Mantarlela Satsang (Marathi)
By Jayashri M. Gaitonde
Friday 26 February 2021
Mantarlela Satsang (Marathi) - Zen Publications
Durmil Nirupane (Marathi) - Zen Publications
By Dinkar Kshirsagar
Softcover
Pages 132
Size W 6” x H 9”
ISBN 978-93-85902-04-8
Atmaprem (Marathi) - Zen Publications
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Yanchi Nirupane
By Dinkar Kshirsagar
Pages 456
Size W 6” x H 9”
ISBN 978-93-85902-01-7
Nothing is Everything - Zen Publications
Nothing is Everything
The Quintessential Teachings of Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
By Mohan Gaitonde
The flavour of these talks is heightened by the fact that Mr Gaitonde, being well-versed with Marathi, the language Maharaj spoke, is able to convey all the subtle nuances of Maharaj’s potent words of wisdom. The precious conversations in this book act as a divine catalyst for all those who are eager to leave the banks of miserable seeking and intellectual understanding, and realize the ever-flowing river of Understanding of Who You Are!
If you have not yet transcended the shackles of read and heard knowledge, these intuitive utterances of Nisargadatta will surely help restore the Eternal Ease. In talk after talk, He reminds the readers about their forgotten Richness! Welcome to the final leap into Nisargadatta’s quintessential teachings. If you are waiting for Everything but also ready for Nothing, this book is the perfect touchstone. Nothing is Everything is indeed Nisargadatta Maharaj’s ultimate blessing for the ardent seekers.
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Pages 226
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ISBN 978-93-82788-97-3
Self-Love - Nisargadatta Maharaj - Zen Publications
The Original Dream
Translated By Mohan Gaitonde
Shri Nisargadatta Maharaj was one of the most significant spiritual teachers of Non-Duality of his time. His powerful non-dual teachings continue to impact spiritual seekers from all over the world, decades after his passing. Maharaj spoke in his mother tongue, Marathi, and a translator would then translate his words into English. It goes without saying that the translator had to be finely tuned not only to Maharaj’s teachings but also to the subtle nuances of his language, his singular vocabulary of spiritual terms and his distinctive teaching idiom.
Those who had the good fortune of being in Maharaj’s presence reiterate that the intensity of his teaching was at its peak in the last five years before he shed his body. In those years, a relatively young disciple, Shri Dinkar Kshirsagar, sat at Maharaj’s satsangs with a notebook. Every time Maharaj said something which impacted him – it could be a sentence or an entire chunk of conversation – Dinkar-ji would jot it down faithfully, making note of the exact Marathi words used by Maharaj. Though he did not jot down every single word spoken by Maharaj during satsang, his meticulous unfiltered ‘excerpts’ comprised the very essence of the Living Teaching manifesting through Maharaj. They accurately reflected Maharaj’s intensity, his steadfast rootedness in the Self and his utterly natural, intention-less compassion for the spiritual seeker.
These talks were first published in Marathi in a book titled Atmaprem. They were subsequently translated into English by Shri Mohan Gaitonde, Maharaj’s ‘evening’ translator, who had the privilege of being with him from 1979 to 1981. This translation is made special by one outstanding fact: years of intuitively translating Maharaj, and that too in his presence, bestowed upon Gaitonde-ji an invaluable gift – an ‘ear’ for Maharaj’s voice and tone. In other words, for his subtlest nuance. For spiritual seekers, keen on accessing Maharaj’s original teachings, this has indeed turned out to be a wonderful gift.
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Pages 284
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ISBN 978-93-85902-83-3
Nisargadatta Maharaj - Zen Publications
Nisargadatta Maharaj
The Earliest Discourses (Meditations from 1954-56)
Translated by Mohan Gaitonde
Nisargadatta Maharaj started speaking sometime in the early 1950s. Initially he would speak on popular scriptures like Sage Eknath’s Bhagwat and Sage Ramdas’ Dasbodh. A few years later the subject matter of his talks spontaneously broadened up and by mid-1950s Maharaj was speaking less about the scriptures and more from his direct experience. Maharaj used to say, ‘I am not speaking these words; they are coming from the Absolute. Just as you hear them, I too am their witness.’
In 1954 Shankarrao Bajirao Dhaygude, one of Maharaj’s senior disciples, started noting down Maharaj’s discourses in their original language, Marathi. His jottings filled up five notebooks. He later shared these 45 discourses with his friend and Guru Bandhu Shri Dinkar Kshirsagar who edited them slightly, taking great care “not to add our own concepts to the text.”
These talks were first published in Marathi as ‘Sadguru Nisargadatta Maharaj Yanchi Durmil Nirupane’. These were then translated into English by Shri Mohan Gaitonde, Maharaj’s ‘evening’ translator, into the present work.
Softcover
Pages 156
Size W 5.5” x H 8.5”
ISBN 978-93-87242-38-8
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Shower of Grace
Meditations with Shri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Jayashri Gaitonde
At that time there were no tape recorders available at the venue so Jayashri-ji decided to take down meticulous notes of Maharaj’s meditations, as they were spoken in Marathi, for her own use. Later, after Maharaj passed away, she decided to jot down these meditations in a notebook. These were published in Marathi as Amrutvarsha. The book you hold in your hands is the English translation of Amrutvarsha.
Maharaj spoke spontaneously and effortlessly. His powerful words, bearing the rare authority of the Self-realized, seared their way into your consciousness, peeling layer after layer of ignorance to reveal the Truth. His Teaching was profound yet simple and direct. All it required was attentive listening; it prescribed neither any spiritual practice nor any ritual.
The meditations in this book bring alive the vibrancy of Maharaj’s words and chip away at the false sense of ‘I Am-ness’ which is at the root of all ignorance. As Maharaj would pointedly ask his listeners, “Are we not, before knowing that we are?”
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Pages 284
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ISBN 978-93-87242-74-6
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Tuesday 16 February 2021
Existence, non-existence, change - Ashtavakra Gita
à¤ावाà¤ावविकारश्च स्वà¤ावादिति निश्चयी।
निर्विकारो गतक्लेशः सुखेनैवोपशाम्यति॥
Existence, non-existence, change - this is the nature of things. Realizing this - stillness, serenity and bliss naturally follow - Ashtavakra Gita
Thursday 4 February 2021
Neither presence, nor absence - Nisargadatta Maharaj
In my true state of unicity, there is neither presence, nor absence. Absence of the presence of presence and absence of the presence of absence is what I am. – Nisargadatta Maharaj
Saturday 30 January 2021
અનુસંધાન - Gujarati translation of Selected quotes from Marathi I Am That
Book Name : અનુસંધાન
Language : Gujarati
Original Marathi Name : अनुसंधान
Pages : 117
Brief Information : Selected quotes from Marathi "I Am That"
Original Marathi Editor & Compiled By : Sachin Kshirsagar
Gujrati Translator : Shri Sham Korde
Book Design : Uday Kulkarni
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Monday 18 January 2021
Cannot be perceived by the eyes - Mundaka Upanishad
न चक्षुषा गृह्यते नापि वाचा नान्यैर्देवैस्तपसा कर्मण वा ।
ज्ञानप्रसादेन विशुद्धसत्त्वस्ततस्तु तं पश्यते निष्कलं ध्यायमानः ॥
Cannot be perceived by the eyes, speech or other senses, nor by austerity or sacrifice. Through the grace of knowledge one gets purified, then through contemplation alone the Absolute is realised. - Mundaka Upanishad
Thursday 14 January 2021
Forget the known, but remember that you are the knower
Forget the known, but remember that you are the knower. You are beyond the experience, ever unborn and deathless. - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Saturday 26 December 2020
Like a hole in the paper - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Wednesday 23 December 2020
The Self which pervades all things - Shvetashvatara Upanishad
The Self which pervades all things, which is the root of self-knowledge and austerity – that is the Truth, the highest mystic doctrine. - Shvetashvatara Upanishad
सर्वव्यापिनमात्मानं क्षीरे सर्पिरिवार्पितम् ।
आत्मविद्यातपोमूलं तद्ब्रह्मोपनिषत् परम् ॥
It pervades, all states, but it is not a state of something else. It is entirely uncaused, independent, complete in itself, beyond time and space, mind and matter.
- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj