Miscellaneous books and articles

By A Ramana Devotee

By Shiva Rudra Bala Yogi

By Edward Muzika

Deep inside each of us lies a doorway between existence and nonexistence, between experience and nothingness. In that darkness you find all your abilities to experience the world. This article contains the culmination of the author’s teachings.

Translated by John Henry Richards.

Includes a very short introduction by the translator.

Our main page on this famous classic: background, translations, commentaries, links.

From Arunachala Puranam by Saiva Ellappa Navalar, translated by Robert Butler.

Lord Shiva manifests as a pillar of fire to curb the egos of Brahma and Vishnu, who were fighting with each other in a dispute over which of the two was the greater, in this famous story from the Arunachala Puranam, the 17th century Tamil classic.

Byron Katie is the inventor of The Work, a method of self-enquiry based on four simple questions. She experienced an unexpected awakening in 1986 following years of severe depression.

By Charlie Hopkins

Dada Gavand describes with remarkable precision exactly what he did that led to his waking up. This is one of the clearest and most informative explanations of spiritual practice that has ever been written.

Bio, articles, links, and more.

By Franklin Merrell-Wolff

I saw that genuine Recognition is simply a realization of Nothing, but a Nothing that is absolutely substantial and identical with the SELF. This was the final turn of the Key which opened the Door.

By Franklin Merrell-Wolff

Recognition and Liberation are attained by turning the attention toward the subjective pole and away from the objective content of consciousness. The effort must be to attain a consciousness without objective content. Such a consciousness may be likened to a light in a space that contains no objects.

By Franklin Merrell-Wolff

Franklin Merrell-Wolff describes how he performed the crucial step that led to his enlightenment.

By Franklin Merrell-Wolff

A mystic experiment by the least mystical of realizers.

By Freddie Yam

After a waterfall of light erupted in Freddie’s head, he cried tears of joy for three days. He describes what he did to make it happen and concludes that yoga is a technology for turning people into saints.

By iamquiet

The experience of one’s true state of total emptiness is indescribable. No pleasure or fleeting happiness or excitement I have experienced before even comes close. Nothing I can say will compare, experience it for yourself.

By Prachi

By Freeman Dyson

Freeman Dyson, the famous physicist and mathematician, realized at age fifteen that there is only one of us. We are all the same person.

Our reference page on John Henry Richards: Bio, articles, links, and more.

Translated by John Henry Richards.

By Judi Rhodes

From the head wrangler at The End of the Rope Ranch.

By Bruce Morgen

The practice we call meditation doesn’t cause the meditative state; at most it prepares the ground for an event beyond our control.

By Petri Einiö

Consciousness is the sunlight of our soul; Awareness, the moonlight; Kundalini, the cool balancing energy.

The left side of this table shows symbols in VaigaiAA, a Tamil typeface published in 1988. The right side shows corresponding Unicode symbols.

In 1978 the government of Tamil Nadu ordered the replacement of symbols on the left side of the table (shown in the VaigaiAA typeface) by symbols on the right (shown in Noto Sans, a modern unicode typeface).

By Michael Comans, PhD

Do Advaitins believe that samadhi is necessary for liberation?

In this excerpt from his book All-Amareakin, Tom Anderson recalls a nine day road trip that began with Self-remembering and ended with samadhi.

By V. Ganesan

A loving biography and reminiscence by Ramana Maharshi’s grandnephew.

By V. Ganesan

An appreciative appraisal by Ramana Maharshi’s grandnephew.