Psycho-spiritual model of Reality and healing with reference to teachings of Ramana Maharishi; a poetical odyssey
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Abstract
Indian culture survived two major colonial influences across the last millennium, first from Islam and later from the British while erstwhile contemporary original cultures in the middle-east and south-east Asia were overrun quite early. De-colonial era of the past 75 years has witnessed a revival of India’s spirituality-rooted philosophy exemplified by persons of wisdom and the prominent among them was Ramana Maharishi. Fine minds thirsting for the experience of the Infinite reached his presence from across the world. The sheer immediacy of the sage’s core psycho-analytical teaching to discover ‘Who am I’ and to experience for oneself the liberating, transcendental and non-material dimension of existence appealed directly to the westerners and natives alike. Chronicling his experience in just five precise verses, the sage encapsulated the apparently immeasurable Reality and laid it bare as the transcendental intelligence that pervades and permeates all of creation. The ultimate answer to the verbal question is the experience of mind’s dissolution into the state of Being leading to abidance, peace and all the collateral positive attributes thereafter. Truth is indeed simple and it takes someone endowed with authority of experience to validate it time and again to guide humanity discover its common transcendental ground of immortal Being.
Presenter Biography
Sivakumar Venugopal is a faculty and administrator at the medical campus of Amrita University at Kochi, South India. He is course director for the institution’s doctoral coursework on Indian Philosophy. He also teaches post-graduate students of Clinical Psychology with three decades of cumulative experience across medical industry and academia.