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This slim book is indeed a gem, a boon for sadhakas of Self – Enquiry as taught by the Bhagavan Ramana. Written in 1962 by a devote who was for many years in the Presence of Ramana and earnestly practiced his teaching, this book, a first-class sadhakas’ manual, anticipated every question that is apt to arise in the mind of the practicant and answers them all in Bhagavan’s own words, mostly culled from Talks With Sri Ramana Maharshi.

Every sentence in this book, written in an utterly simple, direct, clear, unpretentious language, comes out of the author’s own sadhana and experience of Bhagavan’s teaching. After reading this hard-to-put-down book, the reader is sure to be convinced that Atma-Vidya, Self Knowledge, as Ramana has assured us, is ‘easy’ indeed it is easy’. However, Ramana has stipulated: One has to go inward and investigate the source of ‘I’ with a pure mind. So, what makes Self-Knowledge difficult is the mind made impure by our vasanas, our tendencies.

This book tells us, in Bhagavan’s words, how to purify and thus still our mind, as the inevitable prelude to the dawn of Self-Realisation and how the obstacles of vasanas can surely be surmounted by sadhaka’s sincere, meticulous sadhana which will earn him the Guru’s Grace.