AFNTA - Quest for Allah: 2019

Books that helped my quest

.A search in secret Egypt by Paul Brunton
.A search in secret India by Paul Brunton
.Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
.In Quest of God by Swami Ramdas
.Iqbal's poetry
.Living with kundalini by Gopi Krishna
.Pilgrim of stars by Dilip kumar roy and Indra Devi
.Shahab Nama by Shahab
.The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna by Swami Nikhilananda
.The Hunger of the Soul by Nancy Mayorga
.The Practice of the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence of the Resurrection. Translated by Salvatore Scurba
.The life of Teresa of Jesus by Teresa of Avila. Translated by Allison Peers
.The varieties of religious experience by William James
A pilgrim's journey: the autobiography of Ignatius of Loyola by Joseph. N. Tylenda
Confessions By St Augustine
Kashf al Mahjub by Data Gunj Bakhash, Persian to English translation by R.A.Nicholson. Urdu translation by Mufti Naeemi
The Visions of Therese Neumann by Johannes Steiner
The dark night of the soul, by St John of the cross. Translated by Allison Peers
The life of ST. Catherine of Siena by Blessed Raymond of Capua
• The autobiography of St Therese of Lisieux. Translated by John Beevers

Ashram; hermitage
Baba: old man
Babaji: esteemed father
Daam:a spiritual prayer for healing
Fakir; a Muslim ascetic mystic. beggar
Fana; disintegration. passing away ( in God, in teacher, in holy prophet )
Jazzab. deep absorption
Kundalini. serpent power. When awakened it rises progressively from base of spine to the head
Mantra. a holy word or phrase, to be repeated
Marakba: contemplation. meditation
Maya. cosmic illusion
Mujahida: a form of Jihad or holy war, but the purpose is God-realization by spiritual means
Mujzoob: a person absorbed in God
Murshad: a spiritual guide
Mystic. A person dedicated to find God. He/she could be from any religion. Sufi, yogi, fakir, durvesh, qalandar , and sadhu, are various types of mystics
Namaz; Islamic prayer. one of the five pillars of Islam
Puja. ceremonial worship
Pujari. priest that performs Puja
Sadhana: spirtual practices in order to reach God
Sadhu. a monk or a holy person
Samadhi. superonscious state, trance-like state
Shariat. Islamic religious laws and traditions
Sri. a title of respect
Sufi. a Muslim mystic
Swami. monk. they have taken vows of chastity, obedience and poverty
Tareekat. islamic mysticism
Tasauwuf. Islamic mysticism
Tawakkul; trust in God. A central pillar of Islmic mysticism
Yoga: union. a path(s) to reach God in Hindu mysticism
Yogi. a practitioner of Yoga
Zikar; repetition of a name ( usually God's) or a phrase