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SRI RAMANASRAMAM

Tiruvannamalai

2002

Edited by:

ARTHUR OSBORNE

\u00a9 Sri Ramanasramam

Tiruvannamalai

Seventh Edition

:

1996 - copies 5,000

Eighth Edition

:

2002 - copies 3,000

Price: Rs.

CC No: 1062

ISBN: 81-88018-15-5

Published by

V.S. RAMANAN

President, Board of Trustees

Sri Ramanasramam

Tiruvannamalai 606 603

Tamil Nadu

India

Tel: 91-4175-237292/237200

Tel/Fax: 91-4175-237491

Email: ashram@ramana-maharshi.org

Website: www.ramana-maharshi.org

Published also by

Messrs. Rider & Company, London, England

for sale outside India.

Designed and typeset at

Sri Ramanasramam

Printed by

Kartik Printers

Chennai 600 015

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During the half century and more of his life at Tiruvannamalai, Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi was visited by a constant stream of people from all parts of India, and by many from the West, seeking spiritual guidance, or consolation in grief, or simply the experience of his presence. He wrote very little all these years, but a number of records of his talks with visitors were kept and subsequently published by his Ashram. These are mostly in diary form, with little arrangement according to subject. The purpose of the present book is to build up a general exposition of the Maharshi\u2019s teachings by selecting and fitting together passages from these dialogues and from his writings (published as The Collected Works of Sri Ramana

Maharshi, by Messrs. Rider & Co., in England and by Sri

Ramanasramam in India). The editor\u2019s comments have been kept to a minimum and are printed in smaller type to distinguish them clearly from the Maharshi\u2019s own words.

No distinction is made between the periods at which the Maharshi made any statement, and none is needed, for he was not a philosopher working out a system but a Realised Man speaking from direct knowledge. It sometimes happens that one who is on a spiritual path, or even who has not yet begun consciously seeking, has a glimpse of Realisation during which, for a brief eternity, he experiences absolute certainty of his divine, immutable, universal Self. Such an experience came to the Maharshi when he was a lad of sixteen. He himself has described it:

It was about six weeks before I left Madurai for good that the

great change in my life took place. It was quite sudden. I was

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