The Vichara Sangraham has unique value in that it constitutes the first set of instructions given by Sri Bhagavan in his own handwriting. Self-inquiry has been classified as the Path of Knowledge among the Indian schools of thought. Yoga attempts to drive the bull with a stick, while self-inquiry coaxes it with green grass. This may therefore be regarded as the gist of the Maharshi’s earliest teachings. Interestingly, Ramana Maharshi often said that yoga and self-inquiry are two methods of controlling the mind, which he compared to an agitated bull. Krishna Iyer and the contents were published with the title Vichara Sangraham. Thus Seshaier had quite a sheaf of these papers written by the Maharshi in 1900, 19 and he copied them into a small notebook.Īfter Seshaier passed away his notebook and some of the papers were obtained from his elder brother, G. Sri Bhagavan then went through each of them and wrote out in easy Tamil prose the gist of these works on bits of paper and answered supplementary questions put by Seshaier. In this article he describes about Ramana Maharshi's, central teaching, Self Enquiry or Atma Vichara. This article is an excerpt from His 'The Holy Beacon of Arunachala,' which is a narration of Ramana Maharshi's biography. Finding some difficulty in understanding these and similar books, he brought them to the Maharshi for elucidation. Swami Yuktatmananda of Ramakrishna Mission Vidyalaya, Coimbatore, is a monk of the Ramakrishna Order. He became a devotee of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi who was then living at the Virupaksha cave on the Arunachala Hill.Ī student of yoga, he was especially interested in Swami Vivekananda’s lectures on Raja Yoga, Jnana Yoga, etc. Gambhiram Seshaier was a Municipal Overseer at Tiruvannamalai about 1900.
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