A man once came to Ramana Maharshi and said, “I have come from very far, all the way from Germany, to learn from you.” Sri Ramana Maharshi looked at him and replied, “Then you should go elsewhere, because here, we teach unlearning .” I would like to share a story of my own unlearning—the process of dropping a belief that made me feel limited for a very long time. Learning or developing of the belief Almost 25 years ago, my family discovered that I had a hole in my heart (an Atrial Septal...

I have met Guruji in a remote area of Himalayas, Pithoragarh, when there was a meditation camp around 2019. I didn’t have much idea about spirituality other than what I read in books, but I had and still have that immense urge to KNOW. On the first day of the camp, in the night session with guruji it just struck me that, HE is the person who knows THAT, in fact later I realised that HE IS COMPLETELY THAT. And in that camp Guruji, initiated us into the MAHA RUDRA KRIYA practice, and it seems...

I used to think prayer was a list of requests, and thought this had no relevance to me and my life. Standing on the banks of the Ganga at sunset, watching the golden light of the Aarti, I realized it was something entirely different…