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An interview of David Godman by Viorica Weissman in English and Russian. Now available: German translation of Power of the Presence, Part One. New: Updated and expanded version of “Mostly About Books”, an interview of David Godman by Michelle Mikklesen, that contains new information and a large number of photos. Now available: Sri Guru Ramana Prasadam. Over one thousand verses by Muruganar, most of which describe his experience of the Self and the gratitude he feels towards Ramana Maharshi for revealing this state to him, translated by Robert Butler. |
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Sri Ramana Maharshi"Jnana is given neither from outside nor from another person. It can be realised by each and everyone in his own Heart. The jnana Guru of everyone is only the Supreme Self that is always revealing its own truth in every Heart through the being-conciousness 'I am, I am.' The granting of true knowledge by him is initiation into jnana. The grace of the Guru is only that Self-awareness that is one's own true nature. It is the inner conciousness by which he is unceasingly revealing his existence. This divine upadesa is always going on naturally in everyone." -Sri Ramana MaharshiDavid Godman was born in Stoke-on-Trent, England, in 1953. While he was attending Oxford University in the early 70s he found himself being attracted to the teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi. In 1976 he traveled to India, intending to make a brief visit to Ramana Maharshi's ashram. He is still there thirty-two years later. After a period of intense meditation that lasted almost two years (1976-8) he started and ran the ashram's library, leaving it in 1985 to devote himself to writing and research. He has now edited or written fourteen books on Ramana Maharshi, his teachings and his direct disciples. More books are on the way. A summary of his activities in India can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Godman. |
