Be As You Are: The spiritual teachings and wisdom of Sri Ramana Maharshi (Arkana)

When there is no ‘I' there is no karma.1

He occasionally even said that every act and experience in a person's life is determined at birth and that the only freedom one has is to realise that there is no one acting and no one experiencing. However,

Whatever is done lovingly, with righteous purity and with peace of mind, is a good action. Everything which is done with the stain of desire and with agitation filling the mind is classified as a bad action.

The best course is to find out who wants this salvation. Tracing this ‘who' or ego to its original source is the right conduct for everyone.

Peace is absence of disturbance. The disturbance is due to the arising of thoughts in the individual, which is only the ego rising up from pure consciousness. To bring

All meditation is for the purpose of keeping out all other thoughts.12

‘Why and to whom did this suffering come?’ If you question thus you will find that the ‘I' is separate from the mind and body, that the Self is the only eternal being, and that it is eternal bliss. That is jnana.

has to be said that all the lives have their first cause in ignorance. That

These value-judgments are the cause of all the misery in the world. Creation