Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi

Between 1935 and 1939, a devotee sat in the hall at Tiruvannamalai and wrote down what was said. Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi is that record — several hundred conversations between the sage and the visitors, Indian and Western, who came with questions.

What’s in the book

• Recorded dialogues covering roughly four years of daily conversation
• Self-enquiry — the question “Who am I?” — returned to from many angles
• Questions on the nature of the self, the mind, and what survives death
• Practical questions about meditation, work, family life and devotion
• Exchanges with sceptics, scholars and the seriously distressed alike

What to expect

Not a treatise. It reads as a transcript, repetitive in the way real conversation is, and the repetition is much of its value — the same question returns and is answered slightly differently for each person who asks it. Most readers open it at random rather than reading front to back.

Who it’s for

Students of Advaita Vedanta and non-dual teaching, readers of Nisargadatta Maharaj or Eckhart Tolle looking for the source material, and anyone drawn to self-enquiry as a practice.

Edition details

• Publisher: Sri Ramanasramam · Format: Paperback
• ISBN: 978-8188018079 · Language: English

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