Sri ramana maharshi biography of barack obama
Jnanis are not 'incarnations' at all; they are beings who know by direct experience that incarnations never really happened.
There is a frequently quoted passage in Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi talk , where Bhagavan gives out the essence of this key tenet of his..
Ramana Maharshi
Indian Hindu sage (1879–1950)
Quotation
Of all the thoughts that rise in the mind, the thought 'I' is the first thought.
Ramana Maharshi (Sanskrit pronunciation:[ˈɾɐ.mɐ.ɳɐmɐˈɦɐɾ.ʂi], in tamil: இரமண மகரிசி, Iramaṇa Makarici; 30 December 1879 – 14 April 1950) was an Indian Hindusage and jivanmukta (liberated being).
He was born Venkataraman Iyer, but is mostly known by the name Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi.[note 1]
He was born in Tiruchuli, Tamil Nadu, India in 1879. In 1895, an attraction to the sacred hill Arunachala and the 63 Nayanmars was aroused in him, and in 1896, at the age of 16, he had a "death-experience" where he became aware of a "current" or "force" (avesam) which he recognized as his true "I" or "self",[web 1] and which he later identified with "the personal God, or Iswara",[web 1][note 2] that is, Shiva.
This resulted in a state that he later described as "the state of mind of Iswara o