RAMANA  MAHARSHI
PADAMALAI
Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi | Recorded in Tamil verse by Muruganar
Edited and translated by David Godman, T. V. Venkatasubramanian and Robert Butler

"What is always natural to everyone is liberation, which is bliss. Bondage is delusion of mind, a false sensation. The ego alone is bondage, and one's own true nature, free of the contagion of the ego, is liberation. There is no greater deception than believing that liberation, which is ever present as one's own nature, will be attained at some later stage. Even the desire for liberation is the work of delusion. Therefore, remain still."

Padamalai contains well over a thousand teaching statements made by Sri Ramana Maharshi [1879-1950], none of which has appeared in English before. They were recorded in two-line Tamil verses by Muruganar, one of Sri Ramana's foremost devotees. It was at Muruganar's behest that Sri Ramana composed both Ulladu Narpadu and Upadesa Undiyar, two of his principal philosophical works. Muruganar himself composed Guru Vachaka Kovai, an extensive and authoritative compilation of Sri Ramana's sayings that was personally checked and revised by Sri Ramana himself.
The original Tamil poem from which these statements have been taken had no structure at all. It was simply 3,059 random verses. Some of them praised Sri Ramana, some of them expressed Muruganar's gratitude to Sri Ramana for granting him liberation, but the majority contained renderings of his teachings. 
The editors and translators have arranged these verses thematically, organising them into topics such as ‘Self-enquiry', ‘The Guru and the Jnani', ‘The Self', and so on. To supplement the text and to provide a commentary on it the editors have added many other quotations by Bhagavan. 

396 pages | 19,00 € | 550 g

RAMANA  MAHARSHI
HEART IS THY NAME, OH LORD
Moments of Silence with Sri Ramana Maharshi
Foreword by Vimala Thakar

The Maharshi, Bhagavan Sri Ramana was drawn to Arunachala hill in his seventeenth year, after a spiritually awakening death experience. For the rest of his life, till the body was shed fifty years later, he never left his beloved hill. People from far and near came to his presence and were spiritually enriched.
His divine presence continues to be felt and his universal philosophy attracts an ever-growing following.
This book is a selection of his teachings arranged with beautiful full-page photographs, and is intended to help the mind turn inward and abide in deep Silence awaiting each of us.

108 pages | including 50 photographs | 10,00 € | 495 g

RAMANA  MAHARSHI
THE MIND OF RAMANA MAHARSHI AND THE PATH OF SELF-KNOWLEDGE
By Arthur Osborne

Sri Ramana Maharshi was born in 1879. In his seventeenth year he attained enlightenment through a remarkable experience as if undergoing death of the physical body while remaining in full consciousness. Following this transformation, he left his home and was drawn irresistibly to the sacred hill of Arunachala. He never left it. In the ashram which was formed around him he taught the purest form of Advaita Vedanta [non-duality] through supremely simple discipline of Self-enquiry. This book gives a detailed account of the life and teachings of this extraordinary sage who belonged to the true line of India's spiritual teachers.

"He who turns inward with untroubled mind to search where the consciousness of 'I' arises realises the Self and rests in Thee, Oh Arunachala! as a river when it merges in the ocean. Abandoning the outer world, with mind and breath controlled, in order to meditate on Thee within, the yogi sees Thy Light, Oh Arunachala! and finds his delight in Thee."

219 pages | 7,00 € | 245 g

RAMANA  MAHARSHI                            3 VOLUMES
THE POWER OF THE PRESENCE | PART 1
Transforming encounters with Sri Ramana Maharshi
Edited by David Godman

What was it like to live with and be guided by Sri Ramana Maharshi, one of the greatest sages that India has ever produced? In Part One of this new anthology eight devotees narrate their personal stories that chronicle in detail how Bhagavan's power and grace had transformed their lives. The devotees are Rangan, Sivaprakasam Pillai, Akhilandamma, Sadhu Natanananda, N. R. Krishnamurti Aiyer, Chalam, Souris and Swami Madhavatirha. Most of these accounts have never before appeared in English. This book shows the many different relationships Bhagavan had with devotees who had widely differing backgrounds and who in many cases surrendered their lives to him.

"Going through these accounts again, some of which I have not read for more than tens years, I can only marvel at the awesome, effortless power that flowed from Bhagavan and transformed the lives and hearts of those who were pulled into his orbit. When I first came across some of these stories, I felt as if I had discovered buried treasure. Now, many years later, I feel that the time is now right to put this treasure into the public domain so that everyone who feels drawn to Sri Bhagavan can have a share in it."
                        from the preface by David Godman

294 pages | 17,00 € | 425 g

RAMANA  MAHARSHI
THE POWER OF THE PRESENCE | PART 2
Transforming encounters with Sri Ramana Maharshi
Edited by David Godman

In Part Two of this new anthology six devotees narrate their lengthy first-person accounts of how their lives were transformed by Ramana Maharshi. The devotees are Kunju Swami, Muruganar, T. P. Ramachandra Iyer, Chhaganlal V. Yogi, Lakshmana Swamy and Viswanatha Swami.

"I was a learned fool. My flawed mind knew nothing till I came to dwell with Him whose glance filled my heart with the light of awareness. Dwelling in that gracious state of peace, whose nature is holy silence, so hard to gain and know, I entered into union with the deathless sate of knowledge of reality."
                        Muruganar 

269 pages | 17,00 € | 375 g

RAMANA  MAHARSHI
THE POWER OF THE PRESENCE | PART 3
Transforming encounters with Sri Ramana Maharshi
Edited by David Godman

In this third and final volume, David Godman has included an anthology of the lives and experiences of a number of outstanding devotees of Ramana Maharshi who never recorded their own stories. These devotees include Ramanatha Brahmachari, Mastan, Lakshmi the cow, Echammal, Mudaliar Patti, Krishna Bhikshu, Wolter Keers, G.V. Subbaramayya and Natesa Iyer. They all exemplify the highest quality of devotion to their Guru. Also included is a chapter by Lakshman Sarma that contains an excellent summary of many aspects of Bhagavan's teachings. This text is written in verse form and contains many of Bhagavan's direct quotations.

"The transforming glance of the sage of Arunachala penetrated my heart in a way that I, a worthless soul without true love, was redeemed completely. Through its action I was transformed into the state of Shiva."
                        Ramanatha Brahmachari

346 pages | 17,00 € | 475 g

RAMANA  MAHARSHI
TALKS WITH SRI RAMANA MAHARSHI

Sri Ramana's teachings were not given in general. In fact, the sage had no use for lectures or discourses. His words were primarily addressed to the particular aspirant who felt some difficulty in his spiritual path and sought to have it resolved. But as the same difficulties arise in the quest after the Self, and as the method of resolving them is the same, the Maharshi's responses to questions have the quality of universality. In order to abide as the Self, in our eternal true nature, Ramana Maharshi advised Self-enquiry. In Self-enquiry, the question, "Who am I ?" is the key to real happiness.

Questioner: What is the way to see God?

Maharshi: Where to see God? First, can you see yourself? If you can see yourself you can see God. Can anyone see his own eyes? Because they cannot be seen, can one say, "I have no eyes?" Just like this, though seeing is always there, we cannot see God. To give up the thought that we are alien to God is to see God. The first and foremost wonder in this world is the thought, "I am different from God." There is no greater wonder than this.

685 pages | 17,00 € | 950 g

RAMANA  MAHARSHI
ABSOLUTE CONSCIOUSNESS

This book contains some of the precious, direct and profound teachings of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi. The book is divided into three parts. The first part contains his main teaching, Nan Yar [Who Am I?], the direct path and consciousness. The second part concerns the eternal, unlimited, unchanging consciousness. The final part consists of Self-enquiry, ego, mind, rebirth and other subjects. Through Self-enquiry, one is able to bypass the endless thought pressures and remain in the the natural state of happiness and Self-knowledge. There are also about 50 photographs of Bhagavan Ramana.

200 pages | 7,00 € | 255 g

RAMANA  MAHARSHI
LETTERS FROM SRI RAMANASRAMAM
By Suri Nagamma

After going through difficult personal circumstances, Suri Nagamma became an ashramite [permanent member of Sri Ramana Maharshi's ashram] and renounced everything. She spent days at the feet of her Master, until she felt the urge to record his conversations with devotees. She found the work to be of great spiritual value to herself and wrote them in the form of letters to her brother in Madras. The letters were recorded from 1945 to 1950.

480 pages | 12,00 € | 650 g

SRI  RAMANA  DARSANAM
By Sadhu Natanananda
Translated by Dr. Venkatasubramanian | Edited by David Godman

"When the glittering sun appears, no stars are seen. Similarly, when my godliness arose, no thought appeared."

Sadhu Natanananda was a distinguished Tamil scholar and devotee who first met Bhagavan in Skandashram. His collection of dialogues with Bhagavan - Upadesa Manjari in Tamil and Spiritual Instructions in English - has appeared in several editions of Bhagavan's own Collected Works. Sadhu Natanananda also edited Vichara Sangraham [Self-Enquiry] in both the essays and question-and-answer formats. Bhagavan also gave him the job of arranging the verses of Guru Vachaka Kovai, Muruganar's authoritative compendium of Bhagavan's teachings.
This work, Sri Ramana Darsanam, is a penetrating analysis of Bhagavan's life and teachings, illustrated by many quotations and stories that have never appeared in English before. Also included are two long poems that Natanananda wrote in the 1950s which explain key points of Bhagavan's teaching and give intimate details of Natanananda's own inner experiences.

146 pages | 9,00 € | 220 g

LAKSHMANA  SWAMI  AND  MATHRU  SRI  SARADA
NO MIND | I AM THE SELF
The Lives and Teachings of Lakshmana Swamy and Mathru Sri Sarada
By David Godman

Lakshmana Swami is a direct disciple of Ramana Maharshi, the great sage and Guru who taught at Arunachala from 1900 to 1950. After several years of intense meditation Lakshmana realised the Self in Sri Ramana's presence in 1949. Ever since then he has been living a reclusive life, mostly in the South Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. Sri Lakshmana has a small ashram there and he teaches his disciples primarily through the medium of 'spiritual silence', the method made famous by Sri Ramana Maharshi.
Mathru Sri Sarada is his adopted daughter and appointed successor. She came to him while she was still in her teens, completely surrendered to him and realised the Self in Lakshmana Swami's presence in 1978. She is now teaching her own devotees at Sri Lakshmana's ashram.
No Mind - I am the Self contains fascinating details from both their lives, along with teaching instructions that were given out to devotees in the early 1980's.

227 pages | 17,00 € | 390 g

ANNAMALAI  SWAMI
FINAL TALKS
Edited by David Godman

"Forgetfulness or non-forgetfulness is not a part of your destiny. It is something you choose from moment to moment. That is what Bhagavan [Ramana Maharshi] said. He said that you have the freedom either to identify with the Self and have the understanding that the body is performing its predestined activities, animated and sustained by the power of the Self, or you can identify with the activities of the body and the mind, and in doing so forget the Self. If you choose the latter course, don't blame God or God's will, or predestination. God did not make you forget the Self. You yourself are making that choice every second of your life."

Annamalai Swami [1906-1995] came to Ramana Maharshi in 1928 and spent nearly all of the following ten years serving him, initially as his attendant, and subsequently as the supervisor of all the building projects that Sri Ramanasramam undertook during this period.
In 1995, the year that Annamalai Swami passed away at the age of eighty-nine, audio recordings were made of the dialogues that he held with those coming to him for spiritual instructions between March and October. This small, powerful book is therefore an edited record of what turned out to be the last six months of Annamalai Swami's teaching career. His teachings were uncompromising, straightforward, and rarely deviated from a solid core of advice that he himself had been given by his own Guru. However, they were delivered with a force and a gentle humour that was irresistibly attractive.

163 pages | 7,00 € | 105 g

H. W. L.  POONJA
THE FIRE OF FREEDOM | VOLUME 1
Satsang with Papaji | Edited by David Godman                READ AN EXCERPT

"If someone tells you something, don't accept it because no teaching has so far touched the Truth. This much I will tell you. No one ever spoke the Truth. No word has ever been coined to present it."

Sri H.W.L. Poonja [1913-1997], known in his later years by the affectionate title 'Papaji', has been one of the most influential spiritual figures of modern times. A disciple of the great South Indian Guru Sri Ramana Maharshi, Papaji brought the teachings of his own Master to new generations of seekers in the decades that followed Sri Ramana's passing away in 1950.
After an incident-packed and peripatetic life that took him all over the world, Papaji finally settled down in Lucknow, North India, where he gave daily satsangs throughout the 1990's. His teaching, succinctly and trenchantly expressed in this completely new collection of teaching dialogues between Papaji and visitors who came to see him in Lucknow in the middle of 1991. At that time only about fifteen people would come each day, and all the satsangs were held in the living room of Papaji's house.
In these conversations Papaji explains the practical teachings of his Master, Ramana Maharshi, in a simple and forceful way. As he engages his visitors in discussions about the nature of spiritual freedom and the means by which it can be discovered, he is always looking for an opportunity to take his questioners back to the source of their minds so that they can find out for themselves, by direct experience, what he is trying to show them.

"You have to wake up yourself; you have to see for yourself. The senses are not needed, nor are the eyes. The eyes cannot see it; the mind cannot understand it; the intellect cannot grasp it. None of these will accompany you. You have to be alone without these things. You have to proceed alone. None of the five elements will accompany you. You will go alone to meet this situation, but what it is, no one knows. "

291 pages | including 20 colour photographs | 16,00 € | 445 g

H. W. L.  POONJA                                  3 VOLUMES
NOTHING EVER HAPPENED
A three-volume biograpy of Poonjaji
By David Godman

"Nothing has ever happened. Nothing has ever existed. The world never came into existence or disappeared from it. That place is my real home. It is where I always am. One can say this with authority only when one abides in that ultimate Place."

A massive [over 1,200 pages] biography of Papaji, a disciple of Ramana Maharshi and one of the most influential advaitic teachers of modern times. In addition to the biographical narrative that spans more than eighty years of his action-packed life, there are teaching dialogues, extensive extracts from Papaji's diaries and letters, along with many accounts by devotees who were utterly transformed by him.
The first volume covers the early years of his life, his meeting with his Master, Ramana Maharshi, and other teachers as well as his teaching and encounters with South Indian devotees. The second volume begins with his life in Rishikesh in the 60's and 70's. It moves on to his foreign travels and has teachings dialogues that took place in the 70's. The third volume is about his meetings with devotees in the 70's and 80's. It contains numerous extracts from his personal diaries and detailed explanations about the Guru-disciple relationship. In Poonja's presence and through his dynamic transmissions, countless people have been made aware of the impersonal reality that underlies the world and all phenomenal experiences. This is the definitive account of Papaji's life.

Each volume is approximately 400 pages | 30,00 € | 1930 g

H. W. L.  POONJA
PAPAJI | INTERVIEWS
Edited by David Godman

Papaji: Interviews contains diverse interviews that foreign devotees and journalists had with Papaji between 1990 and 1993. All of them give an excellent introduction to Papaji's teachings. The book also contains a fifty page biography of Papaji, contributed by the editor, which focuses on Papaji's early life and his relationship with Ramana Maharshi.

Question: Is there not something a person can do in the way of spiritual practice in order to prepare himself or herself?

Papaji: This is postponement, no? Postponement. One who says, "I have to prepare myself" is deceiving himself, fooling himself. Whatever can be done tomorrow can also be done today.

305 pages | 12,00 € | 400 g

MA  ANANDAMAYI
MATRI DARSHAN
A photo-album about Shri Ma Anandamayi

Once Paramahansa Yogananda asked Ma Anandamayi [1896-1982] to tell him something of Her life.
Ma: Father, there is little to tell. My consciousness has never associated itself with this temporary body. Before I came on this earth, Father, "I was the same". I grew into womanhood, but still "I was the same". When the family in which I had been born made arrangements to have this body married, "I was the same". And, Father, in front of you now, "I am the same". Even afterwards, though the dance of creation changes around me in the hall of eternity, "I shall be the same."

The central Theme of Ma Anandamayi's teaching, in endless variations, is : "The Supreme calling of every human being is to aspire to Self-realisation." Ma Anandamayi's life was centered on God, and this centeredness is felt through her words and portraits.
This beautiful book contains over 70 photographs [in black & white and in colour] of Ma throughout her life. Each photograph includes quotes of her teachings in English, German and French.

168 pages | including 70 photographs | 24,50 € | 600 g

MA  ANANDAMAYI
DEATH MUST DIE | THE DIARIES OF ATMANANDA
A Western Woman's Life-Long Spiritual Quest in India and Its Fulfilment Through Her Guru
Edited with Introduction, Commentary and Final Chapter by Ram Alexander

This book gives an intimate first-hand account of a courageous woman's spiritual quest in close association with several of India's greatest modern saints. Although written in a diary format, her story reads almost like a novel, beginning with her youthful involvement with Theosophy in the Vienna of the 1920s. In the 1940s she goes to Benares to teach at a school founded by J. Krishnamurti, a close associate. Here we encounter several of her friends and fellow travellers, in particular the English poet and mystic Lewis Thompson who exerted a profound influence on her. Drawn deeper into the heart of Indian spirituality, she encounters Ramana Maharshi at his ashram in South India and in 1945 she ultimately comes into contact with her Guru - the great Bengali mystic, Ma Anandamayi, with whom she embarks on the great spiritual adventure of her life as told herein, culminating in sannyasa, the ultimate renunciation. We are given an in-depth picture of her intense relationship with the extraordinary women. This book is a rare record of a remarkable spiritual odyssey. There are also photos of Ma Anandamayi, as well of photos of Atmananda, Lewis Thompson , J. Krishnamurti and Ramana Maharshi.

570 pages | 15,00 € | 850 g

MA  ANANDAMAYI
LIFE AND TEACHING OF SRI MA ANANDAMAYI
By Dr. Alexander Lipski

Dr. Lipski spent time with Ma Anandamayi and is well acquainted with her life and teaching. This book is both an introduction and a deepening into who she was.

"Ma Anandamayi's joy is an overflowing, irrepressible joy that expresses itself in gaiety, that knows no obstacles, because it is deeply rooted in the Absolute, beyond the duality's of good and evil, of I and not-I, of pleasant and unpleasant, because its unshakeable base is Love and Wisdom."

75 pages | 6,00 € | 250 g

SIDDHARAMESHWAR  MAHARAJ
AMRUT LAYA | VOLUME 1
The Spiritual Science of Self-knowledge
The Stateless State | Discourses on Dasbodh
 
"Detachment is absence of even a single desire. This leads to fearlessness. Otherwise, there is no freedom from fear for you. One should not depend on others, as in the case where one thinks : "If I do not get anything to eat I will die." Desire for the bliss of the Self, is desire for the bliss within. People who hoard millions and then go about telling others the knowledge of Reality do not do good to themselves, instead they commit fraud."

Siddharameshwar Maharaj [1888-1936], the Master of Nisargadatta Maharaj and Ranjit Maharaj changed his own Master's traditional way of teaching through meditation [pipilika marg] called the ant's way into the bird's way [vihangam marg], which uses thinking to overcome ignorance. He preached the more direct Bird's Way in very simple and lucid language. Siddharameshwar Maharaj also wanted the understanding of final Reality to be accessible to all, so he refused to use complicated or technical language and used examples taken from daily life. He taught that the sat-chit-ananda stage [the source of knowledge or consciousness] is still an illusion. Reality is beyond both ignorance and knowledge. He first taught by way of knowledge and then told his disciples to renounce the world, because renunciation without knowledge has no value. Finally, he told them to renounce the renunciation because that is also ego based. This teaching enabled them to understand that the world starts from 'zero' [knowledge] and ends in 'zero', so when it is nothing, what is there to renounce? One then re-enters the illusory world convinced that it is nothing but 'zero'.
Written in the 17th century by Swami Samarth Ramdas, Dasbodh captures the essence of Upanishadic thought: the Reality of the all-pervading oneness. The essential merit of Amrut Laya lies in the fact that Siddharameshwar Maharaj interpreted the seemingly esoteric and abstract teachings of Dasbodh in a lucid manner to facilitate understanding by even those without formal education. This book is ideally aimed at the seeker, who having tired of the transience of this phenomenal existence, strives to know the original cause of his creation.

"Celibacy means not to be attached to the senses. With strength, anything is possible. When one becomes dependent, then one thinks of Rama for benefits. If there is strength, there is less fear. It becomes easier to think of 'knowledge'. A strong man also understands knowledge better. Virtue is indicated by control of the senses."

200 pages | 8,45 € | 265 g

SIDDHARAMESHWAR  MAHARAJ
AMRUT LAYA | VOLUME 2
The Spiritual Science of Self-knowledge
The Stateless State | Discourses on Dasbodh

"All pride must vanish. "I am the body, my wealth, my son, I am a person with status, my wife, my relatives". So long as all these ideas exist, there cannot be real knowledge. After realisation of the Self, the aspirant regards his Master as the greatest of all. He feels that he belongs to the Master."

This volume is a companion to the first volume entitled Amrut Laya, The Stateless State. That first volume contains the the great work of distinction written by Siddharameshwar Maharaj entitled The Master Key to Self Realisation as well as the transcribed notes from 50 lectures given by Siddharameshwar Maharaj on various themes from Dasbodh.
This second volume of Amrut Laya contains transcribed notes of 88 additional lectures. This text is a great treasure-house of spiritual enlightenment and "Knowledge of Self" that has been imparted by Siddharameshwar Maharaj. In this book, he elaborates on various spiritual principles that are presented in selections from three main classic texts : Dasbodh, Yogavasishtha and Eknathi Bhagawat. He gives details explanations of many principles of Vedantic philosophy in a clear, simple language. Most importantly he describes the nature of the Self [Atman], Brahman, dispels ignorance with knowledge [jnana], and then tells us to cast off even that knowledge. He directs the reader to that indescribable Parabrahman which is our true form.

"Spiritual knowledge, unsupported by worship is baseless. If there is no devotion, there is no knowledge. Devotion is the mother of knowledge. Without the Master's grace, there is no knowledge. When will the Master's grace flow? Only through steadfast devotion. Then, even mud will turn into gold. The Satguru is your protector. Why bother about others when the Satguru is your guardian?"

151 pages | 8,45 € | 265 g

RANJIT  MAHARAJ
UNDERSTANDING IS REALIZING
Master Strokes of Shri Ranjit Maharaj's Teachings

"Never worry for anything, whatever state you are in. It is only a bodily or mind's affair. You are stateless. All these states come and go. You are always He. Never accept anything less. What is there to prove, zero is always zero. You are untouchable. Forget everything and you are He at this very moment. There is nothing to leave and nothing to take. You are Self without self. There is only Oneness in the world. There is no duality. Everybody is He, so why worry."

This small book is a collection of the invaluable words of Ranjit Maharaj [1913-2000], which are simple, straight forward and penetrate the heart of the sincere seeker of Reality. The teaching of Maharaj, like that of his Master, Siddharameshwar Maharaj, is based on a simple and direct transmission of knowledge. He insists that what you see, perceive, think and feel is not true, because it is impermanent. By accepting this Truth through understanding, you discover who you really are, the eternal Reality, That which lies beyond all knowledge and ignorance. The book also contains many photos of both Ranjit and Siddharameshwar Maharaj.

80 pages | 4,25 € | 100 g

RANJIT  MAHARAJ
ILLUSION VERSUS REALITY | PART 1
Dialogues with Shri Ranjit Maharaj on the Stateless State

"Death is to the body. You are not the body. What comes must go, but you are ever there. Electricity doesn't worry if a bulb goes off. Put in another bulb and you get the light. You are everywhere. You are the source of everything. How can you die? Master makes you He [Reality], no death for you. I still go ahead and say this is a dead body at the moment. Power is connected, it speaks. In a fraction of a second power can be disconnected. Be He, that's the main point."

Between 1996 and his demise in 2000, Ranjit Maharaj was invited to Europe and America several times to answer seekers' questions about Reality. This book is a compilation of dialogues on the 'Stateless State' which took place in various countries.
Ranjit Maharaj met his Master, Siddharameshwar Maharaj at the age of 12. His teaching, given in the spirit of his Master's, makes no concession for the ego and aims only at pure Self-knowledge and freedom.

220 pages | 8,45 € | 325 g

RANJIT  MAHARAJ
ILLUSION VERSUS REALITY | PART 2
Dialogues with Shri Ranjit Maharaj on the Stateless State

"One who goes to the depth of the ocean gets the pearl. Go to the depth of yourself and He [Reality] remains. One who gets the understanding doesn't feel anything. Whatever happens, let it happen, it's okay."

Ranjit Maharaj was born in Bombay on January 4th 1913. In 1924, at the age of 12, he met his Master Siddharameshwar Maharaj, a great unknown Master of the age. Ranjit Maharaj only began teaching in 1983 at the age of 70 when increasing numbers of seekers kept showing up at his door. The teaching of Ranjit Maharaj is in the continuity of his Master's, with no concession for the ego and aiming only at pure Self-knowledge and freedom. This book gives a straight forward and comprehensive knowledge of Reality in the form of questions and answers which took place in Bombay and Europe from February 15th, 1999 until July 26th, 2000, less than four months before he passed away.

215 pages | 8,45 € | 270 g

VIMALA  THAKAR
INSIGHTS INTO THE BHAGAVAD GITA

"In order to remain in the state of non-duality, in order to remain merged in the supreme Cosmic intelligence, as a drop of water remains merged in the ocean, it is necessary to educate ourselves not to be harassed and tortured by the thought process."

Vimala Thakar [1923-2009] gave a series of inspired talks on the Bhagavad Gita to a group of Yoga teachers, in three separate seminars, during 1992 and 1993 while she was visiting Italy. To her the Bhagavad Gita is very sacred because it deals with the organic wholeness of life; and the inbuilt complexity of life. It affirms the interplay between the microcosm and macrocosm and persuades us to remain united with the ultimate reality, not only to intellectual understanding, but through everything that we do, at every moment. Thus, the deepest spiritual insight concerning the Bhagavad Gita are presented, herein, into the words full of clarity and compassion.

374 pages | 12,00 € | 690 g

VIMALA  THAKAR
ON AN ETERNAL VOYAGE

"To respond to every thing around me is fulfilment. To walk austerely through pain and pleasure, beauty and ugliness, joy and sadness of life, is living in silence. The spontaneous movement of silence is meditation."

This book tells us how Vimala Thakar set upon an inward journey to freedom. It also contains the verbatim report of some of her talks with J. Krishnamurti concerning human transformation. After 8 years work in the land-gift-mission in India, Vimala Thakar set out to speak about the necessity of total inward revolution.

69 pages | 4,00 € | 120 g

EIGHT  UPANISHADS
With the commentary of Adi Shankaracharya
Translated by Swami Gambhirananda

"Arise, awake, and learn by approaching the excellent ones. The wise ones describe that path to be as impassable as a razor's edge, which, when sharpened, is difficult to tread on."

These two volumes present the thoughts of the great saint Adi Shankaracharya [788-820] in the original Sanskrit, with English translation.
Volume 1 contains the Isa, Kena, Katha and Taittiriya Upanishads.
Volume 2 contains the Aitareya, Mandaka, Mundukya & Karika and Prasna Upanishads.

"The Self is free of all sense-organs, and is above all internal organs. It is supremely tranquil, eternal effulgence, divine absorption, immutable, and fearless."

Volume 1 | 427 pages | 7,00 € | 370 g
Volume 2 | 505 pages | 7,00 € | 420 g

CHANDOGYA  UPANISHAD
With the commentary of Adi Shankaracharya
Translated by Swami Gambhirananda

"That which is this subtle essence, all this has got That as the Self. That is Truth. That is the Self. Thou art That."

This is one of the most ancient major Upanishads, the second biggest, next only to the Brhadaranyaka. It consists of eight chapters and a major portion of it devoted to upasanas, or Upanisadic meditation, which covers not only a life of action, but also an actionless life It gives a practical hint as to how one can be in the constant presence of the Reality in the midst of daily duties. The name 'Chandogya' refers to the Chandoga who is a hymn singer of the Sama-Veda, one of the four Vedas composed of chants. Shankaracharya held the Chandogya Upanishad in great esteem, very often citing from it.

690 pages | 10,00 € | 500 g

KABIR
SELECTED COUPLETS FROM THE SAKHI IN TRANVERSION
400-odd verses in Iambic Tetrameter Stanza Form

Kabir's [1440-1518] extempore outpourings of songs and couplets numbering thousands have been hailed widely for their deep spiritual fervour and poetic quality. The bases of selection from the Sakhi are: [1] Kabir's proverbial and worldly wisdom, [2] analogy-finding gift, [3] richness and variety of imagery, [4] recurrent theme of death, [5] gift for satire, and [6] rhetorical powers. This introductory part primarily focusses on Kabir as poet, which is his 'real estimate'. Thus, the introductory part is a piece of scholarly criticism judging and appreciating Kabir's Sakhi on the canons of English literary criticism.

195 pages | 8,00 € | 370 g

KABIR
COUPLETS FROM KABIR | KABIR DOHE
Edited, translated and compiled by G.N. Das

The poems and songs of the fifteenth century saint-poet Kabir, who belonged to both muslim and hindu communities, are widely read around the world and acknowledged for their depth in truth, fervour and poetic quality.
This book presents three hundred couplets in rhymed English verse translation besides a few lines in prose by G.N. Das.

132 pages | 7,00 € | 240 g

KABIR
THE BIJAK OF KABIR
Translated by Linda Hess and Shukdev Singh

Kabir was a 15th century saint and poet belonging to both muslim and hindu religions. His work has been sung and recited by millions throughout India. He preached an abrasive sometimes shocking, always uncompromising message exhorting his audience to shed their delusions, pretensions and empty orthodoxies in favour of an intense, direct personal confrontation with truth. The Bijak is one of his most important anthologies.

195 pages | 8,00 € | 370 g

THE  SONG  OF  RIBHU
Translated from the Original Tamil Version

"Truth transcends all thought, speech, and the printed word. It transcends all ideas and even silence. It is inconceivable, yet it alone is. As it is the very being of all, it is known as the Self. There are none who know it, and there are none who do not know it. There is nothing that is it, yet nothing that is not it. Those who seek to realise it find it abiding within themselves as the one Self, free of a separate realiser, any notion of an object realised, and all dualism. The realisation of the Self, by which is meant the absolute Reality, is a matter of Self-knowledge. For those who recognise the vital importance of Self-realisation, this text was composed in ancient times. It was intended, and remains, as a sign pointing to the Truth of the Self, as an explanation of what the Self, the Absolute, truly is, and as an aid to meditation for those who look to their own being, or consciousness, to awaken from the dream of illusion to the ever-existent Reality."
                        from the Introduction

The Tamil translation of the Ribhu Gita was first published in 1885. The final verse of each chapter of the Tamil version differs dramatically from the final verse of each chapter of the Sanskrit version. While the Sanskrit verses refer to Shiva, the Tamil version specifies Nataraja, a specific form of Shiva in dancing pose. Furthermore, the Tamil version displays an evident focus on summarising in the final verse of the chapter essential points proclaimed in each chapter.

760 pages | 30,00 € | 1310 g

UDDHAVA  GITA
THE LAST MESSAGE OF SHRI KRISHNA
By Swami Madhavananda

Shri Krishna gives in this text His parting instructions to His beloved devotee and follower, Uddhava, shortly before His departure from this world. These teachings, which are in every way as important as those of the Bhagavad Gita, form the main part of the eleventh book of the great Hindu scripture, the Shrimad Bhagavatam. Various instructions are given, but in and through all, the necessity of seeing the Lord in everything, plus living a life of perfect self-surrender, and non-attachment, are continuously emphasised. In the end Shri Krishna says, "I have explained to you, in a concise as well as an analytic way, the essence of the philosophy of Brahman, which is unintelligible even to the gods."
Shri Ramakrishna always kept a copy of the Bhagavatam in his room. He used to say, "It is fried in the butter of knowledge and soaked in the syrup of love." The study of such a book cannot but be of the greatest help to a seeker after Truth.

376 pages | 7,00 € | 275 g

GAYATRI
THE HIGHEST MEDITATION
By Sadguru Sant Keshavadas

In Yoga, the mantra is a mystical formula, an incarnation, which aids the individual to liberate the self and attain bliss and ultimate fulfilment. This book describes the Gayatri, the mantra which helps the higher man to be born in us all. In India, it is said that there is no greater meditation than the Gayatri meditation. Sant Keshavadas profoundly tells the meaning and many facets [water rites, sitting posture, time, atmosphere, breath control, pronunciation of sacred sounds] of this ancient meditation.

148 pages | 7,00 € | 250 g

THE  SUPREME  YOGA
A NEW TRANSLATION OF YOGA VASISHTHA
Translated by Swami Venkatesananda

This volume provides a clear and comprehensive summary of the classic work, Yoga Vasishtha. Venkatesananda's excellent translation provides readers with the means to eliminate psychological conditioning as it clarifies the way to Liberation. This is one of the most important and oft-quoted of the Vedanta scriptures that teach the means to self-realisation through the path of self-knowledge. It has always been considered as perhaps the most elaborate exposition of philosophy and religion ever written under the sun. The work, which is voluminous in its nature, has been abridged by Swami Venkatesananda to make the treatise accessible to people who would not have the time and patience to wade through this large literature.

"One who studies this scripture and comprehends its teaching is no longer deluded by world-appearance. When one sees that the yonder deadly snake is a life-like painting, one is no longer afraid of it. When the world appearance is seen as an appearance it does not produce either elation or sorrow. It is indeed a great pity that even when such a scripture exists, people seek sense-pleasures which lead to great sorrow. One who studies this scripture and contemplates its meaning has no need to undertake austerities, meditation or repetition of a mantra; for what is greater than liberation which is granted by a study of this scripture?"

382 pages | 15,00 € | 615 g

TRIPURA  RAHASYA
THE MYSTERY BEYOND THE TRINITY
Translated into English by Swami Sri Ramananda Saraswathi

"Unless a man live the ordinary life and check every incident as the projection of the Self, not swerving from the Self in any circumstances, he cannot be said to be free from the handicap of ignorance."

Tripura Rahasya was considered by Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi as one of the greatest works that expounded Advaita philosophy. Since he often regretted that it was not available in English, his disciple, Swami Sri Ramananda Saraswathi took up the job of translating it in 1936 as a labour of love.
Tripura literally means the three cities. They are the states - jagrat [waking state] - svapna [dream state] and shushupti [deep sleep state]. The undercurrent of consciousness in all of them, remaining unaffected, is metaphorically called the Resident Mistress by name of Sri Tripura. The procreative faculty generating new beings and the link of altruistic love connecting the offspring to the parent are personified in the Mother; hence the feminine termination of Tripura. "The way to transcendence" signifies that interest in Tripura purifies the mind and creates the zeal for enquiry into the Truth.
As in many of the Great Indian texts, the presentation is that of a dialogue between Master [Dattatreya] and disciple [Parasurama]. The latter conveys his doubts, one after another to his Master who responds patiently with clarity and using as great a variety of explanations as the quantity of doubts thrown at him. Slowly but surely, He destroys his disciple's every doubt and misconceptions thus revealing the Truth beyond all states: the Stateless State.

Janaka reflected :
"As soon as I had decided on and attempted to turn my mind inward, another bright idea struck me : What confusion I am in! Although I am always in the perfection of Bliss, what is it I want to do? What more can I acquire? What do I lack? When and whence can I get anything? Even if there were anything new to be gained, would it endure? How can I who am infinite consciousness-bliss know effort?
Individual bodies, their senses, minds, etc., are similar to visions in a dream ; they are projected from me. Control of one mind leaves all other minds as they are. So what is the use of controlling my mind? Minds controlled or uncontrolled, appear only to my mental eye."

260 pages | 9,00 € | 360 g

THE  ACARYA
SHANKARA OF KALADI | A STORY
By Indusekhara Sastri Madugula

"First, I am. Not the I that was born, but the I that's always been. I am, therefore I think, I act, I speak. And, after I have thought enough and spoken enough and acted enough, I still am, happy without seeking to be, and blissful without trying to be. There is no choice but to be in the perennial present, the pure consciousness, unchanging and unchangeable, ageless, timeless, nameless, formless."

This latest addition to Shankara literature is totally different in concept. It's not a biography; it's not history; and it's not quite fiction. Yet it is in some sense all these. It's based solidly in tradition, and it is at the same time just the kind of presentation that makes the post-modern reader sit up and take notice. It is philosophical, yet never forbiddingly so. It reads more like a story. The prose is simple, smooth, and meditative. Padmapada, Shankara's senior disciple, narrates the story in very human terms. His intent is not to glorify his Master's life and work - for that is hardly necessary - but to present him as a friend of humankind, someone who is needed generation after generation, millennium after millennium. Humans have not changed in terms of their strengths or their weaknesses since the race evolved on the planet, nor are they likely to morph into saints any time soon. The prophets help us cope with the trails and tribulations of our daily lives and remind us of our divine roots if we care to listen. This book answers some of our serious questions about life if you have them read. If you don't, it will help you formulate them. Coming up with the rights questions, after all, is the first step toward finding the right solutions.

184 pages | 10,00 € | 290 g

PRATYABHIJNAHRDAYAM
THE SECRET OF SELF-RECOGNITION
Sanskrit Text with English Translation
By Jaideva Singh

"When the bliss of chit [pure unitary consciousness] is attained, there is stability of the consciousness of identity with chit even while the body, etc. are being experienced. This state is jivanmukti [one who is liberated while alive]."

This little work is a digest of the Pratyabhijna system of Kashmir Shaiva philosophy, prepeard by Ksemaraja, the illustrious disciple of Abhinavagupta. It avoids all polemics and gives in a very succinct form the main tenets of the Pratyabhijna presented by Utpala. Pratyabhijna means 'recognition'. Jiva is Shiva; by identifying himself with his body, jiva has forgotten his real nature. This teaching is meant to enable jiva to recognise his own real Self by suggesting a spiritual discipline needed to attain unity with Shiva.
Dr. Jaideva Singh has considerly revised and enlarged his translation, and provided a scholary introduction, notes, glossary of technical termes and indexes. It serves as the best introduction to Pratyabhijna philosophy.

187 pages | 10,00 € | 280 g