Be As You Are: The spiritual teachings and wisdom of Sri Ramana Maharshi (Arkana)

Consciousness has no idea of “I,” of ego. It has no idea of one’s separation from existence. It does not know any barrier. It knows no boundaries—it is one with existence, it is in a deep at-onement. There is no conflict between the individual and the whole. One is simply flowing into the whole, and the whole is flowing into one. It is like breathi

Every meeting you have with these great ones leaves you other than what you were before. They always do something for you. They leave you with a tremendous new revelation. They never leave you the same. And this is the way you can tell whether the meeting is real, or whether it’s just your imagination. It’s difficult, because a great one usually is

Ramana Maharshi was just asking some very simple questions: Who sees when you see? Who hears when you hear? Who watches the dreams? Who looks at the image in the mirror? Who is it that is having all these experiences? If you try to just give honest, intuitive answers, you are simply going to say, “Me. It’s me. I’m in here experiencing all of this.”

The twentieth-century Indian meditation master Sri Nisargadatta encourages us to wholeheartedly enter this path of freedom: “…all I plead with you is this: make love of your self perfect.”