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Aishwarya Kapoor

Ramana Maharshi's Self-Inquiry Practice and Why Anxiety Makes It the Hardest Question You Can Ask

The Question That Has No Safe Answer

Ramana Maharshi did not teach a technique. He taught a question. "Who am I?", Nan Yar in Tamil, was not a philosophical puzzle to be solved over years of study. It was a tool to be used the way you use a thorn to remove another thorn: once the splinter is out, you put both down.

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