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Thoughts arise because there is the thinker. He is now known as Ramana Maharshi, the legendary Indian sage who taught Advaita Vedanta. This went on for quite some time - after a decade of silence, he spoke once more and began giving dialogues on the nature of consciousness. Time and again the locals would have to tend to his wounds - they had taken an interest in him.
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Insects would persistently bite at his skin as he sat there, but it didn't matter at all. His body grew weak and developed sores all over, but it did not concern him. Dwelling on the mystery of existence, completely absorbed in concentration, he often sat perfectly still for days at a time.
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He casually took the next train from his village to the holy hill of Arunachala and settled there for the remainder of his life.ĭuring the next few years of his life, the youth seemed to lose his ability to speak. It had just occurred to him that it was an actual physical place, that he could go to. When he was young he had heard of the sacred hill Arunachala in Southern India. He arose from the floor and realised a freedom he never knew he had - the freedom to simply walk away from his life.Īs he walked out, leaving everything he knew for good, a peculiar memory came to his mind. The young Venkataraman was no longer constrained by his fear for the life of an illusory self. I pasted the above excerpt from my short 2016 piece: The Absolute Truth. Instead of remaining terrified he asked himself “Who was it that was about to die? What was it that was about to disappear?”. He laid down on the floor of his uncle’s study convinced he was about to die. One day he found himself suddenly paralysed with a fear of death. Venkataraman was a seemingly ordinary sixteen-year-old. Please wash your hands regularly and do your best to stay at home. In fact, for now, I have had enough discussion on the coronavirus.Īt the moment, the obvious steps are all I believe we can do.
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We are living in an interesting moment in history, somehow I am feeling optimistic that we can learn a lot from it.Īlthough, that is not what I will talk to you about in this letter.