Talks with Ramana Maharshi (17 B) English Scholar asks more questions Devotee.: Which time is most suitable for meditation? Maharshi: What is time? D.: Tell me what it is! M.: Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that. If you call it time, it is […]
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Category: Talks – Numerical Order
These are conversations that Ramana Maharshi had with visitors and they are presented here in numerical order. These Talks cover a wide range of Topics. They provide answers to questions and solutions to problems that one might encounter while dealing with worldly problems or spiritual progress. Each Talk is an Upanishad by itself.
Talks with Ramana Maharshi (17 A)
Talks with Ramana Maharshi (17 A) English Scholar’s Questions Mr. W. Y. Evans-Wentz, an English research scholar of Oxford University, brought a letter of introduction from Mr. Brunton and arrived on a visit. He was tired after his journey and required rest. He is quite accustomed to Indian ways of living, having visited this country […]
Talks with Ramana Maharshi (16)
Talks with Ramana Maharshi (16) Guest to see Maharshi Mr. Douglas Ainslie (Mr. Grant Duff), an aristocratic English gentleman, 70 years old, nephew of a former Governor of Madras, an author and poet formerly attached to the British Legation in Athens, Paris and The Hague, had come to Madras as a guest of Government House. […]
Talks with Ramana Maharshi (14 – 15)
Talks with Ramana Maharshi (14 – 15) Talk 14. Realization exists beyond expression An old man came and sat in the hall. Maharshi was reading Sarma’s revised Sanskrit edition of Arunachala Akshara Manamalai (the first of His Five Hymns on Arunachala). The man asked softly: “It is said that self-realization is beyond expression; and expression always […]
Talks with Ramana Maharshi (13)
Talks with Ramana Maharshi (13) The Self alone Is “Is a Master necessary for Self-realization?” Mrs. Piggot asked first. M.: The realization is the result of the Master’s grace more than teachings, lectures, meditation, etc. They are only secondary aids, whereas the former is the primary and the essential cause. Devotee: What are the obstacles […]
Talks with Ramana Maharshi (1 – 12)
Talks with Ramana Maharshi (1 – 12) Talk 1. The Wandering Monk A wandering monk (sannyasi) was trying to clear his doubt: “How to realize that all the world is God?” Maharshi: If you make your outlook that of wisdom, you will find the world to be God. Without knowing the Supreme Spirit (Brahman), how […]
