MAJOR RESOURCE BOOKS :

1.Philosophy:

 -Problems of philosophy- Bertrand Russell(1912)

- History of  western philosophy-Bertrand Russell(1946)

-Appearance and reality-F.H.Bradley(1893)

- Indian philosophy – S.Radhakrishnan(1923), Oxford university press , Indian edition-fourth impression.

-Cambridge companion series to philosophers, Cambridge university press, first editions 1995.

2.Tamil:

-Saiva siddhantha contact training program publications(14 volumes)-Thiruvavaduthurai adheenam – Thiruvavaduthurai, Tamilnadu, India. (2008)

-Sandhana sastra texts with commentaries(11volumes)- published by Thirupanadhal kasi madam- Thirupanandhal, Tamilnadu, India.( 2008)

Fourteen meykanda sastras with notes-Dharumapuram adheenam publication-2014.

-108 Upanishads , Ramakrishna mutt publications, Chennai (13 volumes),1991

3.Psychiatry:

-Oxford textbook of philosophy and psychiatry-oxford university press. New Delhi (2007) - 1^st edition.

-Comprehensive textbook of psychiatry by Kaplan&Sadock-William&Wilkins, Baltimore, USA (2009)-8^th edition.

4.Websites:

meykandar@yahoogroups.com  (the site has been a guiding force and I have exchanged my ideas with eminent scholars abroad through this group)

www.himalayanacademy.org  (I have taken the English translations of thirumanthiram from their site)

www.stanford.plato.edu : a very useful information resource in philosophy

www.shaivam.org : very useful source for original literatures and explanations by eminent authors.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

The author sincerely acknowledges and thanks the guidance given by the faculty members and research scholars of the Departments of Tamil, linguistics, history, Philosophy and Psychology,  Annamalai  University , India.