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From: aloise@jpl-devvax.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Jim Aloise)
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Subject: Re: SRI SRI GOMBOOANANDA
Message-ID: <1991May27.212435.18541@nas.nasa.gov>
Date: 27 May 91 21:24:35 GMT
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In article <1991May24.063412.5487@nas.nasa.gov> cyee@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au (Chut Ngeow YEE) writes:
>But there is no method to be recommended to go and find that consciousness.
>Ramana Maharshi spoke about a method, but his way is really quite
>paradoxical, humorous, and not, as it seems, straightforward.  If you
>remember, he was always saying: Find out "who" it is that has experiences,
>that wants to seek, that thinks it is in the body, find out who that is.  But
>of course, there is no way find that out.  There is no "one" to find that
>out.  It is a spontaneous event, a paradoxical event, the most absolute of
>all events.  It is a gift!  It is itself God, Truth, Reality!"
>
>                                                              SRI DA AVABHASA
>                                                    The Method of the Siddhas

One could read this as a criticism of Ramana Maharshi's method. But I don't
think it is. 
In my opinion, Maharshi was fully aware of this and presented a
technique by which one could find this out for themselves. 
I think it is more effective to start with a persons assumptions and lead them
to discover their baselessness, rather then just tell them it's baseless to
start with.