Ranjit Maharaj met Siddharameshwar Maharaj in 1925 at the age of twelve and remained his student until Siddharameshwar’s death in 1936. He continued the practice of self-investigation for the next sixty-five years while working as an ordinary householder in Mumbai, mostly unrecognised outside a small circle of Marathi devotees.
In the 1990s, in his eighties, he began to receive Western students who had heard of him through the wider Inchagiri network. His teaching is in some ways even more direct than Nisargadatta’s. The method is simple: forget yourself. Whatever you take yourself to be, that is not it. What remains when all that is forgotten is the simple recognition: That you are.
