Watch 15 Indian gurus explain their own experience of enlightenment. To the left is the trailer explaining the project. Follow this link to hear the actual interviews with the gurus, many of them elderly, some dead by the time the video was completed. They represent the lineages of Ramana Maharshi, Nisargadatta Maharaj, Osho & others. These interviews provide an invaluable opportunity to hear them in their own words.
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Ram Dass is the author of the classic book on enlightenment and meditation, Be Here Now. The book traces his path from a promising young Harvard professor, where he and Timothy Leary experimented extensively with LSD, to a Seeker in India where he later completed his transition from Professor Richard Alpert into the realized being, Ram Dass. Watch video of him teaching and speaking on a variety of meditation topics at this link, which also contains a variety of other yoga and meditation resources.
Ramana Maharshi is widely recognized as one of the greatest gurus of modern times. He taught by example at his ashram near the holy city of Tiruvannamalai in Tamil Nadu, but left little writing as a legacy. Nan Yar is one of the few written records of his experience. It is one of the most clear & concise expositions on enlightenment since the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali in the 1st century AD. Read a good translation of it at this link›. Or listen to it here›
Watch this legendary Advaita (non-dualist) Guru speak in this vintage video. He was visited in Mumbai by thousands of westerners seeking answers. Many of his talks have since been translated and published, including the 70s classic, I Am That.
One of his disciples, Ramesh Balsekar, still teaches in the tradition of The Maharaj in Mumbai. He has also published a number of works about the master since his death in 1981.