Ramana, Siddharameshwar and Nisargadatta..............................
Siddharameshwar, Nisargadatta’s teacher had a
somewhat different ontology and a somewhat different
method.
He said essentially there were two ‘I’s: the ‘I’ of
the mind and identification, which was resident in the
subtle body as a concept, and the much deeper feeling
of ‘I Amness,’ which was the Fourth Body, or Turiya.
This is exactly the same view as Ramana Maharshi.
Nisargadatta, at the end of his life, had the opinion
you only had to listen to his words, ponder their
meaning, and abide in the ‘I Am’, in order to become
liberated. Siddharameshwar said the path was all
about meditative introspection, hunting through the
layers of consciousness to find the ‘I Am’.
For Siddharameshwar there were four bodies to be
conceived of and found through progressive, guided
meditation with the teacher, always hunting for the
‘I’.
There was the physical body and the world, the
world of the mind (Subtle Body) with its thinking,
feeling, discrimination, concepts, and the inner
experience of space or the Void. Then there was the
body of forgetfulness (Causal Body), which takes away