About the Author
Lakshmana Sarma had the good fortune of spending twenty years in the
immediate proximity of Sri Maharshi.
The popularity of the Author and the Book is well illustrated by the
fact that it has gone into ten reprints.
Book Description
This Book (running into tenth edition) is based on the Sanskrit
works of the Author,Sri Raman Hridayam and Guru Ramana Vachana Mala.
The status of the world, the soul, the egoless state and merits
of devotion are all lucidly explained so as to help the serious
seeker understand the teachings of Bhagavan. The Author chooses
to write under the pseudonym 'WHO'.
The Book besides summarising the teachings of the sage also gives
a summary of the entire vedanta embodying in particular the exposition
of Sri Sankarachrya. In effect we see the perfect parallelism between
the teachings of the upanishads and those of Sri Maharshi.
The method of Self-Enquiry advocated by Sri Maharshi has an intense
orientation towards practice. This means enquiring into the source
of 'I' which leads to the extinction of the ego, that is illusory
'I'. Thus Self-enquiry leads to Self-realisation.
