Books on Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi(comments by Lucananda)
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Ramana Maharshi and the path of Self-Knowledge(by A. Osborne): Paperback - 208 pages Reissue edition (July 1995) (List Price: $12.95) Amazon.com Price: $11.65 -- Availability: Usually ships within 24 hours. Comment: the first biography on Maharshi published in the West. Very good. If you have never read a book on Ramana Maharshi, this is a VERY good book to start by. Click here to buy it from Amazon.com |
Talks with Ramana Maharshi: On Realizing Abiding Peace and Happinessby Robert Powell (Editor). Paperback - 552 pages (July 2000) (List Price: $27.00) Amazon.com Price: $21.60 Availability: This title usually ships within 2-3 days. Comment: Sorry. I have not read this book, so I cannot give you any indication on it. The title is very interesting, but I am not able to say more. Click here to buy it from Amazon.com
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The Collected Works of Sri Ramana Maharshi:
by A. Osborne (Editor) -- Paperback - 192 pages (January 1997)
(List Price: $12.95) Amazon.com Price: $11.65 Availability: This title usually ships within 2-3 days.
Comment: All the (few) writings of Sri Ramana Maharshi. There are some poetries and a few written teachings, plus other important wirtings TRANSLATED by Ramana Maharshi. The poetries are wonderful, and the teachings very good, but... since the Maharshi never claimed to be an author (actually he never claimed to be anything), he wrote only a few teachings as a response to some devotees who had ask them for their perusal. In my opinion, this is a very good book... but I would start by with other books (like the two other simple books by A. Osborne).
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The Teachings of Ramana Maharshi by Arthur Osborne (Editor)Paperback - 200 pages 2 edition (August 1996) (List Price: $12.95) Amazon.com Price: $11.65 Availability: This title usually ships within 2-3 days. Comment: The Editor (A. Osborne) collected some important theachings of Maharshi from many books, and put them together, trying to give them a logical order. This book is quite simple, and can be easily read and understood by everyone. Perhaps the best book to start by! Click here to buy it from Amazon.com |
Search in secret Indiaby Paul Brunton - Paperback - 336 pages Revised edition (May 1990) (List Price: $14.95) Amazon.com Price: $13.45 - Availability: This title usually ships within 2-3 days. Comment: The book that made Sri Ramana Maharshi become well-known in the West. Though this book is not enterely on Sri Ramana Maharshi, it worths to be read. The book relates about the travel of the author in India in 1930s, and gives accounts of his many visits to saints, yogis, charlatans, etc. The bright figure of Sri Ramana Maharshi stands out like a ray of sun in the darnkness. Click here to buy it from Amazon.com |
Be As You Are : The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshiby David Godman (Editor), Maharshi Ramana Paperback Reissue edition (April 1991) (List Price: $13.95) Amazon.com Price: $12.55 Availability: Usually ships within 24 hours. Click here to buy it from Amazon.com |
The Spiritual Teaching of Ramana Maharshi (Shambhala Dragon Editions)Introduction by Carl Gustav Jung - Paperback - 116 pages (December 1988) (List Price: $14.00) Amazon.com Price: $12.60 Availability: Usually ships within 24 hours. Comment: this book is small, and you can easily bring it with you. It relates some teachings of Maharshi, ordered by topics. But... it is quite expensive, in my opinion. Over 12$ for a book of only 116 pages are a lot. With the same money, you can buy other books on Maharshi (actually, most of the books in this page are around 12$, but generally have almost twice of the pages, or more). Click here to buy it from Amazon.com |
Talks With Sri Ramana Maharshi:by T.M.P. Mahadevan. Hardcover - 657 pages 9th edition (December 1994). Price of Amazon.com: $42.95 Availability (note of Amazon.com): This title usually ships within 4-6 weeks. Please note that titles occasionally go out of print or publishers run out of stock. We will notify you within 2-3 weeks if we have trouble obtaining this title. Comment :Probably the best book on Sri Ramana Maharshi (and -by the way- the editor is not T.M Mahadevan: he wrote the Foreword. The editor is Sri Munagala Venkataramiah). This book covers, day by day, the talks of Sri Ramana Maharshi with devotees for a period of 4 years (1935-1939). But... Alas! It is no more avalaible from Amazon. You can try to contact Amazon (they say that will ask the book to the publisher), but I do not know if this GREAT book (though the price is quite high) is still avalaible or when it will be reprinted. Click here to try with Amazon.com
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