Swami Chinmayananda’s Blissful Experience Swami Chinmayananda (Balakrishna Menon) was the founder of the Chinmaya Mission. He describes his experiences in the presence of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi. I was just emerging from high school, exams were over. On a package railway ticket I was roaming through South India. As the train steamed through the countryside […]
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Paul Brunton’s Blissful Experience – Ram
Paul Brunton’s Blissful Experience I enter the hall and straight away assume my regular meditation posture. An intense interiorization of consciousness comes with the closing of eyes. The Maharshi’s seated form floats in a vivid manner before my mind’s eye. Then the picture disappears leaving me with nothing more than a strongly felt sense of […]
Paul Brunton’s Regard for Sri Ramana Mah
Paul Brunton’s Regard for Sri Ramana Maharshi He says: I study him intently and gradually come to see in him the child of a remote past when the discovery of spiritual truth was reckoned of no less value than is the discovery of a gold mine today. It dawns upon me with increasing force that, […]
Prayers will be answered – Ramana
Prayers will be answered H. Ghosh, M.A., was Principal of Holkar College, Indore, Madhya Pradesh. He describes: When I first had the good fortune of being introduced to the Great Sage of Arunachala, my imagination was struck by the austerity and simplicity of his sublime countenance. This austerity is indelibly marked on his face and […]
Paul Brunton’s Meditation – Ramana
Paul Brunton’s Meditation During daily meditation in the potent neighbourhood of the Sage, I have learnt how to carry my thoughts inwards to an ever-deepening point. Again and again, I become conscious that he is drawing my mind into his own atmosphere during these periods of quiet repose. And it is at such times that […]
Dr. Paul Brunton’s Second Visit to Sri R
Dr. Paul Brunton’s Second Visit to Sri Ramana Maharshi The following relates to Paul Brunton’s second visit and stay near Sri Ramana, a few months later. Whatever I am doing I never fail to become gradually aware of the mysterious atmosphere of the place, of the benign radiation which steadily percolates into my brain. I […]
Dr. Paul Brunton – About Sri Ramana Maha
Dr. Paul Brunton – About Sri Ramana Maharshi Dr. Paul Brunton (1898-1981), a British journalist, attracted by Indian mysticism first visited India in 1930. Author of eleven books, he has emphasized the value and importance of the Self within us. He is generally considered as having introduced meditation to the West. He once wrote: “Sri […]
Silence and Solitude – Ramana
Silence and Solitude D: Is a vow of silence useful? M: The inner silence is self-surrender. And that is living without the sense of ego. D: Is solitude necessary for a sannyasin? M: Solitude is in the mind of a man. One might be in the thick of the world and yet maintain perfect serenity […]
All actions will go on by themselves – R
All actions will go on by themselves D: Bhagavan said yesterday that while one is engaged in search of God ‘within’, ‘outer’ work would go on automatically. In the life of Sri Chaitanya it is said that during his lectures to students he was really seeking Krishna (Self) within, forgot all about his body and […]
Can a householder attain Self-Realizatio...
Can a householder attain Self-Realization ? D: How does a grihastha1 fare in the scheme of moksha2? Should he not necessarily become a mendicant in order to attain liberation? M: Why do you think you are a grihastha? Similar thoughts that you are a sannyasin3 will haunt you, even if you go out as a […]
Highest Goal of Spiritual Experience – R
Highest Goal of Spiritual Experience Disciple: What is the highest goal of spiritual experience for man? Maharshi: Self-realization. D: Can a married man realise the Self? M: Certainly. Married or unmarried, a man can realise the Self; because That is here and now. If it were not so, but attainable by some effort at some […]
