Library
Books, texts, talks and recordings by and about the teachers described here. The short summaries are ours. Highlighted books are editorial recommendations.
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Bhagavadgītābhāṣya (Commentary on the Bhagavad Gītā)
Text · G. T. A. Printing Works, Mysore
Shankara's commentary on the Bhagavad Gītā. In his introduction he names knowledge of the Self, preceded by the renunciation of all works, as the way to liberation.
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Brahmasūtrabhāṣya (Commentary on the Brahmasūtras)
Text · Clarendon Press, Oxford (Sacred Books of the East, vol. 34)
Shankara's commentary on the Brahmasūtras, the aphorisms that sum up the Upaniṣads. It opens with his short introduction on superimposition (adhyāsa) and is his main philosophical work.
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Bṛhadāraṇyakopaniṣadbhāṣya (Commentary on the Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad)
Text · Advaita Ashrama, Mayavati
Shankara's commentary on the Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad, one of the ten principal Upaniṣads on which he wrote commentaries.
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Upadeśasāhasrī (A Thousand Teachings)
Text · Sri Ramakrishna Math, Madras
An independent work in a prose part and a verse part. The prose part sets out how a teacher should instruct a disciple in the knowledge of the Self.
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Arunachala Ashtakam (Eight Stanzas to Sri Arunachala)
Text · 1914 · Sri Ramanasramam
One of the Five Hymns to Arunachala, the hill at Tiruvannamalai. According to the ashram, Ramana wrote six of the verses on a walk around the hill and added two so the poem could be printed.
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Nan Yar? (Who Am I?)
Text · 1923 · Sri Ramanasramam
Ramana's answers, given in writing in 1902, to questions on self-enquiry from M. Sivaprakasam Pillai, who wrote them down from memory and first published them in Tamil in 1923. Editions have between 13 and 28 questions; Ramana later rewrote the text as an essay.
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Upadesa Undiyar (Upadesa Saram (The Essence of Instruction))
Text · 1927
Thirty verses on spiritual practice and its aim, composed in Tamil in 1927. David Godman counts it among the works Ramana wrote and checked himself.
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Ulladu Narpadu (Forty Verses on Reality)
Text · 1928
Forty verses on reality and the Self, composed in Tamil in 1928. Ganapati Muni rendered it into Sanskrit as Sat Darshanam in 1930.
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A Search in Secret India
Book · 1934 · Rider & Co., London · About this teacher
His account of his search for a spiritual teacher in India, which describes his arrival at Ramana Maharshi's ashram and his time with him.
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Words of Grace
Book · 1969 · Sri Ramanasramam
An English volume from the ashram with three early prose works: Who Am I? in essay form, Self-Enquiry, and Spiritual Instruction. It was published for readers who do not know Tamil.
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Living by the Words of Bhagavan
Book · Annamalai Swami Ashram, Tiruvannamalai · About this teacher
Annamalai Swami's account of his years with Ramana Maharshi, including the building work he supervised at the ashram, with teaching dialogues between him and his own visitors from the late 1980s. Recorded and edited by David Godman, whose comments are marked.
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I Am That
Book · 1973 · Chetana, Bombay
101 conversations with visitors to his room in Bombay, translated from Marathi tape recordings by Maurice Frydman. They return again and again to the sense 'I am' and to what one is not.
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Pointers from Nisargadatta Maharaj
Book · 1982 · Chetana, Bombay · About this teacher
His first book: an account of Nisargadatta Maharaj's teaching, written by a student who translated at his talks.
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Seeds of Consciousness
Book · 1982 · Grove Press, New York
Talks from his last years, recorded on tape and edited by his student Jean Dunn. The first of three such volumes.
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Prior to Consciousness
Book · 1990 · The Acorn Press, Durham, North Carolina
The second volume of talks from his last years, edited by Jean Dunn from tape recordings.
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Consciousness and the Absolute
Book · 1994 · The Acorn Press, Durham, North Carolina
The third volume edited by Jean Dunn, with talks from the last months before his death in 1981.
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Master of Self-Realization: An Ultimate Understanding
Book · 2009 · Zen Publications, Mumbai · Written down by this teacher
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.
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Wake Up and Roar: Satsang with H. W. L. Poonja
Book · 1992 · Pacific Center Publishing, Kula, Maui
Satsang dialogues with Papaji from the early 1990s, published in two volumes by students in the United States.
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Papaji: Interviews
Book · 1993 · Avadhuta Foundation, Boulder, Colorado
Interviews with Papaji by visitors, journalists and devotees in the early 1990s. The opening first-person account of his life was written by David Godman and approved by Papaji.
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Nothing Ever Happened
Book · 1998 · Avadhuta Foundation, Boulder, Colorado · About this teacher
David Godman's biography of Papaji in three volumes, with teaching dialogues, extracts from his diaries and letters, and accounts by devotees. Godman says he rewrote Papaji's spoken words in his own style and that Papaji read and approved the chapters.
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The Fire of Freedom: Satsang with Papaji
Book · 2007 · Avadhuta Foundation, Boulder, Colorado
Dialogues between Papaji and visitors in the living room of his house in Lucknow in the middle of 1991, edited by David Godman.
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Satsang Extracts
Text · Avadhuta Foundation (website)
Short transcripts of Papaji's satsangs, published free on the Avadhuta Foundation's website.
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Atma-Darshanam (Atma-Darshan (At the Ultimate))
Book · 1945 · Reddiar Press, Trivandrum
The first part of his Atmanandopanishad: short Malayalam verses that set out the truth by reasoning from the Self alone. Atmananda translated it into English prose himself.
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Atma-Nirvriti (Atma-Nirvriti (Freedom and Felicity in the Self))
Book · 1951 · Reddiar Press, Trivandrum
The second part of his Atmanandopanishad, in short Malayalam verses. According to the author it takes up the teaching of Atma-Darshan from a higher standpoint; he also wrote the English prose version.
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Notes on Spiritual Discourses of Shri Atmananda
Book · 1963
Notes of Atmananda's talks from November 1950 to April 1959, taken by his disciple Nitya Tripta and, according to the preface, approved by Atmananda. Short dated notes, followed by 'spiritual statements', a life sketch and a bibliography.
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Unifying the Mind, the Heart and the World: Lessons From Shri Atmananda Krishna Menon
Article · 2025 · rupertspira.com · About this teacher
A personal essay on how the teaching of Atmananda Krishna Menon, to which Francis Lucille introduced him in the late 1990s, brought together thinking, feeling and perceiving for him after twenty years in classical Advaita.
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Atmananda Tattwa Samhita
Book · Advaita Publishers, Austin
Transcripts of tape-recorded talks between Atmananda and some disciples, published after his death.
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The Ease of Being
Book · 1984 · New Sarum Press
Dialogues with Jean Klein from seminars in London, New Mexico, Paris, California and Switzerland between 1980 and 1985, compiled and edited by Emma Edwards.
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Who Am I? The Sacred Quest
Book · 1988 · New Sarum Press
Dialogues compiled and edited by Emma Edwards, arranged by theme: relationship, knowing yourself, thinking, listening, discernment, meditation and the teacher.
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The Teachings of Jean Klein
Article · 2023 · InZicht · About this teacher
Billy Doyle's summary of Jean Klein's teaching as he met it from 1982: listening, the body as energy, breath, meditation, desire and art, with short quotations from Klein's books.
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Francis Lucille – Buddha at the Gas Pump Interview (#147)
Video · Buddha at the Gas Pump · About this teacher
A long video interview by Rick Archer on non-duality, glimpses and stable realisation, transmission, his time with Jean Klein and teaching as a vocation, with a full transcript.
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I Am
Book · New Sarum Press
Dialogues with Jean Klein from his gatherings, on how the sense of a 'me' arises and claims experience.
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Transmission of the Flame
Book · New Sarum Press
Dialogues from seminars in Europe and the United States. Its prologue is Klein's own account of his early life, his meetings with his teacher in India and his awakening.
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The Value of Values
Book · 1985 · Arsha Vidya Research and Publication Trust, Chennai
Public talks on values and why they matter to the person who lives by them, in his publication trust's Public Talks series. The 1985 edition was transcribed and edited by Barbara Thornton.
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Talks on Meditation
Book · 2002 · Arsha Vidya Bhavan, Pondicherry
A book of his talks on meditation, published in Pondicherry in 2002.
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Muṇḍakopaniṣad
Book · 2006 · Arsha Vidya Research and Publication Trust, Chennai
His commentary on the Muṇḍaka Upaniṣad in two volumes, with the Sanskrit text, word-by-word meaning and quotations from Shankara's commentary.
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Exploring Vedanta: An Inquiry into the Significant Sentence
Book · 2007 · Arsha Vidya Centre, Chennai
A short book of 61 pages; its subtitle calls it an inquiry into the significant sentence.
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Bhagavad Gītā: Home Study Course
Book · 2011 · Arsha Vidya Research and Publication Trust, Chennai
An edited transcript of 363 classroom talks on the Bhagavad Gita given at the Arsha Vidya Gurukulam in Saylorsburg between 1987 and 1990: the Sanskrit text with word-by-word meaning and his explanation based on Shankara's commentary.
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Tattvabodhaḥ
Book · 2012 · Arsha Vidya Research and Publication Trust, Chennai
His explanation of Tattvabodha, a short introductory text of Vedanta that he taught at the start of all his long-term courses; it defines the main terms and topics of the Upanishads.
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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.
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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.
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Master Key to Self-Realization
Book · 2010 · Lulu Press
A short systematic text, expanded by his disciple Dattatray Poredi from one of his talks and translated from Marathi by Damayanti Dungaji. It explains that one is apart from the four bodies and that the remaining ego of knowledge is to be dissolved in final reality.
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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.
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শ্রীশ্রীরামকৃষ্ণকথামৃত (Sri Sri Ramakrishna Kathamrita (The Nectar of Sri Ramakrishna's Words))
Book · 1902 · Kathamrita Bhawan, Calcutta
M.'s record, in Bengali, of Ramakrishna's conversations from 1882 to 1886, based on the diary he kept at the time. It is the main source for his teaching.
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The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
Book · 1942 · Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Center, New York
Swami Nikhilananda's English translation of the Kathamrita, with an introduction on Ramakrishna's life and on Indian religious thought. It made the conversations widely known outside India.
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Addresses at the World's Parliament of Religions, Chicago
Talk · 1893 · Belur Math (online text)
His six addresses at the World's Parliament of Religions in Chicago in September 1893, beginning with 'Sisters and Brothers of America'. They set out Hinduism and Vedanta for a Western audience.
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The Song of the Sannyasin
Text · 1895
An English poem addressed to the renunciate monk; each stanza ends with the refrain 'Om Tat Sat, Om!'.
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Yoga philosophy: lectures delivered in New York, winter of 1895-6, on Raja Yoga or conquering the internal nature
Book · 1896 · Longmans, Green, London
Lectures to classes in New York on Raja Yoga, followed by a free translation of Patanjali's Yoga Sutras with his commentary. After the preface follows a four-line summary of his view of religion.
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Vedânta philosophy: lectures on jnâna yoga
Book · 1902 · Vedânta Society, New York
His lectures on Jnana Yoga. They appear as Jnana-Yoga in volume 2 of The Complete Works.
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The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
Book · Prabuddha Bharata Press (early volumes)
His collected lectures, letters, poems, conversations and translations in nine volumes.
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Vedanta philosophy: eight lectures on karma yoga (the secret of work)
Book · The Baker & Taylor Company, New York
Eight lectures on karma yoga, 'the secret of work', given under the auspices of the Vedanta Society.
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Vedanta through Letters from Swami Chinmayananda
Book · 1959 · Chinmaya Publication Trust, Madras
Letters of his on Vedanta, compiled by S. A. P. Annamalai.
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Discourses on Kathopanishad
Book · 1963 · Chinmaya Publication Trust, Madras
His English commentary on the Katha Upanishad, with the Sanskrit text, from his series of discourses on the Upanishads.
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Kindle Life
Book · 1969 · Chinmaya Publications Trust, Madras
A book of his on living a spiritual life in daily circumstances; the 1969 edition merged in his earlier book The Art of Living.
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The Holy Geeta
Book · 1976 · Central Chinmaya Mission Trust
His commentary in English on the Bhagavad Gita, with the Sanskrit text; the mission also publishes translations of it into Indian languages.
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Self-Unfoldment
Book · 1992 · Chinmaya Publications, Piercy, California
A book of his on Vedanta as a path of self-development, published by his mission's publishing house in the United States.
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Pointers from Nisargadatta Maharaj
Book · 1982 · Chetana, Bombay
His first book: an account of Nisargadatta Maharaj's teaching, written by a student who translated at his talks.
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Seeds of Consciousness
Book · 1982 · Grove Press, New York · Translated
Talks from his last years, recorded on tape and edited by his student Jean Dunn. The first of three such volumes.
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The Final Truth: A Guide to Ultimate Understanding
Book · 1989 · Advaita Press
An early book in which he sets out his understanding of non-duality, subtitled A Guide to Ultimate Understanding.
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Consciousness Speaks
Book · 1992 · Advaita Press
Conversations with visitors, arranged by theme and edited by his student Wayne Liquorman, with an editor's account of his life.
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A Net of Jewels: Daily Meditations for Seekers of Truth
Book · 1996 · Advaita Press
Short daily meditations drawn from his talks in Hollywood, edited by Gary Starbuck.
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Two Transcripts of Satsang with Ramesh Balsekar
Text · 2001 · Advaita Fellowship (PDF)
Transcripts of two of his talks with visitors in Mumbai, on free will, God's will and the absence of an individual doer.
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I Am
Talk · 1991 · robert-adams.de
A satsang in which Adams asks where everything comes from and answers with stories, among them one about a stage hypnotist.
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Silence of the Heart: Dialogues with Robert Adams
Book · 1997 · Acropolis Books, Atlanta
A book of dialogues from his satsangs, edited by the Infinity Institute in Sedona.
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Annamalai Swami: Final Talks
Book · 2000 · Annamalai Swami Ashram, Tiruvannamalai
Dialogues between Annamalai Swami and visitors to his ashram in the last six months of his life, edited by David Godman as a continuation of Living by the Words of Bhagavan.
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Living by the Words of Bhagavan
Book · Annamalai Swami Ashram, Tiruvannamalai
Annamalai Swami's account of his years with Ramana Maharshi, including the building work he supervised at the ashram, with teaching dialogues between him and his own visitors from the late 1980s. Recorded and edited by David Godman, whose comments are marked.
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Illusion vs. Reality
Book · 2010 · Sadguru Publishing
A book of his teachings in English, published by Sadguru Publishing; an international edition followed in 2023.
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A Search in Secret India
Book · 1934 · Rider & Co., London
His account of his search for a spiritual teacher in India, which describes his arrival at Ramana Maharshi's ashram and his time with him.
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The Secret Path
Book · 1934 · Rider & Co., London
A short book of meditation practice. His foundation names it among the books in which he adapted the meditation of the ashram to the schedules of people living in modern cities.
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A Hermit in the Himalayas
Book · 1936 · B. G. Paul & Co., Madras
The second of his two travel books after A Search in Secret India.
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A Search in Secret Egypt
Book · 1936 · Rider, London
One of his two travel books after A Search in Secret India, about his travels in Egypt.
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The Quest of the Overself
Book · 1937 · Rider, London
A book on meditation and the search for the Overself, his word for the higher self; the first of three books that, in his foundation's words, cover mysticism, mentalism and metaphysics.
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Indian Philosophy and Modern Culture
Book · 1939 · Rider & Co., London
A short book of 1939. His foundation calls it the first result of his effort to link science and mysticism, and Western philosophy with Hindu and Buddhist thought.
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The Hidden Teaching Beyond Yoga
Book · 1941 · E. P. Dutton & Co., New York
A book on how we know the world, read through modern science and the reasoning of Indian philosophy; the second of his three books on mysticism, mentalism and metaphysics.
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The Wisdom of the Overself
Book · 1943 · Rider, London
His metaphysical work on Mind and on the World-Mind, its creative aspect; the third of his three books on mysticism, mentalism and metaphysics.
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The Spiritual Crisis of Man
Book · 1952 · Rider, London
His last book published in his lifetime. According to his foundation he kept all later notes for publication after his death.
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The Notebooks of Paul Brunton
Book · 1984 · Larson Publications for the Paul Brunton Philosophic Foundation
His notes, written over decades and edited after his death by students he trained, arranged in 28 categories and published in 16 volumes; the foundation offers them free online.
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Breath of the Absolute
Book · 2010
Dialogues between Mooji and seekers at Tiruvannamalai, at the foot of Arunachala, from the years before 2010.
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Before I Am
Book · 2012
A selection of dialogues with seekers on fear, suffering, relationships and spiritual practice, centred on self-inquiry, with his brush drawings.
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Meeting Mooji
Article · 2012 · Inspired Times, issue 12
A short interview at his home in London on why we are here, living in the present, the subtle ego and inner space in a busy life.
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Vaster Than Sky, Greater Than Space
Book · 2016 · Sounds True, Boulder, Colorado
Edited talks arranged by subject for readers new to satsang: the first part on self-inquiry, the second on work, relationships, family and difficulty.
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An Invitation to Freedom
Book · 2018
A short guided self-inquiry that his organisation calls The Invitation, offered as a direct pointing to one's true nature.
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White Fire
Book · 2025
A collection of close to 800 short sayings, with his brush drawings and photographs.
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You Are That!
Book · 1995 · Satsang Press
An early book from her satsang meetings, published five years after she met Papaji.
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Freedom & Resolve
Book · 1999 · Gangaji Foundation
A short book published by her foundation; its subtitle names its theme, surrender. We know it only from library records.
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The Diamond in Your Pocket
Book · 2007 · Sounds True, Boulder, Colorado
Short chapters on the search for fulfilment and on stopping long enough to see where it is found, according to the publisher, with topics such as the need to control and despair.
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Hidden Treasure
Book · 2011 · Jeremy P. Tarcher, New York
A book about the stories people tell about their own lives, as its subtitle says. We know it only from a library record.
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Outbreak of Peace: Satsang with Isaac Shapiro
Book · 1997 · Arun Publications, Pasenbach
A book of his satsang talks, published in English by a small German publisher.
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Wellen des Friedens: Gespräche aus der Stille (Waves of Peace: Conversations from the Silence)
Book · 2000 · Lüchow, Freiburg im Breisgau
Conversations with him, in German translation.
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Es geschieht ganz von selbst: Satsang mit Isaac (It Happens All by Itself: Satsang with Isaac)
Book · 2001 · Lüchow, Freiburg im Breisgau
Satsang dialogues compiled by Dick Sinnige, in German translation.
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An interview with Isaac by Dick Sinnige in Venwoude in 2002
Article · 2002 · isaacshapiro.org
A long conversation during a silent retreat on retreats, resistance, awakening and his own relationships.
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Awareness and Experience
Article · isaacshapiro.org
A short guided text that asks the reader to notice sensation, awareness and the habit of resisting experience, step by step.
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The Transparency of Things: Contemplating the Nature of Experience
Book · 2008 · Sahaja Publications (current edition)
His first book: contemplative essays and conversations on the nature of experience. They move from seeing that we are the presence aware of experience to seeing that body, mind and world appear within it and as it.
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Presence, Volume I: The Art and Peace of Happiness
Book · 2011 · Sahaja Publications (current edition)
A collection of essays on the self and the happiness we seek. The essays argue that we are not essentially the body or mind but the aware presence that knows them; Volume II, The Intimacy of All Experience, continues the exploration.
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Being Aware of Being Aware
Book · 2017 · Sahaja Publications
A short book in his Essence of Meditation series, taken from meditations he led at meetings and retreats. It is about awareness knowing itself, which he calls the essence of meditation and prayer.
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The Nature of Consciousness: Essays on the Unity of Mind and Matter
Book · 2017 · Sahaja Publications
Essays that question the belief that consciousness is produced by matter. He argues that recognising the primacy of consciousness is the basis for any new view of ourselves and the world.
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You Are the Happiness You Seek: Uncovering the Awareness of Being
Book · 2022 · Sahaja Publications
A book for general readers on two points he finds in all traditions: happiness is the nature of our being, and we share our being with everyone and everything. He draws on examples from his own life.
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Non-Dual Therapy and Coaching
Article · 2024 · rupertspira.com
A short essay that contrasts conventional therapy, which starts from a separate self, with the non-dual approach, which investigates that self, and describes a later role for therapy in everyday life.
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The Pathless Path of Simply Being
Article · 2024 · rupertspira.com
A short essay that sorts spiritual approaches into three: the progressive path, which attends to an object, the direct path, which investigates the subject, and the pathless path of simply being.
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Unifying the Mind, the Heart and the World: Lessons From Shri Atmananda Krishna Menon
Article · 2025 · rupertspira.com
A personal essay on how the teaching of Atmananda Krishna Menon, to which Francis Lucille introduced him in the late 1990s, brought together thinking, feeling and perceiving for him after twenty years in classical Advaita.
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The Perfume of Silence
Book · 2006 · Truespeech Productions
A book based largely on dialogues between him and students, on awakening, meditation, happiness, relationships and psychological suffering.
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Eternity Now
Book · 2008 · Non-Duality Press
Dialogues on awareness as our true nature, which he presents as the common ground of Advaita Vedanta, Zen, Taoism and Sufism.
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How dare you be happy?
Text · 2025 · francislucille.com
Transcript of a dialogue in which he answers the objection that it is wrong to be happy in a world full of misery. He argues that happiness is not found in the world but in consciousness.
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Francis Lucille – Buddha at the Gas Pump Interview (#147)
Video · Buddha at the Gas Pump
A long video interview by Rick Archer on non-duality, glimpses and stable realisation, transmission, his time with Jean Klein and teaching as a vocation, with a full transcript.
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Truth Love Beauty
Book · TrueSpeech Productions
His third book: conversations held in Canada and England in 2002, compiled by Warnick Wakefield.
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The Mirage of Separation
Book · 2008 · Non-Duality Press
A collection of his poetry and verse written from a non-dual perspective.
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Yoga in the Kashmir Tradition: The Art of Listening
Book · 2019 · New Sarum Press (second edition)
Billy Doyle's account of the yoga Jean Klein taught: postures, breathing, relaxation of the senses and meditation, approached through listening to body sensation, with guided exercises. The introduction places it within Klein's non-dual teaching.
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Ocean of Silence
Book · 2022 · New Sarum Press
A collection of short untitled poems and prose pieces on identification, time, silence and self-enquiry, with a one-page introduction by the author dated February 2022.
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The Teachings of Jean Klein
Article · 2023 · InZicht
Billy Doyle's summary of Jean Klein's teaching as he met it from 1982: listening, the body as energy, breath, meditation, desire and art, with short quotations from Klein's books.
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Billy Doyle – The Mirage of Separation
Video · Conscious TV
An interview with Renate McNay about his early life, his time with Jean Klein, listening to the body and relaxation.
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Emptiness Dancing
Book · 2004 · Open Gate Publishing
A collection of selected dharma talks, first published by his own organisation in 2004 and reissued by Sounds True in 2006.
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True Meditation: Discover the Freedom of Pure Awareness
Book · 2006 · Sounds True
A short book on meditation without technique or goal. In The Way of Liberation he recommends it for further reading on meditation and inquiry.
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The End of Your World: Uncensored Straight Talk on the Nature of Enlightenment
Book · 2008 · Sounds True
A book on the nature of enlightenment and on life after awakening. In The Way of Liberation he recommends it for further reading on life after awakening.
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Falling into Grace: Insights on the End of Suffering
Book · 2011 · Sounds True
A book on the end of suffering, as its subtitle says. In The Way of Liberation he recommends it for further reading on grace and suffering.
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The Way of Liberation: A Practical Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
Book · 2012 · Open Gate Sangha, San Jose, California
A short practical guide that sets out his core teaching in three parts: five foundations for daily life (aspiration, follow-through, not giving up one's authority, sincerity, stewardship of one's life), three orienting ideas, and three practices: meditation, inquiry and contemplation. It ends with guidelines for free study groups.
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Retirement Announcement
Text · 2023 · Open Gate Sangha (email newsletter)
His letter to the Open Gate Sangha community announcing that he would retire from live teaching in October 2023 and that Mukti would become head teacher. He names years of intense physical pain and their after-effects among the reasons.
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The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
Book · 1997 · New World Library
His first book, written largely in question and answer form, about leaving behind identification with the thinking mind and living in the present moment. It became a bestseller after Oprah Winfrey recommended it in 2002.
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A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
Book · 2005 · Dutton; paperback Penguin
His second main book. It describes how identification with the ego leads to conflict and suffering, in the individual and in society, and how recognising it can begin a shift in consciousness. Oprah's Book Club chose it in 2008 and again in 2025.
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The Painbody: Endure it or Walk Away?
Text · Eckhart Teachings (website)
A short answer to the question whether to avoid people and situations that trigger one's pain-body or to stay and observe it. He says it depends on the situation and distinguishes intense presence from shutting oneself off.
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Das Buch Karl: Erleuchtung und andere Irrtümer (The Book of Karl: Enlightenment and Other Errors)
Book · 2003 · J. Kamphausen
Dialogues and passages from his talks, selected by Dietmar Bittrich and arranged by theme, among them partnership, health, meditation, karma and the role of the teacher.
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The Myth of Enlightenment
Book · 2005 · Inner Directions
An English book of his transcribed talks, published in the United States.
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If You Wake Up, Don't Take It Personally: Dialogues in the Presence of Arunachala
Book · 2011 · CenterPointe Media
A book of dialogues with Karl Renz; its subtitle places them in the presence of Arunachala, the hill at Tiruvannamalai in South India.
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May It Be As It Is: The Embrace of Helplessness
Book · 2011 · Zen Publications, Mumbai
A selection of seven talks Karl Renz gave in Mumbai in 2010 and 2011, with an editor's foreword on how the talks came about.
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Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life
Book · 2002 · Harmony Books
Her main book on The Work: the four questions and the turnaround explained step by step, with many examples of her sessions with people on fear, health, relationships, money and the body.
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I Need Your Love - Is That True?
Book · 2005 · Harmony Books
Applies The Work to the search for love, approval and appreciation in relationships.
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A Thousand Names for Joy
Book · 2007 · Harmony Books
Her commentary on passages from the Tao Te Ching.
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A Mind at Home with Itself
Book · 2017
Her commentary on the Diamond Sutra, a Buddhist text.
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The Work of Byron Katie: An Introduction
Text · 2019 · Byron Katie International
A short introduction to The Work: her story, the idea of arguing with what is, the three kinds of business, and how to fill in a worksheet and question each statement.
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Judge-Your-Neighbor Worksheet
Text · 2025 · Byron Katie International
The worksheet used in The Work: six prompts to write down judgements about a stressful situation, followed by the four questions and the turnarounds.
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Dissolution Speech
Talk · 1929 · Krishnamurti Foundation Trust (online text)
The talk in which he dissolved the Order of the Star, the organisation founded to prepare for him as World Teacher. He argues that truth cannot be organised and that he does not want followers.
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The First and Last Freedom
Book · 1954 · Rider Books
A book drawn from his talks, with themed chapters on seeking, the self, thinking, relationship and the stillness of the mind, followed by questions and answers. Aldous Huxley wrote the foreword.
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Commentaries on Living, Series I
Book · 1956 · Krishnamurti Foundation India
Short written pieces, each describing a meeting with a person who came to him with a question, often set against a description of landscape. The first of three volumes.
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Freedom from the Known
Book · 1969 · Rider Books
A short book edited from his talks by his biographer Mary Lutyens. Its chapters include learning about oneself, the pursuit of pleasure, justification and condemnation, and the energy needed for change.
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Krishnamurti's Notebook
Book · 1976 · Krishnamurti Publications of America (KPA)
A daily record he kept of his perceptions and states of consciousness. The Trust calls it his most personal work.
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The Core of the Teachings
Text · 1980 · Krishnamurti Foundation Trust (online text)
A one-page summary he wrote himself when his biographer Mary Lutyens asked what the core of his teaching was. It covers truth as a pathless land, the images that divide people, freedom, thought and time, and the observer and the observed.
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The Ending of Time
Book · 1985 · HarperOne
A series of recorded dialogues with the physicist David Bohm on psychological conflict, time, insight, death and the nature of the mind.
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Essence: The Diamond Approach to Inner Realization
Book · 1986 · Samuel Weiser, York Beach, Maine
His introduction to the Diamond Approach: essence as one's true nature, and how its qualities can be realised step by step through work on particular parts of the personality.
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The Void: Inner Spaciousness and Ego Structure
Book · 1986 · Diamond Books, Berkeley
Brings together object relations theory, ego psychology, case studies from his own work and Buddhist and other Eastern teachings, and turns from the contents of the mind to the nature of the mind itself.
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The Pearl Beyond Price: Integration of Personality into Being
Book · 1988 · Diamond Books, Berkeley
A study of how the development of the ego and spiritual realisation belong together, drawing on psychoanalytic object relations theory. It holds that inner realisation is possible within an ordinary human life.
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The Unfolding Now: Realizing Your True Nature through the Practice of Presence
Book · 2008 · Shambhala
A practice book on presence and on inquiry into one's immediate experience, which asks the reader to meet the present state rather than strive for idealised states.
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The Alchemy of Freedom: The Philosophers' Stone and the Secrets of Existence
Book · 2017 · Shambhala
Uses the image of the philosophers' stone for true nature, the nature of all reality, and describes liberation and practice as an open-ended process of discovery.
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Diamond Heart, Book One: Elements of the Real in Man
Book · Diamond Books, Berkeley
The first volume of a series of his talks on the Diamond Approach, on faith, commitment, nobility and suffering, truth and compassion, allowing, and growing up.
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The Point of Existence: Transformations of Narcissism in Self-Realization
Book · Shambhala
A study of narcissism from a spiritual point of view, with a detailed map of the steps that lead through the barriers to recognising one's essential identity.
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Be Here Now
Book · 1971 · Lama Foundation, San Cristobal, New Mexico
His book of 1971, which introduced meditation, yoga and Eastern spirituality to many Western readers; he published it with the permission of his guru Neem Karoli Baba.
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The Only Dance There Is
Book · 1974 · Anchor Press, Garden City, New York
Talks he gave at the Menninger Foundation in Topeka, Kansas, in 1970 and at Spring Grove Hospital in Maryland in 1972.
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Grist for the Mill
Book · 1977 · Unity Press, Santa Cruz, California
A book on the spiritual journey of self-discovery, written in collaboration with Stephen Levine.
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Journey of Awakening: A Meditator's Guidebook
Book · 1978 · Bantam Books, New York
A guidebook to meditation, edited by Daniel Goleman with Dwarkanath Bonner and Dale Borglum.
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Miracle of Love: Stories about Neem Karoli Baba
Book · 1979 · Dutton · Compiled
Stories about Neem Karoli Baba told by Indian and Western devotees and compiled by Ram Dass: meetings with him, his care for people, his sayings and the miracles devotees ascribe to him.
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How Can I Help? Emotional Support and Spiritual Inspiration for Those Who Care for Others
Book · 1985 · Alfred A. Knopf, New York
A book for people who care for others, written with Paul Gorman.
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Still Here: Embracing Aging, Changing, and Dying
Book · 2000 · Riverhead Books, New York
A book on aging, change and dying.
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Be Love Now: The Path of the Heart
Book · 2010 · HarperCollins
A book on the path of the heart, devotion and unconditional love, written with Rameshwar Das.
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Polishing the Mirror: How to Live from Your Spiritual Heart
Book · 2013 · Sounds True, Boulder, Colorado
A late book in which he describes his practice of living in the present moment and of devotion to his guru, written with Rameshwar Das.
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Being Ram Dass
Book · 2021 · Sounds True, Boulder, Colorado
His memoir, written with Rameshwar Das and published after his death.
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The Mystique of Enlightenment
Book · 1982 · Dinesh Vaghela, Goa
Conversations with U.G. Krishnamurti, compiled and edited by Rodney Arms. In the first part he tells the story of his life in his own words.
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Mind Is a Myth: Disquieting Conversations with the Man Called U.G.
Book · 1987 · Crest Associates, Vallabh Vidyanagar, Gujarat
Edited conversations between U.G. Krishnamurti and various questioners in India, Switzerland and California in 1983 and 1984, edited by Terry Newland.
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Thought Is Your Enemy: Mind-Shattering Conversations with the Man Called U.G.
Book · 1990 · Sowmya Publishers, Bangalore
A book of conversations with U.G. Krishnamurti, edited by Antony Paul Frank Noronha.
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No Way Out: Further Dialogues with U.G.
Book · 1991 · Akshaya Publications, Bangalore
Recorded dialogues with U.G. Krishnamurti, transcribed and edited by Frank Noronha and J. S. R. L. Narayana Moorty, with an introduction and an essay on his ideas.
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The Courage to Stand Alone: Conversations with U. G. Krishnamurti
Book · 1997 · Plover/Autonomedia
A book of conversations with U.G. Krishnamurti.
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The Natural State: In the Words of U.G. Krishnamurti
Book · 2005 · SPB Enterprises (Smriti Books), New Delhi
An anthology of short passages from U.G. Krishnamurti's conversations between 1972 and 1990, compiled by Peter Maverick from many sources.
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The Penguin U.G. Krishnamurti Reader
Book · 2007 · Penguin Books India
A compilation of U.G. Krishnamurti's sayings and ideas, edited by his long-time friend Mukunda Rao and published in the year of his death.
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Bringing Down the Light
Book · 1990 · Meeramma
A book of her watercolour paintings of the states after death, painted after the death of Mr Reddy in 1985, according to the bookstore.
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Answers
Book · 1991 · Meeramma Publications
Her answers to questions put to her by devotees over many years, about God, the soul, Darshan, japa, surrender, Avatars and her work. The questions and answers were collected by her secretary Adilakshmi and other devotees.
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Answers Part II
Book · 1997 · Mother Meera Distributors
A second volume of answers, with more on practical questions of everyday life: relationships, family, work and spiritual life.
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Mother of the Unseen World: The Mystery of Mother Meera
Book · 2017 · Spiegel & Grau · About this teacher
A book by the writer Mark Matousek about her and his experiences with her since he met her in 1985, with conversations with her inner circle and with her.
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Mother's Grace
Book
A slim hardback with her answers to new questions, devotees' accounts of their experiences with her and photographs from her tour of October 2010.
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Awaken, Children! Dialogues with Sri Sri Mata Amritanandamayi
Book · 1990 · Mata Amritanandamayi Mission Trust
Conversations between Amma and visitors and residents of her ashram, written down and adapted into English by her senior disciple Swami Amritaswarupananda. Known here only from library records.
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For My Children
Book · 1994 · Mata Amritanandamayi Center
A collection of her short teachings in English translation. Known here only from library records.
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The Awakening of Universal Motherhood
Talk · 2002
Her address on the place of women in religion and society and on motherhood as an attitude of love open to women and men alike, with practical proposals for religious leaders.
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Messages from Amma: In the Language of the Heart
Book · 2004 · Celestial Arts
A collection of Amma's sayings, translated from Malayalam and arranged by theme by Janine Canan, with chapters such as Love, the cure and Surrendering the ego.
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Compassion: The Only Way to Peace
Talk · 2007 · M.A. Center
Her address at the Cinéma Vérité film festival in Paris on 12 October 2007, given when she received the festival's prize, on war, violence and natural disasters in the world.
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Sad Vani
Book · 1973 · Shree Shree Anandamayee Sangha · About this teacher
The first collection of her teaching to appear in print. Bhaiji wrote down afterwards what he had heard her say, so the preface calls it her teaching in Bhaiji's language.
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Matri Vani, Volume I
Book · 1995 · Shree Shree Anandamayee Sangha
Short pieces of advice from letters she dictated in Bengali in reply to devotees, translated into English by Atmananda. Part I gives general advice, Part II is on the path of Self-realisation.
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Words of Sri Anandamayi Ma
Book · 2025 · Shree Shree Anandamayee Sangha
Her replies to questions at meetings, on meditation, the spiritual path and Self-realisation. Kamal Bhattacharjee noted them as she spoke; Atmananda translated and compiled them from the Bengali.
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Be Here Now
Book · 1971 · Lama Foundation, San Cristobal, New Mexico · About this teacher
His book of 1971, which introduced meditation, yoga and Eastern spirituality to many Western readers; he published it with the permission of his guru Neem Karoli Baba.
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Miracle of Love: Stories about Neem Karoli Baba
Book · 1979 · Dutton · About this teacher
Stories about Neem Karoli Baba told by Indian and Western devotees and compiled by Ram Dass: meetings with him, his care for people, his sayings and the miracles devotees ascribe to him.
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By His Grace: A Devotee's Story
Book · 1990 · Hanuman Foundation, Santa Fe, New Mexico · About this teacher
The memoir of Sudhir Mukerjee, called Dada, a professor of economics in Allahabad in whose home Neem Karoli Baba often stayed.
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The Near and the Dear: Stories of Neem Karoli Baba and his Devotees
Book · 1996 · Hanuman Foundation · About this teacher
Dada Mukerjee's account of his own time with Neem Karoli Baba, with stories about other sadhus and devotees who came to be with him.
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Barefoot in the Heart: Remembering Neem Karoli Baba
Book · 2011 · Sensitive Skin Books · About this teacher
Transcribed oral stories about him, collected by Keshav Das in India and the USA over nine years, including some stories first meant for Miracle of Love.
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Love Everyone: The Transcendent Wisdom of Neem Karoli Baba Told Through the Stories of the Westerners Whose Lives He Transformed
Book · 2015 · HarperCollins Publishers · About this teacher
Stories of Western devotees who travelled to India and met him before his death in 1973, collected and retold by Parvati Markus.
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Discourses
Book · 1939 · Sufism Reoriented
Talks on practical spiritual life given to his close disciples, on subjects such as selfishness, the ego, sanskaras (impressions), love, selfless service and meditation, together with an outline of his account of creation.
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God Speaks: The Theme of Creation and Its Purpose
Book · 1955 · Dodd, Mead
His systematic account of creation: God's urge to know himself, the evolution of consciousness, reincarnation, the seven inner planes and the ten states of God, with charts. Like the Discourses, it was dictated on an alphabet board.
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Listen, Humanity
Book · 1957 · Dodd, Mead, New York (first edition)
Nine discourses on death and immortality, sleep, war, freedom, the spiritual path and love, framed by Don Stevens's account of a 1955 gathering with Meher Baba. Not read for this review; described from the Trust library.
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The Path of Love
Book · 1976 · Samuel Weiser
A collection of short messages and statements given at public gatherings, among them 'The Universal Message', 'The Highest of the High' and 'Meher Baba's Call'.
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The Synthesis of Yoga
Book · 1914 · Sri Aurobindo Ashram Publication Department
His account of the traditional yogas of works, knowledge and devotion and of his own Integral Yoga, which seeks to include the whole of life. The book was written in instalments and revised only in part.
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The Mother
Book · 1928 · Sri Aurobindo Ashram Publication Department
A short book on the attitude his yoga asks for: aspiration, rejection of what is false, surrender and grace. The last chapter describes the Divine Mother and her four powers. The linked volume adds his letters about the Mother.
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The Life Divine
Book · 1939 · Sri Aurobindo Ashram Publication Department
His main philosophical work: a theory of spiritual evolution in which consciousness, involved in matter, rises through life and mind towards a 'Supermind', and a divine life on earth becomes possible. It discusses both materialism and the ascetic denial of the world.
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Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol
Book · 1950 · Sri Aurobindo Ashram Publication Department
An epic poem in blank verse that turns a story from the Mahabharata into a symbol of the soul's spiritual destiny. He worked on it for much of his later life.
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Letters on Yoga
Book · 2012 · Sri Aurobindo Ashram Publication Department
His letters to disciples, arranged by subject in four volumes: foundations, practice, experiences and the transformation of human nature in the Integral Yoga.
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The Mother
Book · 1928 · Sri Aurobindo Ashram Publication Department · About this teacher
A short book on the attitude his yoga asks for: aspiration, rejection of what is false, surrender and grace. The last chapter describes the Divine Mother and her four powers. The linked volume adds his letters about the Mother.
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Questions and Answers 1929–1931
Book · 1931 · Sri Aurobindo Ashram
Her early weekly conversations with a small group of disciples, held in English, on why one wants yoga, concentration, being conscious of oneself, and the difficulties of the path.
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Prières et Méditations (Prayers and Meditations)
Book · 1932 · Sri Aurobindo Ashram
313 extracts from her spiritual diaries, written in French as prayers addressed to the Divine and selected by her for publication.
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Paroles de la Mère I (Words of the Mother I)
Book · 1968 · Sri Aurobindo Ashram
Short written statements and messages about Sri Aurobindo, herself, the Ashram, Auroville and the world, including the Auroville Charter of 1968.
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Entretiens 1953 (Questions and Answers 1953)
Book · 1975 · Sri Aurobindo Ashram
Her talks of 1953 in the French classes at the Ashram school, where she answered questions from pupils and teachers on her own writings. From 1953 the classes were tape-recorded.
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Les crocodiles ne pensent pas : reflets du tantrisme cachemirien (Crocodiles Don't Think: Reflections of Kashmir Tantrism)
Book · 1994 · Almora (current edition)
A short book on the tantric approach of Kashmir Shaivism, which the publisher presents as inclusive and close to present-day concerns.
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Le sacre du dragon vert : pour la joie de ne rien être (The Crowning of the Green Dragon: For the Joy of Being Nothing)
Book · 1999 · Almora (current edition)
A book of conversations on everyday concerns such as the body, love, suffering and death, and on meditation and yoga, in a sensory approach drawn from Kashmir tantra.
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Let the Moon Be Free: Conversations on Kashmiri Tantra
Book · 2018 · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Conversations with him on Kashmiri tantra in an English translation by Jeanric Meller. His website lists it among his English publications.
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Dialogues sur le yoga (Dialogues on Yoga)
Book · 2024 · Almora
Conversations on the yoga of Kashmir Shaivism, taken from his earlier book Yoga : corps de vibration, corps de silence. Posture and breath are approached without effort, as listening to what is felt.
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A Course In Miracles With Keith
Audio recording · 2023 · Self-published podcast (Spotify for Creators)
Weekly recorded meetings on the metaphysics of A Course in Miracles and its forgiveness practice, with questions from listeners. Most episode notes quote the passage of the Course under discussion.
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ACIM Forgiveness 101
Talk · 2025 · A Course In Miracles With Keith (podcast)
A podcast episode that, by its description, presents the theory and practice of forgiveness in A Course in Miracles as a whole. Not listened to for this review.
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The Mechanics of Awakening
Course · Center for Awakening
A paid three-part video series in which he presents what he calls the mechanics of awakening in A Course in Miracles. Only the course description was read.
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Vietnam: Lotus in a Sea of Fire
Book · 1967 · Hill and Wang
His account of the Buddhist peace movement in the Vietnam War and its proposals for peace. According to his community, the term engaged Buddhism first appears here, and Martin Luther King Jr. quoted the book in 1967.
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The Miracle of Mindfulness
Book · 1976 · Beacon Press
A short manual of mindfulness in daily life, written for the social workers of his School of Youth for Social Service in Vietnam. It describes breathing, walking and everyday tasks as meditation.
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Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
Book · 1991 · Bantam Books
Short chapters on mindfulness in everyday situations, on handling difficult feelings and on peace in relationships and society. His community names it among his best-known books.
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Call Me By My True Names: The Collected Poems
Book · 1993 · Parallax Press
His collected poems from several decades. The title poem grew out of a letter about a young refugee girl and asks the reader to recognise themselves in victim and perpetrator alike.
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Awakening of the Heart: Essential Buddhist Sutras and Commentaries
Book · 2012 · Parallax Press
His translations of key Buddhist sutras with his commentaries, in one volume. The Heart Sutra commentary was read in an excerpt.
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Meditating on No-Self: A Dhamma Talk
Talk · 1984 · Buddhist Publication Society, Kandy
A talk on non-self: how we keep reaffirming a fragile self through identification and clinging, and how meditation lets one see body and mind as changing processes.
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All of Us: Beset by Birth, Decay, and Death
Book · 1987 · Self-published
Twelve talks on practice given to nuns and lay people on Parappuduwa Nuns' Island, from accepting oneself to non-duality.
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Being Nobody, Going Nowhere
Book · 1987 · Wisdom Publications
A book of talks on meditation and the Buddhist path.
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Ich schenke euch mein Leben: Die außergewöhnliche Lebensgeschichte einer deutschen Buddhistin (I Give You My Life)
Book · 1997 · Barth, Bern, Munich and Vienna
Her autobiography, from her childhood in Berlin to her life as a Buddhist nun.
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Who Is My Self?
Book · 1997 · Wisdom Publications
A book on meditation and the question of the self.
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The Science of Religion
Book · 1924 · Yogoda and Sat-Sanga Headquarters, Los Angeles
A short book arguing that all people seek lasting freedom from pain and the experience of bliss, and that religion in its universal sense is the methods that lead there. It compares an intellectual, a devotional and a meditative method with a 'scientific' technique of turning the life force inward, which it does not explain in detail.
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Whispers from Eternity
Book · 1929 · Yogoda and Sat-Sanga, Mount Washington Center, Los Angeles
A book of prayers and poems addressed to God. The foreword explains his idea of praying by claiming one's relationship with God as a child rather than begging.
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Autobiography of a Yogi
Book · 1946 · Philosophical Library, New York
Yogananda's account of his life up to the mid-1940s: his childhood in Bengal, his years with Sri Yukteswar, his meetings with Indian and Western saints, Kriya Yoga, and his work in America. It also tells the lives of Lahiri Mahasaya and Sri Yukteswar and includes many accounts of miracles.
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God Talks With Arjuna: The Bhagavad Gita. Royal Science of God-Realization
Book · 1995 · Self-Realization Fellowship, Los Angeles
His translation of the Bhagavad Gita with a verse-by-verse commentary that reads it as a guide to yoga and meditation. He revised it towards the end of his life; disciples completed the editing for the book.
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The Holy Science (Kaivalya Darsanam)
Book · 1894 · Self-Realization Fellowship, Los Angeles (linked edition)
A short treatise in Sanskrit sutras with his English explanations. It sets out a Sankhya and Vedanta account of creation and of the way back to Spirit, compares it with passages from the Bible, especially Revelation, and presents a cycle of ages of 24,000 years.
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Autobiography of a Yogi
Book · 1946 · Philosophical Library, New York · About this teacher
Yogananda's account of his life up to the mid-1940s: his childhood in Bengal, his years with Sri Yukteswar, his meetings with Indian and Western saints, Kriya Yoga, and his work in America. It also tells the lives of Lahiri Mahasaya and Sri Yukteswar and includes many accounts of miracles.
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Autobiography of a Yogi
Book · 1946 · Philosophical Library, New York · About this teacher
Yogananda's account of his life up to the mid-1940s: his childhood in Bengal, his years with Sri Yukteswar, his meetings with Indian and Western saints, Kriya Yoga, and his work in America. It also tells the lives of Lahiri Mahasaya and Sri Yukteswar and includes many accounts of miracles.
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Yogiraj Shyamacharan Granthabali, vol. 3 (Collected Works of Yogiraj Shyamacharan, Volume 3)
Book · 1958 · Yogiraj Publication, Calcutta
A volume of his collected writings in Bengali: the Sankhya sutras, Guru Nanak's Japji, the Paniniya Shiksha and chapters 3 and 4 of the Vedanta sutras, each with a commentary published under his name that reads the texts in terms of the practice of kriya.
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Jogiraj Sri Sri Shyamacharan Lahiri Mahashayer Jiban Smriti O Patrabali (Memories of the Life and Letters of Yogiraj Shyamacharan Lahiri)
Book · 2000 · Sri Sri Adyanath Trust, Uttarpara, Hooghly · About this teacher
A Bengali biography by his grandson Ananda Mohan Lahiri, with letters about Kriya practice between him and his disciples; the compiler says the letters are meant for practitioners of Kriya.
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Complete Works of Lahiri Mahasay, Volume 1: Gitas and Sanghitas
Book · 2006 · The Sanskrit Classics
English translation of his Bengali commentaries on eight scriptures, read in the light of Kriya Yoga. Yogananda writes that disciples recorded and arranged his interpretations; the translator says Lahiri Mahasaya wrote the commentaries himself.
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Clin d'œil sur l'Être (A Glimpse of Being)
Article · 1999 · 3e millénaire
A French magazine interview on satsang, the question 'Who am I?' and suffering seen as a wave on the ocean. It is taken from a video interview by Ojas de Ronde.
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Tout est inclus (Everything Is Included)
Article · 1999 · 3e millénaire
A French magazine interview from a retreat on Corfu in June 1999, on satsang as one's natural state, awakening beyond the idea of woman or man, and the fire for freedom.
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Ganga Mira · Buddha at the Gas Pump, episode 347
Video · 2016 · Buddha at the Gas Pump
A long English interview by Rick Archer about her meeting with Poonja, life with him, the end of seeking and her satsang, with questions from listeners.
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Words of Nectar: Sadhana for Taming the Mind
Book · 2007 · Sterling Paperbacks (Sterling Publishers), New Delhi
An English translation of his Telugu talks in eleven chapters, from love and devotion and the mind to Ramana Maharshi and the practice of sadhana.
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Unnadi Brahmamokkate (Brahmam Alone Exists)
Book · 2024 · Sri Ramana Kshethram, Jinnuru
Talks he gave in Kothagudem in February 2010 on the teachings of Ashtavakra, Janaka and Shankara, compiled by K. V. Ramana; the English translation appeared in 2024.
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Amruthavaakkulu (Words of Nectar)
Book · 2025 · Sri Ramana Kshethram, Jinnuru
His teachings arranged by topic, such as the Guru, the mind and liberation, compiled by K. Rama Rao; the preface quotes his own account of his life.
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Blueprints for Awakening: Indian Masters, Volume 2
Book · Open Sky Press
Interviews by John David with seven Indian teachers on the teachings of Ramana Maharshi, among them Sri Nannagaru and Thuli Baba.
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Blueprints for Awakening: Indian Masters, Volume 2
Book · Open Sky Press
Interviews by John David with seven Indian teachers on the teachings of Ramana Maharshi, among them Sri Nannagaru and Thuli Baba.
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Glimpses of a Great Yogi
Book · About this teacher
An account of Yogi Ramsuratkumar's life and of the author's visits to him, written by a devotee and kept up over many years. It records conversations with dates and places.
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Sri Ramana Sannidhi Murai
Book · 1933
Muruganar's first collection of Tamil devotional verses in praise of Ramana Maharshi, modelled on Manikkavachagar's Tiruvachakam.
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Guru Vachaka Kovai (The Garland of Guru's Sayings)
Book · 1939 · Sri Ramanasramam, Tiruvannamalai
Tamil verses in which Muruganar recorded the spoken teachings of Ramana Maharshi; Ramana checked and revised them himself.
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Sri Ramana Jnana Bodham (The Experience of Jnana Bestowed by Sri Ramana)
Book · 1978 · Sri Ramana Kendram, New Delhi
Nine Tamil volumes of verses that were unpublished at his death, arranged by theme by Sadhu Om. The title can be rendered as The Experience of Jnana Bestowed by Sri Ramana.
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Padamalai
Book · 2004 · Avadhuta Foundation
More than a thousand teaching statements of Ramana Maharshi that Muruganar recorded in two-line Tamil verses, arranged by theme and translated into English.
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Ramana Puranam
Book · 2006 · Sri Ramanasramam
A Tamil poem in praise of Ramana Maharshi: Muruganar wrote the first two hundred lines, and Ramana added some three hundred lines and completed it.
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The Shining of My Lord
Book · 2017 · David Godman, Avadhuta Foundation, Colorado
An anthology of just over 1,000 of his verses, mainly from the first eight volumes of Sri Ramana Jnana Bodham, in English translation. Its theme is the state of liberation that, in his verses, Ramana bestowed on him; it opens with a long biographical introduction.
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Vigyan Bhairav Tantra, Vol. 1
Book · 1972 · Osho World Foundation (online PDF)
His commentary on the Vigyan Bhairav Tantra, a Tantra text in which Shiva answers Devi's questions with 112 meditation techniques. He presents Tantra as a matter of method rather than doctrine.
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Hsin Hsin Ming: The Book of Nothing
Book · 1974 · Osho World Foundation (online PDF)
Ten talks on the Hsin Hsin Ming of Sosan, the third Zen patriarch, given in the mornings of 21 to 30 October 1974. He comments on Sosan's sutra.
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Approaching the Buddhist Path
Book · 2017 · Wisdom Publications
The first volume of The Library of Wisdom and Compassion, a multi-volume presentation of the Buddhist path written with Thubten Chodron; it sets out the context for Buddhist practice.
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Satsang mit Soham · Mediathek (Satsang with Soham · media library)
Video · Satsang mit Soham (his own website)
Recordings of his satsangs at Madhubhan and of his intensives, with a few short videos and quotations, on his own website.
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Himalaya Ka Samarpan Yog (Samarpan Yog of the Himalayas)
Book · Harper Hindi (HarperCollins India)
His autobiography in several volumes, on his search and his years of meditation with his gurus in the Himalayas. Volume 1 covers his time with his first guru, Shiv Baba, and three further gurus.
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The Flow of Consciousness
Book
A book of dialogues in which he answers Tim Sime's questions on Samarpan Meditation, the role of the living guru, the soul, the chakras and kundalini.
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Masnavī-ye Maʿnavī (The Mathnawi)
Book · 1262 · Trustees of the E. J. W. Gibb Memorial
Rumi's long didactic poem in Persian, in six books of couplets. It teaches the Sufi path through stories with commentary, and opens with the reed's lament at being cut off from its source.
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Dīvān-e Shams-e Tabrīzī (The Divan of Shams of Tabriz)
Book · Amīr Kabīr, Tehran
Rumi's collection of lyric poems (ghazals) in Persian, dedicated to Shams al-Din of Tabriz, his mystic mentor.
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Fīhi mā fīhi (Discourses)
Book · Amīr Kabīr, Tehran
Rumi's main prose work: 71 discourses compiled from the notes of students who attended his teaching circle. He often tells a story and then draws out its teaching.
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Maktūbāt (Letters)
Book · Markaz-i Nashr-i Dānishgāhī, Tehran
Rumi's letters in Persian, edited by Tawfiq Subhani. The Encyclopaedia Iranica cites them, for example, for his efforts to have his disciple Husam al-Din Chalabi made shaikh of a Sufi lodge.
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A Brief Sketch of Sri Siva Balayogiji
Book · 1962 · Adivarapupeta ashram committee · About this teacher
A Telugu and English booklet published for his birthday on 24 January 1962; the devotees' website reproduces the English text and photographs.
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Sri Shivabalayogi
Book · 1968 · About this teacher
A short early biography by S. K. Ramachandra Rao, drawing on the ashram committee's booklet of 1962; it reports, among other things, his meetings with Tapaswiji Maharaj.
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Sri Sri Sri Shivabalayogi Maharaj: Life & Spiritual Ministration
Book · 1981 · Sri Sri Sri Shivabalayogi Maharaj Trust, Bangalore · About this teacher
A biography by his disciple Hanut Singh, based in part on answers he gave to the author's questions about his life, his tapas and meditation; it ends with a long chapter on the practice of dhyana.
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Tapas Shakti: Shri Shri Shri Shivabalayogi Maharaj
Book · 1992 · Sri Shivabalayogi Maharaj Trust, Bangalore · About this teacher
A book he asked to be written in 1991, combining the 1981 biography with questions and answers collected mostly in the United States and with devotees' experiences; it was presented in January 1992.
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Divine Play: The Silent Teaching of Shivabala Yogi
Book · 2005 · Handloom Publishing, Langley, Washington · About this teacher
According to his devotees' website the first book on him written for and published in the West: an account of his tapas, travels and blessings with his answers to questions on many subjects.
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Daz buoch der götlîchen trœstunge (Book of Divine Consolation)
Text · Franz Pfeiffer (ed.), Deutsche Mystiker des vierzehnten Jahrhunderts, vol. 2, Göschen, Leipzig 1857
A book of consolation in German, which opens with Paul's blessing of the God of all comfort in his second letter to the Corinthians.
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Die rede der underscheidunge (Talks of Instruction)
Text · Franz Pfeiffer (ed.), Deutsche Mystiker des vierzehnten Jahrhunderts, vol. 2, Göschen, Leipzig 1857
Talks on obedience, prayer, letting go of oneself, detachment and the inner life, which according to their heading he held as prior of Erfurt with 'children' who asked him many things.
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Predigten (German Sermons)
Text · Franz Pfeiffer (ed.), Deutsche Mystiker des vierzehnten Jahrhunderts, vol. 2, Göschen, Leipzig 1857
His sermons in Middle High German. Pfeiffer's edition of 1857 prints 110 of them; the critical edition is Die deutschen Werke I–IV.
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Von abegescheidenheit (On Detachment)
Text · Franz Pfeiffer (ed.), Deutsche Mystiker des vierzehnten Jahrhunderts, vol. 2, Göschen, Leipzig 1857
A treatise in which he asks which virtue brings a person closest to God and finds it in pure detachment, which he praises even above love.
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Maqālāt-e Shams-e Tabrīzī (Discourses of Shams-i Tabrizi)
Book · Intishārāt-i Khvārazmī, Tehran
The recorded sayings of Shams in Persian prose, compiled from notes taken by him and his followers. Scholars such as William C. Chittick draw on it for his own teaching, apart from the legends about him.
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Walad-nāma (Ebtedā-nāma) (The Book of Walad)
Book · 1291 · Kitābkhānah-i Iqbāl, Tehran
Sultan Walad's Persian poem of about 10,000 couplets, written in 1291 following his father's example. It tells of Rumi and his companions and teaches the Sufi path, with a wealth of information about the life of Rumi's circle.
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Rabāb-nāma (The Book of the Rebec)
Book · 1301 · McGill University Institute of Islamic Studies, Tehran branch, with the University of Tehran
A didactic Sufi poem in Persian couplets that opens with praise of the rebec, as the Masnavi opens with the reed. It explains aspects of Sufism and passages of Rumi's works and contains a long series of couplets in Turkish, among the earliest West Turkish poetry.
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Dīvān-e Solṭān Walad (Collected Poems)
Book · Kitāb-furūshī-i Rūdakī, Tehran
His collection of Persian lyric poems, over 12,700 verses, many written in emulation of Rumi's ghazals; it also contains verses in Turkish and a few in Greek.
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Entehā-nāma (The Book of the End)
Book · Intishārāt-i Rawzanah, Tehran
Sultan Walad's last poem in Persian couplets, of about 8,000 verses, devoted to teachings on Sufi doctrine and practice.
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Maʿāref (Discourses)
Book · Mawlā, Tehran
A compilation of Sultan Walad's discourses in Persian prose. In their written form they are more structured than the discourses of Rumi in Fihi ma fihi.
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Masnavī-ye Maʿnavī (The Mathnawi)
Book · 1262 · Trustees of the E. J. W. Gibb Memorial · Written down by this teacher
Rumi's long didactic poem in Persian, in six books of couplets. It teaches the Sufi path through stories with commentary, and opens with the reed's lament at being cut off from its source.
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