Nonviolence is superior to violence I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done, had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908, whether he should have run away and seen […]
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Swami Chinmayananda’s Blissful Experienc
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
She found the Peace she craved – Ramana
She found the Peace she craved Arthur Osborne was an English writer on spirituality and mysticism, and a disciple and biographer of Sri Ramana Maharshi. From 1964, Osborne served as the founding editor of Mountain Path, a journal published by Ramanasramam. His wife, Lucia Osborne, lived there too. She was a warm-hearted lady whom devotees […]
