Tag: Ramana Maharshi

• April 23, 2025

  What Kind Of Answer Do I Get From Self-inquiry?

  Question Would the following jnana yoga approach in the vein of self-inquiry be correct? S1. A thought arises S2. I close my eyes S3. Then I ask: “Who is getting this thought?” (I experience a slowness in my breath and inevitably get an answer.) S4. I live in the moment. Is this the right process? Answer…
• April 17, 2025

  Self-inquiry Is Not Neti Neti

  One common mistake is to think that self-inquiry is identical with neti neti. The latter is, at most, only a “preliminary study” that prepares the ground for self-inquiry proper. Thinking “I am not the body, not the senses, and not the mind” may be a good start. Indeed, a deep investigation, in the vein of…
• April 14, 2025

  What Is Required To Undertake Self-inquiry?

  What is required to undertake self-inquiry? Sri Sadhu Om answers the questions masterfully: one needs “unbreakable indifference” to mental and worldly objects as well as a “tremendous love to attend [only] to ourself” (The Path of Sri Ramana [2023], p. 90). The first is vairagya–dispassion or detachment–and yet this “unbreakable indifference” needs to be better…