Free Spiritual Books by Nirmala

Donations (tax-deductible) are appreciated and help make it possible for us to offer these ebooks for free. Click on this button to make an optional donation using a Paypal account or a credit card:.

(Please note: A valid email address will be required to complete the free downloads. An email newsletter is sent to our list approximately once a month. Duplicate email addresses are automatically deleted from the list so even if you are already on our email list, you can simply enter your email address again to receive the free ebook download. We respect your privacy and will not share your information with others, and it is easy to unsubscribe at any time. Downloads are in PDF format and may require the free Adobe reader (available here) in order to open and view the file. Once the file is open you can print or save the file for future use.)

Descriptions of the free spiritual books:

Nirmala and Gina offer these books of nondual spiritual teachings freely as a gift. Donations are appreciated, and please tell others about these free spiritual books if you are moved to. Printed copies of some of these books are available for sale in our bookstore. From the Heart (part one of Living From the Heart) is now also available as a free download, translated into Polish. Click here to download the Polish version. Here are some brief descriptions and excerpts:

Living from the Heart

A collection of teachings about the Heart, including:

The Heart's Wisdom: Points the reader back to the Heart, the truest source of wisdom.

From the Heart: Dropping out of Your Mind and Into Your Being: Offers simple ways to shift into a more open and accepting perspective and to experience your true nature as aware space.

Love Is for Giving, Not for Getting: Points to the true source of love in your own Heart. It is by giving love that we are filled with love.

If you have enjoyed Eckhart Tolle’s bestselling books, The Power of Now and A New Earth, Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose, or Byron Katie’s “The Work”, then you will find Living from the Heart especially beneficial. It offers practical tools and meditations for being in the now in everyday life by accessing the wisdom and Presence available in every moment in the Heart.

Here are some excerpts:

“The Heart is wise and accurate and can show you how true it is to stay or go, how true it is to buy a house, how true it is to take a new job, even how true it is to eat another cookie. But it also can show you much more of the possibilities inherent in this life and much more of the truth of your ultimate Being. In relation to these bigger truths, the practical questions of your life turn out to be relatively small matters. Using your Heart only to know things like what to do or where to live is like using a global positioning satellite system to find the way from your bedroom to your bathroom; it utilizes only a small part of your Heart’s capacity.

However, following your Heart day in and day out can put you in touch with the richness of the functioning of this dimension of your Being. Along the way, you may also find your Heart opening in response to the deeper movements of Being that touch every life.”

“You may think it matters what happens. But what if the only thing that matters is where you are experiencing from, where you are looking from? What if you could experience all of life from a spacious, open perspective where anything can happen and there is room for all of it, where there is no need to pick and choose, to put up barriers or resist any of it, where nothing is a problem and everything just adds to the richness of life? What if this open, spacious perspective was the most natural and easy thing to do?

It may sound too good to be true, but we all have a natural capacity to experience life in this way. The only requirement is to look from the Heart instead of from the eyes and the head—and not just to look, but to listen and feel and sense from the Heart.”

“What is love and where is it found? We search for love and try to get love, and yet it seems like we never get enough. Even when we have found love, it can slip away as time passes. What if there is a source of love that never fades and is always available? What if love is as near and easy as breathing? What if we have been “looking for love in all the wrong places” instead of actually lacking love?

Love is both simpler and more mysterious and subtle than we have imagined it to be. Love is very simply the spacious, open attention of our awareness. Awareness itself is the gentlest, kindest, and most intimate force in the world. It touches things without impinging on them. It holds all of our experience but doesn’t hold it down or hold it back. And yet, inherent in awareness is a pull to connect and even merge with the object of our awareness.”

Review from Amazon.com: “A "Disarming" Read

I have had the pleasure of sitting in Satsangs with Nirmala, as well as reading his books, and find that there is a feeling of total acceptance which permeates his being, and is equally felt through his writings. I hope I am not exposing the secret when I say that although there are many approaches in spiritual literature which direct us to move from the head to the heart, I find in Nirmala's writing a quality which I can only describe as "disarming." The following quotations may give an idea of what I mean. In Part 2 - The Heart's Wisdom, he says: "The opening and closing of the heart is not a prescription - something you need to practice - but simply a description of what your heart has been doing your entire life." such a phrase leaves nothing for the ego to resist, and adds spaciousness to the process of inquiry. And just when the ego feels it might have material to come back into prominence as it strives to succeed in the process, Nirmala says, "There is never a need to have a bigger or smaller experience, as Being is still Being, even in the small experiences . . . just as a single drop of water is still wet." "One more try," the ego says, and then it reads "Being is never harmed by the limited perspectives we experience . . . Being is already resting within the endless opening and closing of the heart, so you might as well enjoy the ride." And it is then that the ego realizes that it is, and always has been, included in the "ride" and it finally rests. I am very grateful for Nirmala's teachings, and highly recommend his book to those who are ready to stop the struggle and rest in "Being." Arzani Burman, author of "The Legacy of Violetta Rose: An Inter-Dimensional Journey Through the Lincoln Tunnel and Beyond."

Click here to download the free spiritual book, Livng from the Heart

Click here to purchase a copy in our bookstore.

Radiance: Experiencing Divine Presence

This 65-page e-book shows you how to experience the divine in the world in simple ways by being very present. This is the effect it had on one reader: "Your words are of great joy to me and very comforting. I'm still sending Radiance to everyone! It was a total ‘aha’ for me. It was like: 'yes, yes, true, true.' I cried all through it, and it took me over a week to read it. I can read 65 pages in an hour mostly, but my heart expanded too much, and I thought it would burst."

Click here to download the free spiritual book, Radiance

Beyond No Self

Nirmala’s newest e-book explores the fullness of Being found in the absence of a separate self. It ends with a simple fairy tale that offers a sense of how one Being can appear as so many. Here is an excerpt:

How can that be—empty space that is full of everything that matters? The mind cannot grasp it fully, as presence exists beyond concepts and even beyond its own forms; and yet, that is what you are. You can experience it with more subtle senses than the physical senses and the mind. Ultimately, you “sense” it by being it. You just are this full empty presence.

It is this second movement of realization of essence, presence, and fullness of Being that counteracts the belief that since I (as ego) do not exist, therefore nothing exists and all is illusion. It gives a heartfelt sense of meaning and purpose back to this relative life of the body and mind, not as a means of gratification to your idea of yourself, but as a pure expression of the wonder and beauty of this deeper reality. Instead of living a life in service to the ego’s wants and needs, you can find yourself fulfilling the deepest purposes of a human life: to serve and express freedom, joy, beauty, peace and love. By itself the realization of no-self can end up dry and lifeless, but when the heart opens wide to the bigger truth of the true Self, life is anything but dry and lifeless.

Click here to download the free spiritual book, Beyond No Self

Gifts With No Giver

A collection of nondual spiritual poetry written from the Heart by Nirmala, who is a spiritual teacher in the Advaita tradition. These poems attempt to capture the undying presence of love in all of its forms. Let your soul be deeply touched by the Rumi-like words of a lover drunk with passion for the truth. Reading one of these poems is a wonderful way to start a meditation. Here is a sample poem:

every taste

every sensation

every possible pleasure

is already present

in the timeless

awareness

that is beating my heart

what use

in chasing dreams

that have already

come true

Click here to download the free spiritual book, Gifts with No Giver

Click here to purchase a copy in our bookstore.

Nothing Personal, Seeing Beyond the Illusion of a Separate Self

Nothing Personal: Seeing Beyond the Illusion of a Separate Self. In this concisely edited collection of satsang talks and dialogues, Nirmala “welcomes whatever arises within the field of experience. In the midst of this welcoming is always an invitation to inquire deeply within, to the core of who and what you are. Again and again, Nirmala points the questions back to the questioner and beyond to the very source of existence itself—to the faceless awareness that holds both the question and the questioner in a timeless embrace.” –From the Foreword by Adyashanti.

“Nothing Personal: Seeing Beyond the Illusion of a Separate Self is an excellent book, very clear and warm-hearted. I love it and recommend it highly. Nirmala is a genuine and authentic teacher, who points with great clarity to the simplicity and wonder of nondual presence. He invites you to say yes to the mystery of every moment. Good stuff!” –Joan Tollifson, Advaita teacher and author of Awake in the Heartland

Review from Amazon.com: “The SINGULARLY BEST BOOK I have read on the Awakened "Self"

Wow. This book is PACKED with one amazing paragraph after another. I cannot even express with words the level to which this book is opening me to the Heaven I find myself in. Nirmala blows my mind... Literally! Some paragraphs have impacted me so greatly that my experience will never be the same. I can sit for hours with just a page out of this book. When I first started having the experience of Awareness that I was not my Mind and not my Body, and not even an "I", it was shocking and strange - I almost didn't know quite how to relate here anymore. This book is helping me to remember what I have always known, and it is like having a mentor with me all the time - Nirmala's "dialogues" with others in this book are really special, as the questions are MY questions, and it is like sitting with Nirmala (as I would "imagine" it, as I have never met him), and being guided back home to US... These words fall short of what this book is to me - language is limiting - but priceless would be a great word! He writes with a great sense of humor, is a remarkable writer and this book flows like a river... I gave another copy away today and am ordering more. Give the gift of this book to you... If you even think for a minute it might be for you... it is!”

Click here to download Part 1 of the spiritual book, Nothing Personal

Click here to purchase a copy of the entire book in our bookstore.

Keep checking back for new spiritual books as they are added to the free downloads list..

About Nirmala:

After a lifetime of spiritual seeking, Nirmala met his teacher, Neelam, a devotee of H.W.L. Poonja (Papaji). After experiencing a profound spiritual awakening in India, he has been offering satsang (gatherings for the truth) and Nondual Spiritual Mentoring sessions in the U.S. and internationally since 1998. Nirmala offers a unique vision and a gentle, compassionate approach, which adds to this rich tradition of inquiry into our true nature. He is the author of several spiritual books, including Nothing Personal: Seeing Beyond the Illusion of a Separate Self. He can be contacted for individual spiritual mentoring sessions by emailing him at: nirmalanow@aol.com. Nirmala lives in Sedona, Arizona with his wife, Gina Lake, and their two corgi’s, Bodhi and Gracie.

About Gina Lake:

After having a spiritual awakening in 1999, Gina Lake has dedicated herself to teaching and writing about awakening. She is the author of several books, including Radical Happiness, Return to Essence, Choosing Love, Anatomy of Desire, Getting Free, Living Your Destiny, and Embracing the Now. Excerpts from her books are available on her website: www.radicalhappiness.com. She also offers both astrological and channeled consultations to support spiritual understanding and awakening. She can be reached by email at ginalakenow@aol.com.She has a Masters degree in Counseling Psychology.

Home Definition of Advaita Satsang About Nirmala, Advaita Spiritual Teacher Nondual Spiritual Mentoring or Spiritual Guidance Satsang Videos Online

Spiritual Teachings of Nonduality Calendar of Satsang Events Bookstore of Books by Nirmala and Gina Lake Download Free Spiritual Books

Listen to Satsang Online Contact Endless Satsang Foundation Links to Spiritual Teachers and Satsang Related Sites What is Advaita or Nonduality?

Listed below are PDF downloads of free spiritual books and other nondual advaita

writings by Nirmala and his wife, Gina Lake, available at no charge.

Please Note: All downloadable content in the free spiritual books listed on this page is free, and can be reproduced or distributed for non-commercial use, with attribution to the original author. For more information on the specific terms of the Creative Commons License that governs the use of this material, please click on the link below. These works are protected by copyright and/or other applicable law. Any other use of these works other than as authorized under this license is prohibited.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License