After seven years of studying Advaita Vedanta in India, Madhukar Thompson now teaches Self-realization in the tradition of Adi Shankara.

Advaita Vedanta offers a unique and perfect means for Self-knowledge. It can resolve the fundamental and universal ignorance about our own true nature with which all human beings are born. As this ignorance is about our own nature, and as our true nature is the very substratum of our own experiences, emotions, thoughts and actions, there is no aspect of our lives, which is unaffected by this fundamental ignorance. Growth and objectivity are always compromised by ignorance. Because Vedanta deals with fundamental Self-ignorance, it is the path of ultimate human growth and the means to fulfilling a human being’s highest potential.

Providing the Vedantic tools, Self-realization can be taught and learned. Each traditional Shankara Vedanta teacher uses the same teaching modus, which is based on Shankara’s guidelines as expounded in his commentaries on the ten Principal Upanishads, the Brahma Sutras and the Bhagavad Gita. The method is independent of a teacher’s individual enlightenment experience. Because the teaching’s focus is solely directed on the spiritual requirements of the student, a “personality cult,” centered on the guru, cannot arise.

Madhukar Thompson , spiritual teacher and guide, acclaimed author, highly esteemed international citizen, founder of Neti Neti Press, speaks to spiritual seekers around the world, responding to the deepest spiritual quests and questions of our time. He offers his wisdom based on his own direct experience and on the non-dual teachings of his preceptors Osho, HWL Poonja (Papaji), Sri Ramana Maharshi, Ramesh Balsekar and D. B. Gangolli. Madhukar assists seekers to end immediately all outward searching and discover, recognize and experience directly within their own hearts the nameless and formless Truth of who they truly are.