• Brockington, John. 2003. "Yoga in the Mahābhārata." In Yoga: the Indian tradition, edited by Ian Whicher and David Carpenter, 13-24. London; New York: RoutledgeCurzon.

    For Week 10

   For Week 8 

• Vireswarananda, Swami. 1962. "The Bhagavad-gītā: Its synthetic character." In The cultural heritage of India, ed. Haridas Bhattacharyya, 180-194. Calcutta: Ramakrishna Mission, Institute of Culture.
• Perrett, Roy W. 1998. "Facts, Values and the Bhagavadgītā." In Hindu ethics: a philosophical study, 6-26. University of Hawai`i Press.
• Optional: Perrett, Roy W. 1998. "Saints and the Supramoral." In Hindu ethics: a philosophical study, 27-45. University of Hawai`i Press.
• Matilal, Bimal Krishna. 2002. "Caste, Karmā and the Gītā." In Ethics and epics : the collected essays of Bimal Krishna Matilal, edited by Jonardon Ganeri, 136-144. New Delhi; New York: Oxford University Press.
• Hiltebeitel, Alf. 2010. "Dharma in the Bhagavad Gītā." In Dharma, 109-123. Honolulu: University of Hawai`i Press.
• Belvalkar, Shripad Krishna. 1962. "The Bhagavad-gītā: A general review of its history and character [sic]." In The cultural heritage of India, ed. Haridas Bhattacharyya, 135-157. Calcutta: Ramakrishna Mission, Institute of Culture.

   For Week 7

• Dalmiya, Vrinda. 2010. "On the Battlefield of Dharma: The Moral Philosophy of the Bhagavad Gītā." In Asian texts, Asian contexts: encounters with Asian philosophies and religions, edited by David Edward Jones and Ellen R. Klein, 51-63. Albany: State University of New York Press.
• Brockington, J. L. 1998. "The Bhagavadgītā." In The Sanskrit epics, 267-77. Leiden; Boston: Brill.
• highlighted entries in Fitzgerald, James L. 2004. "Appendix 4: Certain Difficult Sanskrit Words and Their Usual Translations; Glossary of Sanskrit Words." In The Mahabharata. Vol. 7, Book 11, The book of women. Book 12, The book of peace, part one, 641-4, 781-90. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press.

   For Week 6 

• Whicher, Ian. 2003. "The integration of spirit (puruṣa) and matter (prakṛti) in theYoga Sūtra." In Yoga : the Indian tradition, edited by Ian Whicher and David Carpenter, 51-69. London; New York: RoutledgeCurzon.
• Pflueger, Lloyd W. 2003. "Dueling with dualism revisioning the paradox of puruṣa and prakṛti." In Yoga : the Indian tradition, edited by Ian Whicher and David Carpenter, 70-82. London; New York: RoutledgeCurzon.
• Joseph, Simon J. 2012. "Jesus in India? Transgressing Social and Religious Boundaries." Journal of the American Academy of Religion no. 80 (1):161-199. [ Primarily of interest to our purposes are pp. 173-177 pertaining to Yoga Sūtra siddhis correlated to Jesus' miracles].
• Supplemental: Hamilton, Sue. 2001. "The Witness and the Watched: Yoga and Sāṃkhya." In Indian philosophy : a very short introduction, 107-117. Oxford University Press.
  

• Kesarcodi-Watson, Ian. 1982. "Samādhi in Patañjali's Yoga Sūtras." Philosophy East and West no. 32 (1):77-90.
• Carpenter, David. 2003. "Practice makes perfect: The role of practice (abhyāsa) in Pātañjala yoga." In Yoga : the Indian tradition, edited by Ian Whicher and David Carpenter, 25-50. London; New York: RoutledgeCurzon.

• Singh, R. Raj. 1994. "Death-contemplation and contemplative living: Socrates and the Katha Upanishad." Asian Philosophy 4:9-16.
• Mehendale, M. A. 1961. "Satyam Eva Jayate Nānṛtam." Journal of the American Oriental Society 81:405-408. (More of interest to students of Sanskrit, rest can skim).
• Williams, Kyle Lee. 2008. "Understanding Oṃ (Aum), Turīya, and the Three States of Consciousness in the Maṇḍūkya Upaniṣad." Psychological Perspectives 51:287-315.
• Jones, Richard H. 1981. "Vidyā and Avidyā in the Īśa Upaniṣad." Philosophy East and West no. 31 (1):79-87

• Lindquist, Steven E. 2010.  "Literary Lives and a Literal Death: Yājñavalkya, Śākalya, and an Upaniṣadic Death Sentence." JAAR 79:33-57.
• Helfer, James S. 1968. "The Initiatory Structure of the "Kaṭhopaniṣad". History of Religions 7:348-367.

• Edgerton, Franklin. 1965. "Selections from the Atharva Veda." In The beginnings of Indian philosophy; selections from the Rig Veda, Atharva Veda, Upaniṣads, and Mahābhārata,, 79-132. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
• Halbfass, Wilhelm. 1988. "Darśana, Ānvīkṣikī, Philosophy." In India and Europe : an essay in understanding, 263-286. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press.
  
• Halbfass, Wilhelm. 1988. "On the Exclusion of India from the History of Philosophy." In India and Europe : an essay in understanding, 145-159. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press.  [Optional]

• Salinger, J. D. 1953. "Teddy." In Nine stories, 253-302. Boston: Little, Brown.
  
• Edgerton, Franklin. 1965. "Selections from the Rig Veda." In The beginnings of Indian philosophy; selections from the Rig Veda, Atharva Veda, Upaniṣads, and Mahābhārata,, 51-75. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.