I have the "Talks with Ramana Maharshi" Book it's a great compilation of Ramana's teachings. Then I bought a little book of reminiscences by a devotee that fills in some time left out of the "Talks" book/ apparently even the monkeys in the forest around the ashram loved Ramana so much, they would come to him to settle their disputes between different groups of monkees. This devotee witnessed a fascinating event. Tamarind trees are considered unlucky to have on your property in India, but everyone wants and uses tamarind, so they've planted alot of the trees along public thoroughfares and in the area around the ashram a man protected the tamarinds from being consumed by the monkees by using a small catapult to shoot rocks at them. He tried to be careful, use small rocks and just shoo them, but one time he killed a young monkey, the "tribe" gathered it and lay it at the feet of Ramana, he was heard to quietly console them, explaining that it was an accident, sorry, but everyone has to die sometime, etc. The Vedanta bookstores have an extensive collection of his works, also Nisargadatta, Jean Klein, Balkasar, and many others. You can shop their catalog online at Vedanta.org
--- 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/
