Be the Self

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Whether we know or not, we are nothing but the non-dual Pure Consciousness, Pure Bliss, the Limitless, the Self, Sat-Chit-Ananda. Then why not know it? If we are unlimited, why be limited? If our nature is Pure Bliss, then why suffer as we do? This booklet tells us that Bhagavan Ramana teaches us that all that we have to do to be Pure Consciousness is just to be ourself, to Be instead of being this or that. To Be and not to become. Quoting copiously from Bhagavan Ramana's teachings, the author shows that the easiest thing is to be oneself, to be the non-dual, blissful Self that we are.

Human effort can take us very far. But Guru's Grace is the sine qua non for us to reach the goal of Self-Realisation. This booklet discusses the importance of Grace.

Sri Ramana Maharshi has been truly hailed by a famous poet as 'The Greatest Impersonality'. Of course, anyone of His devotees able to handle pen and ink or a typewriter can draw an outer picture of a simple, unassuming man who never asked anything from anybody, who accepted what came unasked to Him and let everything else go, who was adored as a beloved Guru without claiming any such honour, who won thousands of devotees all over the world simply by His bewitching smile - He was and still remains a uniquely silent riddle!

He never went abroad, like Swami Vivekananda to preach the ancient wisdom of His race to the world; He did not fight for political independence like Gandhiji; He did not dream of a future Divine Life on earth like Sri Aurobindo.

Those three Great ones form forever the Triple Star who spread their light for the uplift of the millions of their people. Sri Ramana remained a Lone Star who led modern man to man's true Nature, when the individual who feels the agony of this age, seems to have forgotten his identity. He was and remains the Lone Star of Arunachala, shining steadily, like the Polaris, guiding more by His Silent Presence than by any word or deed.