My understanding of Ramana Maharshi's Hridaya is the core of one's being; My meditation practice resonates with statement about merging prana and mind into Hridaya

Today morning I came across a recent Facebook post of Dr. David Frawley on Ramana Maharshi's teachings and declarations in Upanishads about Hridaya and the heart:  https://www.facebook.com/drdavidfrawley/posts/pfbid02sLJUoa2WTaHHHpeshraNzcKb98uDAano1yfsntT1a6xv2awQauTTMxukGyY4scZKl .

I shared the post and provided the following as my share-text in my post, https://www.facebook.com/ravi.s.iyer.7/posts/pfbid0Bsb2GiautcLEsh6qiMnJiCD6NCMctYFNCjLodpsnQ99zbQNpMJ4HPH9F9tmUyK1Zl :

My understanding of this is that the (my) Hridaya is the core of one's (my) being. In my current meditation practice, I first make efforts to move from my usual mind-body state where I am actively/consciously using my mind and sometimes body too, to feeling the changeless and always-present (never absent, which I can never detach myself from) core of my being (atma). Then I focus on this core of my being (atma) and try to merge or dissolve into it.

I think the shared post resonates with what I have mentioned above. In particular, the part of the post about "Merging prana and mind into the Hridaya takes us to their origin in the Self", I think, resonates very well with my current meditation practice.

An interesting quote of Ramana Maharshi in this context from Meditation on the heart-centre by David Godman, https://www.davidgodman.org/meditation-on-the-heart-centre/ : "I ask you to see where the ‘I’ arises in your body, but it is really not quite correct to say that the ‘I’ rises from and merges in the Heart in the right side of the chest. The Heart is another name for the reality and it is neither inside nor outside the body. There can be no in or out for it, since it alone is."

Another quote of Ramana Maharshi from same page: "The Heart is not physical. Meditation should not be on the right or the left. Meditation should be on the Self. Everyone knows ‘I am’. Who is the ‘I’? It will be neither within nor without, neither on the right nor on the left. ‘I am’ – that is all. Leave alone the idea of right and left. They pertain to the body. The Heart is the Self. Realise it and then you will see for yourself. There is no need to know where and what the Heart is. It will do its work if you engage in the quest for the Self."

Note that Ramana Maharshi had also said in some context that this Hridaya is on the right side of the chest. But the above quotes seem to be more general ones without a focus on physical body and its parts.