' Conscious Awareness of the Self '...

Sri Annamalai Swami spent many years in the company of Sri Ramana Maharshi. Sri Annamalai Swami said that his years of constant meditation in the 1950's and 1960's finally brought him to a continuous awareness of the Self. The Sri Annamalai Swami quotes in The Seven Steps to Awakening come from the book Annamalai Swami Final Talks.


Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj's Guru told him to focus his attention on the 'I am' to the exclusion of all else. Sri Nisargadatta spent all of his free time doing that and after three years he realized the Self. The Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj quotes in The Seven Steps to Awakening come from the book I AM THAT.


The Yoga Vasistha is an ancient scripture from what the West calls "Hinduism." Swami Venkatesananda's English translation of the Yoga Vasistha was published in 1976 under the title The Supreme Yoga.





-The above quotes are from the introduction to the book
The Seven Steps to Awakening.