Every spiritual quest contains effort on part of seeker and later comes a stage when effort is actually a hindrance to the quest. It needs lot of preparation of body-mind complex to make them fit to receive the ultimate reality. In usual circumstances one needs a lot of ground work before doing self-inquiry. Saints like Ramana Maharshi are born with minimal or no contents in their mind and so their mind is already empty and capable of doing self-inquiry without prior preparation. At the time of his death experience he did self-inquiry on the problem of death and his self-inquiry is over in just 20 minutes and a new being is born in him. Old Venkatraman is no more there and there is only a void, emptiness filled with bliss came into being which cannot be named though Ganapathi Sastri gave him a fittest name as Bhagavan Sri Ramana...