Self-inquiry is a radically simple means whereby we can rid ourselves of misery and suffering in our lives. Not pain and hardship, but misery and suffering in our lives. I have found that the most difficult task that I have in speaking about self-inquiry is trying to distinguish self-inquiry from all the other spiritual stuff that goes on in the world. nnThe idea of investigating to find out the reality of what I am is very old. Maybe 2,500 years, maybe even longer. It may have been a practice of the Aryan tribes before they even got into India. But until very recently, before the advent of Ramana Maharshi, self-inquiry was a part of the whole business of spiritual aspiration and attainment. It was one means among many for attaining spiritual fulfillment. nnEven with Ramana, it is sometimes difficult to hear from him the simplicity of the method of self-inquiry, because Ramana was willing to speak with everybody about everything. But one thread that ran through all of Ramana's teaching was a radically, fundamentally different view of self-inquiry as a means of ridding ourselves of misery and suffering in our lives.nnComplete recording of a Meeting in Satsang in Ojai, California on September 8, 2007nnLength: 49 min. File Size: 12 MB
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