Sri Amritananda Natha Saraswati
Guruji's own writings and talks, gathered from across the web into one place. Each one keeps his words as he wrote them, with credit and a link to where it first appeared.
How Guruji kept his powers quiet, and one devotee's account of the cool pavement and her eyes.
Why Aiya shared Sri Vidya puja in Tamil, and Guruji's words to stand up when seekers are denied.
Guruji at Narapadu: the spring, the Shivalingam, the vision of Kamakhya and the little girl in white.
The 15 day yaagam of 1983 in Visakhapatnam and the gift of the land that became Devipuram.
Guruji resigns, returns to Visakhapatnam, sees a Sri Chakra temple and leads 108 women to Sagara Giri Durga.
Guruji in Lusaka: the wedding, the Lalita Devi idol, Sri Wijayaharan and the Divine Mother asking him to quit.
Guruji meets Guru Garu, receives nine mantras, and later purna diksha from Sri Krishnamurthy.
Guruji returns to meditation, hears the inner sounds again and meets Goddess Saraswati.
Guruji's 22 years of research at TIFR, his doubts about defence work and his second experience of consciousness in 1977.
Guruji's school questions, his Master's in Nuclear Physics and his teacher Swami Gyanananda.
The account of Guruji's birth, childhood questions, first experience at 11 and the family that shaped him.
Guruji on split awareness, why a bath feels fresh and how practice moves toward one whole awareness.
Guruji on the offerings to Devi, the meditation on oneness, the offering to protectors and how the puja ends.
Guruji on the Guru Mandala, the four corner deities and the nine enclosures of the Sri Chakra.
Guruji on the ten mudras of Sri Chakra puja, the limbs of the Goddess, and the moon-phase Nityas.
Guruji on scent, flowers, incense, light and food, and what each means inside the body.
Guruji on the offerings to Devi, the hymns for each chakra, and the five Ms as inner states.
Guruji on inviting Lalita with the whole cosmos, and the samaya, dakshina, kaula and vama paths.
The nectar flows down from the guru's feet, the senses are touched with it, and every action is offered to God.
Five ancient mantras said after the kalas: Brahma, Vishnu, Rudra, Mahavishnu and Sadashiva.
The 99 kalas of celestial lights, spread across the chakras from creation at the base to withdrawal at the throat.
The sixteen moon kalas, the new and full moon, and the Kama Kala in the nectar vessel.
How fire and the sun are invoked into the nectar vessel, and what desire, time and the middle path mean in Sri Chakra puja.
How the nectar is prepared in Sri Chakra puja, with the water vessel, the nectar vessel and the Devi as guide.
Guruji on the nyasa that maps the whole body into the brain, and the one verse that holds many nyasas.
Guruji on the throat, third eye and crown centers, and why a simple puja is enough.
Guruji maps the body onto the Sri Chakra, chakra by chakra, in the Diamond Cage nyasas.
Guruji on the verse that clears obstacles and the inner feelings that are the real bhutas.
Guruji on the Viraja Homa: the body burnt in the mind and reborn as a ball of light.
Guruji's guide to the 44 meditations tied to the triangles of the Sri Chakra.
Guruji on what the lamp, wicks, oil and ghee stand for at the start of puja.
Guruji on the Surya mantra: the sun within, water offered while bathing, and awareness as the highest light.
Guruji on the Vedic Ganapati prayer and the leader of the groups that make up our world.
Guruji on the Panchadashi, the most secret mantra of Lalita, and its three groups of seed letters.
Guruji's word-by-word reading of the Guru Mantra, from Aim Hrim Srim to the Guru's feet.
Guruji on mantras as channels of communication, and the powers of Hrim, Srim, Aim, Klim and Sauh.
Guruji on changing your character, enjoying beauty without owning it, and the Shakti Puja.
Guruji on the sixty-four intimate services, unity without shame, and lust transformed into love.
Guruji gives a short overview of the Sri Kramam, the first of the four parts of Sri Chakra Puja.
Guruji says ritual is training in how to live, and names the four parts of Sri Chakra Puja.
Guruji explains that the Sri Chakra is seen in deep stillness, and that worshipping it means knowing your own Self.
Guruji explains how love, not control, moves us past fear, and what the four gates of the Sri Chakra stand for.
Guruji walks outward through the Sri Chakra: fourteen worlds, the two lotuses, and the square where the eight passions play out.
Guruji explains how the single point grows into a triangle, then eight and ten triangles, and what each step means for the seer and the seen.
Guruji on the Sri Chakra as the code of creation and the Bindu as the unseen seer.
Guruji on Shiva's fourteen drumbeats, the Sanskrit sounds and the elements.
Guruji on Kriya, Jnana and Iccha Shakti as Gouri, Lakshmi and Saraswati.
The prologue to Guruji's 1998 book on Sri Chakra Puja and why understanding matters more than length.
Guruji's 2006 discourse on the three parts of the Durga Saptashati and the meaning behind the stories.
A disciple's portrait of Guruji's silence, science and simple life, and of Amma at Devipuram.
The account of Guruji's first darshan of the Goddess and the walk in the rain.
Guruji on the inner Guru: do not accept blindly, your own effort is your Guru.
Guruji's account of Kamakhya's call to make Devipuram a place of worship again.
Guruji's poem of one life, from before birth to the point of no return, with the Goddess as guide.
Guruji's own words on why he exists: clean water, solar homes, green land and love shared through the internet.
Ten short lines on the body as a temple, forgiveness, gratitude and breath, to repeat each day.
Guruji's dialogue on who you really are, the states of consciousness, and the path to Samadhi.
Guruji's own words on the visions of his final years, and his advice to a tired disciple: just do the Viraja Homam.
Guruji's own words on why he never wanted his teaching sold, and why your own body is the real temple.
A disciple's own account of loss and crisis, and Guruji's words on why the testing never really stops.
Guruji's own plain teaching on the ten Mahavidyas, why the names are feminine, and the one choice that starts the path to God.
A Sanskrit hymn of blessing and protection for the Kaula path, shared by Guruji in Sir John Woodroffe's translation.