when we still have work to do, bills to pay, relationships to navigate, coffee to drink, and laundry that apparently has no interest in enlightenment?
At its heart, this is a book about remembering.
Not becoming Atman.
Not attaining Brahman.
Not graduating spiritually.
Remembering what may have been present all along beneath the changing story of who we think we are.
If you’ve ever wondered whether there is something deeper beneath the personality, the mind, the biography, and the constant internal narration of “me,” this book invites you to look.
Not harder.
Deeper.
OM: It’s That Simple – A Simple Journey Through the Māṇḍūkya Upanishad
$14.99
What are you, really?
Not your name.
Not your history.
Not your thoughts, roles, worries, plans, or personality.
The Māṇḍūkya Upanishad asks us to look beneath all of that through something we already experience every day: waking, dreaming, and deep sleep.
In OM: It’s That Simple, Ted Vieira offers a short, accessible journey through one of the smallest—and most profound—of the Upanishads.
Using the simple structure of Om—A, U, M, and the silence that follows—the book explores a timeless question:
If the waking person disappears every night, the dreamer disappears every morning, and even the mind disappears in deep sleep—what is it that remains?
Written in a warm, conversational style, this is not a scholarly commentary or an academic introduction to Vedanta. It is an invitation to look directly at your own experience.
Along the way, we explore:
Waking.
Dreaming.
Deep sleep.
Turīya—the Fourth.
Atman.
Brahman.
And the possibility that what we are seeking may not be something we need to find at all.
Maybe it is something we need to remember.
Simple.
Direct.
Twelve mantras.
One sound.
One question.
What remains?
OM: It’s That Simple is for anyone curious about the Upanishads, Advaita Vedanta, consciousness, the nature of the Self, or the deeper meaning of Om—no previous knowledge required.
A Space for Quiet Returning
These Spiritual Books aren’t meant to compete with the noise of the world. They’re meant to sit beneath it. To be picked up in quiet moments. To be read slowly, or even revisited when something inside feels ready to hear them differently.
Whether you arrive through curiosity, seeking, or simple chance, what you’ll find here isn’t a system to adopt—it’s an invitation to look again at what’s already present.
Because sometimes, the most meaningful Spiritual Books don’t give you something new.
They help you recognize what was never missing.