Teachers of non-dual paths

For readers who want the classical texts of Advaita and are willing to work through scripture commentary and Sanskrit terms.

For readers who want the classical modern presentation of Vedanta in English, in lectures and essays from the 1890s.

For readers and study groups who want Vedanta and the Bhagavad Gita explained in English, with local centres to study in.

For students who want a systematic, traditional study of Vedanta in English, from introductory public talks to verse-by-verse commentary with the Sanskrit text.

For people looking for a simple, daily silent meditation in a devotional setting centred on the guru.

For readers who want a short classical text on self-enquiry and do not mind Sanskrit terms.

For readers who like a reasoned, step-by-step approach and are ready for a long book of short notes.

For readers of Nisargadatta Maharaj who want to read his teacher, and for those interested in the Inchegeri line.

For readers who like dense question-and-answer dialogue and a direct, unadorned approach to self-inquiry.

For Western readers who want Eastern teachings, including Ramana Maharshi's, presented in plain English by an author who travelled to meet teachers himself.

For readers of Ramana Maharshi who want a close disciple's account of life with him and direct advice on practising self-enquiry.

For readers who know Ramana Maharshi's self-enquiry and want to see how one of his disciples taught it in short, direct dialogues, and for anyone tracing the Western satsang teachers of the 1990s back to Lucknow.

For readers who like question-and-answer dialogues and an approach to non-duality that includes the body and the senses.

For readers of Nisargadatta Maharaj and Siddharameshwar Maharaj who want another voice from the same line.

For readers of Ramana Maharshi who want his teachings as a close devotee recorded them in Tamil verse, read in English translation.

For readers of Nisargadatta Maharaj who want a plain, argued version of non-dual teaching, and who are ready to engage with a strict view of free will and responsibility.

For readers who know Ramana Maharshi's self-enquiry and want informal talks from the 1990s.

For readers drawn to Ramana Maharshi's teaching who want it explained in simple talks by a later teacher from Andhra Pradesh.

For German-speaking people who want satsang in question-and-answer form together with a daily silent meditation in the Himalaya Samarpan tradition.

For people who want to connect non-duality with emotional honesty and questions of relationship.

For people drawn to direct self-enquiry in the Papaji line who like short, plain answers and informal meetings.

For readers who want an easily readable approach to presence and to everyday conflicts, without ties to a tradition.

For people familiar with non-dual ideas who are at ease with a blunt, humorous and paradoxical style and are not looking for a practice.

For people looking for an accessible, conversational entry into self-inquiry in the tradition of Ramana Maharshi and Papaji, who are at ease with devotional language.

For people who want a calm, carefully argued way into non-dual understanding through their own experience and meditation, and who are at ease with long, reflective talks.

For readers who want a short written guide to meditation and inquiry that also asks for honesty and responsibility in everyday life.

For people who want to examine nonduality through clear concepts and concrete questions about everyday life.

For people who practise yoga and are interested in non-dual self-enquiry. His online classes ask for some earlier experience of yoga or of this approach.

For people who enjoy careful, reasoned dialogue about awareness and happiness, and who are interested in Jean Klein's direct path, including its work with the body.

For people who want to look closely at their own bodily experience and resistance, in quiet meetings and retreats rather than through doctrine.

For people who want to combine silent meditation with self-inquiry and an approach through the body.

For people drawn to self-enquiry in the line of Ramana Maharshi and Papaji who want to include the body and difficult experience in that enquiry.

For people drawn to a bodily, listening approach to non-duality. His website advises people with a psychiatric history or in psychological treatment against this practice.

For readers who want to see devotion and non-dual knowledge held together, in the plain talk and parables of a nineteenth-century Bengali mystic.

For people drawn to devotion and the repetition of a divine name, and for readers who want a first-hand account of a life given to God; Anandashram is open to people of any faith, creed or caste.

For readers interested in devotional paths and in the movement around Meher Baba; the texts assume that he is the Avatar.

For people who want to bring devotion and self-enquiry into ordinary life, within or alongside the Hindu tradition.

For people drawn to devotion and service.

For readers drawn to devotion and the repetition of a divine name rather than to philosophical texts.

For readers interested in devotion and surrender to a guru alongside Ramana Maharshi's self-enquiry.

For Western readers interested in devotion, meditation and service, told through an American teacher's own path from academic psychology to an Indian guru.

For people who want a practical, historical approach through silent meditation and devotion. The sources checked are in English.

For people who want devotion and practical service together and do not mind large gatherings. Her words mostly reach English readers in translation from Malayalam.

For people drawn to silent devotion and a personal blessing, whatever their faith. There are no talks or courses; Darshan requires registration.

For people interested in Kriya Yoga as a practice for those with family and work, who can accept that his words reach us second-hand.

For readers who want to understand the background of Kriya Yoga and of Yogananda's teaching, and who are interested in comparing Indian philosophy with the Bible.

For readers who are ready for long philosophical prose and are interested in a path that includes the world instead of leaving it. His view differs from classical Advaita: he treats the world as real.

For readers who prefer spiritual guidance as questions and answers and short notes rather than long treatises. The texts assume the framework of Sri Aurobindo's yoga and treat her as a spiritual authority.

For people who want a structured path of meditation within a lineage and an organisation, and who are at ease with devotional language and accounts of miracles.

For people who want to learn a breath-based meditation technique of the Kriya Yoga tradition in the line of Yogananda, given at an initiation, and who read the scriptures of several religions as pointing to one goal.

For people who want a clear, practical introduction to Buddhist meditation and to the teaching of non-self, in English or German.

For people who want to learn a structured meditation practice in a ten-day residential course in silence and can keep its discipline for the whole course, whatever their religion. The organisation says the course requires hard, serious work and does not recommend it for people with significant mental health issues.

For people who want a simple, bodily practice they can take into everyday life, and for those interested in a Buddhist view of non-separation.

For people who want to explore compassion and Buddhist philosophy. This approach belongs to Tibetan Buddhism.

For readers and meditators who want an introduction in plain language to Buddhist mindfulness practice and its teachings on the heart, with a view to daily life. He is a Buddhist teacher, not an Advaita teacher.

For readers who want to meet the man Rumi called his mentor through his own recorded sayings rather than through the legends about him. He spoke as a Muslim Sufi; this catalogue lists him among related paths, and 'nondual' is our word for this, not his.

For readers who want to meet the longing for God and the passing away of the self as a Muslim Sufi poet and teacher put them, in stories and poems. This catalogue lists him among related paths; 'nondual' is our word for this, not his.

For readers who want to know the disciple to whom Rumi addressed the Masnavi and who wrote it down, and how Rumi's circle in Konya carried his teaching on after his death. He was a Muslim Sufi; this catalogue lists him among related paths, and 'nondual' is our word for this, not his.

For readers who want to see how Rumi's teaching was explained and passed on by his son, in plain teaching verse and discourses. He wrote as a Muslim Sufi; this catalogue lists him among related paths, and 'nondual' is our word for this, not his.

For readers drawn to Christian mysticism and its language of detachment and the ground of the soul, who are willing to read medieval texts in a translation or with a commentary.

For people who want to look into fear, thought and relationship for themselves, without a tradition, method or teacher.

For readers who want a blunt challenge to the ideas of spiritual seeking, gurus and enlightenment, in plain conversation rather than a method.

For readers who want to compare spiritual traditions through his commentaries or to try movement-based meditation, and who are ready to look at the history of his movement.

For people who want to explore their psychological patterns and spiritual realisation together, through close inquiry into their own experience, and who are open to working over years in a group.

For people who want a simple written method to question their own stressful thoughts.

For people who study A Course in Miracles, or want to begin, and want to apply its forgiveness practice in daily life.