Be As You Are: The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi

276 Pages·1985·5.79 MB·English

by  David Godman, Sri Ramana Maharshi

ARKANA.
Be As You Are
David Godman has spent the last nine years in India studying and
practising the teachings of Sri Ramana. He is the librarian of Sri
Ramana’s ashram and a former editor of The Mountain Path, a
journal which propagates Sri Ramana’s teachings.

Be As You Are

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ARKANA
London, Boston, Melbourne and Henley
First published in 1985
by ARKANA
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ISBN 1-85063-006-2
Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART ONE THE SELF
The nature of the Self

N Self-awareness and Self-ignorance
W The jnani
ENQUIRY AND SURRENDER
PART TWO
Self-enquiry — theory
&N Self-enquiry — practice _
N Self-enquiry — misconceptions
I
Surrender
N
PART THREE THE GURU
8 The Guru
9 Silence and sat-sanga
PART FOUR MEDITATION AND YOGA
Meditation and concentration
Mantras and japa
Life in the wor
Yoga
PART FIVE EXPERIENCE
Samadhi
15 Visions and psychic. powers
16 Problems and experiences
PART SIX THEORY
17 Creation theories and the reality
of the worl
vi CONTENTS
18 Reincarnation
19 The nature of God |
20 Suffering and morality
21 Karma, destiny and free will
Glossary
Notes and references
Bibliograph
Index” poy
Acknowledgments

To Sri Ramanasramam for permission to reprint extracts from
most of the books listed in the bibliography.
To Rider and Co., London, for permission to reprint an extract
from A Search in Secret India.
To Sadhu Om for permission to reprint material from The Path of
Sri Ramana and for permission to use and adapt his unpublished
translations of the writings of Sri Ramana Maharshi and Guru
Vachaka Kovai.
To Michael James for assistance in adapting verses from Guru
Vachaka Kovai and for offering constructive advice throughout
the preparation of the book.
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