Bhagavan Ramana Maharishi said: “We are all really Sat-chit-ananda (Being-Knowledge-Bliss) but we imagine we are bound (by destiny) and have all this suffering.” “ Ask yourself to whom this ignorance has come and you will discover that it never came to you and that you always have been sat-chit-ananda. One goes through all sorts of [...]
In the ancient Indian text of the Kathopanishad, the central theme revolves around the story of a young boy, Nachiketa– the son of Sage Vajasravasa, who meets Yama, the god of death (in the hindu religion) and asks to receive the secret knowledge of the nature of man, of the Soul and of liberation. [...]
“The winds of God's grace are always blowing, it is for us to raise our sails.” (Sri Ramakrishna Paramhansa)
“ God created man; and man created God. They both are the originators of form and name only. In fact, neither God nor man was created.” (0ctober 20th 1936 - Talks with Sri Ramana Maharishi)
Sri Ramana Maharishi answers a question on the cause of the sufferings of the world - He says, “To whom does all this appear?” “You are not aware of the world and its sufferings in your sleep; you are conscious of them in your wakeful state. Continue in that state in which you were not [...]
What is the nature of this world-cycle, Samsara, that we are born into and why do we experience its sorrows? We search for answers to questions that plague our mind, especially when we experience that which causes pain and suffering. What does one do to ease the sorrow and how does one explain its reasoning? [...]
On the nature of Happiness, Ramana Maharishi, in his talks of February 1935, explains as follows - “When there is contact of a desirable sort or memory thereof, and when there is freedom from undesirable contacts or memory thereof, we say there is happiness. Such happiness is relative and is better called pleasure.” “But men [...]