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Ramana Maharshi


Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi (December 30, 1879 – April 14, 1950), born Venkataraman Iyer, was an Indian sage. After having attained liberation at the age of 16, he left home for Arunachala, a mountain considered sacred by Hindus, at Tiruvannamalai, and lived there for the rest of his life. Although born a Brahmin, after having attained moksha he declared himself an "Atiasrami", a Sastraic state of unattachment to anything in life and beyond all caste restrictions.

Sri Ramana maintained that the purest form of his teachings was the powerful silence which radiated from his presence and quieted the minds of those attuned to it. He gave verbal teachings only for the benefit of those who could not understand his silence. His verbal teachings were said to flow from his direct experience of Consciousness as the only existing reality. When asked for advice, he recommended self-enquiry as the fastest path to moksha. Though his primary teaching is associated with Non-dualism, Advaita Vedanta, and Jnana yoga, he highly recommended Bhakti, and gave his approval to a variety of paths and practices.

Sri Ramana is the direct master of Papaji. Direct Master of Mooji.

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Only one approach to the goal

In the end there is only one approach to the goal, and that is through the realization of the Self, so why waste time on other roads, which at best will only lead to the final path? Better to be on the final path itself all the time, than on an auxiliary route. Meditate on what the Self is, that is all. There is nothing else but to find the answer to that. See the Self in all; act "automatically" so to speak, and let "it" do it and it always will.


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"I told him to be fruitful and multiply, but not in those words."

Comm-uni-k-t!