‘The sparkling of truth devoid of “I” is the greatest austerity.’ That’s from Ramana Maharshi, the Indian sage who died in 1952, I think, after the age of about 14 when he had a transformative experience of Being, in silence. For the first 10 years at least, before it became a great centre of Being for thousands of people who came to see him, he spoke, taught, mostly in silence at the organisation – an ashram grew up around him. Ramana I think shows us that this experience of Being is timeless, transcultural, transhistorical, as Moses discovered at the top of Mt Sinai. It is present sometimes in great teachers, in great individuals, but it’s present in us no less, continuously, if we turn towards it, recognise it.
Being is timeless
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