Bio in Brief: Ramana Giri at Ramanasramam
On the night of 26th February 1949, during the Mahasivaratri celebrations in the Old Hall, a young foreigner sat in Bhagavan’s presence absorbed in the
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Enquiry As a Way of Living
When we consider that the egoic project is never finished—when we consider that the sense of a separate self must continually be reinforced through thoughts,
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Smt. Maya Krishnamurthi (1929-2026)
Born on 5th October 1929 in Aschaffenburg, about seventy kilometres from Heidelberg, Germany, Maya was the daughter of Aurobindo Bose (spelled “Aravind” in the Ashram
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Smt. Maddali Bala Saraswathi (1930-2026)
Born to ardent Ramana devotees, Smt. Griddaluru Venkata Subbamma and Sri Griddaluru Satyanarayana Rao, Smt. Maddali Bala Saraswathi—lovingly called “Bala” by Bhagavan—was one of four
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K.K. Nambiar (Part Two)
About the time Bhagavan completed the Malayalam translation of Ramana Gita in the notebook Nambiar had brought to him following the remarkable dream we heard
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The Immortal Hymn
They reckon ill who leave me out;
When me they fly, I am the wings;
I am the doubter and the doubt;
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Vichara in Real Time: The Clarifying Power of Portable Enquiry
In recent segments of Ramana Reflections, we have considered vichara largely in theoretical terms. But it may be useful now to ask how enquiry can
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Fighting with Our Failings
Fighting with our failing means being preoccupied with shortcomings, trying to appear as someone else, someone better, thinking we need something from outside to improve
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Kunjuswami Day
On 7th August, devotees came from Kerala and gathered at Kunju Swami’s samadhi to recite Bhagavan’s Malayam works, followed by puja and distribution of prasad.
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Might I Become Like Ether
If we imagine we are permanently handicapped by adverse karmic conditions and thus incapable of the feats of saints and sages of old, we remember
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