Advaita Vedanta – The path of all yogas to self-knowledge (English Edition)
This book is not another spiritual guide, method, or consolation for seekers. It is an invitation to put aside everything that is not essential and turn directly to what is always here: your true self. Advaita Vedanta is not a concept or a philosophy, but reality itself. Sri Ramana Maharshi called the direct access to it Atma Vichara self-inquiry. It is not about finding answers, but about seeing through the questioner himself. When it becomes clear that the “I” that seeks is only a thought, that which is beyond all thoughts reveals itself.
Maha Yoga, the “yoga of all yogas,” is the essence of all paths. It unites Bhakti, Jnana, Karma, and Raja within itself, not as a collection of practices, but as the dissolution of all separateness. This book leads you there, not by detours, but by a direct path.
Chapter by chapter, it shows you:
- The essence of Maha Yoga – why Advaita is not a method, but the truth
- What is Advaita Vedanta? – a clear definition beyond misunderstandings
- Who am I? – the question that dissolves the seeker
- The nature of the Self – unchanging, conscious, limitless
- Obstacles on the path – identification, spiritual ego, attachment to experiences
- Practice in everyday life – silence, self-exploration, and dealing with emotions
- The role of the guru – external teacher and inner guru as one
- Mouna – silence as the highest teaching
- Advaita in the Upanishads – living wisdom, not theory
- Death from the Advaita perspective – what really dies and what does not
- Misunderstandings – how “everything is one” can become a cliché
- Advaita and science – where they meet, where they diverge
This work is aimed at yoga teachers, practitioners, and serious seekers who no longer want to just accumulate concepts. It is not a book that comforts you, but one that challenges you until there is nothing left to search for answers. Those who only read the words accumulate new knowledge. Those who fall into the silence behind them realize that they were never separate.
There is no path.
There is only what you are now.
