om namo bhagavate sri ramanaya - origins

ACALAYOGA: om namo bhagavate sri ramanaya - origins
If ever you wondered where Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi's mantra came from the answer can be found at the above link.

Ramana Maharshi, acalayoga
acalayoga

Non-dual Experience

I had an interesting conversation yesterday. It revolved around the usual rubbish about non-dual (advaita) experience. The combatant [for that is what he has become, a combatant against his own good sense] was obsessed with the idea of non-dual experience. He had read some new translation or other which suggested that vichara resulted in non-dual experience.

Now it's fine to use an oxymoron as a rhetorical device. In such a case "non-dual experience" could be used to create an excellent rhetorical effect - a paradox. However it became clear that the combatant fully expected and believed in the oxymoronic truth of the "non-dual experience". The sense of paradox had been lost. He now searched for the experience instead of searching for the one who experiences.

On further examination, it appeared that the fault lay not at the door of the combatant but at the door of the author of the book which the combatant had been reading. The idea of non-paradoxical, non-dual experience is quite simply an egotistic platitude.