Ramana Reflections

Having completed the Ashram’s first century, we find ourselves in a world rife with change. The community of devotees is aging and we have lost

The one goal sought by all, yet attained by few, is lasting and meaningful happiness. We continually pursue fulfilment, but regularly search for it outwardly—in

In earlier segments, we saw how vichara becomes fruitful when the question “Who am I” is animated by uncertainty and a felt sense of urgency.

In the last segment, we saw how vichara is fruitful only when the question “Who am I?” is charged with genuine sincerity and an element

We left off in the last issue with a scene from the Hall at the end of August 1936 where the Maharani Saheba sits before

In the last segment, we saw how devotees often complain that practising vichara becomes mechanical and uninspiring. The question “Who am I?” can lose vitality,

Over the decades devotees have complained about the difficulty in practising vichara—Sri Bhagavan’s method of self-inquiry. They say that when they attempt inquiry their questioning

Across the centuries, religious and philosophical traditions have wrestled with a single, persistent problem: How does the Uncreated relate to creation? How are we to

Over decades in the hall, Bhagavan regularly employed the dream metaphor to reveal how our mistaken self-view causes suffering—and how right seeing can liberate us.

Followers of Bhagavan Sri Ramana naturally align themselves with jnana marga—the path of knowledge. Yet many remain uncertain about the true nature of knowledge. Bhagavan

In June of 1936, Mr. B. C. Das, a physics lecturer complained to Bhagavan in the Hall about a “vicious circle” , namely, that meditation