“Whatever be the means adopted, you must at last return to the Self, so why not abide as the Self here and now?” — Ramana Maharshi In the ancient township of Tiruchulli, in a dry, dusty corner of South India, legend speaks of Lord Shiva saving the land from a deluge on three separate occasions….
I am often asked, “If you were stranded on a desert island and had only one book, what would it be?” The book you are now holding in your hands — Talks with Ramana Maharshi — is one of the two or three I always mention. And Talks tops the list in this regard: it…
The essence of a man is pure Spirit, Being or Universal Consciousness. This Spirit prowls in the lion, spreads its limbs in the trees, endures in the stone; in man alone it not only lives but knows it lives. It is said in various scriptures and by teachers that a spiritual seeker should make effort…
I have to record my gratitude to Maharshi for his insistence on the ever-present accessibility, the naturalness, the obviousness, of Self-realization. Many a time, I had been informed and had read, that Enlightenment is, of all states, the rarest and the remotest and the most difficult—in practice, impossible—and here was a great sage telling us…
