A Gift from Ramana Maharshi

From the very beginning my work has been to understand the self-inquiry of Ramana Maharshi.

I have waited many years to acknowledge this publicly because until very recently I had no personal insight into the actual nuts and bolts nature of self-inquiry.

I knew all along that the gift of the love of life that I had found was entirely a result of the desperate wrestling match I engaged in with Ramana’s simple advice while in solitary confinement in prison. But having won the prize with no real practical understanding of how it had come to pass, I was not willing to inflict on people a half-baked message and offer no practical instruction on what to do.

Now, after more than twenty years, I do have a clear understanding of these matters which has grown in me entirely due to the patient willingness of many hundreds of people who have endured my failed attempts to say what I really wanted to say.