He was born in Tiruchuli, Tamil Nadu, India.
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He was born Venkataraman Iyer, but is mostly known by the name Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi. If you keep on asking the reply will come.” The reply comes as a current of awareness in the Heart, fitful at first and only achieved by intense effort, but gradually increasing in power and constancy, becoming more spontaneous, acting as a check on thoughts and actions, undermining the ego, until finally the ego disappears and the certitude of pure Consciousness remains.Ramana Maharshi / r ə ˈ m ʌ n ə m ə ˈ h ʌ r ʃ i/ (30 December 1879 – 14 April 1950) was an Indian Hindu sage and jivanmukta (liberated being). These affirmations of auto suggestions may be of help to those who follow other methods but not in this method of enquiry. “Suggestive replies to the enquiry, such as ‘I am Siva’, are not to be given to the mind during meditation. And, so concentrating, ‘to prevent the occurrence of thought’.
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Put the question only once and then concentrate on finding the source of the ego and preventing the occurrence of thoughts.” ‘Finding the source of the ego,’ implies concentration on the spiritual centre in the body, the Heart on the right side, as explained by the Maharshi. “It is not right to make an incantation of ‘Who am I?’. I used to go alone and stand motionless for a long time before an image of Siva or Meenakshi or Nataraja and the sixty-three saints, and as I stood there waves of emotion overwhelmed me.” But after the awakening I went there almost every evening. Formerly I used to go there occasionally with friends to look at the images and put the sacred ash and vermillion on my brow and would return home almost unmoved. One of the features of my new state was my changed attitude to the Meenakshi Temple. I felt no perceptible or direct interest in it, much less any inclination to dwell permanently in it. Previous to that crisis I had no clear perception of my Self and was not consciously attracted to it. Whether the body was engaged in talking, reading, or anything else, I was still centred on ‘I’. Other thoughts might come and go like the various notes of music, but the ‘I’ continued like the fundamental sruti note that underlies and blends with all the other notes. Absorption in the Self continued unbroken from that time on. Fear of death had vanished once and for all. From that moment onwards the ‘I’ or Self focused attention on itself by a powerful fascination. ‘I’ was something very real, the only real thing about my present state, and all the conscious activity connected with my body was centred on that ‘I’. This means I am the deathless Spirit.’ All this was not dull thought it flashed through me vividly as living truth which I perceived directly, almost without thought-process. The body dies but the Spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
RAMANA MAHARSHI WHO AM I FULL
But with the death of this body am I dead? Is the body ‘I’? It is silent and inert but I feel the full force of my personality and even the voice of the ‘I’ within me, apart from it. It will be carried stiff to the burning ground and there burnt and reduced to ashes.
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I held my breath and kept my lips tightly closed so that no sound could escape, so that neither the word ‘I’ or any other word could be uttered, ‘Well then,’ I said to myself, ‘this body is dead. I lay with my limbs stretched out stiff as though rigor mortis had set in and imitated a corpse so as to give greater reality to the enquiry. The shock of the fear of death drove my mind inwards and I said to myself mentally, without actually framing the words: ‘Now death has come what does it mean? What is it that is dying? This body dies.’ And I at once dramatized the occurrence of death. I felt that I had to solve the problem myself, then and there. It did not occur to me to consult a doctor or my elders or friends. I just felt, ‘I am going to die,’ and began thinking what to do about it. There was nothing in my state of health to account for it and I did not try to account for it or to find out whether there was any reason for the fear. I seldom had any sickness and on that day there was nothing wrong with my health, but a sudden, violent fear of death overtook me. I was sitting in a room on the first floor of my uncle’s house. “It was about six weeks before I left Madura for good that a great change in my life took place.