At the bottom of this post I’ll link a terrific new video by my friend Padmé. It speaks for itself but first I want to offer a few short comments. 1. The most elementary ideas are often the most important. But people often overlook them because they are in a rush to get to the […]
Month: September 2019

Tether and magnet: the method of dwelling on the ‘I’ sense
Note from Freddie: The author of this guest post is the friend who I quoted in an earlier article a few days ago. Here’s his answer to the first question that readers asked. Welcome to all who read this. I should like firstly to thank Freddie for giving me the opportunity to speak to you […]

Does anyone know who this lady is?
The woman in the center of this photo has intrigued me for years. It’s not just her face. Look how relaxed her hands are. The photo was taken in 1948 or 1949 at Sri Ramana Maharshi’s ashram by Eliot Elisofon for Life Magazine. She is sitting front and center in a crowd of people. Most […]

Walking Upanishads
A friend of mine just sent me an email that reminds me of a comment that somebody once made about Ramana Maharshi: I think our Bhagavan has attained Self-realisation. Such beings are walking Upanishads.* My friend wrote: I don’t say that my (there’s really no ‘my’ I just see hands typing and thoughts being expressed) […]