ITED HERE ARE THE SOURCEBOOKS FROM WHICH
were drawn the sacred excerpts published in "Verses from Scripture" and elsewhere in Merging with Siva. included are: Abbreviation, Editor/Translator, Title and Publisher.

BO: Indicates "based on translation from..."

CJ: Rama Gose, Candrajnanagama
(Varanasi, Saiva Bharati Shodha Pratishthanam 1995)

EH: Karan Singh, Essays on Hinduism
(Delhi, Ratna Sagar Ltd., 1990)

HV: Abinash Chandra Bose, Hymns from the Vedas
(Bombay, Asia Publishing House, 1965)

KT: M.P. Pandit, Kularnava Tantra
(Madras, Ganesh & Co., 1973, 2nd ed.)

NT: The Sivathondan Society,
Natchintanai, Songs and Sayings of Yogaswami
(Jaffna, The Sivathondan Society, 1974)

SY: Ratna Chelliah Navaratnam,
Saint Yogaswami and the Testament of Truth
(Columbuturai, Thiru Kasipillai Navaratnam, 1972)

RM: Arthur Osborne, ed., The Collected Works of Ramana Maharshi (London, Rider, 1959)

RVP: Swami Satya Prakash Sarasvati and Satyakam Vidyalankar,
RgVeda Samhita
(New Delhi, Veda Pratishthana, 1977)

TM: B. Natarajan et al.,
Tirumantiram, Holy Utterances of Saint Tirumular
(Hawaii, Saiva Siddhanta Church, 1982)

UPA: K. Narayanasvami Aiyar, Thirty Minor Upanishads,
Including the Yoga Upanishads
(Oklahoma, Santarasa Publications, 1980)

UPB: V.M. Bedekar and G.B. Palsule, Sixty Upanishads of the Veda (Delhi, Motilal Banarsidass, 1990)

UPH: Robert E.Hume, Thirteen Principal Upanishads
(Madras: Oxford University Press, second edition, 1958)

UPM: Juan Mascaro, The Upanishads
(Baltimore: Penguin Books Inc., 1965)

UPP: Swami Prabhavananda and Frederick Manchester,
The Upanishads, Breath of the Eternal
(Hollywood: Vedanta Press, 1971)

UPR: S. Radhakrishnan, The Principal Upanishads
(New York: Harper and Brothers, 1953)

VE: Raimon Panikkar, The Vedic Experience
(Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1989)

YM: Alain Danielou, Yoga: The Method of Re-Integration
(New York, University Books, 1955)