Ramana Maharshi

Ramana Maharshi is one of the Masters of the Advaita vedanta born the December 30th 1879 and dead the April 14th 1950. Its teaching, on the topic of the Not-duality, inspired many Philosophe spiritual S and teachers, in particular in Occident.

Biography

In June 1896, whereas it was sixteen years old and that it was only in a room in the residence of his uncle, Venkataramana was seized by a sudden terror to die and, without losing conscience, it felt all the symptoms of dead seizing his body. At this point in time he thought in itself that this body was thus going to be taken along soon on roughing-hew it cremation to be reduced there in ashes. During this mystical experiment, it lost any trace of fear or desire for anything and carried out in a clear and final way the distinction between the mortal body and the immortal conscience, in other words between the existence and the Life. Having then lost any interest for the things of the world, it was withdrawn in the caves of the hill of Arunachala which overhangs the small town of Tiruvanamalaî in the south of India in the Tamil Nadu. He lived thus as a hermit, beggar, on the occasion, a bowl of rice, as it is the use in India, without never trying to convince anybody nor to teach anything. It is later that it was to some extent located and that the people intrigés by the extreme softness of its presence approached him and knew spiritual experiments. He recognized in him something about which speak the crowned writings but which usually does not meet in the existence. He became without to have wanted refused it nor the Master of thousands of disciples who transfer in him an incarnation of " God made homme" and one of the more great men of wisdom which India had known. In all contemporary India, it was known under the name of Sri Ramana Maharishi.

Teaching

According to Ramana Maharshi, the body is of no importance. The body, it is oneself, but oneself, it is not the body. The body is creature, whereas the spirit is creator. Self is beyond, unutterable source of all. Presence eternal, empty and quiet, unperceivable by the directions and inconceivable by the intellecte. It is this absolute presence which only Is and remains immutable. While all is formed, changes and becomes deformed in the universe, " Cela" does not die, is not born and remains of each one. Each one of us repeats " unceasingly; Je" , at any hour of the day, without wondering about the source of this feeling to be and by allotting it to the body, because of a surface investigation of the question. However it is all the opposite, the " Conscience in Soi" , i.e. in itself, which we could call the " Conscienceté" , independently of the " conscience de" , in truth the invisible source of all is. The experiment of this state of consience is possible during the existence and puts an end to the suffering which is the effect of the ignorance of oneself.

Maharshi all those which listened to it to raise the question inlassablement “Which am I exhorted? ” so as to remain vigilant when at the origin of perceptions (internal and external) which arise continuously.

External bonds

Additional details
Ramana Maharshi and the Center of the Misadventures

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