Ramana Maharshi Rare Video Footage

Guru Purnima day dedicated to memory of Spiritual Masters - Gurus

Today, 7th july is a Guru Purnima day. Guru Purnima day is a special day as it is dedicated to the spiritual masters or gurus. There are 12-13 full moon in a year. The full moon day in the Hindu month of Ashad (July-August) is observed as the auspicious day of Guru Purnima.

Guru means the Master and Purnima means the full moon. So, Guru Purnima day is translated in English as 'full moon day dedicated to Masters'. Traditionally, in India this day is dedicated to the sacred memory of great sage Ved Vyasa. Sage Vyasa had edited the four Vedas, wrote 18 Puranas, the Mahabharata and the Srimad Bhagavata. It is believed that it was Ved Vyasa only, who taught Lord Dattatreya, who is regarded as the Guru of Gurus and wrote Avadhuta Gita. But in general Guru Purnima is day is to remember all the Buddhas, Gurus and spiritual teachers who have helped us on the spiritual path.

Guru Purnima day is meant for thanking the spiritual masters and renewing one pledge to seek truth. Guru purnima is a day to remember all the Buddhas who have realized truth and also to remember the buddha inside us. Spiritual vibrations are very conductive on this day to help us in any kind of Spiritual Sadhana. Lets remember and thank our masters on this day and make best use of this day.

Ramana Maharshi : Knowledge born of one’s own realisation (aparoksha) is firm

Mr. Ellappa Chettiar, a member of the Legislative Council of Madras Presidency and an influential Hindu, asked: “Why is it said that the knowledge born of hearing is not firm, whereas that born of contemplation is firm?”

Ramana Maharshi : On the other hand it is said that hearsay knowledge (paroksha) is not firm, whereas that born of one’s own realisation (aparoksha) is firm. It is also said that hearing helps the intellectual understanding of the Truth, that meditation makes the understanding clear, and finally that contemplation brings about realisation of the Truth. Furthermore, they say also that all such knowledge is not firm and that it is firm only when it is as clear and intimate as a gooseberry in the hollow of one’s palm.

There are those who affirm that hearing alone will suffice, because a competent person who had already, perhaps in previous incarnations, qualified himself, realises and abides in peace as soon as he hears the Truth told him only once, whereas the person not so qualified must pass through the stages prescribed above, before falling into samadhi.

Ramana Maharshi Deep Sleep and Technique to Watch Dreams

Deep Sleep with out dreams is called Susphuti and it is considered very close to Samadhi State. Ramana Maharshi used to sleep very deeply in his childhood. Maharshi Sleep used to be so deep that it was difficult to wake him up.
In his childhood If Ramana Maharshi had some differences with his friends then his friends used to wait till Ramana Maharshi fall asleep and When Ramana Maharshi used to fall asleep then his friends used to come and beat him and next day when Ramana Maharshi used to wake up then he used to wonder why my body is Aching so much.

The few moments before we went enter to sleep or we come our from sleep are very important for meditation and these moments are period of transformation when some one can enter or slip into another dimension of consciousness.

e.g. If some one wants to witness his dreams then one has to be watchful of these few minutes which are between sleep and waking state. There is a flux state of few moments when we are neither in waking state nor sleep has come. These are the moments when we are changing gear from waking state to sleep state. If meditator is wakeful in these moments then one can witness the dreams and witnessing dreams means they disappear and one has dreamless sleep like Ramana Maharshi used to have in childhood.

In later years of Life Ramana Maharshi used to sleep for few hours only and used to wake up early in morning to help in the kitchen work. Ramana Maharshi always insisted on being treated like any other Ashram member and disliked any kind of special preferance given to him.