Works by
Gangaji
(Writer)

Audio

• Who Are You? The Path of Self-Inquiry (2005)
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  Investigate the Infinite beyond Death - In the search for truth, there is only one question that needs to be answered: Who am I? This inquiry into the self is the core of advaita vedanta (radical non-dualism) – a timeless teaching for breaking free of mental bonds and reclaiming your true identity: the Infinite that is beyond death. On Who Are You? American-born spiritual teacher Gangaji spells out the bedrock principles of self-inquiry – a cluster of no-nonsense concepts that reveal how to effortlessly step outside limited psychological conditioning and mental constructs into the freedom, expansiveness, and peace of your own true nature.

• Freedom & Desire (2004)
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  "The desire for truth, for God, for freedom will never be satisfied even by the most exquisite experiences or states of mind. This is the realization that most people avoid because it is so radical, because it means that the desire for freedom is not just a toy of the mind." Unlike other desires, the desire for true freedom is an invitation to turn the mind back into the very core of the desire itself, rather than projecting into the future. In these conversations Gangaji makes it clear that once that choice is made it is possible to realize something more limitless than personal freedom: the direct experience of what is and always has been and always will be free.

• Innocence, Trust and Self-Betrayal (2004)
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  "If you are willing to experience the pain of your own self-betrayal, that pain is a divine fire that reveals the power of the choice to suffer. The willingness to be pierced by this arrow is the willingness to be free. It is simply a matter of telling the truth." In these monologues and interactions, Gangaji addresses the perception of lost innocence and the desire to return to and reclaim ones original purity of being. Central to this investigation is the recognition of ones own self-betrayal. When all addictive mental activity surrounding self-doubt is cut, it ceases taking precedence over the desire to realize oneself. Telling the truth and having the willingness to trust inherent peace leads one into the heart of what cannot be betrayed, what is free. That is who you are.

• Love & Gratitude (2004)
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  "Love has nothing to do with another person. Love is your individual and collective soul. Love is God. Love is truth. Love is beauty. Love is Self. To know yourself, to surrender to the truth of yourself, is to surrender to love." In this collection of conversations with Gangaji, the topics of love and gratitude are explored and celebrated as fundamental choices inherent to every moment of one's life. Gangaji speaks of the tendency of mind to focus on what is "wrong" in our lives, rather than embracing all that there is to be grateful for. This tendency, coupled with strategies of protection and defense against being broken hearted, is the source of our greatest suffering. When there is the desire to serve the truth of love, the truth of freedom, the truth of one's own heart, then the privilege of one's life can be recognized. Love can teach you who you are.

• Beyond Practice (2003)
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  Ironically, a spiritual practice can become the obstacle to self-realization. In this compilation Gangaji addresses the topics of meditation and practice, when they are useful and when they are a hindrance. Her invitation is to stop every effort toward what you think will give you truth and peace so that truth and peace can naturally reveal themselves in your heart.

• Open, Unprotected and Free (2003)
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  "If you are willing to experience anything directly and immediately, whether good or bad, joyous or hateful, you will recognize that what you are running from does not exist, and what you are running toward is already here."??To live a life that is open, unprotected, and free is to stop avoiding what has been most feared. In this series of powerfully moving monologues and interactions, Gangaji speaks to the inherent openness of your being, an openness that can only be discovered in the meeting of whatever it is you are attempting to escape. She asks you to investigate how the preciousness of your life is deadened by the avoidance of negative emotions; to see that all of your efforts toward protection actually only augment your pain and turn it into suffering. Here is the invitation to stop turning from the truth of your own beingness and to discover the freedom of the all-inclusive heart.

• Revealing Strategies of Ego (2003)
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  "Mind, ego, superego have the power of great imitation. What cannot be imitated is the vastness of being. "??The voices of the ego and superego are an illusion in the mind, and yet they can consume our attention and direct our choices in life. Their often-tortured opposition to each other gives rise to a myriad of strategies and battles in the mind. In this compilation Gangaji supports you in identifying the false voices of ego and superego. When examined with discriminating wisdom, both the inflated and the deflated ego serve to reveal the pristine truth that is untouched by the conditioned mind. This essential revelation is the gateway to living a life that gives full attention to the truth of being rather than the common perpetuation of the internal and external war of the egos.

• The Moment of Choice (2003)
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  Following the impulses and strategies of the mind to escape or deny uncomfortable emotions may seem to be choiceless. But there is, in fact, a moment of choice to not follow our habituated conditioning. This collection of conversations with Gangaji clearly illustrates how that moment of choice can be easily recognized in the willingness to consciously investigate our own tactics of avoidance. When any thought or emotion, however uncomfortable, is met in the light of conscious awareness, it immediately loses its authority over our happiness and well being. Rather than something to be run from it becomes a doorway to an ever-deepening discovery of one’s true self.

• The Invitation (2002)
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  Have you looked everywhere for fulfillment? In relationships, spirituality, health, self-image? Have you found what matters most? At the very heart of Gangaji’s message is the simple yet radical invitation to stop looking outside yourself for resolution, and simply be willing, just in this moment, to see what is already here. This compilation of crystalline monologues is the encouragement, the support, and the inspiration to finally accept the invitation of your soul’s deepest longing. Beyond any belief about yourself, closer than any joy or sorrow, more immediate than either sickness or health, is the endlessly fulfilling truth of who you are. Welcome in.

• The Heart Broken Open (2001)
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  Gangaji and interviewer Chris Mohr read from and discuss familiar passages in the bible, offering a coherent context for the wisdom of Christ's teachings to permeate our present day awareness. Gangaji breathes a surprisingly fresh, living clarity into the topics of original sin, the virgin birth, crucifixion, redemption, and resurrection. She gives us the opportunity to realize that the life of Jesus is not separate from our own lives, that his surrender is the possibility of our own surrender, and that true forgiveness and love arise naturally, effortlessly, from the silence of a heart broken all the way open.
   

• A Love Secret Spoken: An Explanation of Rumi's Poetry (2000)
  A Love Secret Spoken A Love Secret Spoken presents American-born spiritual teacher Gangaji, reading from selected Rumi poetry. Joining her in the studio is interviewer, Christopher Mohr. Together they embark on a joyous exploration of the sublime truth that Rumi so masterfully evokes. The combination of Rumis passionate verse followed by Gangaji's commentary is a marriage of two wisdom mirrors, eight centuries apart, each reflecting the timeless mystery of divine truth and love. Here is an open invitation to discover yourself as love itself, alive and present in the heart of all being.

• The Longing (1999)
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• Gangaji - On the Holy River Ganga (1993)
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  "Aboard a sailing dhow, floating down the Ganga in Varanasi, India, Gagaji transmits the essence of true Freedom."

Books

• You Are That! (2007)
  The words themselves are charged with extraordinary aliveness and transformative power," Eckhart Tolle says about Gangaji's writing. "This is because they have come out of a living realization of the truth, rather than the accumulated knowledge of the mind." The lives of thousands of people have been influenced through Gangaji's retreats and public events.
  
  With You Are That!, Gangaji's classic teachings--first delivered more than a decade ago in two paperback volumes with limited distribution (see Volume 1 and Volume 2) --are offered in a striking one-volume collector's edition. Updated to include a new introduction from Catherine Ingram, author of Passionate Presence, along with new photos and material from recent meetings, this exquisite gift edition offers exposure to a larger audience of spiritual seekers who can now realize the perennial insights of Gangaji. Eloquent and direct, Gangaji guides practitioners of all backgrounds through an inquiry into the self that often leads to unexpected glimpses at awakening. "This is a moment of reckoning," she teaches. "Do not take this moment casually or trivially. Recognize that for whatever reason, you are aware of the possibility of realizing the truth of yourself as limitless consciousness--you are that!"

• The Diamond in Your Pocket: Discovering Your True Radiance (2006)
  Writing in a series of short contemplations, Gangaji describes our never-ending search as human beings to find fulfillment that already exists if we stop long enough to experience it. She teaches us to let go of our need for control, to cultivate vulnerability, and how it unearth the roots of our suffering.

• Freedom & Resolve: The Living Edge of Surrender (1999)
  Following a deep experience of awakening comes the challenge of being true to that experience in everyday life. This distinctive little book cuts to the heart of the ego’s most subtle strategies for control. Through the gift of self-inquiry and your own deepest desire to live a true and authentic life, Gangaji invites you to discover the effortless simplicity of a resolve so total, every aspect of daily life is used naturally for deepening surrender.

• Who Are You?: The Path of Self-Inquiry (1996)

• You Are That! Satsang With Gangaji, Volume 3 (1996)
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• You Are That! Satsang With Gangaji, Volume 2 (1996)
  What you are searching for is who you already are. This is Gangaji’s essential message. Edited from live interactions around the globe, this book is a comprehensive offering of Gangaji’s teachings. It exposes the root cause of personal suffering and addresses questions concerning self-doubt, parenting, the search for enlightenment, and sex.  (See also revision 2007 revision.)

• You Are That! Satsang With Gangaji, Volume 1 (1995)
  What you are searching for is who you already are. This is Gangaji’s essential message. Edited from live interactions around the globe, this book is a comprehensive offering of Gangaji’s teachings. Topics include the nature of mind and thoughts, meditation, relationships, and facing the fear of death.  (See also revision 2007 revision.)

Video/DVD

• Revealing Strategies of Ego (2002)

• Flame of Truth -- VHS-- Soul Conversations with Gangaj and Eli Jaxon-Bear (2000)

• The Truth Alive in You (2000)
  6 one hour cassettes, Gangaji, an American-born teacher and author speaks with thousands of spiritual seekers around the world. Welcome to satsang, letting go of control and other wisdoms,

• Satsang Intensive with Gangaji (1998)
  This five tape set includes all of the satsangs recorded live at the Stinson Beach satsang intensive with Gangaji held in November of 1998.

See also:

• Just Like You: A Biography (2003) by Roslyn Moore
  After a difficult childhood in the deep South and with her marriage failing, Toni Varner arrived in San Francisco looking for happiness. Joining the counterculture, she spent two decades on a spiritual search. Then, in 1990, she met Papaji, an awakened master in the lineage of Sri Ramana Maharshi. She had never wanted a guru, and she certainly hadn't wanted an Indian name. But when she met Papji, he stopped her in her tracks. In meeting him, she discovered the source of true fulfillment.
  
  Since that time, Gangaji, a beloved spiritual teacher, has been holding public meetings and retreats across the United States and around the world. In her autobiography, written with Roslyn Moore, Gangaji tells her story. It is a candid, inspiring, and often humorous account. "Just Like You" includes dozens of pictures, a section of penetrating questions and answers, and an appendix with letters exchanged between Gangaji and her teacher.
  
  Gangaji says she is just like you and me, that she would be happy to tell us if she weren't, but she is. By sharing the experience of her life she is offering herself as living proof that it is possible for anyone to stop telling their endless story of suffering, to wake up to what is, and to live life truly and freely.