Books are available directly from the publishers or from distributors such as: 1) South Asia Books, P.O. Box 502, Columbia, MO 65205 (phone 314-474-0166); 2) Nataraj Books, P.O. Box 5076, Springfield, VA 22150 (phone 703-455-4996); 3) Treasures of the Heart, 1834 Ocean Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95060 (phone: 408-458-9654, e-mail: ramama@cruzio.com); 4) Hindu Heritage Books, 1085 Bathurst Street, Toronto M5R 3G8, Canada (phone: 416-532-2560). Titles especially recommended are marked with an asterisk. Those quoted from in How to Become a Hindu are marked with two asterisks.§
SACRED LITERATURE§
*Hume, Robert Ernest, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads. Oxford: O. Univ. Press, 1958.§
*Mascaró , Juan, The Upanishads (selections). Narmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1965.§
*Natarajan, B. (tr.), Tirumantiram, A Tamil Scriptural Classic by Tirumular. Madras: Sri Ramakrishna Math, 1991.§
*Panikkar, Raimon, The Vedic Experience. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1989.§
*Subramuniyaswami, Sivaya, Weaver’s Wisdom (English trans. of Tirukural). Himalayan Academy, 1999. §
SOURCEBOOKS ON HINDUISM§
Arunachalam, M., Peeps into the Cultural Heritage of Hinduism. Tirupanandal: Kasi Mutt, 1987.§
*Dye, Joseph M., Ways To Shiva—Life and Ritual in Hindu India. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1980.§
*Klostermaier, Klaus K., A Survey of Hinduism. Albany: State Univ. of N.Y., 1998.§
*Navaratnam, K., Studies in Hinduism. Jaffna: Maheswary Navaratnam, 1963.§
*Radhakrishnan, S., The Hindu View of Life. New York: Macmillan, 1975.§
Singh, Dr. Karan, Essays on Hinduism. Delhi: Ratna Sagar, 1990.§
Sivananda, Swami, All About Hinduism. Shivanandanagar: The Divine Life Society, 1988.§
*Subramuniyaswami, Sivaya, Dancing with Śiva. Kapaa, HI: Himalayan Academy, 1997.§
*Subramuniyaswami, Sivaya, Loving Gaṇeśa. Kapaa, HI: Himalayan Academy, 2000.§
CULTURE AND WORSHIP§
Barth, Auguste, The Religion of India. London: Kegan Paul, 1921.§
**Huyler, Stephen P., Meeting God. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999.§
Pandey, Raj Bali, Hindu Samskaras. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1969.§
*Subramuniyaswami, Sivaya, Living with Śiva. Kapaa, HI: Himalayan Academy, 1991.§
PERIODICALS, ETC.§
*Chari, Seshadri, (ed.), Organiser (weekly journal), New Delhi: Hemandas Motwani for Bharat Prakashan.§
*Ramachandran, T.R., Tattvaloka, Bangalore: Sri Abhinava Vidyateertha Mahaswamigal Education Trust, bimonthly. §
**Subramuniyaswami, Sivaya, Hinduism Today (bimonthly magazine), Kapaa, HI: Himalayan Academy.§
CONVERSION§
**Frawley, David (Vamadeva Shastri), How I Became a Hindu. New Delhi: Voice of India, 2000.§
**Goel, Sita Ram, How I Became a Hindu. New Delhi: Voice of India, 1982.§
HINDU NAMES§
**Gandhi, Maneka, The Penguin Book of Hindu Names. New Delhi: Penguin Books India, 1989.§
*Pandya, Meenal A. and Pandya-Bhanot, Rashmee, Pick a Pretty Indian Name for Your Baby. Wellesley: Meera Publications, 1991.§
INTERNET RESOURCES§
http://www.kabalarians.com/gkh/yourbaby.htm Kabalarian Philosophy website on the importance of the name, including a list of over 400,000 Hindu baby names.§
http://www.hindunet.org/baby_names/ Hindu Students’ Council website including lists of Hindu baby names.§
http://www.rajiv.org/iu/hindunam.txt Website with a list of Hindu names.§
http://www.indiaexpress.com/specials/babynames/ India Express Network website with lists of Indian names of the Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist and Jain traditions.§
http://members.tripod.com/~VishnuMavuram/names.html Vishnu Mavuram’s website with an interactive Hindu names list.§
http://www.himalayanacademy.com/basics/conversion/ How to Become a Hindu online.§
http://www.himalayanacademy.com/books/ Himalayan Academy Publications, modern Hindu texts by Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami and other authors, as well as many other resources.§
http://www.himalayanacademy.com/academy/ Himalayan Academy’s home page, including information about studying with Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami.§
http://www.himalayanacademy.com/taka/ A Daily Chronicle of Kauai’s Hindu Monastery, Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami’s daily inspirational spoken message from the Garden Island of Kauai.§
http://www.flash.net/~dshanmug/ SHIVA, Saivite Hindu Information for the Visually Assisted, Hindu mystical books, magazines and lessons transcribed into English Braille and large print. §
http://www.hheonline.org/ Hindu Heritage Endowment, a multi-million dollar endowment for the promotion and preservation of charitable Hindu institutions worldwide.§