Be As You Are: The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi (Compass)

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Misinterpretation of these books can lead to all sorts of new-age fluffy ideas which only eclipse the wisdom that is truly grounded. It is open to discussion whether the καθὼς clause, which here follows, characterizes the above statement, as Meyer and many others urge, or whether, with Godet, the sentence, "That they all may be one," should not be taken as a general statement, to be followed by the καθὼς clause, which characterizes the following words.

Wanting to reform the world without discovering one's true self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns. When you have the realisation you can see that these differences are very superficial, that they are not at all substantial or permanent, and what is essential in all these appearances is the one truth, the real. Containing some of important topics like meditation, enquiry, yoga, and the nature of God, a great book if you interested to Sri Ramana's teachings. Each chapter centers on one or a few questions that are common in Advaita and nondualism, asked by the people who sat with him, and Ramana gives the answer.

Much of these chapters consist of Ramana telling the interviewer to stop over-intellectualizing about obscure philosophical matters and start asking oneself who is asking the question (in other words, get back to self-inquiry and forget about abstract navel-gazing. His answers to every question, despite being somewhat disconnected from normal human experience, seem to be correct; truthful on a very fundamental level and there is so much consistency in all his answers. In the early stages effort in the form of transferring attention from the thoughts to the thinker is essential, but once awareness of the ‘I’-feeling has been firmly established, further effort is counter-productive.

It is the faculty of discrimination between right and wrong; it is deliberation about cause and effect, and the final analysis; [5] it is also the enquiry into the nature of the Atman, Satya, Ishvara and Brahman. He was profoundly inspired by a book on Ramana Maharshi’s teachings and was the librarian and archivist at the Tiruvannamalai ashram from 1978 to 1985.that they may all be one; even as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me.