(I do not allow myself to listen to this music at any other time during the year.) During the approximately two-hour duration of this sublime music, I sit in meditation gazing at a little platform that contains a picture of the sage, some flowers and a stick of incense. John Passion, during a long meditation every year on what I call Ramana Samadhi, April 14th. As an ardent lover of music, I decided to listen to a very profound piece of Easter music, Bach's St. It has been pointed out that Maharshi was a Christ-like figure who was born (December 29) shortly after Christmas and who died shortly after Easter. I decided to ritually commemorate Ramana Maharshi's samadhi, that is, his death, which occurred on April 14, 1950. Since I don't attend synagogue or church, I felt I needed some ritual, beyond daily meditation. This teaching has had a profound effect on me over the past half century. Everything is connected find the source of the ego and you will discover the peace which is at the root of your nature. The teachings of this school contain perhaps the greatest insights into wisdom that has ever been attained. Ramana Mararshi was perhaps the greatest sage of the twentieth century, a representative of the ancient Hindu school of wisdom called advaita, non-duality. I believe that the paths of love are very well delineated in the Western religions, while the path of wisdom is best demonstrated by the East. I consider myself to be a religious person I am, however, unaffiliated with any religion, even unaffiliated with the term, "God." Two interconnected aspects of life seem to me to be of the utmost importance, namely love and wisdom. The pseudonym is actually a three-way pun: Ramana/tom, Ram an atom, and Raman at OM.)
(My name is Thomas Dorsett, Ramana/om is a pseudonym of mine, coined in honor of the great Indian sage, Ramana Maharshi, 1879-1950. This article relates my brief correspondence with the photojournalist, Henri Cartier-Bresson, (1908-2004), and contains the images of three original photos which he sent to me.
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