Showing posts with label Guru Vācaka Kōvai. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Guru Vācaka Kōvai. Show all posts
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 ...
Saturday, 14 November 2020

Dīpāvali Tattva: the reality of Deepavali

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In Guru Vācaka Kōvai there is a chapter called Naraka Jaya-t-Tiṟaṉ (Explaining the Conquest of Naraka), which consists of five verses, thr...
Tuesday, 2 June 2020

We can be self-attentive in waking and dream but not in sleep

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A friend recently wrote to me: It seems to that “Self-Attention” as taught by Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharishi is possible only when I am in t...
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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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Sunday, 30 December 2018

Which is a more reasonable and useful explanation: dṛṣṭi-sṛṣṭi-vāda or sṛṣṭi-dṛṣṭi-vāda?

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In a series of two comments on one of my recent articles, Everything depends for its seeming existence on the seeming existence of ourself ...
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Saturday, 22 December 2018

Why is self-investigation the only means to eradicate ego but not the only means to achieve citta-śuddhi?

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In a recent comment on my previous article I wrote: Today a friend wrote to me: I noticed today in GVK verse 622, Bhagavan is recorded as...
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Thursday, 8 November 2018

Everything depends for its seeming existence on the seeming existence of ourself as ego

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In the comments on one of my recent articles, Like everything else, karma is created solely by ego’s misuse of its will ( cittam ), so what...
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Wednesday, 28 June 2017

There is absolutely no difference between sleep and pure self-awareness (ātma-jñāna)

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After I wrote the reply that I reproduced in the article I posted here yesterday, namely Māyā is nothing but our own mind, so it seems to e...
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Tuesday, 2 May 2017

Does anything exist independent of our perception of it?

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In a comment on my previous article, Why is effort required for us to go deep in our practice of self-investigation? , a friend called Sama...
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Sunday, 22 January 2017

Like Bhagavan, Sankara taught that objects are perceived only through ignorance and hence by the mind and not by ourself as we actually are

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In two comments on my previous article, What is aware of everything other than ourself is only the ego and not ourself as we actually are , ...
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Sunday, 15 January 2017

What is aware of everything other than ourself is only the ego and not ourself as we actually are

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In a comment on one of my recent articles, Why does Bhagavan sometimes say that the ātma-jñāni is aware of the body and world? , a friend ...
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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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Wednesday, 23 November 2016

Why does Bhagavan sometimes say that the ātma-jñāni is aware of the body and world?

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In the comments on several of my recent articles there has been an ongoing discussion regarding the question of whether or not the ātma-jñān...
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Wednesday, 19 October 2016

As we actually are, we do nothing and are aware of nothing other than ourself

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In several comments on one of my recent articles, What is the ‘self’ we are investigating when we try to be attentively self-aware? , a frie...
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Tuesday, 31 May 2016

What is the logic for believing that happiness is what we actually are?

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In a comment on my previous article, How to attend to ourself? , a friend called Sundar referred to my reply to his previous comment and ...
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Thursday, 24 March 2016

Why is it necessary to make effort to practise self-investigation (ātma-vicāra)?

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In two comments on one of my recent articles, Why should we believe what Bhagavan taught us? , a friend who writes under the pseudonym ‘Vive...
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Saturday, 31 October 2015

The logic underlying the practice of self-investigation (ātma-vicāra)

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In a comment on my previous article, Self-investigation ( ātma-vicāra ) is just the simple practice of trying to be attentively self-aware ...
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Saturday, 22 August 2015

‘That alone is tapas’: the first teachings that Sri Ramana gave to Kavyakantha Ganapati Sastri

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In the comments on one of my recent articles, Can we experience what we actually are by following the path of devotion ( bhakti mārga )? , a...
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Saturday, 30 May 2015

In order to understand the essence of Sri Ramana’s teachings, we need to carefully study his original writings

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In various comments that he wrote on one of my recent articles, Dṛg-dṛśya-vivēka : distinguishing the seer from the seen , a friend called J...
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Wednesday, 20 May 2015

Dṛg-dṛśya-vivēka: distinguishing the seer from the seen

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In a comment that he wrote on my previous article, ‘Observation without the observer’ and ‘choiceless awareness’: Why the teachings of J. K...
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