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Nachiketa and Yama - Death's Secret Teaching
Yama Nachiketa
The profound dialogue between the young seeker Nachiketa and Yama, Lord of Death, revealing the secret of immortality.
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The profound dialogue between the young seeker Nachiketa and Yama, Lord of Death, revealing the secret of immortality.
Read Full DialogueThe profound dialogue from the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad where sage Yajnavalkya teaches his wife Maitreyi that all love flows from love of the Self alone.
Read Full DialogueThe brilliant woman philosopher Gargi challenges the great sage Yajnavalkya with profound questions about the ultimate reality.
The profound teaching of 'Tat Tvam Asi' (That Thou Art) from the Chandogya Upanishad, where the sage Uddalaka instructs his son Shvetaketu on the ultimate nature of reality.
Read Full DialogueThe profound teaching where a father reveals to his son through nine examples that the subtle essence pervading all existence is the Self - Tat Tvam Asi (You Are That).
Read Full DialogueA young boy's honesty about not knowing his father's name leads to profound spiritual teachings and realization.
Six sincere seekers approach sage Pippalāda with profound questions about existence. His answers form one of the most systematic expositions of Vedic wisdom.
Read Full DialogueThe teaching from Chandogya Upanishad where Indra, king of gods, seeks the Self through multiple approaches and finally receives the ultimate teaching from Prajapati.
Read Full DialogueOn the battlefield, Krishna reveals to the despondent Arjuna the immortal nature of the Self and the path of dharma.
The famous dialogue from the Mahabharata where Yudhishthira, the eldest Pandava, answers profound questions posed by a Yaksha (celestial being) to save his brothers' lives.
Read Full DialogueThe young sage Ashtavakra gives King Janaka the most direct teaching on immediate liberation through recognition of one's true nature.
When Prince Rāma returns from pilgrimage disillusioned with worldly life, sage Vasiṣṭha reveals the supreme teaching on the nature of mind, consciousness, and the illusory nature of the world.
Read Full DialogueThe legendary philosophical debate between Ādi Śaṅkara and the great scholar Maṇḍana Miśra, adjudicated by Maṇḍana's wife, the wise Bhāratī, determining whether karma or knowledge leads to liberation.
Read Full DialogueThrough intimate conversations with his devoted attendant Ānanda, the Buddha reveals the core of his teaching—the Four Noble Truths, the practice of mindfulness, and the nature of awakening.
Read Full DialogueWhen the proud Vedic scholar Indrabhūti Gautama challenges the ascetic Mahāvīra, a profound teaching on the nature of the soul and the mechanics of bondage unfolds, transforming the scholar into the greatest disciple of Jainism.
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The illiterate woodcutter defeats the learned head monk in a poetry contest, demonstrating that enlightenment is sudden recognition of one's original nature, not gradual accumulation of merit or purity.
The founder of Soto Zen reveals that sitting meditation itself is enlightenment, not a means to enlightenment. Practice and realization are one, and zazen is the manifestation of our original buddha-nature.
The revitalizer of Rinzai Zen uses fierce koans and uncompromising methods to shatter conceptual thinking, leading students to direct realization through the famous question: What is the sound of one hand clapping?
The lotus-born master transmits tantric teachings to his chief disciple, revealing how to transform passion into wisdom, recognize mind's true nature, and practice in the midst of worldly life through the swift path of Vajrayana.
When a Rajput princess defies her royal family to dance in ecstasy before Krishna's image, singing songs that would inspire millions, she demonstrates that divine love recognizes no boundaries of propriety, caste, or convention.
Read Full DialogueThe illiterate weaver who became one of India's greatest mystical poets challenges both Hindu pandits and Muslim mullahs, singing of a God that transcends temples and mosques, experienced in the depths of the heart.
Read Full DialogueThe blissful mother reveals the path of spontaneous devotion, where divine play unfolds naturally without effort or technique, leading to complete surrender in the ocean of bliss.
The God-intoxicated priest transforms the skeptical young intellectual into a world-teacher, demonstrating that all paths lead to the same truth, and that direct experience of the Divine is accessible to sincere seekers.
At the western gate of China, an old sage pauses on his journey to share the wisdom of the Dao—teaching not through elaborate doctrine but through paradox, simplicity, and the profound power of emptiness.
Read Full DialogueThe legendary meeting between the Taoist sage and the Confucian master reveals contrasting approaches to life—the way of effortless action versus prescribed virtue, naturalness versus cultivation, emptiness versus fullness.
The wandering dervish transforms the accomplished scholar into the ecstatic poet of divine love, teaching that true knowledge comes not from books but from the burning fire of love and annihilation in the Beloved.
The Spanish mystic guides her sisters through the seven mansions of the soul's interior castle, teaching the progressive stages of prayer, contemplation, and mystical union with the Divine Beloved.
The founder of Hasidic Judaism teaches that serving God with joy, finding the Divine in everyday life, and elevating the sparks of holiness in all things is the path to devekut—cleaving to the Infinite.
In a small loft above a Mumbai lane, a bidi-selling shopkeeper speaks with devastating directness about the nature of consciousness, the illusion of the person, and the immediacy of liberation.
Read Full DialogueWhen Western journalist Paul Brunton arrived at Ramana Maharshi's ashram as a skeptic, a profound dialogue ensued that would introduce the West to one of India's greatest sages and the practice of self-inquiry.
Read Full DialogueThe complete teaching of sage Ribhu to his disciple Nidagha, demonstrating how to see the one Self in all beings through a series of profound encounters.
You are not a person. The person is an idea, a mental construct that appears in you.
Read Full DialogueThat which changes is unreal. Only the unchanging is real.
Read Full DialogueFear is born of identification with the body. When you know yourself as you are, fear dissolves.
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