Edward: Dear Ram, I’ve a question for you. I hope you will keep your answer simple. As you know, I am perennially short of time. The question is: What is emotion?…
Maureen: Dear Ramji!, thank you for Sandy’s letter and your comments – isn’t she lovely?!
Ram: She certainly is.
Maureen: I have some questions concerning the relationship between mind and the…
Ram: Dear Peter, I was thinking about your statement on the phone that my comments about how to deal with your emotional situation were merely intellectual and that you are not…
Candice: Dear Ram, so when you say mentally agitated, you mean not fully present? So you don’t get the fullness of the experience? The clarity of the experience?
Ram: Yes. And…
Ram: Dear Martina, here are my replies to your excellent questions. I tidied up your English a bit so that your statements would be easier for others to understand.
Martina: Thank…
Ram: Dear Deena, to answer your next question, yes, the “I” thought arises in the mind. But the “I” does not arise in the mind. The mind arises in the “I.”…
Shanti: What kind of vasanas do you think I have?
Ram: The same ones we all have. The vasanas outpicture as your likes and dislikes. One’s likes and dislikes generally disturb one’s mind. If you don’t…
Mark: Dear Ram, there is a beautiful Sanskrit verse I lost along with the exact meaning. It goes something like “…out of fullness comes something, but fullness always remains…”
I “saw”…