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ANNAMALAI
SWAMI
Final
Talks
Edited by
David Godman
Annamalai Swami 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 - 9,95 Euros - weight: 105 g
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ANNAMALAI
SWAMI
Living By The
Words of Bhagavan
Edited by David
Godman
Ramana Maharshi is one of the greatest and most
widely respected Gurus that India has ever
produced. His powerful presence, his radical
teaching of self-inquiry and his exemplary life are
even today still attracting new followers.
Annamalai Swami was a direct disciple who moved
closely with him over a period of many years. This
is his story. It is an inspiring and moving account
of what it was like to live and work in the close
presence of Sri Ramana. This is a classic
Guru-disciple encounter, an arduous spiritual
journey which highlights the grace of the Guru and
the activities of the community that surrounds him.
It includes recorded conversation he had over the
years as well as diary extracts of dialogues with
Sri Ramana.
Annamalai Swami himself became enlightened by the
grace of his Guru, with scores of devotees of his
own. For over 50 years he never left his small
ashram compound next door to Sri Ramanasramam, the
ashram of his beloved Guru, where he died on
November 9, 1995.
David Godman has lived in India for almost twenty
years, most of that time at the ashram of Sri
Ramana Maharshi. This is his fourth book on the
teaching of Sri Ramana and the lives of his
disciples.
368
pages - 27,50 Euros - weight: 680 g
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SRI
LAKSHMANA SWAMY AND MATHRU SRI
SARADA
No
Mind, I am the Self
The lives and
teachings of Sri Lakshmana Swamy and Mathru Sri
Saraga
By David Godman
Sri Lakshmana Swamy is a direct disciple of Sri
Ramana Maharshi, the great sage and Guru who taught
at Arunachala from 1900-1950. After several years
of intense meditation Sri 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 within four years. She is now
teaching her own devotees at Sri Lakshmana's
ashram.
No Mind - I am the Self is the first
published account of the lives, experiences and
teachings of theses two contemporary Gurus.
227
pages - 17,00 Euros - weight: 390 g
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U.G.
KRISHNAMURTI
Mind
is a Myth
Conversations
with U.G. Krishnamurti
"All
I am saying is that the peace you are seeking is
already inside you. Anything you do to free
yourself from anything for whatever reason is
destroying the sensitivity, clarity, and freedom
that is already there."
There
is one thought. Everything exists in relationship
to that one thought. That thought is 'me'. Anything
you experience based on thought is an
illusion."
The human mind is
a battlefield and it is absurd to use it as an
instrument to bring about peace. This book
questions the very existence of the mind. It is not
for the faint-hearted or for those looking for
spiritual consolation. Here is a tough, ruthless,
electrifying appraisal of our common crisis. You
will find no homilies and no pat answers to
complicated issues, but, rather, an attack upon the
problem-making mechanism itself - us, the
frightened promoters of a fictitious soothing
counter-reality which robs us one and all of the
energy and intelligence needed to face an awful
actuality.
Within these pages, U.G. questions every certainty,
demolishes every assumption, breaks every rule, as
he drags the reader kicking and screaming into the
light. These conversations took place in India,
Switzerland and California in 1983 and 1984.
159
pages - 12,50 Euros - weight: 275
g
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U.G.
KRISHNAMURTI
The
Courage To Stand Alone
Conversations
with the Man Called U.G.
"You
never question the solutions. If you really
question the solutions you will have to question
the ones who have offered you those solutions. But
sentimentality stands in the way of your rejecting
not only the solutions, but those who have offered
you the solutions. Questioning that requires a
tremendous courage on your part. You can have the
courage to climb the mountain, swim the lakes, go
on a raft to the other side of the Atlantic or
Pacific. That any fool can do, but the courage to
be on your own, to stand on your two solid feet, is
something which cannot be given by somebody. You
cannot free yourself of that burden by trying to
develop that courage. If you are freed from the
entire burden of the entire past of mankind, then
what is left there is the courage."
U.G. Krishnamurti was born in South India in 1918.
At an early age, an insatiable hunger overtook him
to find out whether there was anything behind what
the sacred books and spiritual men described. His
search finally ended on his 49th birthday when he
discovered his natural state.
His shattering conversations overturn all accepted
beliefs - God, mind, soul, enlightenment, religion,
humanity, heart, love, relationships - and give a
totally different picture of who we are. He doesn't
offer hope, love, peace or spiritual salvation. On
the contrary, his words are rather deflating. He
discourages people from coming to see him and most
often politely turns them away. This is U.G.'s
first book and contains conversations which took
place with U.G. in Amsterdam during 1982.
126
pages - 11,50 Euros - weight: 260
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U.G.
KRISHNAMURTI
No
Way Out - TEMPORARILY
UNAVAILABLE -
Conversations
with U.G. Krishnamurti
Foreword by Mahesh Bhatt
"There
is nothing to understand. How that understanding
dawned on me, I really don't know. The
understanding that this instrument (the intellect)
is really not the instrument to understand anything
is something that cannot be communicated. This
instrument is only interested in perpetuating
itself through what it calls 'understanding', which
in reality are its own machinations. It is only
sharpening itself to maintain its own continuity.
When once you know that it is the instrument and
that there is no other instrument, then there is
nothing more to understand."
U.G. Krishnamurti was born in South India in 1918.
At an early age, an insatiable hunger overtook him
to find out whether there was anything behind what
the sacred books and spiritual men described. His
search finally ended on his 49th birthday when he
discovered his natural state.
The content of this book is an account of various
question and answer sessions with U.G. held in
different parts of the world by many people
236
pages - 13,00 Euros - weight: 365
g
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U.G.
KRISHNAMURTI
Thought
Is Your Enemy
Mind-Shattering
Conversations with the Man Called U.G.
"We
don't want to be free from fear. All that we want
to do is to play games with it and talk about
freeing ourselves from fear... If you have the
courage to touch life for the first time, you will
never know what hit you. Everything man has
thought, felt and experienced is gone, and nothing
is put in its place... When the movement in the
direction of becoming something other than what you
are isn't there any more, you are not in conflict
with yourself."
U.G. endlessly repeats: "I have no message for
mankind." Yet, ironically, thousands of people the
world-over feel otherwise and flock to U.G.'s
unique brand of discourse. But that isn't easy
because U.G. organises no gatherings, gives no
lectures, offers no courses, pushes no method,
peddles no mantras, has no organisation, no office,
no secretary, no telephone number, no fax and no
fixed address. Like his growing legend, U.G. is
everywhere and nowhere. He stays with friends or in
small rented apartments and tries to stay one step
ahead of the crowds who try to discover his
whereabouts as soon as the word spreads that
"U.G.'s in town" - be it in San Francisco, New
York, London, Bombay, Bangalore, Sydney, Auckland,
or Beijing. U.G. has no worldly belongings other
than what he can fit into a small 10 lb. suitcase.
He dresses simply and looks quite ordinary. He
never stays in one place for more than two
months.
Thought Is Your Enemy explores a very wide
spectrum of issues related to thought. Try reaching
the depths of these conversations and you shall
certainly find some pearls of wisdom.
123
pages - 11,50 Euros - weight:
225g
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NEEM
KAROLI BABA
Miracle
of Love
Stories about the
Indian sage, Neem Karoli Baba - Compiled by Ram
Dass
"In
1967 I met Neem Karoli Baba, a meeting which
changed the course of my life, for through him I
came to perceive my life in spiritual terms. In the
depth of his compassion, wisdom, humour, power and
love I found human possibility never before
imagined... an extraordinary integration of spirit
and form. I was with him only briefly for he left
his body in 1973. Still he entered my heart as
living truth, and his presence continues to enrich
and guide my life."
"Remember to listen to the silence into which the
stories are set, for the true meeting with Maharaji
lies between the lines and behind the words. For
this effort, you will be amply rewarded through
meeting a being of a spiritual stature rarely known
on this earth."
-
Ram Dass
"There
can be no biography of him. Facts are few, stories
many. He seems to have been known by different
names in many parts of India, appearing and
disappearing through the years. His western
devotees of recent years knew him as Neem Karoli
Baba, but mostly as 'Maharaji' - a nickname so
commonplace in India that one can often hear a tea
vendor addressed thus. Just as he said, he was
'nobody'.
He gave no discourses; the briefest, simplest
stories were his teachings. Usually he sat or lay
on a wooden bench wrapped in a plaid blanket while
a few devotees sat around him. Visitors came and
went; they were given food, a few words, a nod, a
slap on the head or back, and they were sent away.
There was gossip and laughter for he loved to joke.
Orders for running the ashram were given, usually
in a piercing yell across the compound. Sometimes
he sat in silence, absorbed in another world to
which we could not follow, but bliss and peace
poured down on us. Who he was was no more than the
experience of him, the nectar of his presence, the
totality of his absence - enveloping us now like
his plaid blanket."
-
Anjani, a devotee
406
pages - 19,70 Euros - weight: 690 g
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SRI
ATMANANDA
Tattwa
Samhita - TEMPORARILY
UNAVAILABLE -
The Direct
Approach to Truth as Expounded by Sri Atmananda
(Krishna Menon)
This is a transcribed copy of the tape-recorded
talks of the Sage Sri Atmananda. They are mainly in
the form of answers given to the questions asked by
His disciples. But the questions serve only to
bring Him out. When you are listening to a
Karana Guru, as said in one of the talks,
"Some
part of the Reality within you will come up to
grasp it. You will understand it, you will be taken
beyond in order that you may grasp it. You are
knowing Atma by Atma. Not by means of the
mind." This
edition of Atmananda Tattwa Samhita includes
a life sketch of Sri Atmananda by His son, Sri
Adwayananda.
"Your
body has undergone many, many changes. The body
that you did have in the babyhood is not the body
that you now possess. Likewise, sense-perceptions
have changed. Mind has changed. Everything has
changed. And what is it that has not changed, from
babyhood up till now? There is only one thing and
that is the real "I"-principle, the absolute
Reality, your real Nature."
225
pages - 16,00 Euros - weight: 640 g
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SRI
ATMANANDA
Atma
Darshan - TEMPORARILY
UNAVAILABLE -
At the
Ultimate
Sri Atmananda (Krishna Menon) was a great Sage and
Guru. He was a Householder and showed by His life
and teachings that life itself can be used as a
meditation towards the realisation of Truth.
This vedantic work in verse form contains several
particular modes of approach, each being a way of
revealing Reality. In the preface of the book, Sri
Atmananda writes, "Often
we hear people discussing spiritual truth from the
objective standpoint, and resting content with
theoretical or mental knowledge... The present book
is meant for those earnest aspirants who, not being
satisfied with theoretical knowledge, want to
pursue the path of realisation."
"I
am the Light of Consciousness in all thoughts and
perceptions and the Light of Love in all feelings.
I have no birth and death, nor grief and delusion.
I transcend bondage and liberation."
"The world which rises in and grows by thought is
also thought itself. Thought is nothing but
Consciousness and Consciousness is My Being.
Therefore the whole world is Consciousness which is
Myself. I am perfect and indivisible."
31
pages - 10,00 Euros - weight: 175 g
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SRI
ATMANANDA
Atma
Nirvriti - TEMPORARILY
UNAVAILABLE -
Freedom and
Felicity in the Self
In Atma Nirvriti some of the subjects dealt
with in Atma Darshan, an earlier work, are
made clearer and some others are treated from
different angles of vision. In the preface of the
book, Sri Atmananda (Krishna Menon) writes,
"In
many places this book goes beyond Atma
Darshan and expounds Truth from a higher level.
A study of this book will be of considerable help
for thoses who have gained knowledge of Truth from
Atma Darshan, to make that knowledge steady
and thereby obtain lasting
peace."
"It
is mind that has thoughts and feelings, not I.
Birth, growth, decay and death pertain to the body
and not to Me."
"I am not the body - I have no body. I am no mind -
I have no mind. I am no doer, I am no enjoyer, I am
pure consciousness which knows no dissolution."
38
pages - 10,00 Euros - weight: 175 g
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