Finding reading material from the Indian traditions
to complement mainstream psychology textbooks
last revisions: 13 May 2026

Introduction

This page is meant for teachers and students of Psychology who are interested in spirituality and yoga. It suggests reading material from the Indian knowledge systems regarding the subjects covered in mainstream Psychology.

To this end we have listed on the left the 10 main subjects covered in most introductory textbooks of Psychology.

Under "MAINSTREAM PSYCHOLOGY" we have listed five widely used introductory textbooks of Psychology. When you click on one of these titles, the contents of the corresponding textbook will appear below in the order of the 10 subjects listed on the left.

On the right, under "INDIAN PSYCHOLOGY" we have listed books and collections of articles which cover the same ground as the mainstream textbooks on the left, but which are based on the very different understanding of reality, knowledge and the aim of life that we find in the various Indian traditions.

Here too, when you click on any of these titles you will see its contents listed below in the same order. When you click on any of the underlined items you will be shown a short summary of the text, with, wherever possible, a link to the full text.

Where there are more titles than those listed, you can reach the others by clicking on the « or » symbols at the bottom of the title row.

This page is intended as an ongoing community project, and suggestions for additional texts are welcome! We will be happy to include texts based on Vedanta, Buddhism, Samkhya, Sufism, Integral Yoga and many others.

Suggestions may be sent to concordance @ ipi.org.in (please remove spaces around '@') .

click on a title on the left
to see its contents
 
click on a title on the right
to see corresponding texts
from the Indian tradition