What we’re about
We are students of the non-dualistic teachings of Advaita Vedanta. Our online group will focus on reading and discussing books by Ramana Maharshi and Nisargadatta Maharaj. We have found that these non-dualistic teachings help to provide a spiritual foundation that can bring a new level of understanding to us about our true nature.
The meeting will begin with a short meditation to settle into the space of "Being". We will then read and discuss the teachings from a book by one of these Indian spiritual masters. The meeting will end with a short meditation period to allow ourselves to incorporate the teachings into our hearts and minds.
This is an online group that will meet on the 2nd and 4th Sundays of each month from 11:00 am to 12:30 pm EST. The next book that we will read is "Be As You Are, The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi", edited by David Godman. This book can be purchased on Amazon, and the readings will also be made available online. Please join us as we focus on discovering our true nature and learning to experience the Oneness of all creation.
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Join us for a reading and discussion of our newest study book:
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.
