Learn Self-Inquiry

I hope you have come to this website page after seeing my other pages and posts. If not, please read at least the About Anurag and Stages of Self-Inquiry sections before proceeding. Reading them would help you assess whether you would really like to learn Advaita through the method of Self-Inquiry/Jnana Yoga I have discussed in these pages.

In case you are interested in learning Advaita under my guidance, you may please note the following points

I Don’t Charge Any Fees

I teach Advaita without charging money. In case you would like to help us at any point in time, you may make a donation to us through our Donation Page on this website. Though I would be really grateful if you could donate to us for our mission, this donation is totally optional, and my teaching is in no way contingent on your giving me any donation. My interest is to help you gain liberation/Moksha (as long as you are interested), and to keep the tradition of Advaita alive by teaching and passing it down to seekers.

Method of Teaching

I teach Advaita through the three processes of Jnana Yoga called

Shravana – Reading the teachings/scriptures
Manana – Dialogue/Reflection
Nidhidhyasana – Contemplation

All these practices are remotely taught by me online, and one does not need to physically meet me, though one is very welcome to do so. We have a Discord Study Group where students interact with me. Along with it, I also interact personally with students on WhatsApp whenever they require personal counselling. The Advaita textbook I follow as my course book is the Drig-Drishya Viveka.

What I Don’t Teach

I teach the traditional method of self-inquiry as taught by Shankaracharya and Gaudapada. I am presuming that you have already gone through the sections I have indicated at the start. If you have not, I again urge you to read it before you decide to contact me. In bullet points, I would like to make it very clear that I do not teach the following

I don’t teach Karma Yoga and Bhakti Yoga as many traditional Advaita teachers do. I start off straight with Jnana Yoga, along with a prescription to do some steps of Raja Yoga to achieve purity of mind.
I don’t teach about any real creation or a creator (God etc). Traditional Advaita teachers normally start off with a student’s belief in a real creator and creation – a view known as Shrishthi-Drishthi-Vada. Rather, I deconstruct this belief right from the beginning, and start off with a view called Vivartavada, which talks about creation appearing to us because of an epistemological error.
I don’t teach enlightenment as Nirvikalpa Samadhi. This is a very common misconception people have about enlightenment. Enlightenment as a thoughtless trance experience called Nirvikalpa Samadhi or Asamprajnata Samadhi is NOT an Advaita Vedanta teaching but belongs to the Yoga school of Patanjali and has been critiqued by Shankara and Gaudapada.

How to get in touch

In case you are fine with all that is written above, you may use the following contact information or contact form to contact me. After that, I shall arrange for a Google Meet video conference so that we can get to know each other in greater detail and take matters further if everything works out fine.