Maharshi's Gospel

BOOKS 1 & II

Being Answers of
BHAGAVAN SRI RAMANA MAHARSHI
to Questions put to Him by Devotees

SRI RAMANASRAMAM
Tiruvannamalai
2002

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© Sri Ramanasramam
Tiruvannamalai
Thirteenth Edition
2002

Copies
2000
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ISBN 81-88018-02-3
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Sri Ramanasramam
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PREFACE

In response to the earnest desire of a large number
of devotees of Bhagavan Sri Ramana, the answers to
some of the questions put to Him from time to time
are printed in a book-form under the title
MAHARSHI'S GOSPEL for the benefit of the world
at large.
These questions occur to ever so many of us, and
we struggle within ourselves to solve them. The
answers given by Maharshi are the quintessence of
Divine Wisdom, based as they are on His direct
knowledge and experience. His answers are of
inestimable value to the earnest seeker of Truth.
The profound truth of Advaita that the one and
only Reality is the Self absolute or Brahman, has
nowhere been more lucidly expounded than in these
pages. Because, on the one hand, it is on the basis of
the highest experience that is His, that Bhagavan
Sri Ramana speaks, and on the other, it is from the
viewpoint of the common understanding of the
layman that the aspirant seeks to know the Truth.

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Truth is the same for one and all, and Sri Bhagavan
directs the earnest aspirant to investigate and
critically examine his own intimate experience and
to seek for himself the core of his being, the Heart,
which is eternally identical with the One Ultimate
Reality, of which everything else seen or known is
merely a phenomenal manifestation.
Every word that comes from the lips of the Sage
is of the essence of Upanishadic wisdom, of which
He is Himself the Supreme Embodiment.*
The devout reader will find in these pages practical
advice, and will gain the conviction that his essential
nature is Divine;

* The reader is referred to Sri Swami Siddheswarananda's Article on page 68.