The Vahini Series

<em>Stream of Love</em> — Short, urgent chapters on love as the ground of all spiritual practice — the first of the series, written for Sanathana Sarathi.

<em>Stream of Righteousness</em> — What righteousness is, how it is misunderstood, and how it is to be practised at every stage of life.

<em>Stream of Meditation</em> — A manual of meditation: posture, breath, the light, and the mind’s slow taming.

<em>Stream of Spiritual Wisdom</em> — Forty-seven brief inquiries into the Atma, the mind’s obstacles, and the wisdom that ends them.

<em>Stream of Supreme Peace</em> — On peace that does not depend on circumstance — prayer, discrimination, silence, and the eightfold path.

<em>Answers to Spiritual Questions</em> — Questions put to Baba and answered directly, from the nature of the body to the disciplines of yoga.

<em>Dissolving Doubts</em> — A devotee’s doubts and Swami’s replies, in dialogue — the most conversational of the series.

<em>Stream of Divine Grace</em> — Baba’s own survey of spiritual truth — the supreme reality, the scriptures, the Avatar as guru.

<em>Stream of Aphorisms on Brahman</em> — The Brahma Sutras taken one aphorism at a time, each rendered in plain speech.

<em>Stream of the Upanishads</em> — The principal Upanishads expounded in turn — Isavasya, Katha, Kena, Mundaka and the rest.

<em>Stream of Illuminating Knowledge</em> — On education that illumines rather than merely informs, and on the teacher’s part in it.

<em>Stream of Divine Cosmic Play</em> — The Vedas, the cosmic play, and the aspirant’s place in it — the briefest volume of the series.

<em>Stream of Divine Devotion</em> — The Bhagavatha retold — Parikshith, Prahlada, Dhruva and the devotees whose lives are its argument.

<em>Stream of Sacred Sweetness</em> — The Ramayana as Baba tells it: Rama’s birth, Sita’s winning, the exile and the years in the forest.

<em>Stream of Sacred Sweetness</em> — The second half of the Rama story — Lanka, the war, the return, and the reign.