Tuesday, 8 April 2025

The ‘fourfold means’ (sādhanā catuṣṭayam)

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This article is also available in a clearer and more easily readable format on my main website: The ‘fourfold means’ ( sādhanā catuṣṭayam )...
Sunday, 23 March 2025

Śrī Aruṇācala Padigam: Tamil text, transliteration and translation

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This article is also available in a clearer and more easily readable format on my main website: Śrī Aruṇācala Padigam : Tamil text, transli...
Sunday, 16 February 2025

Śrī Aruṇācala Navamaṇimālai: Tamil text, transliteration and translation

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This article is also available in a clearer and more easily readable format on my main website: Śrī Aruṇācala Navamaṇimālai : Tamil text, t...
Wednesday, 25 December 2024

Aruṇācala Tattuvam and Dīpa-Darśaṉa Tattuvam: The Reality of Arunachala and Seeing Deepam

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Friday 13th December 2024 was Kārttikai Deepam , which is an annual festival celebrated in the Tamil month of Kārttikai (mid-November to mi...
Thursday, 12 September 2024

Pure intransitive awareness alone is real consciousness and what actually exists

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In section 16.1 of A landscape of consciousness: Toward a taxonomy of explanations and implications Robert Lawrence Kuhn quoted some extra...
Tuesday, 10 September 2024

Introduction to Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu

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Last year Sandra Derksen asked me to write an introduction for Ramana Maharshi’s Forty Verses On What Is , a book that she had compiled and ...
Tuesday, 3 September 2024

How to know and to be what we actually are

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In June my website, which was previously called ‘Happiness of Being’, was renamed ‘ Sri Ramana Teachings ’, so in August this blog was likew...
Monday, 27 May 2024

Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu Anubandham: Tamil text, transliteration and translation

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In continuation of my translations of other works of Bhagavan, such as Nāṉ Ār? , Upadēśa Undiyār , Upadēśa Sāraḥ , Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu , Upadēśa ...
Thursday, 7 December 2023

Āṉma-Viddai verse 5: in the heart that looks within without thinking of anything else, oneself will be seen

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In continuation of and as a conclusion to the five articles on Āṉma-Viddai that I posted here previously, namely Āṉma-Viddai : Tamil text, ...
Wednesday, 8 November 2023

Āṉma-Viddai verse 4: self-investigation is the easiest of all paths, because it is not doing but just being

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In continuation of four articles on Āṉma-Viddai that I posted here previously, namely Āṉma-Viddai : Tamil text, transliteration and transla...
Thursday, 27 July 2023

Āṉma-Viddai verse 3: knowledge of all other things is caused by ignorance of ourself

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In continuation of three articles on Āṉma-Viddai that I posted here previously, namely Āṉma-Viddai : Tamil text, transliteration and transl...
Tuesday, 16 May 2023

Āṉma-Viddai verse 2: the thought ‘I am this body’ is what supports all other thoughts

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In continuation of two articles that I posted here in January and February of last year, Āṉma-Viddai : Tamil text, transliteration and trans...
Wednesday, 8 February 2023

Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 21

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This is the twenty-first in a series of articles that I hope to write on Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai , Bhagavan willing, the completed one...
Friday, 27 January 2023

Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 20

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This is the twentieth in a series of articles that I hope to write on Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai , Bhagavan willing, the completed ones b...
Saturday, 24 December 2022

Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 19

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This is the nineteenth in a series of articles that I hope to write on Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai , Bhagavan willing, the completed ones ...
Wednesday, 7 December 2022

Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 18

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This is the eighteenth in a series of articles that I hope to write on Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai , Bhagavan willing, the completed ones ...
Friday, 25 November 2022

Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 17

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This is the seventeenth in a series of articles that I hope to write on Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai , Bhagavan willing, the completed ones...
Wednesday, 9 November 2022

Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 16

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This is the sixteenth in a series of articles that I hope to write on Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai , Bhagavan willing, the completed ones b...
Thursday, 27 October 2022

Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 15

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This is the fifteenth in a series of articles that I hope to write on Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai , Bhagavan willing, the completed ones b...
Friday, 7 October 2022

Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 14

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This is the fourteenth in a series of articles that I hope to write on Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai , Bhagavan willing, the completed ones ...
Friday, 23 September 2022

Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 13

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This is the thirteenth in a series of articles that I hope to write on Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai , Bhagavan willing, the completed ones ...
Tuesday, 6 September 2022

Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 12

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This is the twelfth in a series of articles that I hope to write on Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai , Bhagavan willing, the completed ones bei...
Wednesday, 24 August 2022

Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 11

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This is the eleventh in a series of articles that I hope to write on Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai , Bhagavan willing, the completed ones be...
Thursday, 4 August 2022

Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 10

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This is the tenth in a series of articles that I hope to write on Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai , Bhagavan willing, the completed ones being...
Thursday, 21 July 2022

Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 9

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This is the ninth in a series of articles that I hope to write on Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai , Bhagavan willing, the completed ones being...
Saturday, 2 July 2022

Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 8

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This is the eighth in a series of articles that I hope to write on Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai , Bhagavan willing, the completed ones bein...
Friday, 17 June 2022

Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 7

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This is the seventh in a series of articles that I hope to write on Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai , Bhagavan willing, the completed ones bei...
Thursday, 28 April 2022

Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 6

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This is the sixth in a series of articles that I hope to write on Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai , Bhagavan willing, the completed ones being...
Friday, 22 April 2022

Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 5

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This is the fifth in a series of articles that I hope to write on Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai , Bhagavan willing, the completed ones being...
Sunday, 17 April 2022

Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 4

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This is the fourth in a series of articles that I hope to write on Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai , Bhagavan willing, the completed ones bein...
Thursday, 14 April 2022

Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 3

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This is the third in a series of articles that I hope to write on Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai , Bhagavan willing, the completed ones being...
Thursday, 31 March 2022

Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 2

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This is the second in a series of articles that I hope to write on Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai , Bhagavan willing, the completed ones bein...
Thursday, 24 March 2022

Upadēśa Sāraḥ: Sanskrit text, transliteration and translation (with the original Tamil text)

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उपदेश सारः ( Upadēśa Sāraḥ ), ‘The Essence of Spiritual Teachings’, is Bhagavan’s Sanskrit translation or adaptation of one of the poetic te...
Thursday, 10 March 2022

Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai: pāyiram, kāppu and verse 1

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‘அருளும் வேணுமே. அன்பு பூணுமே. இன்பு தோணுமே’ ( aruḷum vēṇumē. aṉbu pūṇumē. iṉbu tōṇumē ), ‘Grace also is certainly necessary. Be adorned wit...
Tuesday, 8 February 2022

Āṉma-Viddai verse 1: thought is what causes the appearance of the unreal body and world

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In continuation of my previous article, Āṉma-Viddai : Tamil text, transliteration and translation , in this article I will explain and discu...
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Monday, 31 January 2022

Āṉma-Viddai: Tamil text, transliteration and translation

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The path of self-investigation ( ātma-vicāra ) that Bhagavan taught us is the direct and easy means to eradicate ego, the root and foundatio...
Saturday, 4 December 2021

What are vāsanās and how do they work?

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A friend wrote to me asking whether the following is ‘a reasonable terse description of the meaning of the term vāsanā ’: vāsanā : an incli...
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Friday, 26 November 2021

The Ramaṇa mahāvākya: ‘நான் நான்’ (nāṉ nāṉ) or ‘अहम् अहम्’ (aham aham), ‘I am I’

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I have recently been trying to complete a detailed explanation about the song Āṉma-Viddai that I began to write more than two years ago but...
5 comments:
Thursday, 18 November 2021

Appaḷa Pāṭṭu (The Appaḷam Song): Tamil text, transliteration, translation and explanation

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Bhagavan lived mostly in Virupaksha Cave on the eastern slopes of Arunachala from 1899 till sometime around the middle of 1916, when he move...
Tuesday, 7 September 2021

Other people seem to be real because we seem to be a person

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A friend asked me, ‘As we believe there is only one dreamer so why is it that when this dreamer awakens all don’t awaken?’, in reply to whic...
4 comments:
Sunday, 29 August 2021

Is anything other than ourself intrinsically existent?

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A friend wrote to me: Thank you very much for all your contributions to elucidate Bhagavan’s teachings. One of the points (or implications?...
6 comments:
Thursday, 5 August 2021

We abide as ourself only to the extent to which we attend to ourself alone

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A friend wrote to me today: When I abide in the self an intense nose pressure comes out. On previous paths this has happened with a chest p...
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Monday, 12 July 2021

Freedom, surrender and clinging fast to ‘I am’

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This brief article is adapted from a reply I wrote to a friend today. As you say, our life (in the sense of our outward life as a person i...
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Tuesday, 29 June 2021

The nature of ego and its viṣaya-vāsanās and how to eradicate them

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A friend wrote to me about an experience that happened to him one evening in a particular set of circumstances: As I was walking home, my m...
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Wednesday, 23 June 2021

Self-investigation is not a matter of one ‘I’ looking for another ‘I’

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A friend wrote to me recently asking, ‘When I try to look within for “I”, I am unable to find it or its source. What is my mistake and how ...
Monday, 17 May 2021

Can self-investigation boost the mind or kuṇḍalinī or cause sleeplessness and other health issues?

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A friend wrote to me saying ‘I keep on practicing Self-Enquiry and I feel that the practice of Self-Enquiry affects the kundalini in my body...
Thursday, 13 May 2021

Learning how to be self-attentive

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A friend sent me a series of three emails, in the first of which he wrote: With regards to Self-investigation, I have a few questions: 1....
Wednesday, 12 May 2021

Could what exists ever not exist?

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A friend wrote to me: I recently watched your YouTube video discussing the above verse [the first maṅgalam verse of Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu ] as I...
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Monday, 22 March 2021

The second and third paragraphs of Nāṉ Ār?

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In this article I will discuss the history behind the second paragraph of Nāṉ Ār? and the practical and philosophical significance of what...
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Thursday, 18 February 2021

In what sense is ego actually just pure awareness?

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In my previous article, In what sense is it true to say ‘everything is one’? , I wrote: So Bhagavan is the ultimate reductionist: All pheno...
4 comments: