Ramana Maharshi-Upadesa Saram by Ramesh S. Balsekar And WHO AM I? - Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

Must read because these works are so direct and literally enlightening.

 

Ramana Maharshi, was one of the greatest Gurus who traversed the path of realization through self-enquiry. Highly evolved soul himself, Balasekar in this book Upadesa Saraam expounds the work of Ramana Maharshi.

Ramana Maharshi’s book Who am I ?– Nan yaar? Is translated and explained by several writers.

Both of these books, Upadesa Saram and Who am I, wrapped up in a few pages are bullseye on the matters of self-enquiry.

If I am not my name, my education, my body, my work, my senses, my relationships, my mind, my possession, my achievements then who….. am….. I …..? this constant quest is the pointer and the answer to it is the essence of self-enquiry.

It is very evident that all means to realization leads ultimately to heightened knowledge of unanimous self.

The entirety of self-enquiry cannot be summed up better than by the words of Ramana Maharshi – “The “I”-thought is the first to arise in the mind. When the enquiry “Who am I?” is persistently pursued, all other thoughts get destroyed, and finally the “I”-thought itself vanishes leaving the supreme non-dual Self alone.”