ISBN: 9780140190625    Publisher: Penguin Books Year of publishing: 2012     Format:  Paperback No of Pages: 251        Language: English

'THE ULTIMATE TRUTH IS SO
SIMPLE'.

The Simple message of Sri Ramana Maharshi, one of the India's most
revered spiritual masters, whose teachings, forty years after his death,
are speaking to growing audiences worldwide. Be As You Are, edited by
the librarian at the sage's ashram-still flourishing-at the foot of the
holy mountain of Arunachala, is a compendium of those riches as
bequeathed personally to pilgrims hungry to discover what is 'the
ultimate truth'.
'Nothing more than being in the pristine state. That is all that need be
said,' declared Sri Ramana. Indeed it is claimed that his highest
teaching, to those capable of receiving them, consisted of nothing but
silence during which be transmitted a silent flow of power enabling
individuals to experience, directly, what he meant by enlightenment.
This book is for those of us who would remain perplexed, but enriched by
the silence.
'That sense of presence, of the direct communication of the truth so far
as it can be put into words, is there on every page'.

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David Godman was born in Stoke-on-Trent, England, in 1953. While he was attending Oxford University in the early 70s he found himself being attracted to the teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi. In 1976 he traveled to India, intending to make a brief visit to Ramana Maharshi's ashram. He is still there thirty-two years later. After a period of intense meditation that lasted almost two years (1976-8) he started and ran the ashram's library, leaving it in 1985 to devote himself to writing and research. He has now edited or written fourteen books on Ramana Maharshi, his teachings and his direct disciples. More books are on the way.
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