Spiritual Journeys: The Spiritual Path Of Sage Ramana Maharshi

The third main spiritual path that can lead to enlightenment was established by the Indian sage Ramana Maharshi. Ramana Maharshi lived in Southern India during the first half of the 20th century. Because of the need to have guidance or a guru in many of the above spiritual paths, it is great that there is this spiritual path that can lead to enlightenment without the guidance of an enlightened teacher. The core of his teaching is that we can start asking the most fundamental question of a human being: who am I in my deepest identity? (Ramana 1902; Ramana 1995; Osborne 2000). We are not our bodies, minds, thoughts or emotions. Our soul is the witness of those things. However, we are not even our soul in the deepest sense, because our soul receives its power from an even deeper source. So, who then are we? This is the final question of all other questions we may face.
This is the question he put to us; but he also showed by his own life that there is an answer to this question. He asked this question of himself at the very young age of sixteen and was given the Grace of enlightenment. He didn’t need a guru or any spiritual tradition to become enlightened. At the tender age of sixteen he found his Spiritual Self and

However, this spiritual path includes the sacrifice that we must surrender fully to the Spiritual Self. Although Ramana himself received the Grace of Enlightenment at an exceptionally young age, we must not think that this path is very easy. Enlightenment is a mystical phenomenon that cannot be known in advance. All we can say is that it will not happen until we are spiritually mature for it. This usually requires a long time filled with meditation and the spiritually focused lifestyle described