Padamalai - Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi / Reading and Discussion

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Padamalai - Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi: by Muruganar / edited by David Godman. Available on the David Godman website, Padamalai - David Godman for $20 plus $12 handling charge. See message below for the link to the PDF free online version.

Padamalai contains well over a thousand teaching statements made by Sri Ramana Maharshi, none of which had appeared in English prior to the publication of this book in 2003. They were originally recorded in two-line Tamil verses by Muruganar, one of Sri Ramana’s foremost devotees.

The original Tamil poem from which these statements have been taken had no structure at all. It was simply 3,059 random verses. Some of them praised Sri Ramana, some of them expressed Muruganar’s gratitude to Sri Ramana for granting him liberation, but the majority contained renderings of his teachings. The editors and translators have arranged these verses thematically, organizing them into topics such as ‘Self-enquiry’, ‘The Guru and the Jnani’, ‘The Self’, and so on. To supplement the text and to provide a commentary on it the editors have added many other quotations by Bhagavan.