Their questions covered every aspect of the spiritual search and every problem troubling the human mind:Maharshi's answers gently led questioner to the correct solution,each question answered according to the questioner's own level of spiritual development.All had their doubts dispelled,their hearts suffused with peace and their beings uplifted in the presence.This book is a truthful chronicle of such happenings.

This post is an edited migration of an old Stillness Speaks 2007 post.During the four years from 1935 to 1939,Munagala Venkataramiah,a veteran devotee and the author of the work,painstakingly recorded conversations that took place in the Old hall between Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi and his devotees, People from all faiths and every walk of life came to sit at Sri Bhagavan's feet whether ignorant or erudite,a single peasant or royalty,they t During the four years from 1935 to 1939,Munagala Venkataramiah,a veteran devotee and the author of the work,painstakingly recorded conversations that took place in the Old hall between Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi and his devotees, People from all faiths and every walk of life came to sit at Sri Bhagavan's feet whether ignorant or erudite,a single peasant or royalty,they travelled from the far corners of the earth to place their doubts before him or just to sit in his divine prresence.His infinite compassion and unique insight ensured that none left Ashram empty handed.

This video is Talks With Sri Ramana Maharshi and is sourced from CINEFX PRODUCTIONS YouTube channel. There is also a commentary written by the British novelist, Somerset Maugham, who visited Bhagavan in 1938 and recorded the account in his essay entitled ‘The Saint.’ More details of Maugham’s visit and related content, including excerpts from this essay can be found at David Godman’s website on a page titled Somerset Maugham and The Razor’s Edge. Stylishly shot on Hampstead Heath, London, near Alan’s home, the film contains black and white still photographs of Bhagavan at the Sri Ramanasramam. In this beautifully made short film by French director, Jean-Raphael Dedieu, Alan reads from Ramana’s Talk 146. He is also President of the Ramana Maharshi Foundation, UK.

What is in the goal is even prior to our birth…‘ Ramana Maharshi, Talk 146Īlan Jacobs has made a lifelong study of mysticism and is a regularly published author and poet. We seek to reach the goal with the ego but the goal exists before the ego. ‘If there be a goal to be reached it cannot be permanent.

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