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On Pain  — Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

On Pain — Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

  “Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain...

Know you are That

Know you are That

The seeker is he who is in search of himself. Give up all questions except one: ‘Who am I?’ After all, the only fact you are sure of is that you are. The ‘I am’ is certain. The ‘I am this’ is not. Struggle to find out what you are in reality. To know what you are, you...

Nirvana, Salvation and Self Realization

Nirvana, Salvation and Self Realization

  It is a great discovery when one realizes that Buddha's Nirvana, Christianity's Salvation and Vedanta's Self Realization are one and the same at the deepest level. Only a rare seeker may ever journey down the  well deep enough to realize it. I truly love Jesus...

Gandhi’s great respect for Guru Sri Ramana Maharshi

Gandhi’s great respect for Guru Sri Ramana Maharshi

The former president of India, Mr. Rajendra Prasad, once went to the asramam of Mahatma Gandhi and said, “Bapuji, I have come to you for peace!” The abode of peace was known well to Gandhiji and hence he advised, “if you want peace, go to Sri Ramanasramam and remain...

True Wealth

True Wealth

 “The kingdom of heaven is like a  treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy went and sold all he had and bought that field.( Gospel of Mathew) Jesus says: "Let him who seeks cease not to seek until he finds: when he finds...

I Am That .. Nisargadatta Maharaj

I Am That .. Nisargadatta Maharaj

“The seeker is he who is in search of himself… To know what you are, you must first investigate and know what you are not. Discover all that you are not — body, feelings thoughts, time, space, this or that — nothing, concrete or abstract, which you perceive can be...

Self Enquiry from “The Path of Sri Ramana”

Self Enquiry from “The Path of Sri Ramana”

Just as all the beads of a rosary fall down when the thread is cut, so also if we who want to destroy all thoughts scrutinize the first parson thought, ‘I', which runs through and sustains all the second and third person thoughts like the thread through the beads, all...