Showing posts with label Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu Anubandham. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu Anubandham. 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 ...
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, 31 December 2020

Bhagavan’s verses on birthday celebrations

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Bhagavan was born at one o’clock in the morning on 30th December 1879, which was during the lunar constellation ( nakṣatra ) of punarvasu , ...
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Monday, 24 August 2020

Praising or disparaging others is anātma-vicāra

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In a comment on 18 July 2020 at 11:27 I appealed to everyone writing comments on this blog: I have not had time to read most of the commen...
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Sunday, 1 December 2019

Are there three states, two states or only one state?

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Referring to one of my videos, 2019-08-10 Ramana Maharshi Foundation UK: discussion with Michael James on Āṉma-Viddai verse 1 , a friend wr...
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Tuesday, 25 July 2017

What is aware of the absence of the ego and mind in sleep?

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A friend wrote to me today asking: If pure awareness simply is and is not aware of anything else because only it exists, and the ego is not...
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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, 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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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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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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Wednesday, 16 March 2016

We are aware of ourself while asleep, so pure self-awareness alone is what we actually are

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In many of my articles in this blog, including my most recent one, The role of logic in developing a clear, coherent and uncomplicated under...
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Thursday, 10 December 2015

Thought of oneself will destroy all other thoughts

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In a comment on my previous article, Is there more than one way in which we can investigate and know ourself? , a friend called Venkat wrot...
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Saturday, 29 August 2015

What is meditation on the heart?

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In a comment on one of my recent articles, By attending to our ego we are attending to ourself , a friend called Viswanathan quoted the fol...
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Saturday, 18 July 2015

Can we experience what we actually are by following the path of devotion (bhakti mārga)?

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In a comment on one of my recent articles, In order to understand the essence of Sri Ramana’s teachings, we need to carefully study his ori...
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Tuesday, 28 April 2015

Witnessing or being aware of anything other than ourself nourishes our ego and thereby reinforces our attachments

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After reading my previous article, What is meant by the term sākṣi or ‘witness’? , a friend wrote to me expressing some thoughts that he ha...
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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, 7 October 2011

Manōnāśa – destruction of mind

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Someone wrote to me recently saying that he thinks the use of the word ‘destruction’ in ‘destruction of mind’ ( manōnāśa ) is just ‘Indian h...
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Sunday, 21 June 2009

Ulladu Narpadu Anubandham – an explanatory paraphrase

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In continuation of my previous two articles, Upadesa Undiyar – an explanatory paraphrase and Ulladu Narpadu – an explanatory paraphrase ,...
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