For several weeks in 1935, Dr. Evans-Wentz resided at the Ashram of Sri Ramana Maharshi. The British authorities rejected his plans to visit Mount Kailas and Lake Manasarowar in Western Tibet, so he went to South India. During his stay at the Arunachala Hill, he would often walk reverently around its circumference—barefoot and alone. The…
The infinite a sudden guest Has never assumed to be, But how can that stupendous come Which never went away? —Emily Dickinson How did you first find your way to the hermitage of Ramana Maharshi? I went to India with the idea of finding a Guru. I landed in Bombay, then traveled all over India…
In Light of the Teachings of Ramana Maharshi “Is the Self, is it ever attained?” . . . “Can you ‘realize’ the Self?” . . . “All are Self-Realized” . . . “Be as you are” . . . “Be Still and Know that you are God.” These statements were made on different occasions by…
“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 (Editors Note: This was written as an introduction to an American published edition of Talks) — Talks with Ramana Maharshi — is one of the two…
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…
