Ramana Maharshi said “Where there is no “I”, there is no karma.
By far Romana Maharshi is one of my favorite spiritual teachers.
Although he died in 1950, Maharshi is one of those sages who few, if any, could hold a candle to. He is considered India’s greatest spiritual teacher.
One day, early in his life, he had a profound experience that made him acutely aware of the mortality of the body.
It led him to believe that he was not the body but spirit. So he decided to leave the worldly life for one devoted to silence and meditation on the holy mountain of Arunachala.
Maharshi was a man of few words. He taught more through presence than through words. There were years when he didn’t talk at all.
His students, who sat with him in meditation, learned through osmosis … unconsciously absorbing his knowledge by just being in his presence.
Eventually when he did talk, it was only to answer questions after meditation.
For Maharshi, the only way to peace, happiness and enlightenment was through self-inquiry.
He wrote “Who am I” a book which is considered a gem for any seeker of any religion and can be read in one sitting but can take a lifetime to realize.
Maharshi believed in the complete destruction of the ego – the ‘I’ until there was nothing left at all.
He taught that if we want to get rid of the ‘I’ we have to give up the false idea that the mind is real. And to do that, we have to keep telling ourselves … I am not the mind … there is no mind … consciousness alone exists.
By Alex Traczyk …… 30 ……