Nothing Ever Happened

David Godman

This 3-volume biography about Papaji (H.W.L. Poonja) is truly as entertaining and informative as can be imagined. It is a book I used to read every night until I could no longer keep my eyelids open. Papaji was a gnani who lived a life of daily miracles and was able to transmit realization to others. The book is similar to Autobiography of a Yogi, but is (in my view) far more uplifting and fascinating. It is also more topical since Papaji lived during our time and speaks about many of the spiritual teachers and movements that have arisen since the 1960's.

The book is jam-packed with detailed accounts of peoples' miraculous experiences and instantaneous awakenings at the feet of this Advaitan master. The only drawback is that for several years after reading it I could not escape the fact that Papaji was alive until the late 1990's and I did not hear of him until after his death. After my first reading of the 3-volume set, I immediately went back to volume one and started over. It is that good.

Review by James Braha