Ramana Maharshi and his Non-ness

The teacher who taught volumes with his silence

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I don’t have a guru to call my own, yet.

But if I were to claim someone as my non-guru to shadow guide me in my abysmal seeking process, then the south-Indian sage Ramana Maharshi would be the one for the title.

Here’s the short but true story as to why that is:

It was David Godman’s YouTube videos that got me interested in Ramana Maharshi. There was something about this great sage’s Self-propelled life story and unpretentious air that made me want to circumvent the six degrees of separation and make a direct association with him, even if only virtually.

So soon after getting hooked on the series, I placed an order for one of his books, The Spiritual Teaching of Ramana Maharshi particularly because it had his benefic face on the cover.

In hindsight, I realize that this visual validation was my way of staking a claim to the great teacher’s presence in my life. But unfortunately, I had somehow misplaced the book and was…