Is Advaita Vedanta Similar To Ramana Maharishi's Direct Path Teachings?

Listen to Ektaji's answers to different questions related to Advaita (non-duality). These teachings are aimed at experiential understanding of the Truth viz. the dissolution of the Subject and Object relationship.

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Office. They are the same but you have to understand that Ramana did not have any formal education of Advaita before. Ramana for him it was a natural opening up, A natural blossoming as a kid. 14 years old he is not going to have read Advaita or anything. That is why Ramana's scriptures if you go to see they are in Tamil. And they don't have Sanskrit verses or like that. They are more like a prose not like poetry shlokas in Advaita vita amita. So you find that one difference but really if you go to see it is finally the same thing. It is non-duality. Now Ramana is saying who am I? Find this I. And what is Advaita saying? Advaita showing you that really this I that you think this body-mind complex this is nothing but a presumed I. It's assumed I am actually the witness. So when you are speaking to Ramana and you ask him I am not getting this he says who is not getting? I am not getting. Who am I? Find that I. Find the source of I. So then he goes he starts with what the presumed I know and he looks looks looks really you don't find the I because that I dissolves it doesn't exist. It is just a thought. The thinker is just a thought. There is no entity like the thinker. Yeah it is just one thought coming and going another thought coming and going third thought coming they come so fast in succession you think that there is one entity that is called I. Yes? And you assume I am that entity and you continue in the world protecting that entity making that entity strong and in that process you create a lot of drama. So he again and again takes you back to the source. Who's this I? Does this I exist? Oh there is no I. And he says that I will dissolve into its source. Source the same witness the same consciousness the same nothingness. Yeah it is the same place the same awareness. So this is Ramana's unique way to bring you to the same thing that is also direct Advaita is also direct in your face telling you this is an assumed I and this is the real I. The real witness it's not even an I because how can it be I here and I there and I there and I there. It's shared it's a shared being. Yeah that shared being is everywhere it's Brahman. It's Brahman consciousness. Ramana's technique is through questioning through questioning. So Ramana is coming from the assumed I towards the witness. Yes in Advaita also we do the same thing we come from outside the eyes are the seer and this object this computer is the scene so we are doing exactly the same. Both the techniques are same only the method used the means is different here the means is find that source of the I and here the means is seer and seen seer and seen seer and seen. Oh I am the witness. Final destination is the same. Forget about the differences and find the witness. Then you have reached home then someone's journey is done.