Ramana Maharshi and the Path of Self Knowledge

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Sri Ramanasramam (January 1, 2006)

Language ‏ : ‎ English

Paperback ‏ : ‎ 253 pages

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-8188018116

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The author has packed into this small volume all of the essential information relating to the teachings of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi(1879-1950),the great Indian sage. The life of Sri Ramana Mahrshi fills us us with wonder.As a teenager,hardly seventeen,he realised the self through a spontaneous act of Self-enquiry without any conscious effort on his part,or any trainining imparted by a teacher. He left his home in 1896,came to Arunachala (Tiruvannamalai)where he lived as an all-renouncing sage,in a state of continuous self-absorption for a period of fifty four years until his mahanirvana in 1950. The instructions given by Sri Raman to his early devotees are all portrayed by the author.They have a lasting value.Also included are Paul Brunton’s experiences. Sri Maharshi’s message is that self-knowledge is not something to be acquired afresh.It is only becoming aware of one’s own natural state of Pure Being,through self-enquiry. The spirit of this simple but profound message has been captured by the author in his presentation.

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Arthur Osborne (1906-70) was an ardent devotee of Sri Ramana Maharshi and particularly well known as the Founder Editor of the Mountain Path, the spiritual journal of Sri Ramanasramam. An Oxford scholar, he was on the faculty of Chulaongkon University in Bangkok, Siam, before he came to India in 1945 and had his darshan of Maharshi.

He is the Editor of The collected works of Ramana Maharshi and Author of Teachings of Bhagwan Sri Ramana Maharshi in His Own Words and other works.