Gangaji

Teaching

Self-inquiry with room for feelings: stop, let experience be as it is, and look into the stories one tells about oneself and one's relationships. ^{1, 2}

Who it is for

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

Where to start

• Her account of meeting Papaji, on the About page of the Gangaji Foundation, describes in plain words his instruction to stop and her first insight. ²
• Abandonment and Self-Betrayal, an official transcript from 2015, covers mutual need and self-betrayal in relationships. ¹

Works

• The Diamond in Your Pocket

  Book · 2007 · Sounds True, Boulder, Colorado

  Short chapters on the search for fulfilment and on stopping long enough to see where it is found, according to the publisher, with topics such as the need to control and despair.

  Visit source page · soundstrue.com ↗

• You Are That!

  Book · 1995 · Satsang Press

  An early book from her satsang meetings, published five years after she met Papaji.

  View library record · openlibrary.org ↗

• Hidden Treasure

  Book · 2011 · Jeremy P. Tarcher, New York

  A book about the stories people tell about their own lives, as its subtitle says. We know it only from a library record.

  View library record · openlibrary.org ↗

• Freedom & Resolve

  Book · 1999 · Gangaji Foundation

  A short book published by her foundation; its subtitle names its theme, surrender. We know it only from library records.

  View library record · openlibrary.org ↗

The short summaries are ours.

In their own words

Short passages in the words of Gangaji, each with its source. Where the quoted text is not in the language of this page, a translation follows and says whose it is.

• If I mentally fought with them or gave meaning to them, there were more thoughts to follow and more anguish. If I “stopped,” the thoughts stopped and the feelings either moved on or disappeared.

• One day Papaji asked, “Who are you?” and for an instant I knew with all certainty that I was the spaciousness that thoughts and emotions come from; the same spaciousness that remained when thoughts and emotions disappeared.

Documented teaching relationships

• Personal teacher of Lisa Schumacher

  Lisa names Gangaji as her personal teacher; her own board profile dates the meeting to 1995.

  Self-reported · satsangwithlisa.org , satsangwithlisa.org (2)

• Invited Lisa Schumacher to teach

  Lisa reports that Gangaji invited her to teach satsang. Her own pages give differing years, 2005 or 2006.

  Self-reported · satsangwithlisa.org , satsangwithlisa.org (2) , satsangwithlisa.org (3)

• Learned personally with H. W. L. Poonja (Papaji)

  Gangaji describes Papaji as her personal teacher.

  Self-reported · gangaji.org , satsangwithlisa.org

• Personal encounter with Soham (formerly Samarpan)

  Soham's biography mentions an encounter with Gangaji without elaborating on its scope.

  Self-reported · soham.one

• Personal teacher of Torsten Brügge

  The website of Inmeditas, the institute Torsten Brügge runs with Padma Wolff, names Gangaji as his spiritual teacher.

  Self-reported · inmeditas.com

• Invited Torsten Brügge to teach

  According to his institute's website, Gangaji encouraged Torsten Brügge in the late 1990s to share his experience of freedom with others; since then he has offered satsang, retreats and individual meetings.

  Self-reported · inmeditas.com

• Personal teacher of Om C. Parkin

  The website of OM C. Parkin's school says that directly after a serious car accident in 1990 he met his Advaita teacher Gangaji, who guided him further.

  Self-reported · innere-schule.de

Teaching relationships are documented statements. They confer no trust and do not attest realisation.

Compiled by us from the sources listed. Last checked 11 Oct 2026.

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