The Teachers of One

By Paula Marvelly

Paula Marvelly presents a collection of interviews with the world's most influential spiritual teachers. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1842930281
• ISBN13: 9781842930281
• Release Date: January 1970
• Publisher: Watkins Media Limited
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Excellent!

All seekers will empathise with this sincere and beautifully written, personal search for the truth of the Self, as the author traverses the world to interview a number of modern teachers of Advaita. There is much to learn about their personal backgrounds, teaching styles and content and gems of wisdom are elicited by the penetrating questions. But for me it was the interludes between these, where the author writes about her own feelings and reactions that make this book special. The reader shares her moments of confusion, loneliness and yearning as well as those of peace, understanding and acceptance, culminating in a samAdhi experience in Ramana's Virupaksha cave at Arunachala. Wonderful! Dennis Waite, author of Back to the Truth: 5000 years of Advaita

Living Advaita....in simplicity !

I really liked that Marvelly's book. Being interested for a long time to non-dual teachers I was surprised by the author ease to present her subject. Her interviews are well conducted and her book is easy to read for newcommers ou "advanced" fans of Advaita. I particularily enjoyed her rendering of her visit to Sri Ramanasramam in India. Great book, highly recommended !

Welcome contribution

In this book Paula Marvelly interviews fifteen contemporary teachers of Advaita. Each teacher has a slightly different (occasionally contradictory) take on the teaching, which makes for very rich reading. This is accompanied by Paula's own sparse but valuable commentary in which she is not afraid to expose her own vulnerability and frustration as a seeker.In all, this is a welcome contribution to the glut of Advaita books available at the moment, giving just about the right amount of each teachers perspective without too much waffle.I look forward to a volume two!

Some people have all the Lucknow... :)

Awesome work...and I hope Marvelly will consider a sequel including even more teachers (Stephen Jourdain? Byron Katie? Neelam?), although this is a great representative sampling. Not only are the interviews with these modern-day Advaitins at once engaging and penetrating, but Marvelly's chronicling of her own "walk on the path" of nondual understanding is thoughtful and touching, and deeply personal in a way I very much appreciate and relate to. The interview with Pamela Wilson especially is like sitting with her in satsang; marvelously vivid. This is must reading for anyone interested in timeless wisdom and spiritual self-reliance.

A book that stays on your mind

This is a book to read slowly and savor, as each page offers so much to reflect on -- and even argue with! Impelled by her own spiritual search, Paula Marvelly interviews the best-known teachers of Advaita and asks the questions that matter. The resulting conversations are intense and energy-filled. Marvelly's likeable, questioning personality shines through, a good counterpoint to the teachers' assurance. She observes them and herself with honesty and touches of humor. The dialogues are enhanced by Marvelly's striking photographic portraits of the teachers. I turned to them time and again while reading, finding they deepened my sense of each teacher's personality. I don't know when I've read a book that gave me more to think about!