Ramana Maharshi as Role model.
- Shrimath Yoga
- Mar 27
- 2 min read
Both, Ramana Maharshi and Rama lived a full life, surrounded with people of various temperaments.
Their life is an inspiration to understanding Krishna’s master archetype - Sthitaprajña.
Bhagawan, in reality, is an epitome of emotional resilience.
His ‘lived presence’ helps us to understand that resilience as the ground of Sthitaprajña lakshana.
Maybe this thought deepened due to umpteen Arunachala Giri Pradakshina since 2010, studying his & others writings on him.
Three such incidents i would like to share...
This felt essential as regulated emotions is the key to sustained relationships…
…be it coach and the client, leader and the led, as well as any in any worthy relationships that you may have in life.
1️⃣ Day by Day with Bhagavan by A. Devaraja Mudaliar (18-6-1945)
When verses from Arunachala Aksharamanamalai were recited, the diary records: “Bhagavan was silent. His voice was choked. Tears were in his eyes.”
He did not suppress emotions nor did he dramatize but remained still.
In 2025, a group of coaches explored on ‘maintains presence’ in the presence of Arunachala.
2️⃣ Sri Ramana Leela by Sri Krishna Bhikshu states:
Bhagawan sat beside his mother Alagammal, guiding her inward through her final breath. Witnesses record deep tenderness and personal attention.
After her passing, he supervised burial arrangements. Neither ascetic detachment nor withdrawal but full participation.
Like Adi Sankara’s life, graduation from personal identity does not eliminate relational responsibility - a lesson to us.
Our program participants meditating in the room where Ramana enabled Mukti to his mother.
3️⃣ Letters from Sri Ramanasramam by Suri Nagamma. The letter dated: 9 June 1948.
When Lakshmi the cow was dying: Bhagawan placed his hand on her head.
Witnesses noted tears in his eyes, and he declared her liberation then supervised her samadhi.
With a few from the coaching fraternity (in 2023) near Ramanashram Goshala.
Real compassion extends beyond human hierarchy as stable wisdom naturally expresses as Karuna ie compassion.
Coachness as an expression of one’s journey towards cultivating Sthitaprajña Lakṣaṇa
In the Bhagavad Gītā (ch 2.55-72), the sthitaprajña is not emotionless.
He is described as the one free from craving, undisturbed in sorrow and free from elation in joy.
He is not numb, nor suppresses or unshaken.
Rama and Bhagawan’s life demonstrate: Emotions arise but the centre remains, and this is maturation, not denial.
Stage 1: Emotional reactivity
Stage 2: Emotional awareness
Stage 3: Emotional non-identification
And finally, stage 4 is the flowering of Sthitaprajña Lakṣaṇa ie grace stabilised.
Rama’s life and Bhagawan’s documented responses show Stage 4 in living form.
Both Rama and Ramana did not transcend emotions but transcended ownership of them.
Rama demonstrated it as a householder; Bhagawan, as a renunciate.
May we aspire to cultivate such presence
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