He never talked much, unless asked something.

Every morning he used to sit for a silent satsang, communion. Ramana Maharshi was a silent pool of energy. Ouspensky who were only teachers – profound teachers, but not mystics. They don’t even know him as they know Sri Aurobindo or P. He was not a master that’s why people don’t know him as they know George Gurdjieff or J. Shri Ramana Maharshi was one of the most significant people of this century. Perhaps once in a while a rare animal uses the window.

Their windows – whether opened or closed – don’t make much difference. Their windows are open, but their intelligence is not enough to look out and see the stars and the sky and the birds and the trees. Then there are animals who know that they are, but they don’t have the intelligence to inquire what it is that they are. They are closed, their existence is windowless. These are the three differences, or three categories the world can be divided into: there are things which are, but they do not know that they are, hence there is no opening for any inquiry. Truth simply means, “I am, but I do not know who I am.” The question is natural – “I must know the reality of my being.” It is not curiosity. It is not something learned or adopted later on in life. That is, it must be the reality ' - Ramana Maharshi Exploring, in a clear contemporary approach, the pre-eminent nondual teacher of the 20th century, Ramana Maharshi, through extensive quotes from source documents and detailed commentary from Robert Wolfe, author of Living Nonduality, Awakening to Infinite Presence, One Essence and other titles on nondual awareness.What are the qualities of the seeker of truth?Įvery child is born with an innate search for truth. That something must have a continuous, uninterrupted existence.

There must be something from which the mind arises, and into which it subsides. Therefore, the two are but thoughts of the mind. That is, they appear when the mind is active, and disappear as soon as the mind ceases to function. In the state of deep sleep, they cease to appear.

They are apparent in the waking and dream state alone. Judged by this test, the two, the seer and the spectacle, are both unreal: these two appear intermittently. But that alone is real which has a continuous existence. This book summarized in a single paragraph: 'Everyone is aware of two things, namely himself, the seer, and the world which he sees and he assumes that they are both real.

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