Comment below: --- In [email protected], Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > on 6/7/05 1:01 PM, jim_flanegin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > 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. > > He awakened without a guru. The Arunachala mountain became his guru. And he > founded a lineage of teachers who are now well known in the West - > Nisargadatta, Ramesh Balsekar, Gangaji, Andrew Cohen, and many others.
**END** Nisargadatta, and his student Ramesh Balsekar, were/are from a different lineage, the Navnath tradition (Nine Lords). Although a lot of folks who were at Ramanashram came to visit Nisargadatta, he never met Ramana Maharishi. He did, however, always speak extremely highly of Ramana as a complete gyani. Some time after Ramana died, Ramana's nephew came to see Nisargadatta. Nisargadatta arranged a big pile of pillows for Ramana's nephew to sit on and then prostrated himself to the nephew. He said he never had the opportunity to meet and bow down to Ramana and so he did so to the nephew. He then asked Ramana's nephew to stay with him for 2 weeks and he would guarantee that the nephew would leave in the same state of awareness as his uncle, Ramana, had. The nephew declined and later stated that he thought Nisargadatta was kidding! D'oh! 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/
