“The Guru’s Grace is always there. You imagine it to be something somewhere high up in the sky that has to descend; but really it is inside you, in your heart. The moment you effect the subsidence or merging of the mind into its Source, by Self-Inquiry, the Grace rushes forth, spouting as from a spring within you.”
- Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi

AHAM honors the traditional, long established rule of respecting the hierarchy of one’s spiritual lineage. That is, that the initiation into and dissemination of a truly Conscious Spiritual Teaching and/or its Conscious Processes is to always flow or descend in an officially authorized succession, being only from someone who has been first fully trained in the particular Teaching, and is then qualified to present the Teaching to other fit or eligible students.

AHAM’s role, and its authority to share the Conscious Process of Self-Inquiry - introduced to the world by Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi - was given by the great sage Himself when he appeared to Ramana in a vision. This occurred when Ramana was in deep meditation. The account of this “subtle spiritual encounter” of Sri Bhagavan with A. Ramana, AHAM’s founder and spiritual director, is given elsewhere on this web site. (How AHAM Came Into Being) It gives a definite account of AHAM’s mission and role in instructing people around the world in this pure Teaching, and thus clarifies how it is honoring this principle of spiritual lineage.

People often have questions about where Self-Inquiry came from. Some familiar with the traditional rule of spiritual succession also have had questions about A. Ramana’s authorization to teach Self-Inquiry, i.e., his relationship with Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi, and about Sri Ramana Maharshi Himself, and about the latter’s own Guru, the Holy Hill Arunachala. Also there are often questions arising about the first meeting between Elizabeth MacDonald and her relationship with A. Ramana and AHAM.

It is noteworthy that all of AHAM’s Trainers have in due course received both this Teaching and the authorization to instruct others in it from A. Ramana. This has come about under the personal training of Elizabeth MacDonald, AHAM’s senior trainer, who is also AHAM’s executive director. However, each Trainer’s training has been under the guidance and careful scrutiny of Ramana, himself.

By going below to the pictures of these respective persons, and clicking them, these questions may be answered.

See Jesus’ Role in AHAM’s Lineage.

See Jesus’ Influence in AHAM’s Teaching and on Ramana’s Life.

See How AHAM Came Into Being – a detailed account of AHAM’s creation and early history.

The Sacred Mountain Arunachala
Jesus Christ	Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi	A. Ramana AHAM’s Founder
Elizabeth Mac Donald

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