Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

Critique of Pure Reason is one of the cornerstones in western philosophy. It was first published in 1781 and it was later followed by the works: Critique of Judgement and the Critique of Judgement. In Critique of Pure Reason, Kant outline his theories about space and time as a form of perceiving and causality as a form of [...]

Mind without measure by J. Krishnamurti

Mind without measure by Jiddu Krishnamurti is a huge collection of public talks held by Krishnamurti in Delhi, Calcutta and Madras during 1982 and 1983. Form the book: “Now, to live without measurement, to be totally, completely, free of all measurement, is part of meditation. Not that `I ampractising this, I will achieve something in [...]

Sri Aurobindo VOL 26 – The Future Poetry with On Quantitative Metre

Sri Aurobindo’s The Future Poetry and On Quantitative Metre are here collected as Volume 26 in Auro bindo’s collected works. The Collected works by Sri Aurobindo are still being published and edited by the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry, India, and 37 volumes in total are planned. Only four of them are still missing. The [...]

The Awakening Of Intelligence by Jiddu Krishnamurti

The Awakening Of Intelligence is huge collection of transcribed talks Jiddu Krishnamurti had with personalities such as Jacob Needleman, Alain Naude, Swami Venkatesananda, David Bohm as well as public talks conducted in New York, Madras and Saanen in Switzerland. Download the 945 page ebook here: The Awakening Of Intelligence  

The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle – Ebook

The Power of Now - a guide to spiritual enlightenment by Eckhart Tolle is in the Public Domain, I just learned, and not just the audio version as I have written here earlier, the text-version is also available. (Thanks to the kind folks at the Archive.org) I will try to find his other books and present [...]

A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle

Eckhart Tolles “A New Earth” as an audiobook read by the author himself. I can see from the statistics on this site, that Eckhart Tolles “The Power of Now” is the single most visited page on HolyBooks.com, and therefore I started looking for Tolle’s other works. “A New Earth” is as “The Power of Now” not [...]

Sri Aurobindo VOL 25 – The Human Cycle & The Ideal of Human Unity War and Self-Determination

Soon we have the complete works of Scri Aurobindo here on Holybooks.com. In the meantime you can read the 704 page volume 25 that consists of two works: The Human Cycle and The Ideal of Human Unity War and Self-Determination. The Human Cycle was first published in monthly instalments in the review Arya between August [...]

The Flame of Attention by J. Krishnamurti

The Flame of Attention is a selection of public speeches Krishnamurti held during 1982 given in India, England, Switzerland, and the U.S.. The book was first published in 1984 and it is considered one of his best books. It is introduced with with this short poem: “Observation, like a flame of attention, it wipes away hate. [...]

The Zen of Advaita – The Teaching Mastery of Nisargadatta Maharaj

The Zen of Advaita is a two-volume book by PhD. Stephen H. Wolinsky – a student of Nisargadatta Maharaj. The works are tributes to Nisargadatta and an attempt to crack the code of the Zen Koan with his teachings. Stephen begins with a warning: “As you are about to go through this book, please note that [...]

Mind is a Myth – Disquieting conversations with a man called U.G.

Mind is a Myth is last of the three available books transcribed from talks with U.G. Krishnamurti. The first pages outlines his extraordinary life and his calamitiy, as he calls the all-changing transformation that took place on his 47th birtday: “U.G. ceased to act any longer via the separative thought structure. A bit of energy [...]

Clarity by Nathan Gill

This short autobiography by Nathan Gill describes his spiritual search and non-dramatic awakening. From the book: “There does not need to be any kind of ‘event’ associated with the recognition of our true nature. Well, as it happened, in September 1998 an event arose. I was gardening and the rain was drizzling down. I looked [...]

Freedom & Resolve – the living Edge of Surrender by Gangaji

Here is a another radical ebook from the Indian non-dual Advaita tradition, Freedom & Resolve – the living Edge of Surrender by Gangaji. From the intro: “You have played like this for aeon’s. Eventually a weariness arises in the play because the play is limited. For all of if its display, for all of its beauty, [...]

The Mystique of Enlightenment: The unrational ideas of a man called U.G.

The Mystique of Enlightenment: The unrational ideas of a man called U.G. is perhaps the most straightforward, no-nonsense book yet written about that truth which many ‘spiritual seekers’ are seeking – what most gurus call ‘enlightenment’, and what U.G. Krishnamurti calls the ‘natural state’. U.G. maintains, in this selection from his conversations, that ‘so-called enlightenment’ is [...]

Brutal Beginnings

The rebels of enlightenment over at the forum/blog RuthlessTruth.com have for some months worked with some new and radical approaches to free people from the veil of Samsara. Their work are truly impressive and fresh. Their main idea is to get people in a large scale to understand that there is no “I”, and seeing this fact is [...]

Sri Aurobindo Vol 23- 24 The Synthesis of Yoga

The Synthesis of Yoga by Sri Aurobindo first appeared serially in the monthly review Arya between August 1914 and January 1921. The book is part 21 – 22 of the complete works of Sri Aurobindo. Each text was written immediately before its publication. Thework was left incomplete when the Arya was discontinued. SriAurobindo never attempted to [...]