Teachings of bhagavan ramana maharshi
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The Teachings confront Ramana Maharshi
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‘Who Am I?’ Sri Ramana Maharshi’s teachings on how to realise the Self
I am aware that many people end up on this site after Googling some combination of ‘Who am I?’ and ‘Ramana Maharshi’. I am assuming that most of them are looking for practical advice on how to take up or pursue Ramana Maharshi’s teachings on self-enquiry. I have therefore put together this package of instructions and dialogues that I hope will be enough to explain the method and encourage people to try it out.
The first section is derived from a Youtube talk that I gave a few years ago. I have removed some of the introductory material about the text Who am I? which Ramana Maharshi wrote in the 1920s and instead focused on the part of the talk that gave practical advice on the method. I have substantially expanded and revised the material, so what follows is not just a transcript of what I said in the talk. If, on the other hand, you have come to this page looking for a translation and analysis of Bhagavan’s essay Who am I?, that can be found here.
After this two-page presentation on the practice of ‘Who am I?’ there will be excerpts and transcripts from other sources, including from Ramana Maharshi himself, which will go into various aspects of his teachings on self-enqui
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The Teachings of Bhagavan Ramana
- Who am I?
- Can we know the reality of anything we perceive without knowing the reality of ourself, the perceiver?
- Which is more fundamental, transitive awareness or intransitive awareness?
- Is happiness anything other than our own being?
- Can we achieve permanent cessation of mental activity without achieving permanent cessation of ego?
- How can we be aware of ourself as we actually are?
- Self-investigation (ātma-vicāra) is ‘always keeping the mind on oneself’
- As ego our nature is to subside and dissolve back into our being by attending to ourself
- Being keenly self-attentive is not only self-investigation but also self-surrender
- Who or what is God?
- Being as we actually are without rising as ego is knowing ourself as we actually are
- Investigating what ego actually is alone is giving up everything
- To go deep in this practice of self-investigation we require wholehearted and all-consuming love
- The love required to know and to be what we actually are sprouts and is nurtured in our heart by grace
1. Who am I?
Who am I? I know that I am, but do I know what I am? Am I what I now seem to be, or am I something distinct from this appearance? Now I seem to be a person, a physical body endowed with life, mind, intellect and will, but is this