Review: Ramana Maharshi and the Path of Self-Knowledge

Ramana Maharshi and the Path of Self-Knowledge

by Arthur Osborne

Samuel Weiser, Inc., York Beach, Maine, 1997. 208 pp.

Written by a devotee who knew Ramana personally, this sensitive book tells the story of Ramana’s early life and enlightenment. Ramana’s teachings of non-duality and compassion for all beings extended not only to the human visitors, but to the animals as well. “Once, during the hot months,” Osborne writes “an electric fan was put on the window-sill beside him. He ordered the attendant to switch it off, and when the latter persisted he himself reached up and pulled out the plug. The devotees were just as hot; why should he alone have a fan? Later, ceiling fans were installed and all benefited alike.”


-- reviewed by Jennifer Knight



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