Pocket edition. This small booklet contains the original teaching of Sri Ramana Maharshi. Easy access to this book is an excellent guide. A reading of this book will at once dispel doubts and gloom. It fills the reader with the enthusiasm and faith to pursue the spiritual path regardless of one’s condition in the world.pp39This is the quintessential, aphoristic work, constituting one of the earliest recordings of the Maharshi s teachings, that spells out the nature of the Self and the practice of Self-Inquiry.The text begins as follows:All living beings desire to be happy always, without any misery. In everyone there is observed supreme love for oneself. And happiness alone is the cause of love. In order therefore, to gain that happiness which is one’s nature and which is experienced in the state of deep sleep, where there is no mind, one should know oneself. To achieve this, the Path of Knowledge, the enquiry in the form of ‘Who Am I?’ is the principal means.
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Self-Enquiry (Vichara Sangraham by Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi)
This may therefore be regarded as the gist of the Maharshi’s earliest teachings. The Vichara Sangraham has unique value in that it constitutes the first set of instructions given by Sri Bhagavan in his own handwriting.