The chapter on yoga is about the eight limbs of yoga described by Patanjali, and their relevance to the practice of Jnana yogi. e. the relation between the Father and Son, the manner in which the Father lives in the Son, as in his organ or instrument of manifestation and object of supreme affection, and as the Son is in the Father, abiding ever in the light of his glory, in the power of his Name, and as these two are thus One in being, so, or similarly, the believers are to live in and for each other, becoming a unity, just as the Father and Son are unity. We think that there is something hiding our reality and that it must be destroyed before the reality is gained. Misinterpretation of these books can lead to all sorts of new-age fluffy ideas which only eclipse the wisdom that is truly grounded. Sometimes it was as though an electric current was passing through one, sometimes a vast peace, a flood of light.

Six weeks later he ran away to the holy hill of Arunachala where he would remain for the rest of his life. He expresses in this grand thought of the unity of the whole Church the fulness of the purpose of His prayer.With the pictures the Self is in its manifest form; without the pictures it remains in the unmanifest form. You have no worries, no anxieties, no cares, for you come to realise that there is nothing belonging to you. The figure is a part of the tower, but it is made to look as if it is bearing the weight of the tower. The disturbance is due to the arising of thoughts in the individual, which is only the ego rising up from pure consciousness. The Father in the Son and the Son in the Father; both Father and Son taking up their abode in the believer, and the believer, therefore, in the Father and the Son.

The experience may be intermittent at first but with repeated practice it becomes easier and easier to reach and maintain. In the beginning this requires effort, but eventually something deeper than the ego takes over and the mind dissolves in the heart center.The second chapter in this part is about sat-sang, which may be literally translated as “sitting with the guru,” but refers to a kind of transference that flows from being together.

His father died when he was twelve, and he went to live with his uncle in Madurai, where he attended American Mission High School. It is the same in the waking state, for you are unable to doubt the reality of the world which you see while you are awake. Although it may seem at a first look into this book that Sri Ramana is ignoring his own advice, "to leave off all this verbiage" this is not in fact the case. Some find this book hard to grasp, most likely because taken on an intellectual level it can be dry or nonsensical. It is also described in the Yoga Vasistha, a syncretic work which may date from the 6th or 7th century CE, and shows influences from Yoga, Samkhya, Saiva Siddhanta and Mahayana Buddhism, especially Yogacara.David Godman did a really good job of putting together the Master's teachings in an easily comprehensible Q/A format.