was Ramana Maharishi involved with a more well known teacher here in 
the West, like Yogananda? When I checked out a website and saw his 
picture, he looked very familiar.

Thanks for the quote- good reminder (and wonderful joke!).

--- In [email protected], Peter Sutphen 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "Without understanding it correctly, people think the
> Guru teaches the disciple something like,
> 'Tat-tvam-asi' and that the disciple realizes 'I am
> Brahman'. In their ignorance, they conceive of Brahman
> as something more huge and powerful than anything
> else. With a limited "I" the man is so stuck-up and
> wild. What will be the case if the same "I" grows up
> enormous? He will be enormously ignorant and foolish!
> This false "I" must perish. Its annihilation is the
> fruit of Guru seva[service] Realization is eternal,
> and it is not newly brought about by the Guru. He
> helps in the removal of ignorance-that is all."
> 
> -February 6, 1937 (from Talks with Ramana Maharishi,
> p. 265).
> 
> 
>               
> __________________________________ 
> Discover Yahoo! 
> Stay in touch with email, IM, photo sharing and more. Check it 
out! 
> http://discover.yahoo.com/stayintouch.html




To subscribe, send a message to:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Or go to: 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/
and click 'Join This Group!' 
Yahoo! Groups Links

<*> To visit your group on the web, go to:
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/

<*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
    [EMAIL PROTECTED]

<*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:
    http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
 


Reply via email to