Aldous Huxley's excellent "Introduction" to the translation of the Bhagavad-Gita by Swami Prabhavananda & Christopher Isherwood. Huxley sees the "highest common factor" of human spirituality in this sublime work.

Hux - Bgintro - Complete

Chapter 17 of Walter Isaacson's biography on Einstein; presents Einstein's belief in God and his spiritual worldview. See http://is.gd/88VLPp (at Google Books) Full book available at Amazon: http://is.gd/PeBBsO

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A brief snippet from Jack Kerouac's "Dharma Bums" in which an encounter while train-jumping is described. Allen Ginsburg is the reader.

Kerouac - St Theresa Bum - Ginsburg

A reading of the Isha Upanishad, a key sacred writing from the Hindu tradition, and a favorite scripture of Mahatma Gandhi who said, "If all the Upanishads and all the other scriptures happened all of a sudden to be reduced to ashes, and if only the first verse in the Ishopanishad [Isha Upanishad] were left in the memory of the Hindus, Hinduism would live for ever." The translation is by Purohit Swami and W B Yeats. I am the reader (David Brett Richardson)

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