Who am I? : Publication

"Who am I?" is an article online that I read by Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi. The questions were asked by Sri M. Sivaprakasam Pillai about 1902, who was traveling in India on business and made a trip to the Virupaksha Cave on Arunachala Hill to meet with the master. Bhagavan was not talking aloud at this time, not due to a vow of silence but merely because he was not inclined to, he at first attempted to gesture out the answers and because that could not be understood he wrote his answers to the questions down. The answers have to do with his teachings of self-inquiry and the nature of the mind, the self, and other spiritual processes. What struck me the most when reading the interview was how accessible and simple self-inquiry is compared to many other spiritual practices of the time. Bhagavan teaches that all spiritual practices and books agree that in order to gain release one must render the mind 'quiescent.' This is the core of self-inquiry, which foregoes all the other processes (breathing, meditation) as extracurricular, if you will, to the exercise of the mind to find the root or well-spring of self.

I found this website first by searching on wikipedia for Gangaji. On her site was a link to her teacher, Ramana, also on wikipedia. At the bottom of his article, underneath the 'external links' category, there was the link to his official website. One there I clicked on Publications, which led me to this interview.