![]() These teachings have been commodified to a degree difficult to believe. ![]() If you seek a living teacher, please be wary. Aim for something rooted in the life of a person, preferably someone long-dead, and not a rarefied philosophical summary. Sri Ramanasramam publishes a great number of useful books. Nothing too ethereal, steer clear of the Neo-Advaitins for now, perhaps Arthur Osbourne’s Ramana Maharshi and the Path of Self-Knowledge, David Godman’s Be As You Are, or any basic text on the life and teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi. If you are new to this way of thinking, and you wish to read I AM THAT, or are struggling to read it now, it would help tremendously to first read a friendly introduction to Advaita Vedanta. In fact, there appear to be a significant number of people who do nothing, except read this book, and then accost strangers in cafés to tell them about it. ![]() ![]() After all, this is the favorite book of many of the strangest people you will ever meet. You will find your own way, as many others have before you. For this reason, I thought I might give a little advice about how to keep company with this book, a very beautiful and peculiar one, and unlike any other. I was 18 the first time I bought I AM THAT, but I was 39 before I was able to read it. ![]()
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