Ramana Maharshi

What can be said? Ramana Maharshi was a shining example of the quiet beauty of being that is possible.

There is little more to be added, except perhaps these three small things:

• Firsly, he made no distinction. Ever.
• Secondly, he pointed out very clearly that anything less than permanent absence of the concept of a 'me' was mere delusion.
• Thirdly, Ramana Maharshi was very ordinary. He spoke simply. He helped out in the kitchen. He lived what he was - an ordinary being.

The claims of the guru crowd that there is lineage from him to them, that he did this or did that, that he said this or that... all pointless.

It is not what he said, but what he was. And the example of the potential for all of us.