Hindu Sacred Text Archive

The Internet Sacred Text Archive is a huge repository of texts and scriptures from just about any religion that exists or ever existed. While the site is designed with super-simplicity in mind the information is easy to access. Though the navigation is terse and the presentation is just as terse the substance is there.

This is one of the few places online where you can find all the vedas and most of the upanishads in one place both in English as well as in Sanskrit. Kudos to the organization that went to the trouble to set up this simple yet useful website. Compared to wikipedia that mainly has history of origin and the evolution of such texts, sacred-texts.com goes straight to it the content. When combined with information from wikipedia you can just about get all the information you need about ancient Hindu Scripture. Hindu Scriptures included in the compendium of this website are the Vedas, Upanishads, Epics such as Ramayana and Mahabharata, Puranas such as Vishnu Purana and Devi Gita, The Laws of Manu, Shatapatha Brahmana, Patanjali Yoga Sutras among many more ancient scripture as well as some contemporary books.

The Divine Life Society Site Overview

The Divine Life Society was founded by the late Swami Sivananda Saraswati (1887 - 1963). Though unrelated to Swami Vivekananda who lived around the same time, both these modern era enlightened Hindu saints were among the forerunners of spreading universal Hindu education and promoting social welfare work as crucial spiritual missions.

Today The Divine Life Society has mission branches all over the world that promotes Swami Sivananda's wonderfully inclusive and mystical approach to Vedanta while being actively involved in social welfare work. This is also reflected in their website that contains extensive resources of the 'mountain' of literature that was produced by the late Swami and his successors for free.

Their website is a treasure trove of information on Hindu philosophy, spirituality and culture and has a lot of guides written by the Swami Sivananda and the current leaders of The Divine Life Society. Despite the 'bare-bones' simple looking format of this popular website, its wealth of information can keep you busy with knowledge and practices for a long time. It is a wonderful resource to be a part of the HinduSearchEngine.com. Translations of the site is also available in Spanish and German.

Click here to go to The Divine Life Society's website.