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An Exploration of Rumi’s Poetry

A Love Secret Spoken combines Gangaji’s readings of selected Rumi poetry with spontaneous interview segments conducted by interviewer Chris Mohr.

The combination of Rumi’s passionate verse followed by Gangaji's clear, sutra-like commentary is a marriage of two wisdom mirrors, eight centuries apart, each having the extraordinary capacity to reflect and express the inexpressible truth. Here is an open invitation to discover yourself as love itself, alive and present in the heart of all being.

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"The powers of the mind to grasp, reject, project, and deny are the powers used to wage war. You cannot wage peace. The ground of peace that is always here is only revealed when the war ceases to be waged within your own mind. Peace is closer to you than your own breath."

Many of us are deeply concerned about the current state of separation and war on our planet, and there is a growing collective desire to reconcile this age-old dilemma within our minds and hearts. What is the answer to personal and planetary suffering? Where can true peace finally be found? This compilation of monologues and conversations with Gangaji offers the opportunity to examine every imagined boundary between who you are and peace itself, to take responsibility for the warring factions within your own mind, and to consciously embrace the indestructible peace and compassion that is the truth of the heart.

"The desire for true freedom, the desire for real fulfillment, paradoxically can finally only be realized if you don’t do anything for its realization."

Ironically, a spiritual practice can become the obstacle to self-realization. In this compilation Gangaji addresses the topics of meditation and practice, when they are useful and when they are a hindrance. Her invitation is to stop every effort toward what you think will give you truth and peace so that truth and peace can naturally reveal themselves in your heart.

“Who you are really has never been touched by any concept, and this in fact is what enlightenment points to—this very instant of realization.”

Spiritual seekers from all parts of the world, through the millennia, have pursued enlightenment as a means to transcend human suffering. What is enlightenment really? What do we really want when we are chasing elusive and transient states of mind? In this compilation of monologues and dialogues, Gangaji speaks to the nature of ignorance and enlightenment, the pitfalls of spiritual materialism, and the possibility of recognizing that in our willingness to simply be open, we directly realize our true identity, closer and beyond ignorance and enlightenment.

"The spiritual path is a path of death, a path of loss. In the willingness to lose everything, the recognition of who one is, is revealed."

What is life? What is death? Who are you? In this new compilation Gangaji leads us on a profound investigation into that aspect of life most avoided in Western culture, the inevitable death of the body. In a number of deeply moving monologues and interactions, Gangaji speaks with people currently facing this core issue either through personal illness or the loss of a loved one. The invitation is to stop all strategies of mind to escape this one inescapable event and to fully meet your own primal fear of death, here and now.

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"The desire for truth, for God, for freedom will never be satisfied even by the most exquisite experiences or states of mind. This is the realization that most people avoid because it is so radical, because it means that the desire for freedom is not just a toy of the mind."

Unlike other desires, the desire for true freedom is an invitation to turn the mind back into the very core of the desire itself, rather than projecting into the future. In these conversations Gangaji makes it clear that once that choice is made it is possible to realize something more limitless than personal freedom: the direct experience of what is and always has been and always will be free.

"Home is where you are."

Gangaji's classic book, Freedom and Resolve, has been republished by Hampton Roads Publishing.

In this book Gangaji invites you to examine your life and to wake up from the trance of who you think you are and experience the truth of who you really are. The resolve is not to go back into the trance by turning away from that essential experience of waking up, but to freshly inquire anew, as thoughts or feelings of separation arise.

Created in honor of the 30th anniversary of the Gangaji Foundation, this 20-page booklet brings together some of Gangaji's most powerful teaching on life—life form, and all of life itself—ordinary awakening, and the resolve to vigilance.

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In the Deepest Waters: "When there is an intention to really know what is true, then there is an acceptance of the deepest waters."

In this classic compilation, available for the first time as an audio download set, Gangaji explores the deepest issues of surrendering one's life to true and lasting peace. She asks us to investigate where our attention is, and what it is we are running from, clearly unfolding how attention, avoidance, suffering, and desire are intimately entwined.

Track 1 – Let Your Attention Serve Love, 1/27/2000
Track 2 – Healing the Primal Wound, 1/28/2000
Track 3 – The Practice of Desire, 1/29/2000

"If you are willing to experience the pain of your own self-betrayal, that pain is a divine fire that reveals the power of the choice to suffer. The willingness to be pierced by this arrow is the willingness to be free. It is simply a matter of telling the truth."

In these monologues and interactions, Gangaji addresses the perception of lost innocence and the desire to return to and reclaim one’s original purity of being. Central to this investigation is the recognition of one’s own self-betrayal. When all addictive mental activity surrounding self-doubt is cut, it ceases to take precedence over the desire to realize oneself. Telling the truth and having the willingness to trust inherent peace leads one into the heart of what cannot be betrayed, what is free. That is who you are.

Gangaji often says she is just like you and me, that she would be happy to tell us if she weren't, but she is. In this book she speaks openly about her life, offering it as proof that it is possible for all of us, regardless of past history and current circumstances, to stop telling our endless stories of suffering and awaken.

Written with Roslyn Moore, Gangaji traces her life from the time she was an unhappy child in Mississippi up to the present. This is a straightforward, easy-to-read autobiography, illuminated by dozens of photographs. There is also an editor's preface describing the creation of the book, an excerpt from a satsang, a section of questions and answers, and an appendix with letters exchanged between Gangaji and her beloved Papaji.

"Love has nothing to do with another person. Love is your individual and collective soul. Love is God. Love is truth. Love is beauty. Love is Self. To know yourself, to surrender to the truth of yourself, is to surrender to love."

In this collection of conversations with Gangaji, the topics of love and gratitude are explored and celebrated as fundamental choices inherent to every moment of one’s life. Gangaji speaks of the tendency of mind to focus on what is "wrong" in our lives, rather than embracing all that there is to be grateful for. This tendency, coupled with strategies of protection and defense against being broken hearted, is the source of our greatest suffering. When there is the desire to serve the truth of love, the truth of freedom, the truth of one’s own heart, then the privilege of one’s life can be recognized. Love can teach you who you are.

“If we are willing, in this very moment, to take responsibility for our own depth of awakening, for our own authentic peace, then at least one spot on Mother Earth is at peace, is free. And when it is possible for you, you recognize the possibility for all.”

In the pages of this booklet Gangaji exhorts us all to welcome all of life into our hearts and to recognize the inherent, accepting love and peace that we each can be responsible for
now, on this planet, our Mother Earth. In taking responsibility for our own suffering, and ending the war within ourselves, we are free to simply open and allow our lives to be used
by this force of freedom that is alive in our hearts.

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"Grace is not limited by prison walls. There is support all over the world. All of us, guilty or innocent, in prison or out, are linked by these invisible cords of love. It has been discovered even in solitary confinement.” ~ Gangaji

Prisoners in county jails, state prisons, federal facilities, and even those on death row participated in the creation of this recording. In this conversation with Chris Mohr, Gangaji offers the opportunity to fall into the silence of the heart and to see what is at the core of all being.

When you purchase this CD, all proceeds will go to the Prison Program and help put Questions from the Inside into the hands of prisoners across the US.

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"To consciously rest is to be at home. To be at home is to be naked to yourself. Self-inquiry is always an invitation home, an invitation to yourself."

The invitation to Self-Inquiry is the very core of Gangaji’s teachings, the living truth that was shared by her teacher and her teacher’s teacher. In this powerful selection of monologues and interactions, we are reminded of the capacity we have as human beings to self-reflect, to put aside assumptions and elaborations, and taste reality directly. Self-inquiry, Gangaji tells us, is about interrupting our natural instinct to follow the outward flow of thinking and shift that attention back toward the source. This requires the ruthless surrender to face what we have been avoiding, but the result is radical good news. The realizable good news of the Truth of who you are.

“There is no self to be liberated. There is only the Self, which is beyond liberation and can never be bound. But your ideas of yourself can be liberated, and they are naturally set free when they are met in stillness, in silence, in the heart.”

The mind thinks in terms of exclusion: This is good and that is bad; I want this and I don’t want that; in order to be spiritual, I should feel that and not this. The mind is even capable of believing in the concept of no-mind, and launching a battle to exclude thought. In this compilation of meetings and conversations, Gangaji invites us to set aside all spiritual beliefs and discover what is already here, already known, deeper and closer than any memory or imagination.

Standing in the Truth of Who You Are includes three of Gangaji’s most powerful monologues ever recorded, and speaks to the potential for all of us “as ordinary human beings, living ordinary lives, to stand up extraordinarily.” With this compilation of dialogues, monologues and a repeating question exercise, you are invited to examine at the deepest level, who you are. As Gangaji says, “This is the full circle. This is coming home.”

“We have to be willing to tell the hard truth about the power we have to corrupt the most pure, most sublime recognition of truth. You can’t finally tell the truth through the mind, because the mental process is busy with damage control. But there are a few questions you can ask to support truth telling, and you can deeply examine and ruthlessly, often painfully, answer them. The questions are, “What is my life standing for?” “What has it stood for?” “What is the deepest call for my life to stand for?” All you have to do is be really willing to look very carefully and see."

"The most sublime truth of all has never been stated, or written, or sung. Not because it is far away and cannot be reached, but because it is so intimately close. It is too close to be described, objectified, or known, yet it is yours already. It is alive and present as the stillness that is the core of your being."

One’s own awareness is so ordinary and all pervasive it goes continually overlooked, yet ironically it offers the very freedom that is longed for. When attention is turned toward the essential experience of simply being, it is possible to discover that one is not a body identified with thoughts and feelings, but rather the limitless awareness aware of it all. Here Gangaji offers the opportunity to be aware of awareness itself rather than the often conflicting factions of mind and emotion; to give the whole of oneself to this that is already effortlessly present, alive as the inherently free awareness that you are.

“As a metaphor, “falling into yourself” is not pointing to an experience of moving toward some idea of yourself. Instead, it is a surrendering to what you don’t know about yourself.”

How do you “fall into yourself” when in truth you are never separate from yourself? When you can truly give up any idea of what defines you as a particular entity, this is essentially the end of egoic suffering. You are free.

Three-part audio download includes A Day of Inquiry from Seattle, WA, March 2017, parts 1 and 2.
Plus Self-Inquiry: Falling Into Yourself.

Self-Inquiry requires the ruthless surrender to face what we have been avoiding, but the result is radical good news.

“The secret gem of truth has been hidden in the core of your own heart all along. My invitation is to stop all movement of your mind away from truth so that you can discover directly, for yourself, this jewel that is alive within you.”

We are living in an unusual time, a time when ordinary people with limitations and conditioned habits have the opportunity to awaken to self-realization — and not only to awaken, but to stay true to what is real in the face of thoughts, emotions, desires, and other “obstacles” that may arise in consciousness. This book from Gangaji points us directly to the diamond of truth that we really are. It offers us clear support in allowing any seeming obstacle to become a conduit for deeper awakening as the diamond is “polished naturally by life itself.”

Reflections on the Life and Teachings of Jesus

More than two thousand years after his death, the power of the life of Jesus still reverberates in our minds and hearts, exemplifying the heights and depths to which a human life can be offered to truth.

Here Gangaji and interviewer Chris Mohr read from and discuss familiar passages in the bible, offering a coherent context for the wisdom of Christ’s teachings to permeate our present day awareness. Gangaji breathes a surprisingly fresh, living clarity into the topics of original sin, the virgin birth, crucifixion, redemption, and resurrection. She gives us the opportunity to realize that the life of Jesus is not separate from our own lives, that his surrender is the possibility of our own surrender, and that true forgiveness and love arise naturally, effortlessly, from the silence of a heart broken all the way open.

"Until the seemingly essential worthlessness is met and experienced all the way, you cannot know the absolute truth of who you are. You may have glimpses of it in moments of grace, or nature, or meditation, but it can't be alive - a living presence - in you until you are willing to tell the truth all the way down."

For anyone on the spiritual path, often the final hurdle to true, lasting fulfillment is overcoming deep self-hatred. The hurdle is in facing what we think is the truth of who we are-worthless, no good, unlovable, and possibly unredeemable. In this powerful compilation of monologues and interactions, Gangaji first addresses how we perpetuate worthlessness in our daily lives. Then, penetrating the raw emotional layers of self-hatred, she demonstrates how we can naturally and effortlessly meet the absolute worst in us. Only in that meeting can we see our true face - love itself.

"You have the capacity to live a lucid, clear, and authentic life. If for one instant your attention is withdrawn from the physical, mental, or emotional story of your life, you will know yourself as clarity, as spaciousness."

Have you looked everywhere for fulfillment? In relationships, spirituality, health, self-image? Have you found what matters most? At the very heart of Gangaji’s message is the simple yet radical invitation to stop looking outside yourself for resolution, and simply be willing, just in this moment, to see what is already here. This compilation of crystalline monologues is the encouragement, the support, and the inspiration to finally accept the invitation of your soul’s deepest longing. Beyond any belief about yourself, closer than any joy or sorrow, more immediate than either sickness or health, is the endlessly fulfilling truth of who you are. Welcome in.

"It is possible, in an instant, to recognize the impulse to escape, and in the face of that, to stop. In the midst of that impulse, there is a choice, and that choice is to say 'no' to the escape and 'yes' to the facing. Choice is the most supreme power of mind."

Following the impulses and strategies of the mind to escape or deny uncomfortable emotions may seem to be choiceless. But there is, in fact, a moment of choice to not follow our habituated conditioning. This collection of conversations with Gangaji clearly illustrates how that moment of choice can be easily recognized in the willingness to consciously investigate our own tactics of avoidance. When any thought or emotion, however uncomfortable, is met in the light of conscious awareness, it immediately loses its authority over our happiness and well being. Rather than something to be run from it becomes a doorway to an ever-deepening discovery of one’s true self.

Reflections on the Katha Upanishad

“When we are living any moment of our life desiring a long life, we are missing the eternity of this moment.”

Naturally as mortal creatures, we fear our death. Throughout history, humans have sought immortality, but what if we chose instead to meet our death consciously? In the next installment of the Sacred Text series, we dive into one of the most beloved and powerful texts of the Vedas—The Katha Upanishad. This ancient tale offers us all a potent opportunity to explore and inquire into the nature and reality of death. As we listen along to the telling of the story, Gangaji and Chris Mohr pause to reflect on the revelations arising from these ancient passages that directly relate to our lives today. What essential truths might we discover when we choose to meet this sacred fire?

"What I have to offer is very simple. It has nothing to do with acquiring any special powers or any state of mind. It is about recognizing what is already permanently here, in every moment, every situation, and every state of mind, and yet is ungraspable by the mind."

What is present in the midst of any thought and when every thought in the mind is stilled? In this collection of monologues and interactions, Gangaji addresses a dilemma that the mind cannot resolve: "the truth of one's being is not graspable by any power of the mind." Gangaji brings lightness and humor to exposing the mind’s incessant tendencies to acquire, define, and imitate what is already inherently one’s true nature. Here is the possibility of seeing that everything that can be grasped by the mind is impermanent, has a birth and a death, but that which is eternal, the truth of who one is, is always permanently here.

Foreword by Carl Jung

Sri Ramana Maharshi is regarded as one of the most important Indian sages of all time. At the age of sixteen, he experienced a spiritual awakening and travelled to the holy mountain of Arunachala, where a community grew up around him. From there, he touched the lives of influential writers, artists, and seekers such as Carl Jung, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Somerset Maugham. Today, millions around the world continue to be inspired by his teachings.

Edited by his pupil Arthur Osborne, this classic work sets out Sri Ramana Maharshi's thoughts on such subjects as how to live in the here and now, wealth, freedom, knowledge, and the essence of our true nature. It has been long-established as a classic text for those studying non-duality, specifically Advaita.

Self-inquiry is the key to liberation, Sri Ramana contends, as he invites us to detach ourselves from our illusions and set out on the path that leads toward enlightenment.

"The truth is more simple than can be practiced. Suffering is very complex, and for it to continue, it must be practiced."

This compilation of monologues and interactions explores the core issues of suffering and addiction. Gangaji clarifies how ignoring the truth of oneself is the root of perpetuating unnecessary suffering. She demonstrates that the discovery of inherent peace lies in the conscious investigation of the impulse to avoid pain and grasp for pleasure. The choice to continue to suffer or not is always present. In the willingness to unravel the stories of victimization, to illuminate the habits of denial, and to expose the practice of desire, the bondage to suffering and addiction can be broken. This mature investigation finally leads one to ask the essential question, "Who is suffering?"

"Most people come to spiritual teachings to add to their accumulation of power, but what is offered here is the possibility to recognize what is untouched by any power. That which is free of all power and free of all powerlessness is the truth of who you are."

There are many powers within the human capacity, but the power that particularly captivates and entangles us is the power of our mind. In this selection of monologues and interactions, Gangaji helps to expose the common strategies of the mind’s power employed for comfort and survival: possession, denial, memory, and projection. While these powers may be at times appropriate for our relative existence, she clearly illustrates how they cannot deliver the indestructible peace and fulfillment that is untouched by any power.

“Seekers of truth from around the world woke up in Papaji’s presence. Just sitting with him the mind would stop and natural insight would bloom. He named my wife Gangaji and she spread his satsang to the West.” ~Eli Jaxon Bear

After a search for truth took him around the world —experiencing many spiritual practices and traditions—Eli-Jaxon Bear’s quest culminated in 1990, when he met his final teacher in India: Sri H.W.L. Poonja, now known to the world as Papaji. Inspired by him, Eli and Gangaji set out on a mission to spread Papaji’s teachings around the globe. Papaji’s transmission of a silent mind and open heart leading to direct self-realization has spread like wildfire throughout the world.
First published in 1992 this series of theme-based teachings of Papaji’s has forewords by Eli Jaxon-Bear, Gangaji, and Prince Ea

“Trauma can be acknowledged without being indulged or denied, or fought, and then what was traumatic for us becomes the tear in the universe which can serve as a rebirth.”

Trauma often draws us to a spiritual life, in a search to end our pain and suffering. While we may hope to heal past traumas, Gangaji points to the deeper opportunity our traumatic experiences offer—the realization of what is already whole and has no need for healing. No human being will ever lead a pain free life, but as Gangaji shares, in our willingness to open and inquire into pain without rejecting it, “There is something that calls us home, a freshness, the promise of life—not in denial of trauma, and not in obedience to trauma—reborn into truth.”

The classic teachings of Gangaji are now available in an elegant updated collector's edition for beginning and returning students.

Formerly published as two separate paperback volumes, this new hardcover edition features new material, photos, and a foreword by Catherine Ingram, author of Passionate Presence.