Self Realization

Continued from Ramana Maharshi's Biography-His Disposition This article, a part of Ramana Maharshi's biography is about His central teaching of self enquiry. The Maharshi never explicitly stated that he was a Guru but he used the expression to mean ...

The fruit of self realization is for the one who is centered. A popular Hindu story about Lord Ganesha conveys the truth.Saint Narada once handed over a mango to Shiva and Parvati. He said that it was a special mango which ...

Bhagavan Ramana's path to self realisation, self enquiry plunges one directly into the quest of knowing one's true self. All other paths like following rituals, Japa or chanting of mantras, Pranayama and even meditating on objects are all considered as aids ...

Bhagavan Ramana enlightened all those who approached Him with their various, contrasting doubts regarding their spiritual progress. Though Bhagavan advocated self enquiry, He never stood in the path of seekers who pursued other spiritual practices that could later form a base ...

The court of Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi did not sport any religious discourses though the Master answered the queries of His devotees. The very life of Bhagavan Ramana was a teaching by itself and a keen seeker would not miss the ...

Accepting the Spiritual IdealThe first step towards gathering the precious life-diamonds is to wake up to the fact that life is precious, because it has a precious destiny. Human beings are not born without an inherent higher purpose. Whatever be the ...

All ritualism in every religion is nothing but a dramatization of Vedantic truths, be it in the temples or in the yajnasala, be it a homa or a puja with flowers. Not only in Hinduism, Christianity, Islam, or Buddhism, in every ...

Continued From The First PartThe ‘I’The so called ‘I’, the ego, whether it is simply a thought or the first thought as Sri Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi has aptly put it, or mere body – consciousness (‘I am the body’) ...

Wasting God’s giftsAs it is, we must understand that God, the higher power, has given us enough and more health, wealth, intelligence and all we need to lead a happy and helpful life in this world, and also guides us now ...

Continued From The First PartNot a Post Dated ChequeI suspect that it was because of this renewed assurance – Maharshi’s insistence on the present availability of Self-realisation, that it became possible for me at last to share this realisation with a ...

The Backdrop Though I lived in India from 1937 to 1945 I did not, alas, get to see Ramana Maharshi. In fact, I knew almost nothing about him at that time. Since then, however, he has become one ...

Continued From The First Part New Colour, New Meaning to 'Who am 'I'?' enquiryRamana Maharshi's famous, to some, notorious question, “Who Am I?” immediately got a totally new colour. For several years, at home, I had been meditating ...