This chapter is taken from The Silent Power – Selections from The Mountain Path and The Call Divine – Ramana Reminiscences Just six months after I came to India, I was left alone and had no friends. The person whom I loved died and I had nothing to attract me in life. Quite accidentally, just … Read the article »
This chapter is taken from The Silent Power – Selections from The Mountain Path and The Call Divine – Ramana Reminiscences Though I have had unique opportunities of studying some of the characteristic works of Sri Ramana, yet it was only in April 1947 that I had the good fortune of beholding him face to … Read the article »
This chapter is taken from The Silent Power – Selections from The Mountain Path and The Call Divine – Ramana Reminiscences The author of this reminiscence is not known, but the events took place in 1935. Maurice Frydman eventually became a resident of Sri Ramanasramam for a period of nearly three years and during the … Read the article »
This chapter is taken from The Silent Power – Selections from The Mountain Path and The Call Divine – Ramana Reminiscences When in ancient days even Sri Dakshinamurti the Adi- guru, guru of all gurus was able to reveal the truth of that one Self only through silence, the speechless speech, who else can reveal it … Read the article »
This chapter is taken from The Silent Power – Selections from The Mountain Path and The Call Divine – Ramana Reminiscences In 1943 (or 1944), Dr. Jesudasan, known as Peria Annan (the Chinna Annan being Dr. Paton), accompanied by Dr. Raja went to Sri Ramanasramam. Peria Annan who was a highly qualified doctor and who … Read the article »
“When Sita was missed and Rama went about in search of her, Parvati was surprised and asked Siva, ‘You had praised Rama as the perfect being. See how he behaves now and grieves at the loss of Sita.’ Read the article »
A saint is as great a necessity for human society as is a great scientist, a great thinker and a great leader, nay the necessity is even greater. For a scientist discovers the secrets of life and of the Universe, a thinker tries to understand the meaning and purpose of existence, and a leader tries to shape and transform humanity or a portion of it according to his own notions of what it ought to be. Read the article »
It is said and perhaps rightly too, that over this distracted world there is a greater sway of materialism than of spirituality. The majority of people are deeply sunk in materialism and therefore, have no inclination or desire to turn their attention towards spiritual values. Read the article »
The supreme and final state of samadhi is Sahaja samadhi which does not imply any trance or any oblivion to what we ignorant ones call the ‘outer world’. There is no going backward and forward between the trance state and the mental state, the inner and the outer. His consciousness embraced both constantly without distinction and without effort. Read the article »
“If it is true that all the objective world owes its existence to the ego, then how can that ego ever have the experience of surprise as it does, for example, when we stub our toe on an unseen obstacle?” Read the article »
