What is Enlightenment and How Do You Find It?
The experience of one’s true state of total emptiness is indescribable. No pleasure or fleeting happiness or excitement I have experienced before even comes close. Nothing I can say will compare, experience it for yourself.
By iamquiet • February 8, 2020
The Original Works of Sri Ramana Maharshi
Translated by Michael James
Āṉma-Viddai: The Science of Self-Knowledge
Appaḷa Pāṭṭu: The Appaḷam Song
Aruṇācalaramaṇaṉ: Arunachala Ramana
Ēkāṉma Pañcakam: Five Verses on Oneself, the One
Śrī Aruṇācala Aṣṭakam: Eight Verses to Arunachala
Śrī Aruṇācala Navamaṇimālai: The Necklace of Nine Gems for Arunachala
Śrī Aruṇācala Padigam: Eleven Verses to Arunachala
Śrī Aruṇācala Pañcaratnam: The Five Gems to Arunachala
Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu: Forty Verses on What Is
Upadēśa Sāraḥ: The Essence of Spiritual Teachings
Upadēśa Undiyār: Teachings in an Undiyār Song of Thirty Verses
It’s “I am I” not “I-I”
Every time you see “I-I” in a Ramana book, it’s a translation mistake that distorts the meaning.
By Michael James • September 15, 2023
Ashtavakra Gita
Some people think this ancient conversation between two enlightened guys is the greatest scripture of all time.
Translated by John Henry Richards • December 10, 1999
How Dada Gavand Woke Up
Dada Gavand describes with remarkable precision exactly what he did that led to his waking up. This is one of the clearest and most informative explanations of spiritual practice that has ever been written.
By Dada Gavand • June 14, 2014
An Interview with Byron Katie
Byron Katie is the inventor of The Work, a method of self-enquiry based on four simple questions. She experienced an unexpected awakening in 1986 following years of severe depression.
By Sunny Massad • October 23, 2001
Annamalai Swami
A loving biography and reminiscence by Ramana Maharshi’s grandnephew.
By V. Ganesan • August 23, 2019
My Awakening
I saw that genuine Recognition is simply a realization of Nothing, but a Nothing that is absolutely substantial and identical with the SELF. This was the final turn of the Key which opened the Door.
By Franklin Merrell-Wolff • December 12, 2018
The Induction Talk
A mystic experiment by the least mystical of realizers.
By Franklin Merrell-Wolff • March 22, 2021
Isolation of the Subjective Moment
Franklin Merrell-Wolff describes how he performed the crucial step that led to his enlightenment.
By Franklin Merrell-Wolff • December 12, 2018
Recognition, an Inversion of Consciousness
Recognition and Liberation are attained by turning the attention toward the subjective pole and away from the objective content of consciousness. The effort must be to attain a consciousness without objective content. Such a consciousness may be likened to a light in a space that contains no objects.
By Franklin Merrell-Wolff • April 1, 2018
The Yoga of Three Enlightenments
Consciousness is the sunlight of our soul; Awareness, the moonlight; Kundalini, the cool balancing energy.
By Petri Einiö • December 28, 1999
Ulladu Narpadu
Sri Ramana Maharshi’s greatest philosophical work, translated by Robert Butler and presented in the form of a textbook of literary Tamil. This is the only translation of Ulladu Narpadu that includes English definitions of every Tamil word.
By Sri Ramana Maharshi
Translated and annotated by Robert Butler •
May 10, 2014
Ulladu Narpadu
An early translation of Sri Ramana Maharshi’s most important philosophical work.
By Sri Ramana Maharshi
Translator unknown •
May 14, 2000
The Mountain Path
A quarterly journal for devotees of Sri Ramana Maharshi.
Published by Sri Ramanasramam • April 6, 2017
Vichara Sangraham
Self-Enquiry
Sri Ramana answers forty questions most of which have nothing to do with Self-enquiry or any other aspect of his teachings.
By Sri Ramana Maharshi
Translated by T.M.P. Mahadevan • September 14, 2023
Self-Remembering in the Rockies
In this excerpt from his book All-Amareakin, Tom Anderson recalls a nine day road trip that began with Self-remembering and ended with samadhi.
By Thomas J. Anderson • May 17, 2014