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/
