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The incarnations of Vishnu are a recurrent theme in Vedic history. Vishnu exists outside the material realm as the creator, and within every being as the Supersoul. He also enters this world as an avatar, ‘one who descends’, to restore balance whenever his presence is needed.

Neem Karoli Baba, known to his followers as Maharaj-ji, was a mystic saint and devotee of Hanuman. Maharaj-ji’s teachings were simple and universal. He often said, “Sub Ek”—All is One. He taught us to “love everyone, serve everyone, remember God, and tell the truth.” Strongly connected to Hanuman, God in the form of a monkey, Maharaj-ji taught in a highly personalized, non-traditional way that reflected the deep devotion of the bhakti path of the heart. Here is the essence of his remarkable life and teachings.

In 1992 Sripad Jagannatha Das was asked if he would do an exclusive interview with the Maharishi in Switzerland. The author readily agreed as the reclusive spiritual master almost never met the press and was embarking on an ambitious mass meditation program to purify vast areas of the United States. After a great deal of negotiation, the two finally got together on Christmas Eve and had a prolonged, stirring conversation that is documented here.

The Sri Brama-samhita is a collection of prayers by Brahma at the beginning of material creation after the Supreme Person Krishna gave Brahma a divine vision of the spiritual world. Brama, in his amazement, speaks volumes of divinely inspired praise before beginning his work of creation. Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu acquired the Fifth Chapter of the Brama-Samhita from the Adi-Keshava temple in South India.

The Hanuman Chalisa is a Vedic devotional hymn (stotra) in praise of Hanuman authored by the poet sage Tulsi Das. The word "chālīsā" means the number forty in Sanskrit, as the Hanuman Chalisa has forty verses. Lord Hanuman is a great devotee of Sri Ram and one of the central characters in the epic, Ramayan. Hanuman is also an incarnation of Shiva. The qualities of Hanuman—his strength, courage, wisdom, celibacy, devotion to Lord Ram, and the many names by which he is known are all in the Hanuman Chalisa. Devotional recitation of this sacred prayer is done by millions every day.

Neem Karoli Baba or Maharaj-ji—was a guru, mystic, and devotee of Lord Hanuman. He is the spiritual master of a number of prominent Americans who traveled to India in the 1960s and 70s, including spiritual teachers Ram Dass, Bhagavan Das, and musicians Krishna Das and Jai Uttal. Maharaji was a lifelong adept of bhakti-yoga and encouraged service to others (seva) as the highest form of unconditional devotion to God.

Here for the first time is the secret yoga of the ghostly realms directly from the ancient Vedic sastras of spiritual India.

This is the true story of each of the spiritual "Gang of four" and their master and deep inspiration Neem Karol Baba.

Throughout history, some of the most thoughtful minds have advocated that life does not end with the death of our body, but continues on via a process known as reincarnation. In the Western world, followers of the Orphic religion in ancient Greece were the first known exponents of reincarnation. They were succeeded by Pythagoras, Socrates, Plato and a host of other philosophers.

Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati, also known as Srila Prabhupāda, was a prominent spiritual leader and revivalist of the Gaudīya Vaisnava tradition in early 20th-century India.

Dr. Richard Alpert, a former Harvard professor and Timothy Leary cohort, was an icon of the hippie, LSD-fueled revolution of the 1960s. Thereafter, on a trip to India—like Clark Kent changing into Superman—he became the much-beloved spiritual teacher Baba Ram Das. His 1970s iconic book Be Here Now turned on a generation to the deep, non-sectarian spirituality within us all.

Lord Brahma saw Krsna directly and composed a prayer based on his realizations–a striking prayer by one who has seen the truth.

Throughout history, some of the most thoughtful minds have advocated that life does not end with the death of our body, but continues via a process known as reincarnation. The Vedic literature of India advocates that the soul, or atma, gives life to the body. Life does not arise from a particular combination of material elements as some modern scientists theorize. At the time of death, we leave one body and enter a new one. That is called reincarnation.

Shiva Yoga Secrets explores the profound presence of Lord Shiva as revealed in the Vedas. Shiva appears as Rudra, the fierce yet benevolent force who dissolves ignorance and reveals eternal truth. Emmy-nominated actor and yogi Sripad Jaganantha Das brings these divine concepts to life with a narration that carries both the authority of great tradition and the intimacy of lived understanding.

In these talks, Ram Dass speaks openly about devotion, service, and the inner transformation that comes through love rather than effort. He returns again and again to Hanuman as the clearest expression of this path—not as a story or belief, but as a living example of selfless service, humility, and unwavering dedication to truth.

In Being the Guru, Ram Dass turns the teaching inward, examining what happens when responsibility replaces seeking. This recording includes a full biographical narrative, interwoven with talks that explore the transition from student to teacher, from devotion to embodiment.

In You Are Forever, Ram Dass reflects on what endures when identity, role, and time fall away. This recording includes a full biographical narrative, interwoven with teachings that explore continuity beyond the body, beyond personality, and beyond fear.

This recording brings together the clearest, most enduring wisdom shared by Ram Dass—spoken from the place where spirituality meets ordinary human life. Here, Ram Dass speaks not as a guru above experience, but as a fellow traveler. He talks openly about ego, fear, desire, love, suffering, aging, and death—not as problems to solve, but as realities to be met with awareness and compassion. His words move gently between humor and gravity, reminding the listener that awakening is not an escape from life, but a deeper participation in it.

Newly discovered and preserved in their original form, these lectures present Ram Dass speaking directly and without mediation. There is no polish and no performance—only the teaching as it arises in the moment.

In these extended talks, Ram Dass speaks at length about truth and divine love as direct experience rather than belief. He examines how the search for meaning often becomes entangled with ego, identity, and fear, and how those same obstacles can become the doorway to awakening when met with awareness. Love, in these reflections, is not sentiment or morality, but a state of being that arises when resistance softens.