{"id":4,"date":"2015-02-14T19:14:45","date_gmt":"2015-02-15T03:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.justonelook.org\/natural\/?p=4"},"modified":"2018-07-28T18:12:58","modified_gmt":"2018-07-29T02:12:58","slug":"looking-at-yourself-is-the-essence-of-self-inquiry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.justonelook.org\/natural\/2015\/02\/looking-at-yourself-is-the-essence-of-self-inquiry\/","title":{"rendered":"A Gift from Ramana Maharshi"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the very beginning my work has been to understand the self-inquiry of Ramana Maharshi.<\/p>\n

I have waited many years to acknowledge this publicly because until very recently I had no personal insight into the actual nuts and bolts nature of self-inquiry.<\/p>\n

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I knew all along that the gift of the love of life that I had found was entirely a result of the desperate wrestling match I engaged in with Ramana’s simple advice while in solitary confinement in prison. But having won the prize with no real practical understanding of how it had come to pass, I was not willing to inflict on people a half-baked message and offer no practical instruction on what to do.<\/p>\n

Now, after more than twenty years, I do have a clear understanding of these matters which has grown in me entirely due to the patient willingness of many hundreds of people who have endured my failed attempts to say what I really wanted to say.<\/p>\n


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From the very beginning my work has been to understand the self-inquiry of Ramana Maharshi. I have waited many years to acknowledge this publicly because until very recently I had no personal insight into the actual nuts and bolts nature of self-inquiry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-4","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-blog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5SwXW-4","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.justonelook.org\/natural\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.justonelook.org\/natural\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.justonelook.org\/natural\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.justonelook.org\/natural\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.justonelook.org\/natural\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.justonelook.org\/natural\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":775,"href":"https:\/\/www.justonelook.org\/natural\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions\/775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.justonelook.org\/natural\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.justonelook.org\/natural\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.justonelook.org\/natural\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}