RECOMMENDED WRITINGS OF SRI RAMANA MAHASHRI

• RECOMMENDED WRITINGS: Be As You AreEdited by David Godman· · · · · · · · · · · ·This superb compilation of Ramana Maharshi's writings and dialogues is the best available single volume about his teachings. It covers all aspects of Sri Ramana's teachings and arranges them in the order preferred by Sri Ramana himself, with the most important or highest teachings first. The editor, David Godman, is one of the world's foremost experts on Sri Ramana.
• Talks with Sri Ramana MaharshiBy Sri Ramana Maharshi· · · · · · · · · · · ·For serious students of Ramana Maharshi, this is the Bible, the most comprehensive single volume of Sri Ramana's teachings. It contains 668 pages of transcripts of conversations he held between 1935 and 1939 with visitors who traveled to south India from all over the world to ask for advice from the man whom many regard as the greatest realized teacher of the twentieth century. The text, translated here into English from the three Indian languages used by Ramana, is slightly stilted but nonetheless lucid, direct, literate, and pleasant to read.
• Ramana Maharshi and His Philosophy of ExistenceBy T.M.P. Mahadevan· · · · · · · · · · · ·This small book contains the best English translation of Ramana Maharshi's most important work and the most sophisticated academic discussion of Ramana Maharshi's teachings that have been done to date. The book's author, T.M.P. Mahadevan, was a devotee of Ramana Maharshi and a distinguished academic expert on Advaita. The book contains a variety of interesting pieces: Mahadevan's biography of Sri Ramana; Mahadevan's translation with commentary of Sri Ramanas's Forty Verses on Existence (including the Supplement) which is Sri Ramana's most complete statement of his teachings; four fascinating essays about Sri Ramana by Mahadevan; the Tamil texts of Forty Verses and its Supplement in transliterated roman type; and a glossary of Sanskrit terms. For devotees of Sri Ramana who have a sophisticated interest in philosophy or an intellectual bent, this book is indispensable
• Who Am I?by Sri Ramana Maharshi One of Ramana's earliest works, dictated to a student in 1902. Explains the method of self-enquiry in question-and-answer form.
• Spiritual Instructionby Sri Ramana Maharshi Another compilation of questions and answers by a student.