Showing posts with label Āṉma-Viddai. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Āṉma-Viddai. Show all posts
Monday, 27 October 2025

Śrī Aruṇācala Aṣṭakam verse 4: Be and shine in my heart as one without a second

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This article is also available in a clearer and more easily readable format on my main website: Śrī Aruṇācala Aṣṭakam verse 4: Be and shin...
Thursday, 9 October 2025

Śrī Aruṇācala Aṣṭakam verse 3: When thinking of your form without thinking, form will cease

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This article is also available in a clearer and more easily readable format on my main website: Śrī Aruṇācala Aṣṭakam verse 3: When thinki...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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Sunday, 21 June 2020

How do we remember being asleep?

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A friend wrote to me today asking, ‘In the deep sleep state, it is said that there is no mind. In that case, what is it that carries through...
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Wednesday, 15 April 2020

The dreamer is ourself as ego, not whatever person we seem to be in a dream

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A friend called Reinhard recently sent me what he described as ‘a pleasant exchange with David [Godman] about ajata and the discrepancy to ‘...
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Tuesday, 31 March 2020

How can we just be?

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In a comment on my previous article, What can be simpler than just being self-attentive? , a friend called Chandra asked: ‘how to practice ...
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Thursday, 12 March 2020

What can be simpler than just being self-attentive?

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A friend wrote to me recently saying that he had been reading about self-investigation ( ātma-vicāra ) but was unable to understand ‘how can...
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Monday, 9 March 2020

Though we appear in two distinct modes, we are just one awareness

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When I woke up on Saturday morning, a fresh clarity occurred to me. If I try to put this clarity into words, as I will do in this article, i...
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Thursday, 16 January 2020

What does Bhagavan mean by the term ‘mind’?

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In a comment on my previous article, Self-investigation is the only means by which we can surrender ourself entirely and thereby eradicate ...
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Saturday, 24 August 2019

Is any external help required for us to succeed in the practice of self-investigation?

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In a comment on my previous article, The role of grace in all that ego creates , a friend called Asun wrote: ‘I’ve been watching these days...
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Thursday, 31 January 2019

To understand consciousness can we rely upon the observations and theories of neuroscience?

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Recently a friend wrote to me saying that he was caring for his mother, who was in the final stages of dying because of a brain tumour, and ...
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Sunday, 2 October 2016

‘I am’ is the reality, ‘I am this’ or ‘I am that’ is the ego

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In a comment on my previous article, What is the ‘self’ we are investigating when we try to be attentively self-aware? , a friend called Vi...
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Sunday, 19 June 2016

What is ‘the I-feeling’, and do we need to be ‘off the movement of thought’ to be aware of it?

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In a comment on one of my recent articles, How to attend to ourself? , a friend called Viveka Vairagya wrote, ‘I think I have finally been ...
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