Category: Talks – Random Order

Recognize the Force of Divine Will and Keep Quiet Talk 594. The Spanish lady, Madam Mercedes De Acorta, has written a letter to Mr. Hague, the American mining engineer who is here as a temporary resident for the last two months. She has raised a few questions there: “If the individual Self merges into the […]

Real I False I Mr. Ramamurthi: How to know the ‘Real I’ as distinct from the ‘false I’? M.: Is there anyone who is not aware of himself? Each one knows, but yet does not know, the Self. A strange paradox. The Master added later, “If the enquiry is made whether mind exists, it will […]

Correlate higher with lower experience Mr. Raghaviah: How shall we correlate the higher experience with the lower experience (meaning spiritual experience with mundane affairs)? M.: There is only one experience. What are the worldly experiences but those built up on the false ‘I’? Ask the most successful man of the world if he knows his […]

Conscious without thinking Mr. Ramamurthi: Swamiji, I have read Brunton’s book A Search in Secret India, and was much impressed by the last chapter, where he says that it is possible to be conscious without thinking. I know that one can think, remaining forgetful of the physical body. Can one think without the mind? Is […]

Be active, remain desireless   The following is taken from the diary of Annamalai Swami, a good devotee of Sri Bhagavan and resident of Sri Ramanasramam. The Teachings of Sri Ramana Bhagavan. (1) That man who is active in the world and yet remains desireless, without losing sight of his own essential nature, is alone […]

Can Divine Names bestow merit   A visitor asked Sri Bhagavan: People give some names to God and say that the name is sacred and repetitions of the name bestow merit on the individual. Can it be true? M.: Why not? You bear a name to which you answer. But your body was not born with […]

Ego – The Ghost, The Wedding Crasher Note : Ramana Maharshi explains the nature and behaviour of the Ego very clearly in this conversation. He gives lucid examples to make it easy to understand for the devotees. ~~~~~~~~ Mr. Ward Jackson: When we read about all this, we read it intellectually. But it is all […]