Ramana Maharshi and His Philosophy of Existence

This 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 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.