Free Ebooks
 Living from the Heart (Part 2)
- Download a free PDF of Part 2 of this spiritual book |
 New: That Is That: Essays About True Nature |
 Nothing Personal (Part 1)Seeing Beyond the Illusion of a Separate Self - Download a free PDF of Part 1 of this nondual book |
 Gifts with No GiverA Love Affair with Truth (Poems by Nirmala) - Download a PDF of the entire spiritual poetry ebook for free |
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 Radiance: Experiencing Divine Presenceby Gina Lake |
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Descriptions of the free spiritual ebooks:
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Living from the Heart
A collection of teachings about the Heart, including:
Part 1: From the Heart: Dropping out of Your Mind and Into Your Being: Offers simple ways to shift into a more open and accepting perspective and to experience your true nature as aware space.
Part 2: The Heart's Wisdom: Points the reader back to the Heart, the truest source of wisdom.
Part 3: Love Is for Giving, Not for Getting: Points to the true source of love in your own Heart. It is by giving love that we are filled with love.
If you have enjoyed Eckhart Tolle’s bestselling books, The Power of Now and A New Earth, Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose, or Byron Katie’s “The Work”, then you will find Living from the Heart especially beneficial. It offers practical tools and meditations for being in the now in everyday life by accessing the wisdom and Presence available in every moment in the Heart.
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That Is That: Essays About True Nature
This free ebook is a collection of the free nondual essays and articles by Nirmala about spirituality found here on this website and on his blog. It is intended to be an easy way to sample all of his teachings about nonduality. There is no particular order and you are invited to wander through the essays as you please.
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Beyond No Self
The newest of Nirmala’s ebooks explores the fullness of Being found in the absence of a separate self. It ends with a simple fairy tale that offers a sense of how one Being can appear as so many. Here is an excerpt from this free nondual ebook:
How can that be—empty space that is full of everything that matters? The mind cannot grasp it fully, as presence exists beyond concepts and even beyond its own forms; and yet, that is what you are. You can experience it with more subtle senses than the physical senses and the mind. Ultimately, you “sense” it by being it. You just are this full empty presence.
It is this second movement of realization of essence, presence, and fullness of Being that counteracts the belief that since I (as ego) do not exist, therefore nothing exists and all is illusion. It gives a heartfelt sense of meaning and purpose back to this relative life of the body and mind, not as a means of gratification to your idea of yourself, but as a pure expression of the wonder and beauty of this deeper reality. Instead of living a life in service to the ego’s wants and needs, you can find yourself fulfilling the deepest purposes of a human life: to serve and express freedom, joy, beauty, peace and love. By itself the realization of no-self can end up dry and lifeless, but when the heart opens wide to the bigger truth of the true Self, life is anything but dry and lifeless.
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Gifts With No Giver: A Love Affair with Truth
A collection of nondual spiritual poetry written from the Heart by Nirmala, who is a spiritual teacher in the Advaita tradition. These poems attempt to capture the undying presence of love in all of its forms. Let your soul be deeply touched by the Rumi-like words of a lover drunk with passion for the truth. Reading one of these poems is a wonderful way to start a meditation. Here is a sample poem:
Every taste
every sensation
every possible pleasure
is already present
in the timeless
awareness
that is beating my heart
what use
in chasing dreams
that have already
come true
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Nothing Personal: Seeing Beyond the Illusion of a Separate Self
Nothing Personal: Seeing Beyond the Illusion of a Separate Self. In this concisely edited collection of Advaita satsang talks and dialogues, Nirmala “welcomes whatever arises within the field of experience. In the midst of this welcoming is always an invitation to inquire deeply within, to the core of who and what you are. Again and again, Nirmala points the questions back to the questioner and beyond to the very source of existence itself—to the faceless awareness that holds both the question and the questioner in a timeless embrace.” -from the foreword by Adyashanti to this nonduality book
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Radiance: Experiencing Divine Presence
This 65-page free ebook download by Gina Lake, Nirmala’s wife, shows you how to experience the divine in the world in simple ways by being very present. This is the effect it had on one reader: "Your words are of great joy to me and very comforting. I'm still sending Radiance to everyone! It was a total ‘aha’ for me. It was like: 'yes, yes, true, true.' I cried all through it, and it took me over a week to read it. I can read 65 pages in an hour mostly, but my heart expanded too much, and I thought it would burst."
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About Nirmala:
After a lifetime of spiritual seeking, Nirmala met his teacher, Neelam, a devotee of H.W.L. Poonja (Papaji). After experiencing a profound spiritual awakening in India, he has been offering Advaita satsang (gatherings for the truth) and Nondual Spiritual Mentoring sessions in the U.S. and internationally since 1998. Nirmala offers a unique vision and a gentle, compassionate approach, which adds to this rich tradition of inquiry into our true nature. He is the author of several nonduality books. He can be contacted here. In his mentoring sessions with individuals and in his books about spirituality, Nirmala points to the natural wisdom within each of us, and fosters the individual’s own exploration of their full potential for spiritual awakening and enlightenment. Nirmala lives in Sedona, Arizona with his wife, Gina Lake, and their two corgi’s, Bodhi and Gracie. If you enjoy the enlightenment teachings of Ramana Maharshi, Eckhart Tolle, and Adyashanti and "The Work" of Byron Katie you will especially appreciate Nirmala's nonduality books and writings about spirituality, including the story of his own spiritual awakening.
About Gina Lake:
After having a spiritual awakening in 1999, Gina Lake has dedicated herself to teaching and writing about awakening. She is the author of several spiritual books, including Radical Happiness, Return to Essence, Choosing Love, Anatomy of Desire, and Embracing the Now. Free excerpts from her printed books are available on her website: radicalhappiness.com. She also offers both astrological and channeled consultations to support spiritual understanding and awakening. She has a Masters degree in Counseling Psychology. Email Gina Lake.
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