Showing posts with label Sri Sadhu Om. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sri Sadhu Om. Show all posts
Wednesday, 20 May 2020

Self-investigation as the way to love

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In April of last year a Finnish friend, Jussi Penttinen, invited me to Helsinki, where he had arranged for me to give a talk and answer ques...
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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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Tuesday, 27 December 2016

The jñāni is only pure awareness (prajñāna) and not whatever person it may seem to be

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In a series of two comments on one of my recent articles, Is it possible for us to see anything other than ourself as ‘the Self’? , a frien...
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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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Tuesday, 25 October 2016

The difference between vivarta vāda and ajāta vāda is not just semantic but substantive

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I wrote my previous article, As we actually are, we do nothing and are aware of nothing other than ourself , in reply to various comments wr...
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Wednesday, 12 October 2016

An explanation of the first ten verses of Upadēśa Undiyār

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For nearly five years I have been editing notes I made in 1977 and 78 of useful ideas and explanations that I heard Sadhu Om telling me or o...
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Thursday, 6 October 2016

God is not actually the witness of anything but the real substance underlying and supporting the illusory appearance of the witness and of everything witnessed by it

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A friend wrote to me recently and asked me whether ‘the witnessing or observing consciousness within’ is the same as the ultimate ‘I’, refer...
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Wednesday, 6 January 2016

Why do I believe that ātma-vicāra is the only direct means by which we can eradicate the illusion that we are this ego?

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In a comment on my previous article, Thought of oneself will destroy all other thoughts , an anonymous friend asked me ‘a couple of blunt a...
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Tuesday, 11 August 2015

What is cidābhāsa, the reflection of self-awareness?

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In a comment on one of my recent articles, Can we experience what we actually are by following the path of devotion ( bhakti mārga )? , an ...
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Saturday, 18 April 2015

Do we need to try to ignore all thoughts, and if so how?

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A friend recently wrote to me saying: When you say to experience “I” in total isolation, I try to ignore thoughts, and other perceptions. B...
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Friday, 3 April 2015

Any experience we can describe is something other than the experience of pure self-attentiveness

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Last month a friend wrote to me describing what he experiences when he tries to practise self-investigation ( ātma-vicāra ) and asking wheth...
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Tuesday, 24 February 2015

Just being (summā irukkai) is not an activity but a state of perfect stillness

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A friend wrote to me recently asking, ‘Is there any way to ascertain whether the feeling of “I” is being attended to? Is it enough if the mi...
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Thursday, 20 November 2014

Is there any such thing as a ‘self-realised’ person?

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In the comments on my previous two articles, Our memory of ‘I’ in sleep and Why should we believe that ‘the Self’ is as we believe it to be...
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Friday, 25 July 2014

What should we believe?

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In my previous article, What is enlightenment, liberation or nirvāṇa ? , I wrote: Since experiencing ourself as we really are is what is ...
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Tuesday, 8 July 2014

Self-awareness: ‘I’-thought, ‘I’-feeling and ahaṁ-sphuraṇa

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During the past few weeks I have written many comments about ahaṁ-sphuraṇa and related subjects in reply to comments that others have wri...
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Friday, 18 April 2014

Why is ātma-vicāra necessary?

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A friend recently wrote to me saying that he felt that in my article Does the practice of ātma-vicāra work? I did not really answer the q...
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Monday, 3 March 2014

Does the practice of ātma-vicāra work?

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In a recent comment on one of my old articles, How to start practising ātma-vicāra ? , someone called Jas wrote: The theory sounds amazi...
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Wednesday, 5 February 2014

Spontaneously and wordlessly applying the clue: ‘to whom? to me; who am I?’

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In the sixth paragraph of Nāṉ Yār? (Who am I?) Sri Ramana says: [...] பிற வெண்ணங்க ளெழுந்தா லவற்றைப் பூர்த்தி பண்ணுவதற்கு எத்தனியாமல் அ...
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Monday, 30 December 2013

Dhyāna-p-Paṭṭu: The Song on Meditation

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தியானப் பாட்டு ( Dhyāna-p-Paṭṭu ), the ‘Meditation Song’ or ‘Song on Meditation’, is a joyful song that Sri Sadhu Om composed for young chi...
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