All ancient books which have once been called sacred by man, will have their lasting
place in the history of mankind, and those who possess the courage, the perseverance,
and the self-denial of the true miner, and of the true scholar, will find even in the darkest
and dustiest shafts what they are seeking for,–real nuggets of thought, and precious
jewels of faith and hope.

– Max Müller, Introduction to the Upanishads Vol. II.

About Moksha-Gita.com

This site is a freely available archive of electronic texts…

…texts and e-books that in the 1st step were prepared by me (Kaveh Saffari) solely for my own personal use. I used to do some editings in the books that I wanted to print and prepare and beautify them for due to my interests, by arranging the page formatting of the entire book or by designing some cover pages to make them look more like a real book…

Then at some point I thought that it might and would be a good idea to make all of these e-books public and provide everyone with these enhanced and print-ready e-books, so that everyone can easily print any of these books by only downloading and printing them.

I have always been interested in, or better say I love, reading eastern philosophies or as the great Alan Watts used to say “The Ways of Liberation”, since the early times of my teenage years, but during these 6 or 7 years my studies became more serious and research-like, and the amount of the books I was reading were growing larger day by day. Therefore the type of books provided here may not be of interest to everyone, I prefer to call these types of texts, “Sacred Texts” as also truly chosen by John Bruno Hare for his principal web project name Sacred-Texts.com. I’ve been inspired so much by his enormous work in building this website..

So after a while I just started to do these editing works in a somehow higher level, with better softwares, to design prettier cover pages, to create quality PDF files and so on… and it became one of my favorite spare time activities, although during the last year I was so busy with my own studies that I haven’t got much time to complete the works that were in progress since from a long time, but I hope to continue the work from where I’d left. I usually prefer to work on the books that I’ve read it already, and actually choose the new works in that way, and according to the importance of the work in its field. The general process of the work is something like this that:

• First, I download the complete book (if I haven’t already from Sacred-texts.com website) which is almost always in HTML format. All of the ebooks/etexts at ISTA site are presented in HTML only (and sometimes plain ASCII text) and in compliance with the HTML mark up for the its content management system. ISTA, as far as practically possible, transcribes letter for letter from the original book and the etext includes all of the original illustrations and graphics, where possible, and finally the italics and bold text are reproduced using standard HTML markup.
• I then clear the HTML mark up, page formatting, numbering and footnote conventions of the Sacred-texts.com (just as they’ve requested when reproducing their work in any way) to achieve a raw text version of the book.
• After that I try to apply a general formatting for the whole raw text, when at the same time I try to preserve as much formatting similarity as possible, with the original edition and the one presented by ISTA, within the limitations of producing a print-optimized edition of the book, and include as much significant information from the original book as possible.
• Then the most hard and time consuming part of my work begins, which is arranging and setting the text in each page according to the optimization criteria which I’ve set for myself. I edit the formatting precisely and paragraph by paragraph, arranging the words, spacings and relevant footnotes. When I studied the books myself one of the things that I didn’t like always, was that the footnotes were located either at the end of each chapter or that page, so in most of my works I’ve tried to put the footnotes right under the paragraph which it related to.
• Then Finally after doing all of this, I come to the aesthetic aspects of each book, and try to design a nice and relevant cover page and anything that comes to mind for the sake of aesthetics. And convert them to PDF documents and, since form 25′th of June 2008, publish them here.

I hope this work helps all of those that are interested in these fields, and they are easily provided with print-ready e-Books of their interest. If you have any comments or ideas that you think may help improve and enhance this work, please don’t hesitate to share them with me. If you somehow have requests for any specific e-book that you like to be prepared sooner, just contact me and tell about the text that you want to be prepared, and I’ll try my best to finish it as soon as possible.

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