Synopsis The author has packed into this small volume all of the essential information relating to the life and teachings of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi (1879-1950). The life of Sri Ramana Maharshi fills us with wonder. As a teenager, hardly seventeen, he realized the Self through a spontaneous act of Self-enquiry without any conscious effort on his part, or ay training imparted by a teacher. He left his home (at Madurai) in 1896, came to Arunachala (Tiruvannamalai) where He lived as an all-renouncing sage, In a state of continuous Self-absorption for a period of fifty-four years.