Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj is widely known as one of the authentic sages of the twentieth century. His eloquent teachings are among the most acclaimed in the world of nonduality. He was the most famous teacher of Advaita since Ramana Maharshi. His profound yet simple words brought many into awareness of their original nature. His terse [...]
Eckhart Tolle is a renowned modern teacher of enlightenment. His emphasis is on awakening, living in now, and accepting what is. He is widely recognized as one of the most inspiring spiritual teacher of our time. The profound yet simple and practical teaching have helped thousand of people find inner peace, healing and greater fulfillment [...]
Papaji was among the most effective Advaita teachers of the twentieth century and is often credited with the spread of Advaita in the west. Although Poonjaji denied being part of any formal tradition, he is considered by many to be a yogi-saint of the Advaita Vedanta and Bhakti Traditions. Papaji has directly shown to thousands [...]
mma is a popular and revered modern-day saint. Her emphasis is on developing love, devotion, kindness, acceptance, compassion, and service. Amma is trying to awaken the world through her life, teachings and darshan. She never had a guru nor studied the Vedas, yet she speaks on the truths expressed within the scriptures with wisdom, clarity [...]
sho was one of the more controversial and colorful and yet profound spiritual teachers of recent times. He constantly broke traditional taboos. His oratory was fascinating, and his worldwide following impressively large. Osho was an Indian mystic, guru and philosopher. He advocated a more open attitude towards sexuality, a stance that earned him the sobriquet [...]
On the morning of February 5, 1997, my life was changed, at a deep and fundamental level, by a completely unexpected and inexplicable experience. The epiphany arrived suddenly, and without warning. In fact, I was asleep when th...
What happened in 1983 could be classified technically as a Near-Death Experience (NDE), though it lacked any of the dramatic visionary features that tend to dominate both journalistic and scholarly NDE accounts. As I lay in a h...
Amidst the struggle of searching for blissful states, my friend True friend Dolano repeated the same message… “You are simply addicted to states…are you willing to risk EVERYTHING that this is all there is?” Wha...
One night not long after my twenty-ninth birthday, I woke up in the early hours with a feeling of absolute dread. I had woken up with such a feeling many times before, but this time it was more intense than it had ever been. Th...
During the ’70s and ’80s, I had many powerful Kundalini experiences, kenshos, satoris, what have you, and some of them were without a doubt “enlightenment experiences.” But it was a “separate me” having these experi...
This was not an experience. It was not something that happened to a person in time but nevertheless we have to use language to talk about it so let me try to describe it even though it’s indescribable. What was seen in that d...