Managing Your Hindu Wedding: The day before and THE day

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Managing Your Hindu Wedding in North America:
The Day Before and THE Day!
A Guide to Couples, their Families and Priest

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Managing Your Hindu Wedding: the Day Before and The DAY is a must-read for
couples and families planning a Hindu wedding. It lays out all the basic steps and preparations needed for a smooth authentic one-hour ceremony. The rehearsal plan includes practice steps recommended and specific assignments for friends and relatives who can help the ceremony proceed in a pleasant, memorable and timely manner. This ebook accompanies a print version and an audiobook.
Reserve your copy today. Both the ebook and the print version can be ordered through Amazon or Abe or similar outlets. The audio book can be ordered from www.cdbaby.com or paste this on your browser.

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The Puranas: A Magnifying Glass for Vedic Wisdom

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Read Vishnu Purana to understand its relevance in this Kali Yuga !

In this excellent work on the Pūrāṇas, Dr. Srinivasan has again made the highly complex and sophisticated literature of an equally complex and sophisticated culture accessible to the contemporary reader. He has a gift for communicating complex ideas in a way that makes them clear and easy to grasp, but does so without losing sight of their inherent complexity.” Professor Jeff Long, Elizabeth College, PA

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A Hindu Primer: Yaksha Prashna

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Do you love riddles? Do you want to teach Hindu Values to your children? Then read on!

Please note this ebook won the SILVER award from the IBPA (Independent Book Publishers Association) in October 2016.

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Please permit me to briefly introduce myself in context:

I am the author of several publications, including the books: Vedic Wedding: Origins, Tradition, and Practice(National Best Book Award in 2007, currently out of print), A Hindu Primer: Yaksha Prashna (Benjamin Franklin Award in 2016), and Hinduism for Dummies, Second edition, 2026).

My papers on a variety of Hinduism related topics have appeared in Vedanta Kesari, Prabuddha Bharata, Quest; Journal of the Theosophical Society of America, Hindu Vishva, Bhavan’s Journal and Tattva Loka.

Publishers include Bangalore Press, Periplus Line, LLC, Wiley Publishers, White River Press, Penguin Random House, New Delhi, Cambridge University Press, and Vision Books, New Delhi.

Let me ask you: If there is one book that you could use to (1) teach Sanskrit, (2) introduce your students to one of the exciting stories from the Mahabharata, and (3) explain the Hindu value system, would you prescribe and use it? Of course you would!

A few weeks ago a friend and customer wrote directly to me: “Thank you for your gift of the book.  This is an outstanding edition. Can I please purchase 50 copies of this edition? Please let me know.” This was a pleasant surprise that prompted us to order the 2nd reprint of the 3rd edition:

A Hindu Primer: YAKSHA PRASHNA — Third Edition

Dr. A.V. Srinivasan, Periplus Line LLC/Parijata Publication,

ISBN: 978-0-9785443-5-5   Paperback.  List price $20.00

Retelling of the Mahabharata episode of all the 120 Questions of the Yaksha in the Aranya Parva.  All riddles are included in this enlarged, revised third edition.  Original Sanskrit verses transliterated and translated into English.

You may place your order using this link: https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?ds=20&kn=A%20Hindu%20Primer%3A%20Yaksha%20Prashna&ref_=ds_ac_d_30&sts=t

Welcome

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Welcome to my web site! I am an engineer by training. My professional career has focused on turbomachinery (especially jet engines) and smart structures. I also have deep interests in politics and religion. In 1979 I helped found the Connecticut Valley Hindu Temple Society, in Middletown, Connecticut. I was elected to two terms on the Glastonbury, Connecticut town council. Please explore the links on the left to read my many papers and articles on these subjects.

In July 2008 I was appointed to serve on the board of directors of Connecticut Innovations, a quasi-public authority, by Governor M. Jodi Rell. Also I served as Honorary Chair for that year’s One Book program of Hartford Public Library.

History was made on May 29, 2007 when I was invited by my good friend Senator Gary Lebeau to offer a Hindu prayer before beginning the deliberations of the Senate that day.  You may watch the prayer by clicking here http://youtu.be/b8L1kJT9xZU

The highlight of 2011 was the publication of my book HINDUISM for Dummies by Wiley Publishers. Please visit my Author Page on Amazon at amazon.com/author/a.v.srinivasan and read the many great reviews the book has received.

My 2015 publication The Bhagavad Gita: A Thread through the Eighteen Gems: A Re-reading has  received great reviews some of which are shown below. The Foreword is written by Swami Tyagananda, head of the Ramakrishna Math at Boston and Hindu Chaplain at Harvard University.

“ This is a brilliant book that I recommend wholeheartedly” – Professor Subhash Kak

“… Srinivasan’s commentary is itself a gem.” Professor Jeff Long

This book is now available as an ebook also.