I’ve said, in a couple of recent videos, that some of my religious and religious-adjacent books have gone “missing” since we’ve moved. There are still a bunch of boxes out in the garage that have never been unpacked and I’m sure that’s where they are. Some that I know are misplaced include things like my Qur’an, my Book of Mormon and, until recently, some of these!

I’m glad that I came across them again!

Now to be honest, these didn’t come out of a box in the garage. My oldest daughter recently moved across the country and she told us that all of the books left on her bookshelves, we could do with as we wished. I was going through them and I came across quite a few books that were mine, she’d just taken them to read. Among them were my entire Douglas Adams collection, all of my Dune novels and these. They have now returned to my shelves.

We’re going to start with a funny one. This was something that I picked up at a convention at least a decade ago, it’s a pocket-sized book trying to push Jesus on gamers. I don’t know if this was actually mine, we had a couple of copies floating around, but it’s now the only one on the shelf. I might find others when I get through the boxes.

I also came across The Action Bible, a comic book that I figure I got at San Diego Comicon forever ago. Might have to do a review of that one of these days.

She also had a lot of my Hindu books for some reason, probably something she was reading for a class. It’s a translation and commentary on the Bhagavad Gita by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, who was founder of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness. Originally, it was published in 1968, but the copy that I’ve got was the second edition form 1972, mine published, I think, in 1983.

Next is the Srimad Bhagavata, which is variously also known as the Bhagavata Purana, Srimad Bhagavata Mahapurana or simply Bhagavata. It’s one of the eighteen great Pranas. Like the others, it discusses a lot of topics, from spirituality, cosmology, philosophy, etc. It is particularly venerated among Vishnu worshipers, often called Vaishnavism. This copy was also written by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. I really don’t remember where I got these things, I think I picked them up at a conference or something from a Hindu shop.

Finally, at least for the moment, comes Bhakti-Yoga, also called Bhakti-Marga (the path of Bhakti), which is one of the three spiritual paths in Hinduism (Moksha, Jnana and Karma yoga). It  goes all the way back to the Shvetashvatara Upanishad and revolves around personal worship and devotion to any of the Hindu deities. I’m pretty sure I have books somewhere on the others, if I remember right, but I haven’t actually looked at these things in many years.

Somewhere out there, there have to be other books that I need to find, but at least these get moved back to my shelves. One of these days, I’ll dig down to the other boxes and see what treasures they’ve got hiding within.