Bede Griffiths Bibliography
A complete bibliography of published books and articles is available on the Bede Griffiths Trust website at http://www.bedegriffiths.com/books-by-bede/
Fr Bede’s published books are normally available at on-line booksellers such as Abe Books and Amazon.
The Golden String (1954). This is Fr Bede’s account of his early life and what he refers to as an account of his conversion. A beautifully written account up to the time he left England for India.
Christ in India (1966). A collection of 21 essays published just after the end of the Second Vatican Council when Bede had been in India for ten years. Here he is developing his vision of a new Christianity.
Vedanta and Christian Faith (1973). This is Fr Bede’s synthesis of the two worlds of Hinduism and Christianity and gives a profound insight into his thinking of how the two traditions need to meet and inform each other.
Return to the Centre (1976). A profound and poetic exploration of the primal mystery of life, the mystery of the incarnation and the unitive centre which is the heart of each person.
The Marriage of East and West (1983). Fr Bede went to India to ‘find the other half of my soul’. Here he sets out his experience of the marriage of these two halves within himself and his vision of the marriage of the rational West and the intuitive and mystical East. The future of Christianity depends on it finding the sapiential wisdom of the East.
The Cosmic Revelation (1983). A small book comprising transcripts of recorded talks exploring the complementarity of Hinduism and Christianity.
River of Compassion (1987). A series of talks presented at Shantivanam in which Fr Bede presents a commentary of the Hindu classic, the Bhagavad Gita.
A New Vision of Reality (1989). An extraordinary synthesis of Fr Bede’s work embracing not only religious traditions of East and West but the perspective of modern science, and transpersonal psychology The books presents the possibility, in fact the necessity of a New Age for humanity based on the renewal of contemplative wisdom.
The New Creation in Christ: Christian Meditation and Community (1992). This book published the lectures given by Fr Bede at the 1991 John Main Seminar in Indiana, USA. It was at this meeting that the World Community for Christian Meditation was formed. https://wccm.org
Universal Wisdom: A Journey through the Sacred Wisdom of the World (1993). Published just after his death, Bede puts forward a selection of scriptures and spiritual poetry from all the main religious traditions. The foreword is a thoughtful essay on the complementarity of religious traditions and how their outward differences all converge on a mystical centre.
A Human Search (1997). Based on the film of the same name made shortly before Bede’s final stroke in 1992. It is perhaps Bede’s final testimony on his life and work.
Videos
A wide selection of video films of Fr Bede are available on YouTube.
Books by Brother John Martin Sahajananda
These books are available through the Global Retail Network and so are available through booksellers and on Amazon. They are also available on blurb.com . Search John Martin Sahajananda
A New Song of Creation. This beautiful and poetic retelling of the story of creation in Genesis opens up new ways of understanding the creation story, the nature of God and who we are as human beings. It tells of the way in which all the main characters, Adam, Eve, the Serpent, the Tree of Good and Evil and the Tree of Life all had a part in God’s plan to create self-conscious awareness in human beings so that they could find their way back to unity with God
The Ganges and the Jordan Meet. The Ganges and the Jordan are the sacred rivers of Hinduism and Christianity. This book explores where these two great spiritual traditions meet and how the Jesus of the New Testament and the Christian tradition can be understood in new ways when seen through the lens of Vedic spiritual experience.
Faithbook Vol 2 Growing into Unity. This is the second volume of Brother Martin’s reflections on religions and spirituality posted on Facebook. These reflections were posted during the first half of 2020. They are all in response to questions posted to Martin on Facebook and Quora and they represent many of the questions about God, religion, salvation, the afterlife and the meaning of life which contemporary social media users think about.
Faithbook Vol 3 The Truth Will Set You Free. This book is good news for all those spiritual seekers who just cannot bear to go to the Christian churches. Not surprisingly the good news is the same Good News preached by Jesus of Nazareth. The big change is that salvation is no longer to be seen in terms of a sacrificial atonement for our sins, rather salvation is realisation of the Truth that is we all share the nature of God.
New Annunciation: The Universal Call to be Virgin Mothers. The angel announces to the new Mary that all people can give birth to the God of eternity. This New Annunciation proclaims a liberation and freedom for all people.