Showing posts with label Upadēśa Taṉippākkaḷ. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Upadēśa Taṉippākkaḷ. Show all posts
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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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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Wednesday, 8 May 2019

The ultimate truth is ajāta, but because we seem to have risen as ego and consequently perceive a world, Bhagavan, Gaudapada and Sankara teach us primarily from the perspective of vivarta vāda

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In several comments on one of my recent articles, Whatever jñāna we believe we see in anyone else is false , there was a discussion about a...
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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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Saturday, 2 February 2019

In a dream there is only one dreamer, and if the one dreamer wakes up the entire dream will come to an end

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A friend recently wrote to me: I understand that there is one ego, which creates the illusion of many people and a world. If one person in ...
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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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Monday, 21 November 2016

What is the correct meaning of ajāta vāda?

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In a comment on my previous article, The difference between vivarta vāda and ajāta vāda is not just semantic but substantive , a friend c...
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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, 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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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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Monday, 8 February 2016

Why should we believe what Bhagavan taught us?

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In a comment on my previous article, Why do I believe that ātma-vicāra is the only direct means by which we can eradicate the illusion tha...
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Tuesday, 22 September 2015

Self-knowledge is not a void (śūnya)

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In a comment on one of my recent articles, The term nirviśēṣa or ‘featureless’ denotes an absolute experience but can be comprehended conc...
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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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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, 26 September 2014

Metaphysical solipsism, idealism and creation theories in the teachings of Sri Ramana

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In a comment that he wrote on one of my recent articles, What should we believe? , Sankarraman referred to an article on David Godman’s blo...
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Thursday, 5 June 2014

Self-investigation, effort and sleep

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In the final paragraph of a comment that he wrote on my previous article, Since we always experience ‘I’, we do not need to find ‘I’, but ...
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Friday, 25 April 2014

Scientific research on consciousness

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A few months ago an academic psychologist whose current research is exploring ‘the conscious experience’ wrote to me inviting me to give fe...
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Saturday, 25 January 2014

By discovering what ‘I’ actually is, we will swallow time

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To a friend who wrote some remarks about experiencing the here-and-now by being aware of the ‘mind and its attachments and reactions to the...
Friday, 26 June 2009

Upadesa Tanippakkal – an explanatory paraphrase

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In continuation of my previous six articles, which were explanatory paraphrases of Upadesa Undiyar , Ulladu Narpadu , Ulladu Narpadu Anuband...
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