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- Ramana MaharshiSri Ramana Maharshi is widely considered the truest and most authentic sage of the twentieth century and a great example of enlightened living and teaching of Advaita.
- Ekchart TolleEckhart Tolle is a renowned modern teacher of enlightenment. His emphasis is on awakening, living in now, and accepting what is.
- Byron KatieByron Katie is considered one of the better modern teachers of the \'end of suffering.\' Her emphasis is on investigating stressful thoughts and on finding truth and love.
- Nisargadatta MaharajSri Nisargadatta Maharaj is widely known as one of the authentic sages of the twentieth century. His eloquent teachings are among the most acclaimed in the world of nonduality.
- RumiRumi is probably the most widely-read spiritual poet of all time. His songs are of love. His poems express the longing of the human for the divine as the anguish of separated lovers.
- Lao TzuLao Tzo is one of the most influential spiritual figures of all time. He spoke of the Tao, the great way. His teachings are ancient, yet timeless.
- Mahatma GandhiMahatma Gandhi was considered by many the finest human being born in the nineteenth century. He life exemplified truth, non-violence, compassion, determination, serenity, and kindness.
- OshoOsho was one of the more controversial and colorful and yet profound spiritual teachers of recent times. He constantly broke traditional taboos. His oratory was fascinating, and his worldwide following impressively large.
- GurdjieffGurdjieff was a highly original, influential, and revolutionary spiritual guru of the last century. His emphasis was on witnessing and understanding the thought process.
- AmmaAmma is a popular and revered modern-day saint. Her emphasis is on developing love, devotion, kindness, acceptance, compassion, and service.
- KrishnamurtiKrishnamurti was an internationally recognized, respected, and valued enlightened individual of the last century. He taught freedom from conditioning.
- KabirKabir is widely considered one of the greatest spiritual poet of all time. His language is simple and his insights run deep. His is respected by people of all religions.
- Nhat HanhNhat Hanh is one of the best known Buddhist teachers in the West. His teachings and practices appeal to people from various religious, spiritual, and political backgrounds.
- Sri Sri RavishankarSri Sri Ravishankar is a very popular and influential contemprary spiritual teacher. He teaches that breathing is the link between body and the mind. He teaches alleviating stress and suffering by regulating ones breath.
- Baba RamdevBaba Ramdev is one of the more popular saints of present day India. He teaches yoga and pranayam through retreats, meetings, and regular TV appearances. He says yoga and pranayam can get rid of many mental and physical problems and can lead one to a life of health, joy, and peace.
- RamakrishnaRamakrishna was one of the most famous and beloved spiritual teachers of the nineteenth century. He taught devotion, studied many religions, and said god-realization was possible through all of them.
- PapajiPapaji was among the most effective Advaita teachers of the twentieth century and is often credited with the spread of Advaita in the west.
- Hazrat Inayat KhanHazrat Inayat Khan was the founder of Universal Sufism and the Sufi Order International. His universal message of Divine Unity – Tawhid – focused on the themes of Love, Harmony and Beauty.
- Jean KleinJean Klein, musicologist and medical doctor from Central Europe, spent many years in India, studying Advaita and Yoga. He taught \"Direct Way\" in Europe and the United States.
- Dalai LamaHis Holiness The Dalai Lama is among the most popular spiritual leaders on today\'s world stage. He has strongly encouraged the scientific study of meditation.
- Khalil GibranKhalil Gibran was one of the most beloved poets of the last century. His poetry is read, recited, and admired by people across the entire globe
- Douglas Harding, Douglas Harding was an English mystic, philosopher, and author of many books. He calls his discovery headlessness, which he says is the same as \"seeing who you really are.\"
- Idries ShahIdries Shah was a Sufi scholar and a deep thinker. He is responsible for re-introducing Sufism as an universal form of wisdom.
- AdyashantiAdyashanti is a modern enlightened teacher. He teaches the end of identification with the person, which is essentially false. He teaches waking up to oneness as the only reality.
- Baba Hari DassBaba Hari Dass is a silent monk and guru who were classically trained in the tradition of Ashtanga Yoga (the Yoga of Eight Limbs). He has maintained a continual vow of silence since 1952.
- Deepak ChopraDeepak Chopra is a popular and influential spiritual teacher living in the USA. A Harvard-trained physician and best-selling author, he emphasizes the connection between the mind and the body. He teaches meditation, Ayurveda, and restoring body\'s natural balance.
- GangajiGangaji is a popular modern enlightened teacher. She claims lineage to her teacher, Papaji, and through Papaji to Ramana. She teaches discovering one\'s true nature.
- Ramesh S. BalsekarRamesh S. Balsekar was a disciple of the late Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, a renowned Advaita master. From early childhood, Balsekar was drawn to Advaita, a nondual teaching, particularly the teachings of Ramana Maharshi and Wei Wu Wei.
- Seung SahnKnown for his exuberant teaching style, boundless energy, and compassionate wisdom, Zen Master Seung Sahn was a Korean Jogye Seon master and founder of the international Kwan Um School of Zen—the largest school of Zen present in the Western world.
- Shirdi Sai BabaShirdi Sai Baba was an Indian guru and yogi and one of the greatest saints ever born in India. His main aim in life was to make people realize the eternal truth \"Sabka Malik Ek\" (One God governs all). Many devotees believe that he was a Sadguru. There are many stories and eyewitness accounts of miracles he performed.
- Sri AtmanandaSri Atmananda was bright in his studies, fearless, and completely honest. He started writing poetry about the age of fourteen. His educational career was outstanding. He had had some early interest in religion this diminished during his teens. Sri Atmananda met a sanyasin (holy man) Yogananda who was very different, impressive and charming in every way.
- Bernadette RobertsBernadette Roberts is a former Carmelita nun and a contemplative in the Catholic tradition. She distinguishes between a mysticism based on visions, ecstasies, and other fascinating and paranormal experiences, and the contemplative journey, in which transformation comes about through the silent and non-experiential working of God\'s grace in the soul.
- BodhidharmaFame: Bodhidharma was South Indian Tamilian and was a Pallava prince from the kingdom of Kanchipuram, the third son of King Sugandha. He got the name Bodhidharma by his Indian teacher Prajnatara. Bodhidharma was the Buddhist monk traditionally credited as the transmitter of Zen to China.
- Franklin Merrell-WolffFranklin Merrell-Wolff was an American philosopher, mathematician and sage who combined an extra ordinary intellect with profound mystical insight and authenticity.
- Katie DavisKatie Davis is an enlightened spiritual teacher who offers Advaita satsang and Self-Inquiry as the direct approach to Self-realization.
- Louise HayLouise Hay is a motivational author, and the founder of Hay House, a publishing company. She has authored several self-help and New Thought books, and is best known for her 1984 book, You Can Heal Your Life.
- Neem Karoli BabaNeem Karoli Baba was a great Indian saint of the Himalayan lineage. He is also known as Neem Karori Baba, and is called \"Maharaj-ji\" by His devotees. He was a Hindu guru and devotee of the Hindu deity Hanuman.
- Nirmala DeviShri Mataji Nirmala Devi is the founder of Sahaja Yoga, a new religious movement. She has proclaimed that she is the complete incarnation of the Adi Shakti, and is worshiped as such.
- Pema ChodronPema Chodron is an ordained Buddhist nun in the Tibetan vajrayana tradition, and a teacher in the lineage of Chogyam Trungpa. The goal of her work is the ability to apply Buddhist teachings in everyday life.Pema Chodron is a leading exponent of teachings on meditation and how they apply to everyday life.
- Richard RoseRichard Rose was an American mystic, esoteric philosopher, author, poet, and investigator of paranormal phenomena. He believed a spiritual Ultimate truth exists and can be found for oneself with sufficient application of effort, and recommended skeptical approaches such as his.
- Rick WarrenRick Warren is the founder and senior pastor of the evangelical megachurch, Saddleback Church, in Lake Forest, California, the fourth largest church in the United States.
- Shakti Caterina MaggiShakti has been sharing the realization of the Self since 2003 with Bodhi Avasa, an enlightened master from Wales. She herself holds daily workshop on self realization and does private sessions.
- Sri Siddharameshwar MaharajSri Siddharameshwar Maharaj was one of the head gurus of the Inchegeri Sampradaya founded by his guru Shri Bhauseheb Maharaj, which is a branch of the Navnath Sampradaya, the \'Nine Masters\' tradition in India.
- Surya DasLama Surya Das is an American-born lama in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. He is a poet, chant master, spiritual activist and author of many popular works on Buddhism; a teacher and spokesperson for Buddhism in the West.
- Swami Dayananda SaraswatiSwami Dayananda Saraswati was an important Hindu religious scholar and the founder of the Arya Samaj, \"Society of Nobles\", a Hindu reform movement, founded in 1875.He was the first man who gave the call for Swarajay in 1876.
- Wayne Walter DyerWayne Walter Dyer is a popular American self-help advocate, author and lecturer. He worked as a teacher, counselor, and therapist and published three books on individual and group counseling.
