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Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
why I think I was actually asked to buy the book was for the
picture, the picture on the cover of the book seem to come alive.
TRIP: Was that the Essential Teachings of Ramana Maharshi?
Was that basically a picture book?
REGINA AKERS: No, it's not a picture book; in fact the only
picture is the one on the cover. It's a very good picture, and I think
that really that's why I was asked to order it. It's simply called The
Teachings of Ramana Maharshi.
WIZARD: Yes, I've had that experience with his form.
REGINA AKERS: Well, yes, so you know how that happened.
And this picture just seemed to come alive, and vibrate, and then I
heard again this familiar prompting within me to “Ask him what
he wants to say to you.” So in my practice then of being what I
perceived to be a scribe at that time, I grabbed my notebook and
my pen, and I asked him what he wanted to say to me. And these
messages began to come. And they started in a familiar zone, they
started again by teaching surrender, and they took me into
practicing a mantra in order to carry meditation and inner focus
throughout the day, instead of just in that quiet time in the
morning, but taking it everywhere by using the mantra. And then
after that teaching it took me into self-inquiry. But through this
inner learning that occurred, seemingly coming from Ramana
Maharshi, this is how that bridge happened, where I moved over
away from the more Christian tradition, and more from the
surrender and devotion…although that's still very much a part of it
for me…but added, you could say added the inquiry to it.
WIZARD: Yes.
TRIP: Well given how excellent a teacher you are, and I'm sure
you're going to have a lot of influence on a lot of people because
you are so clear, it'll be nice I think to talk a little bit about the
Ramana Maharshi experience you had. Because I had a meltdown
when I saw a book of Ramana's, and many of the people that we've
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