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Am I - I Am is an assortment of delectable snippets from various talks of Karl Renz - talks which Karl often refers to as 'Living Words'. These 'Living Words' are best described in Karl's own words...

Born in Jadla, Nava Shaher district, Punjab, Babaji's persona was that of a light hearted fakir. Interactions with him were punctuated with exclamations like 'be happy', 'be joyful'. His approach to...

Karl is like quicksilver, you can't catch him and he's impossible to define. He offers no teaching, and no help, and only speaks 'I' to 'I'. He employs his unerring empty-handed karate to unseat each...

Around 1945, in the area of Nag Hammadi in Upper Egypt, some peasants accidentally discovered some 53 parchments, written in Sahidic Coptic, buried in a large jar one meter high. Those leather-bound...

On one level, this is the story of a bright, inquisitive, affectionate child - Divya - who has to grapple with some of life's toughest problems in her troublesome 'destiny' of cancer. And it is about...

Watch out. This is not another of those feel-good 'oneness' Advaita books. This one is a double-barrelled shotgun taking pot shots at the conceptualising mind - one barrel being fired by the great...

Actually, they are rather plain and direct. They do not construct any complex system of ideas and beliefs. Nor do they build up any elaborate picture of the world. Instead, in some what brief and...

"When the traveler through the vast vistas of life finally turns his gaze inwards in his search for Ultimate Reality, gentle breezes blow across the mind, stirring the leaves of contemplation,...

'You don't need this book!' Karl would say, 'You stand to gain absolutely nothing from it.' He would probably add he hopes nobody gains or understands anything from him. What's more, he would mean...

Must the Upanishads be 'difficult'? Actually, they are rather plain and direct. They do not construct any complex system of ideas and beliefs. Nor do they build up any elaborate picture of the world...

Jim Wilson is an adventurer: mountaineering; Antarctic exploration; adventure films with Sir Edmund Hillary (on one of which he drove a jet boat up Mother Ganga from ocean to sky); climbing and...

Life Finds Its Way is a fascinating account of Nandini Kapadia's close association with Sabyasachi Guha. Her lifelong passionate interest in spirituality as well as her many years as a devotee of...

"People always ask 'what do you think about unknotting the karmic knots'? That's Vedanta. Unknotting your tendencies by techniques, by meditation or something. You come to me, we are doing the...

Mind loves new concepts for they provide a cosy terra firma v¢'Ç ¨'Äú a comfortable landing place. Of late v¢'Ç ¨ÀúPeacev¢'Ç ¨'Ñ¢ has been one of the famous landing places for spiritual seekers...

""The astounding first intimation to the effect that, by the word GOD, all saints and sages of all times have implied the realizable truth of oneself, was received by the author when he was a 35...

We are constantly feeding and dressing and indulging our bodies, but how often do we nourish our soul? Shwetaashwatara Upanishad, the rare gem amongst the Upanishads, teaches us just how to do that...

Order flows from consistent laws. Our understanding of our universe is changing, but Reality behind it is unchanged. Einstein's relativity amended Newtonian determinism, and was in turn amended by...

Here 'lies' the truth! The truth which can be spoken is, for sure, not the Truth. Truth is never beautiful and beauty is never true. That's the first premise in Tao, says Karl. For someone who...

Isha, Kena, Katha Upanishads The outside world grabs our attention with its many-hued and varied attractions. Looking out at it, it is difficult to believe that there could be a world inside, too...

'Extreme' - that's how seasoned Advaita buffs would term the Karl Renz brand of Advaita, suggesting compromise as an option. However the option of compromising or not itself gets burnt out in the...

Undecided: Neti-Neti Neti-Neti: Neither this, nor that. This is a self-inquiry technique of negation which negates all things that you are not. Finally what remains, is what-you-are. Not as the one...

Decoding Karl is akin to understanding electricity: simply cannot be done. Its effects, though, may be felt and described. That's what you may encounter here in Worry And Be Happy. It's the welcome...