Excerpt from: ‘Talks with Ramana Maharishi’.
Maharishi’s response on being asked: Who am I? How is it to be found?

Oh dearest Guru-ji, Great Sri Bhagavan Ramana, Famous Sage of holy Mountain Arunachala: To whom your Devotees with reverent obeisance greet, I place this verse, an offering, at your sweet lotus feet. I pray that I may come close to your sweet lotus feet, There waiting for me to hold, deep in my heart replete. [...]

Dan Buttner’s The Blue Zones (National Geographic Society, 2008) is a great read for those wanting to keep up with the science of aging but not wanting to read the associated academic journals.

In 1985 on a visit to familiy in Australia I was on Bondi Beach, where I ate a hamburger. I fell asleep on the beach and had a strange dream that I was a cow. I saw the whole process of the slaughterhouse, including fear, smells, noises, terror, cruel treatment etc….It was a horrifying nightmare and I awoke saying aloud ‘They know, they know they are to be cruelly slaughtered’

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