TABLE OF CONTENTS -- THE FIRE OF FREEDOM

 

Introduction: Biography of Papaji, pp. iii-xi

Acknowledgements, p. xii

Chapter 1 - Who is thinking? pp. 1-9

Chapter 2 - Throw away the oars, pp. 10-14

Chapter 3 - It's something that is there all the time, pp. 15-25

Chapter 4 - Desires will only be a problem when they leave an impression in the mind, pp. 26-35

Chapter 5 - People who want to be busy don't come to satsangs such as these, pp. 36-45

Chapter 6 - Supreme devotion is not to give rise to a single thought, pp. 46-52

Chapter 7 - Who and where is this 'I' that wants to be free? pp. 53-57

Chapter 8 - Grace is always encouraging you to seek it, pp. 58-60

Chapter 9 - In true love everything that is not yourself drops off, pp. 61-63

Chapter 10 - I am the unique principle which makes the rose grow, pp. 64-73

Chapter 11 - What comes and goes is a trap, pp. 74-83

Chapter 12 - The knowledge 'I am free' is a fire that burns up any thoughts that approach, pp. 84-86

Chapter 13 - Whatever you experience, reject it, pp. 87-92

Chapter 14 - Nobody is a seeker after liberation because nobody exists, pp. 93-99

Chapter 15 - You have forgotten the purpose for which you incarnated, pp. 100-106

Chapter 16 - Don't overload yourself up with the Ramayana of everyone else's lives, pp. 107-115

Chapter 17 - This question 'Who am I?' will give you an answer that you have never heard before, pp. 116-121

Chapter 18 - Self is closer to you than your own breath, pp. 122-131

Chapter 19 - Mind is looking for awareness, but the aware mind does not look for anything, pp. 132-138

Chapter 20 - The Guru is none other than your own Self, pp. 139-141

Chapter 21 - Dwelling on the enjoyment creates the desire to enjoy it again and again, pp. 142-147

Chapter 22 - Don't stir a single thought, pp. 148-150

Chapter 23 - No teaching has so far touched the truth, pp. 151-157

Chapter 24 - Give up all relationships, pp. 158-162

Chapter 25 - Nobody believes me when I say, 'You are already in this state, this place,' pp. 163-171

Chapter 26 - The primary mistake everyone makes is to seek happiness from transactions that involve the senses, pp. 172-180

Chapter 27 - No one has so far described it, and no one ever will, pp. 181-187

Chapter 28 - Find the thoughtfulness that is there between thoughts, pp. 188-192

Chapter 29 - This is a fathomless ocean, a fathomless ocean, pp. 193-196

Chapter 30 - Your acts of concentration and meditation leave footprints, pp. 197-204

Chapter 31 - Investigating and analysing your beliefs will not help you unless you choose as the subject for your examination the ego that has all these beliefs, pp. 205-210

Chapter 32 - This is the ultimate and final truth: there is no bondage, no liberation, and no one even aspiring for liberation, pp. 211-222

Chapter 33 - When you have lost the concept of duality, of two, oneness also goes, pp. 223-234

Chapter 34 - This place where the 'I' vanishes is wisdom, pp. 235-239

Chapter 35 - Give up the mind's conviction that this is something that you 'do', pp. 240-249

Chapter 36 - Drop the idea that you are on a route to a destination, pp. 250-252

Chapter 37 - The power that you are absorbed in looks after you, pp. 253-261

Chapter 38 - Mind is the transactions that take place between the subject and the objects you retrieve from the past, pp. 262-266

Chapter 39 - There have been instances in which a single vision changed and transformed a person's life, pp. 267-270

Chapter 40 - This fire of knowledge will bring about understanding and knowledge, pp. 271-273

Chapter 41 - You have to be serious, and you have to want freedom to the exclusion of everything else, pp. 274-287

Glossary, pp. 289-291