Siddharameshwar Maharaj

Teaching

Siddharameshwar Maharaj taught what his followers call the bird's way: reaching final reality by hearing the master's teaching and thinking it over, rather than through meditation alone, which his own teacher had taught. The Master Key to Self-Realization, expanded by a disciple from one of his talks, explains that one is apart from the four bodies and that the remaining ego of knowledge is to be dissolved in final reality. ⁴

Who it is for

For readers of Nisargadatta Maharaj who want to read his teacher, and for those interested in the Inchegeri line.

Where to start

• Master of Self-Realization collects 130 talks from the last two years of his life, recorded by Nisargadatta Maharaj; its English edition also contains The Master Key to Self-Realization. ^{2, 6}
• Golden Day, a sermon from about 1925 that devotees recorded in Marathi and translated into English in 1929, can be read free as a ten-page PDF on siddharameshwar.org. ^{2, 3}

Works

• Master of Self-Realization: An Ultimate Understanding

  Book · 2009 · Zen Publications, Mumbai

  Talks from the last two years of his life, recorded by Nisargadatta Maharaj and translated from the Marathi Adhyātma jñānācā Yogeśvara; the English edition also contains The Master Key to Self-Realization.

  openlibrary.org

• Amrut Laya: The Stateless State

  Book · 2011 · Sadguru Publishing

  Notes of his discourses taken down by disciples, in English translation; the Marathi original is in two volumes.

  openlibrary.org

• Golden Day, or Perfection of Material Science

  Text · 1929

  A sermon on the difference between worldly life (sansara) and spiritual life (parmartha), recorded by devotees in Marathi around 1925 and translated into English in 1929.

  siddharameshwar.org

The short summaries are ours.

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In their own words

Short passages in the words of Siddharameshwar Maharaj, each with its source. Where the quoted text is not in the language of this page, a translation follows and says whose it is.

• Parmartha means (1) to realise the Origin of the whole Universe (2) to enjoy one’s own natural happiness (i.e. happiness not acquired by any efforts or means – happiness of Self) and (3) to make all people similarly and equally happy and (4) Perfection of Material Science.

• Temporal life or worldliness (Sansara) means an attempt to make oneself happy at the cost and sacrifice of others (total indifference to other’s welfare and miseries).

• The main object of all religions is one and the same viz: realisation of God who is the Origin of the whole Universe.

• The Parmartha giving Eternal happiness is not confined to any particular sect or religion. It is the religion and birth right of everybody.

Documented teaching relationships

• Personal teacher of Nisargadatta Maharaj

  A friend took Nisargadatta Maharaj to Siddharameshwar Maharaj of the Inchegiri branch of the Navnath Sampradaya, who initiated him, in 1933 according to Jean Dunn. He regarded him as his guru until and after Siddharameshwar's death in 1936.

  Stated by an institution · nisargadattasamadhi.in , enlightened-spirituality.org , davidgodman.org

• Personal teacher of Ranjit Maharaj

  The trust that maintains the memorials at Banganga names Ranjit Maharaj among the Mumbai disciples and the four direct disciples of Siddharameshwar Maharaj.

  Stated by an institution · nisargadattasamadhi.in

Teaching relationships are documented statements. They confer no trust and do not attest realisation.

Compiled by us from the sources listed. Last checked 13 Oct 2026.

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