Surrender is to give oneself up to the original cause of one's being. Such knowledge comes after inquiry and reflection, and ends invariably in self-surrender.
Ramana maharshi self enquiry full#
Surrender can take effect only when it is done with full knowledge as to what real surrender means. "Self-surrender," said Ramani Maharshi, " is the same as self-knowledge, and either of them implies self-control.
Ramana maharshi self enquiry how to#
When pressed for advice on how to make progress on the spiritual path, he would almost invariably recommend radical 'self-enquiry' as the fastest path to moksha - i.e., permanent liberation from the ego, or enlightenment
His verbal teachings were said to flow from his direct experience of Atman (the 'godhead' within each being and form) as the only existing reality. Maharshi maintained that "the purest form of his teachings was the powerful silence which radiated from his presence and quieted the minds of those attuned to it." Fortunately, however, he did give numerous oral teachings for the benefit of the many uninitiated visitors and bevy of Western spiritual seekers who flocked to his ashram on the slopes of his beloved Mount Arunachala, and many of these were recorded for posterity. To Advaitan Vedantists world-wide, Ramana Maharshi is renowned as an avatar of "direct non-dual experience," and as a reluctant enlightened teacher "who not only revived the ancient Indian teaching of 'self-enquiry,' but as one who made it simple and direct bringing it within the ken of one and all." Perhaps the first great teacher to have his image captured by photograph was Sri Ramakrishna, Vivikenanda's teacher and, perhaps the first great enlightened sage to be captured on film was the late Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi, "the Saint of Arunachala." Unlike in the West, where the great teachers and saints are, for the most part, essentially phenomena of the past - half mythic, and half historic - India has been blessed with great teachers in all ages, including in the Modern Age. It was the opening up of India at the turn of the 19th-century, and the exposure of the Western mind to the treasures of India's spiritual literature that helped birth American Transcendentalism and it was, perhaps, the appearance of Swami Vivekenanda at the Parliament of World Religions at the 1893 world's fair in Chicago that sparked the interest of yet another generation in the Advaita Vedanta - India's brand of essential 'non-dualism.' Mother India - sometimes called "the birthplace of all religions" - has always had a succession of sages, a lineage of rishis and gurus stretching back to the mists of time. Ramana Maharshi: "There are no others." R
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