* 1950 – Sri Ramana Maharshi, Indian philosopher ( b. 1879 )

In the 19th and 20th centuries, prominent figures of Indian spirituality such as Swami Vivekananda, Ramana Maharshi, Swami Sivananda and A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami emphasized the importance of ahimsa.

* 1879 – Sri Ramana Maharshi, Indian philosopher ( d. 1950 )

Sri Ramana Maharshi mentioned that the kundalini energy is nothing but the natural energy of the Self, where Self is the universal consciousness ( Paramatma ) present in every being, and that the individual mind of thoughts cloaks this natural energy from unadulterated expression.

Hindu philosophy became an important element in his understanding of the role of symbolism and the life of the unconscious, though he avoided a meeting with Ramana Maharshi.

* Ramana Maharshi

In the 19th and 20th centuries, prominent figures of Indian spirituality such as Swami Vivekananda, Ramana Maharshi, Swami Sivananda and A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami emphasised the importance of ahimsa.

) Maugham himself visited Sri Ramana Ashram, where he had a direct interaction with Ramana Maharshi in Tamil Nadu, India in 1938.

Ramana Maharshi defines " savikalpa samādhi " as, " holding on to reality with effort ".

According to Ramana Maharshi, " Remaining in the primal, pure natural state without effort is sahaja nirvikalpa samadhi ".

He also paid special attention to Self-enquiry meditation advocated by Sri Ramana Maharshi, and was reformulating the principles of this exercise with reference to his human biocomputer paradigm ( described in Programming and Metaprogramming in the Human Biocomputer: Theory and Experiments and The Center of the Cyclone ).

The new movements look up to Swami Vivekananda ; Rabindranath Tagore ; Ramana Maharshi ; Shri Aurobindo ( for his Integral Yoga ); Maharishi Dayananda Saraswati, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada ( founder of the modern Hare Krishna movement ); Swami Sivananda, Swami Rama Tirtha ; Narayana Guru, Jagadguru Swami Sathyananda Saraswathi, Paramhansa Yogananda ; Shrii Shrii Anandamurti.

Sri Ramana Maharshi ( Tamil: ரமண மஹர ி ஷ ி) ( December 30, 1879 – April 14, 1950 ), born Venkataraman Iyer, was a Hindu spiritual master (" jnani ").

Swami Ramdas visited Ramana Maharshi while on pilgrimage in 1922, and after darshan, spent the next 21 days meditating in solitude in a cave on Arunachala.

" This chapter is devoted to Ramana Maharshi, whom Maugham had at one time visited before Indian independence.

Indian National Congress politician and freedom-fighter, O. P. Ramaswamy Reddiyar, who served as the Premier of Madras from 1947 to 1949, was also a devoted follower of Ramana Maharshi.

Another famous follower of Sri Ramana Maharshi is Jinnuru Nannagaru ( born Bhupathiraju Venkata Lakshmi Narasimha Raju ), who has taken upon himself the task of taking people to a ‘ sorrowless ’, and ‘ tension-free ’ state.

After much persuasion, Sri Ramana Maharshi composed Sri Arunachala Aksharamanamalai ( The Marital Garland of Letters ) in praise of Lord Shiva, manifest as the mountain Arunachala.

* Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi by Munagal Venkataramiah

* Be as You Are: The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi by David Godman ( ISBN 0-14-019062-7 )

* Ramana Puranam, composed by Sri Ramana Maharshi and Sri Muruganar ( ISBN 8162890599 )

* Origin of Spiritual Instruction, by Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi ( ISBN 978-0970366733 )

* Ulladu narpadu = Forty Verses On Reality, by Ramana Maharshi, translation and commentary by S. S. Cohen ( ISBN 0722401612 )

Mullapudi Venkata Ramana ( te: మ ు ళ ్ ళప ూ డ ి వ ెం కట రమణ ; June 28, 1931 – February 23, 2011 ) was a Telugu story writer.

' Mullapudi Venkata Ramana ' was born in a middle class traditional family and his childhood mostly spent in a tiny village called Dhowaleswaram near Rajahmundry, Andhra Pradesh.

It was a happy family with no troubles until his father expired when Ramana was 9 years old.

During the same period, he got a good friend in ' Bapu ', their friendship was unconditional and mutually expending talents as Ramana is good at write ups where as Bapu, is good at painting and caricature drawing.

Ramana was first working for the " Daily " section of the news paper, and then shifted to " Weekly " section.

Ramana ’ s first short story ' Amma Maata Vinakapothe ' was published in 1945 in ' Bala ', a children's magazine published by Radio Annayya ( Nyayapathi Raghava Rao ), he was 14 then.

Some historians argue that the actual settlement of Ramana near Baku was possibly founded by the Roman troops of Lucius Julius Maximus from Legio XII Fulminata in circa 84-96 AD and derives its name from the Latin Romana .< ref >

Each letter was corrected by Sri Ramana before it was sent.

The work was known, appreciated and quoted by Ramakrishna and his disciple Vivekananda, as well as by other well known gurus such as Sant Shri Asaramji Bapu, Swami Chinmayananda, Ramana Maharshi, Osho and Sri Sri Ravi Shankar.

" It was edited by Muz Murray who is now called Ramana Baba and teaches yoga.

At the beginning of his teaching career, Cohen was mainly influenced by the Advaita Vedanta philosophy as taught by his teacher, H. W. L. Poonja, a disciple of Ramana Maharshi.

Sri Raghavendra Swami was born as Sri Venkata Natha ( Venkata Ramana ), the second son of Sri Thimanna Bhatta and Smt.

They studied there in standards V and VI and then continued schooling at Kesari High School. Ramana ’ s first short story ' Amma Maata Vinakapothe ' was published in 1945 in ' Bala ', a children's magazine published by Radio Annayya ( Nyayapathi Raghava Rao ), he was 14 then.

Subaru and subsequently Mitsubishi entered the US Pro Rally championship with factory teams ; Mark Lovell was the lead driver for the Subaru / Prodrive team, with Americans Karl Scheible ( 2002 ) and Ramana Lagemann ( 2003 ) as teammates.

From early childhood, Balsekar was drawn to Advaita, a nondual teaching, particularly the teachings of Ramana Maharshi and Wei Wu Wei.

Long-Ear Noro ( Jason Scott Lee ) and Ramana, a Short Ear girl, are both rejects in their tribes – her father was banished for building an unlucky canoe.

An after-movie credit states that archaeological evidence proves that Pitcairn Island was settled some 1, 500 miles away, providing hope that Noro, Ramana and their daughter made it to a new land.

Those he most highly recommended were Indian guru Ramana Maharshi, Chan master Huang Po, Christian mystics St. John of the Cross and Teresa of Avila, George Gurdjieff, and researchers Paul Brunton and Richard Bucke.