Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 20
This is the twentieth in a series of articles that I hope to write on Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai, Bhagavan willing, the completed ones being listed here.
Friday 27 January 2023
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Bhagavan Sri Ramana
A collection of articles discussing the philosophy and practice of the spiritual teachings of Bhagavan Sri Ramana, written by Michael James and forming an extension of his main website, www.happinessofbeing.com.
Articles Discussing the Philosophy and Practice of the Spiritual Teachings of Bhagavan Sri Ramana
Bhagavan Sri Ramana
About This Blog
Welcome to this blog, which is an extension of my main website, Happiness of Being, and which is dedicated to discussing the philosophy and practice of the spiritual teachings of our sadguru, Bhagavan Sri Ramana.
This blog is a growing archive of articles that I have written from time to time containing my translations of verses and other passages from the writings of Sri Ramana and his closest disciples, particularly Sri Muruganar and Sri Sadhu Om, my recordings of some of the explanations that I heard from Sri Sadhu Om, and my own musings about the philosophy, science and art of true self-knowledge as taught by Sri Ramana.
An organised list of all the main articles in this blog, arranged under several different headings, is given on the Articles page of the main Happiness of Being website.
All the articles in this blog are also clearly indexed in two sections further down in this left margin, firstly according to date in reverse chronological order under the heading Article Archive, and secondly in greater detail according to subject arranged alphabetically under the heading Index of Topics.
Michael James
www.happinessofbeing.com
This blog is a growing archive of articles that I have written from time to time containing my translations of verses and other passages from the writings of Sri Ramana and his closest disciples, particularly Sri Muruganar and Sri Sadhu Om, my recordings of some of the explanations that I heard from Sri Sadhu Om, and my own musings about the philosophy, science and art of true self-knowledge as taught by Sri Ramana.
An organised list of all the main articles in this blog, arranged under several different headings, is given on the Articles page of the main Happiness of Being website.
All the articles in this blog are also clearly indexed in two sections further down in this left margin, firstly according to date in reverse chronological order under the heading Article Archive, and secondly in greater detail according to subject arranged alphabetically under the heading Index of Topics.
Michael James
www.happinessofbeing.com
Copyright notice
Copyright © 2006-2023 Michael James
All articles, translations and other writings by Michael James on this blog are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0).
All articles, translations and other writings by Michael James on this blog are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Article Archive
Index of Topics
- 1898 note for his mother (14)
- ahaṁ-sphuraṇa (7)
- ahiṁsā (2)
- ajāta (18)
- Āṉma-Viddai (34)
- Appaḷa Pāṭṭu (4)
- Arunachala (35)
- Bhagavad Gītā (7)
- Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi (406)
- bhakti (devotion) (49)
- cit-śakti (5)
- consciousness (76)
- dream (102)
- effort (46)
- ego (211)
- Ēkāṉma Pañcakam (22)
- God (60)
- grace (30)
- guru (27)
- Guru Vācaka Kōvai (59)
- Happiness and the Art of Being (72)
- just being (summa iruppadu) (44)
- karma (18)
- kuṇḍalinī (2)
- manōnāśa (annihilation of mind) (29)
- māyā (26)
- Nāṉ Yār? (Who am I?) (206)
- philosophy of Sri Ramana (151)
- practice taught by Sri Ramana (192)
- Sādhanai Sāram (3)
- sat-sanga (8)
- self-forgetfulness (16)
- self-investigation (ātma-vicāra) (356)
- self-love (23)
- self-surrender (64)
- silence (mauna) (10)
- sleep (77)
- śravaṇa-manana-nididhyāsana (8)
- Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai (34)
- Śrī Aruṇācala Aṣṭakam (21)
- Śrī Aruṇācala Navamaṇimālai (7)
- Śrī Aruṇācala Padikam (9)
- Śrī Aruṇācala Pañcaratnam (9)
- Śrī Aruṇācala Stuti Pañcakam (10)
- Sri Muruganar (26)
- Sri Sadhu Om (45)
- Sri Sivaprakasam Pillai (4)
- The Path of Sri Ramana (15)
- The Truth of Otherness (6)
- transitive awareness (suṭṭaṟivu) (14)
- Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu (210)
- Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu Anubandham (17)
- Upadēśa Mañjari (4)
- Upadēśa Nūṉmālai (9)
- Upadēśa Sāram (6)
- Upadēśa Taṉippākkaḷ (27)
- Upadēśa Undiyār (175)
- Vicāra Saṅgraham (3)
Posts
Guidelines for Comments
As I said in my comment of 28 August 2020 at 10:26, I have closed this blog to all new comments (except ones that I may write from time to time), because even after I wrote a long article, Praising or disparaging others is anātma-vicāra, in which I appealed to everyone to abide by the Guidelines for Comments and desist from writing abusive comments, it was clear that there were people commenting here who were not willing to self-censor their own comments before posting them, as I had asked everyone to do.
The former Guidelines for Comments are therefore now redundant, but for the record I have pasted a copy of them as they were between 1st December 2018 and 24th August 2020 in a comment on 3 September 2020 at 21:13, and a copy of the revised version of them as they were from 24th to 28th August 2020 in a comment of 3 September 2020 at 21:16.
The former Guidelines for Comments are therefore now redundant, but for the record I have pasted a copy of them as they were between 1st December 2018 and 24th August 2020 in a comment on 3 September 2020 at 21:13, and a copy of the revised version of them as they were from 24th to 28th August 2020 in a comment of 3 September 2020 at 21:16.
Videos and Audios
All the currently available videos of Michael James discussing the teachings of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi can be viewed on his YouTube channel:
Audio copies of all these videos are available on MediaFire in a folder called Discussions with Michael James, where they can be downloaded either as MP3 files, which are larger, or as Opus files, which are compressed and therefore much smaller but of more or less the same audio quality (and can be listened to in VLC media player and several other apps).
Audio copies of all the more recent videos (since 14th August 2021) and some earlier ones are also available on the Sri Ramana Teachings podcast, where they can be downloaded as MP3 files or listened to either online or through the Podbean app (recommended because it is guaranteed to be free of audio advertisements) or various other podcast apps.
Sri Ramana TeachingsThere are currently more than six hundred videos on this channel, organised into the following thirty-two playlists:
- Sri Ramana Teachings: all videos (in reverse chronological order)
- Sri Ramana Jayanti, Aradhana and Advent celebrations
- ஸ்ரீ அருணாசல அக்ஷரமணமாலை (Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai): The Marriage Garland of Syllables for Arunachala
- ஸ்ரீ அருணாசல நவமணிமாலை (Śrī Aruṇācala Navamaṇimālai): The Necklace of Nine Gems for Arunachala
- ஸ்ரீ அருணாசல பதிகம் (Śrī Aruṇācala Padigam), Eleven Verses to Arunachala
- ஸ்ரீ அருணாசல அஷ்டகம் (Śrī Aruṇācala Aṣṭakam): Eight Verses to Arunachala
- ஸ்ரீ அருணாசல பஞ்சரத்னம் (Śrī Aruṇācala Pañcaratnam): The Five Gems to Arunachala
- அருணாசலரமணன் (Aruṇācalaramaṇaṉ)
- நானார்? (Nāṉ Ār?): Who am I?
- உள்ளது நாற்பது (Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu): Forty Verses on What Is
- உள்ளது நாற்பது அனுபந்தம் (Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu Anubandham): Supplement to Forty Verses on What Is
- உபதேச வுந்தியார் (Upadēśa Undiyār): The Essence of Spiritual Instructions
- उपदेश सारः (Upadēśa Sāraḥ): The Essence of Spiritual Instructions
- ஆன்ம வித்தை (Āṉma-Viddai): The Song on the Science of Self
- அப்பளப் பாட்டு (Appaḷa-p-Pāṭṭu): The Appaḷam Song
- ஏகான்ம பஞ்சகம் (Ēkāṉma Pañcakam): Five Verses on Oneself, the One
- Miscellaneous verses composed by Bhagavan Ramana
- The note that Bhagavan wrote for his mother in December 1898
- The five sheaths and three states
- Ramana Maharshi Foundation UK: general discussions
- Sri Ramana Center, Houston: general discussions
- Discussions with Ramana Kendra, Delhi
- Discussions with Sri Ramana Satsang group, Bay Area, California
- Discussions with Sri Ramana Satsang, Connecticut
- Discussions with Boston Ramana Satsang
- Discussions with Yo Soy Tu Mismo
- Discussions with San Diego Ramana Satsang
- Discussions with Ramana group, Helsinki
- Discussions with Seattle Ramana Satsang
- Sadhu Om and his songs
- Miscellaneous discussions
- Interviews on other channels
Audio copies of all these videos are available on MediaFire in a folder called Discussions with Michael James, where they can be downloaded either as MP3 files, which are larger, or as Opus files, which are compressed and therefore much smaller but of more or less the same audio quality (and can be listened to in VLC media player and several other apps).
Audio copies of all the more recent videos (since 14th August 2021) and some earlier ones are also available on the Sri Ramana Teachings podcast, where they can be downloaded as MP3 files or listened to either online or through the Podbean app (recommended because it is guaranteed to be free of audio advertisements) or various other podcast apps.
About Michael James
The author of this blog, Michael James, lived in Tiruvannamalai from 1976 to 1996, and while there he spent more than eight years studying the teachings of Bhagavan Sri Ramana under the clear guidance of one of his foremost disciples, Sri Sadhu Om, by assisting him firstly in the translation of Guru Vācaka Kōvai, and later in the translation of Bhagavan’s own writings. Since then he has continued to study and practise Bhagavan’s teachings, and to revise and refine many of the early translations he did with Sadhu Om. Among his latest refinements of those translations are:
Nāṉ Ār? (Who am I?)
Upadēśa Undiyār
Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu
Upadēśa Kaliveṇbā (the extended version of Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu)
Nāṉ Ār? (Who am I?)
Upadēśa Undiyār
Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu
Upadēśa Kaliveṇbā (the extended version of Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu)