Showing posts with label Śrī Aruṇācala Aṣṭakam. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Śrī Aruṇācala Aṣṭakam. 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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Wednesday, 1 October 2025

Śrī Aruṇācala Aṣṭakam verse 2: When investigating within the mind who he who saw is, I saw what remained when he who saw was completely non-existent

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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 2: When invest...
Tuesday, 30 September 2025

Śrī Aruṇācala Aṣṭakam verse 1: When, by its wonderful act of grace, Arunachala enchanted and pulled my mind close, I saw as this is acalam

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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 1: When, by it...
Sunday, 7 September 2025

Śrī Aruṇācala Aṣṭakam: Tamil text, transliteration and translation

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Sunday, 23 March 2025

Śrī Aruṇācala Padigam: Tamil text, transliteration and translation

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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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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, 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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Thursday, 28 November 2019

Upadēśa Undiyār verse 16: a practical definition of real awareness

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In the article I posted a couple of days ago, Is there any difference between being self-attentive and sitting down quietly in meditation? ,...
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Monday, 18 November 2019

How to merge in Arunachala like a river in the ocean?

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In verse 3 of Śrī Aruṇācala Pañcaratnam Bhagavan says: அகமுகமா ரந்த வமலமதி தன்னா லகமிதுதா னெங்கெழுமென் றாய்ந்தே — யகவுருவை நன்கறிந்து ம...
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Friday, 8 November 2019

Ego seems to exist only when we look elsewhere, away from ourself

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In a comment on one of my recent videos, 2019-11-02 Sri Ramana Center, Houston: discussion with Michael James on Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu verse 34 ,...
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Monday, 5 August 2019

The role of grace in all that ego creates

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In a comment on one of my recent articles, Is there any such thing as ‘biological awareness’? , an anonymous friend suggested that it is no...
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Friday, 28 June 2019

How can there be any experience without something that is experiencing it?

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In four comments on one of my recent articles, In what sense and to what extent do we remember what we were aware of in sleep? , a friend ca...
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Friday, 22 March 2019

Is it possible to have a ‘direct but temporary experience of the self’ or to watch the disappearance of the I-thought?

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Last year a friend wrote to me saying that it seems distortions and misinterpretations of Bhagavan’s teachings are inevitable, and that nowa...
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Friday, 24 March 2017

After the annihilation of the ego, no ‘I’ can rise to say ‘I have seen’

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In Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu verse 33: the ‘I’ that rises to say ‘I have seen’ has seen nothing , which is the final section of one of my recent artic...
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Sunday, 27 November 2016

When the ego seems to exist, other things seem to exist, and when it does not seem to exist, nothing else seems to exist

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In several comments on one of my recent articles, The difference between vivarta vāda and ajāta vāda is not just semantic but substantive ...
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