Seeking advaita gurus.

ddranetz

Aside from Ramanashram in tiruvanamalai, can anyone reccomend any good ashrams or teachers anywhere in India for someone of the advaita persuasion?

Have you met any guru that you would like to reccomend?

kullukid

I can't recommend an Ashram or Guru, but here's some great Advaita links you may find interesting.

http://www.advaita.org.uk/reading/fr...tmananda_notes
http://www.advaita.org.uk/discourses...atmananda1.htm

http://www.advaita.org.uk/index.htm

http://raghavendrakg.com/Documents/D...0Atmananda.pdf

http://www.advaya.nl/

http://www.mountainrunnerdoc.citymak...1157/73715.htm

http://www.geocities.com/skknair_tvm/philo.htm

http://www.sunyaprajna.com/Advaita/Atmananda.html

http://home.earthlink.net/~grharmon/I_Am_That.pdf

http://www.openlibrary.org/details/n...accor033308mbp

http://www.maharajnisargadatta.com/t...ta_maharaj.php

http://www.sriramanamaharshi.org/Allpub.html

http://www.nisargadatta.in/WebCMS/CM......B&PageID=22

& some Neo Advaita links;
http://www.sentient.org/people/galen-sharp.html
KK

grikoo

I can't think of any off the top of my head that are still alive.

Though there are a number of western 'philosophers' who are secretly advaita vedantists. Personally I think most of them are a bit kooky and perhaps missed some of the most important aspects of the teaching.

Just my opinion, as a reformed AVist.

Just as an aside -if you're into it, after reading 'I Am That', I suggest reading the last books of Nisargadatta. You'll see that in his old age he flip-flopped on the issue of whether the body exists in consciousness, or vice versa. It radically changes the standard AV interpretation and is worth some thought.

riws76

Ramesh Balsekar in Mumbai and look for other disciples of Nisargadatta.

kullukid

Even though i've read & enjoyed a few of Ramesh's books, i would be wary, i've heard/read mixed reports about Ramesh Balsekar and Wayne Liquorman recently. Although i still consider their teacher Sri Nisargadatta to be one of the greatest teachers on Advaita in recent times.

Here's a link with some other Advaita teachers in India.

http://www.advaita.org.uk/resources/indian_org.htm

http://www.advaita.org.uk/teachers/t...onal_other.htm

grikoo

Didn't want to sound too negative, but more or less agree with the above, which is why I didn't mention balsekar in my previous post.