http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Realization/ Self-enquiry and Meditation Sat, 04 Jul 2009 11:11:50 GMT orva schrock http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Realization/message/4528 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Realization/message/4528 "I will only answer here just a very few of the points in which the Maharshi has particularly appealed to me. One of these is the extreme politeness and Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:09:31 GMT orva schrock http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Realization/message/4527 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Realization/message/4527 "His own pure Self being clearly reflected in the transcendental Self of non-dual Knowledge. Realizing 'I am He', Ramana the Great One, shines peerless, Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:15:31 GMT orva schrock http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Realization/message/4526 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Realization/message/4526 "I was always looking about for someone with a definite solution to the problem of the universe. While I was in this state of mind, a thirst for a deeper Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:27:59 GMT orva schrock http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Realization/message/4525 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Realization/message/4525 "Put it whatever way we will Sri Ramana stands out." "The Maharshi has not the slightest use for pretentiousness and self-importantance, he is for no Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:08:09 GMT orva schrock http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Realization/message/4524 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Realization/message/4524 "As for myself, my body is weak and shakes while walking; my mind has grown very dull; the Vedic Mantras I have forgotten; old age has overtaken me; and my Mon, 29 Jun 2009 08:41:59 GMT orva schrock http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Realization/message/4523 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Realization/message/4523 [In Reference to Bhagavan Ramana] "The Saints are the sustainers of society. Philo remarks: 'Households, cities, countries and nations have enjoyed great Sun, 28 Jun 2009 09:50:32 GMT orva schrock http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Realization/message/4522 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Realization/message/4522 "Sri Ramana adopts the metaphysical position of Advaita Vedanta. He speaks to us of the Divine..... When one discovers the Divine within oneself, one must Sat, 27 Jun 2009 11:16:51 GMT orva schrock http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Realization/message/4521 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Realization/message/4521 "The Maharshi is above the spirit of the time. Long after the spirit of the time will have been succeeded by the spirit of another Age, Sri Ramana will be Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:38:17 GMT orva schrock http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Realization/message/4520 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Realization/message/4520 "Sri Ramana is a true son of the Indian earth. He is genuine and, in addition to that, something quite phenomenal. In India he is the whitest spot in a white Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:16:25 GMT orva schrock http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Realization/message/4519 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Realization/message/4519 "I bow to the Lotus-feet of Sage Sri Ramana, the great Teacher, Who revealed to me the Lord Supreme in His glory transcending darkness." --Sri Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:25:06 GMT orva schrock http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Realization/message/4518 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Realization/message/4518 "Bhagavan Sri Ramana's Realization is unique and unparalleled in the annals of history. He realised in his boyhood the Eternal Truth, the Self Supreme, without Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:23:42 GMT orva schrock http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Realization/message/4517 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Realization/message/4517 The sense of body is a thought; the thought is of the mind, The mind rises after the "I"-thought, the "I"-thought is the root-thought. If that is held, the Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:26:34 GMT orva schrock http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Realization/message/4516 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Realization/message/4516 Why should one think of birth and death? Are you really born? ....all these are only of the mind. So long as the body is considered, birth is real. But the Sun, 21 Jun 2009 10:31:30 GMT orva schrock http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Realization/message/4515 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Realization/message/4515 The soul remains always uncontaminated. It is the substratum funning through these three states: Wakefulness passes off, I Am the dream state passes off, I Am; Sat, 20 Jun 2009 12:44:50 GMT orva schrock http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Realization/message/4514 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Realization/message/4514 Any new appearances are bound to disappear. Anything created will certainly be destroyed. The eternal is not born nor does it die. We are now confounding