The Vahini Series

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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