Ramana Maharshi — The Yoga of Self-Enquiry
Ramana Maharshi’s direct path: the question ‘Who am I?’ not as philosophy but as a redirection of attention. His teachings on happiness, mind, s…
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Yoga Vāsiṣṭha — Advaita Vedānta and Liberation
An introduction to the Yoga Vāsiṣṭha — the vast Sanskrit dialogue between sage Vāsiṣṭha and Rāma on the nature of mind, the illusory worl…
A Series of Lessons in Gnani Yoga — Yogi Ramacharaka (1907)
An American autodidact in 1907, a forest dialogue three thousand years older, and the discipline both were trying to name: neti neti, the yoga of know…
Brahma Vidyā — The Knowledge of the Vast, and the Lineage Born of a Mind
A young man named Bhṛgu walks up to his father Varuṇa and asks the only question that matters. From that hunger rises brahma-vidyā — the knowle…
Brahma Vidyā: The Agni Purāṇa
The Agni Purāṇa — one of the most encyclopaedic of the eighteen Mahāpurāṇas — as a study resource in Brahma Vidyā, the direct knowledge of…
Yoga Vāsiṣṭha: Rāma’s Monologue of Despondency
The opening of the Yoga Vāsiṣṭha — Rāma's great dispassion — and why his ancient crisis of meaning is the tradition's model for genuine enqu…
Yoga Branches in a Nutshell
Bhakti, Karma, Rāja, Jñāna — four hands of yoga that work as one body. A foundational map for anyone beginning the path or returning to its roots…