The Moment of Choice [Audio CD]

Gangaji (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 2003

Following the impulses and strategies of the mind to escape or deny uncomfortable emotions may seem to be choiceless. But there is, in fact, a moment of choice to not follow our habituated conditioning. This collection of conversations with Gangaji clearly illustrates how that moment of choice can be easily recognized in the willingness to consciously investigate our own tactics of avoidance. When any thought or emotion, however uncomfortable, is met in the light of conscious awareness, it immediately loses its authority over our happiness and well being. Rather than something to be run from it becomes a doorway to an ever-deepening discovery of one’s true self.

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About the Author

Born in Texas in 1942, Gangaji grew up in Mississippi. After graduating from the University of Mississippi in 1964, she married and had a daughter. In 1972, she moved to San Francisco where she began exploring deeper levels of her being.

In her personal search for truth, Gangaji pursued a spiritual path. She took Bodhisattva vows, practiced Zen and Vipassana meditation, helped run a Tibetan Buddhist Meditation Center, and had a career as an acupuncturist in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Despite her successes, Gangaji continued to experience a deep and persistent longing for fulfillment. She prayed for a final, true teacher. This prayer was answered in 1990 when she met Sri Poonjaji, a disciple of Sri Ramana Maharshi, on the banks of the holy river Ganga in India. In this meeting with her teacher, whom she lovingly calls Papaji, the true fulfillment she had sought throughout her life was revealed.

Today, Gangaji offers Sri Ramana Maharshi and Sri Poonjaji’s radical invitation to stop the search for fulfillment and enlightenment and to fully recognize the truth of one’s being, which is already completely whole, totally free, and permanently at peace.

Each year Gangaji travels the world, speaking to thousands of people from all walks of life. A teacher, mother, and grandmother, she is the author of, You Are THAT! Satsang with Gangaji, Volumes I & II; Who Are You? The Path of Self-Inquiry; and Freedom & Resolve: The Living Edge of Surrender.

Product Details

• Audio CD
• Publisher: The Gangaji Foundation (September 2003)
• ISBN-10: 1887984291
• ISBN-13: 978-1887984294
• Product Dimensions: 5 x 4.9 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 0.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,152,615 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Spiritually it takes me home, July 8, 2006

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Anything and literally everything I've ever purchased by Gangaji has found a permanent home in my home. I am unsure if there is anything she has published that I do not own. She has changed my life, my way of thinking and not thinking, my life is happy each moment and more than anything else....I know that, I AM THAT, and understand how and why. I celebrate any time Gangaji is part of my day...my life.

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Identifying that moment that transforms us, October 7, 2005

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Another clear and penetrating message to us to help us find that moment in ourselves when we have the choice to be what we are or what we want to be.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Exceptional!, June 16, 2009

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Of all her audio CDs, this one is my favourite! The content is less than that of her other audio CDs, but it is so relevant to our day to day lives that I listen to some part of it almost every day!