A travel guide that explores over 500 places of spiritual interest for the modern traveller
Italian author Antonio Rigopoulos arrives in Prasanthi Nilayam in November 1985. Antonio Rigopoulos lives in Venice Italy. He is a Professor by profession in the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice teaching Sanskrit and Indian Religions and Philosophies. He did his MA and PhD in at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In 1985, young Italian researcher Antonio Rigopoulos conducted …
English Anthropologist Colin Turnbull arrives in Sri Ramanasramam in 1949/50. Colin M. Turnbull (23 November 1924 – 28 July 1994) was born in Harrow, England and educated at Magdalen College, Oxford. After serving in the British Royal Volunteer Reserve during World War II, he returned to Oxford and finished his education. Turnbull ultimately received his …
Richard Bock joined Indra Devi in India for Baba’s forty-third birthday in November 1968, and returned with eight millimetre film and the recordings of Baba which became the LP entitled, Sathya Sai Baba Chants the Bhajans. Richard Bock was the Founder-President of Pacific Jazz and World Pacific Records. Through a long personal and professional relationship …
Sir Mark Tully : The Christian who believes in Karma. Sir Mark Tully obituary (The Guardian, Sunday, 25th January, 2026) BBC correspondent and author whose sensitive reporting from India made him a revered public figure in the subcontinent. In 2017 Mark Tully was making a documentary for the BBC World Service to coincide with the …
Nigel John Biggar, Baron Biggar is a British Anglican priest, theologian, ethicist, and life peer. From 2007 to 2022, he was Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology at the University of Oxford. Ethicist and Conservative peer, he joins Natasha Feroze of The Spectator in January, 2026, to discuss the motivations behind the renaming of …
From The Guardian, Ion Trewin writes on Friday, 27th November, 2009. Guardian journalist turned author who wrote a bestselling account of his travels in the Sahara desert. Geoffrey Moorhouse, who has died aged 77, was a Guardian journalist of deep integrity who moved out of daily newspapers to write books on a variety of themes, …
In Search of the Holy Grail and the Precious Blood by Ean and Deike Begg (1995) The Holy Grail: what magic the name conjures up even for those who have forgotten its story. It is the ultimate quest and the one that most characterises the adventurous spirit of the West. It has become a metaphor …
When God Walks The Earth by Jack Shemesh (1992) A devotee’s learned treatise has analysed thoroughly the divinity of Sri Sathya Sai Baba. Sai Baba’s mandir in Prasanthi Nilayam is a replica of creation and reveals all Vedic truth. Out of print, limited availability. The following explanation for Salvation and Liberation, comes from When God Walks …
Seeking The Master by Muzz Murray (1980). Pilgrim’s Guide to Planet Earth : A traveler’s handbook & New Age directory by Parmatma Khalsa (1981). Spiritual India Handbook : A Guide to Temples, Holy Sites, Festivals and Traditions by Stephen Knapp (2009). From Here to Nirvana : The yoga journal guide to spiritual India by Anne …
Series: Westerners in India Richard Wright’s Excellent Adventure. Trailers 1 to 5… Richard Wright’s Excelllent Adventure 00:00 Intro 00:05 Clarence Richard Wright. 9th December 1911 ~ 9th January 2002 00:14 In 1935, Yogananda returned to India for a last visit with his great guru, Sri Yukteswar Giri 00:17 “I sailed from New York on June …
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The Archival Films 1935 ~ 1950 Research Booklet Contents 00:00 Intro00:36 1935 November – Ramana Maharshi with Paramahansa Yogananda and Paul Brunton. Paramahansa Yogananda was accompanied by his secretaries Richard Wright and Ettie Bletsch. Also in the entourage was Buddha Bose, Bishnu Gosh and Bijoy Mullick.02:37 1938 – Jayadevlal Dave Footage 07:04 1945 – Ramachandra …
Series: Westerners in India Scot Bill Aitken at his partner’s (The Maharani Prithwi Bir Kaur of Jind – The Phulkian Dynasty) Delhi house in 1972 “I’m a traveller who writes not a writer who travels.” – Bill Aitken. Author and travel writer Bill Aitken (William McKay Aitken) spent seven ascetic years at the Mirtola Ashram, founded by Sri Yashoda …
https://crystalinks.com/vimana.html Evidence of unexplained ancient aircraft can be found across the planet especially in areas where major civilizations once thrived. Physical evidence of alien intervention in human history is undeniable. Ancient Astronaut Theory seeks to explain alien presence in the past linked with Ancient Aircraft and purported landing strips, especially in areas like India (Vimanas), Egypt, and Mesoamerica. Pictographs …
Series: Westerners in India Mystic India ~ Through the Art of Two Hungarian Painters
Series: Westerners in India Maximiani Portas had long been attracted to the Orient by the poet Leconte de Lisle. Even in her early teens she had been thrilled by his evocation of the deified Aryan hero of India and the pride of the privileged godlike race: “Rama, son of Dasharatha, whom the Brahmins honour, Thou …
Muktananda https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfvx-cbEOmxDf2FgsJZnBgQIugYLhTF6q Ashrams of India Volume 1 *Gurudev Siddha Peeth, the ashram of Swami Muktananda. *Swami Nityananda Ashram, the main ashram of Bhagawan Nityananda. Across the road from Kailash Niwas is the Shaligram Mandir. Sri Shaligram Swami (1929-1961) lived in Ganeshpuri for many years and was one of the chief disciples of Nityananda. *Nityananda Ashram, …
From FATE Magazine, January, 1990. The Eastern Kalki Avatar (Pronounced “Kahl-kee Ah va-tar,” an Avatar is a divine purpose in human form.) is a reference to the god Vishnu’s (“Veesh-nu”) tenth and final incarnation that is supposed to come at the end of the Kali Yuga (“Kah lee Yoog”) or Black Age. Duringthis Age, it …
India ~ A Predestined Journey : Sathya Sai Baba : Divine One (March, 1976).
A Pilgrim’s Guide to Planet Earth by Paramatma Khalsa was first published in 1981. More activity, noise, smells than one can imagine: the passion of life is ed for all to feel, not covered up as Western sensibility demands. Most travellers either plunge blindly into this gushing river of life (often to be engulfed by …