Sublime

At the deepest level, the one without whom none of this would have happened is Gurumayī. The spiritual awakening I had through her grace catalyzed a process of unfolding that allowed me to encounter the words of the Tantrik master Abhinava Gupta as palpably living energy, not mere fossils. Without Gurumayī’s unfailing love and grace, I would likely

the guru, the spiritual teacher, is in every one of us. All that another person can do is to make us aware of the teacher within ourselves.

Among many others, I draw on the ideas of two spiritual teachers I should mention. One is my friend Douglas Harding, whose unique and inimitable approach sheds light on the Self as Consciousness, which is pure Kashmir Shaivism. The other is the enigmatic 20th-century teacher G. I. Gurdjieff. I met his teachings in my earliest days as a spiritual se

freedom. The twentieth-century Indian meditation master Sri Nisargadatta

Make a solemn resolution to meditate every morning and before going to bed at night: “First, last, and always, O Spirit, I will keep my engagement with Thee in meditation. You have blessed me to come in contact with this great truth of Self-Realization and its Masters, that through this gateway I may find Thee. Bless me to be steadfast until I find

Devipuram—“The Goddess’s Abode”—the temple complex that Guruji had spent more than three decades building up from almost nothing in the rural wilds of eastern India.