Showing posts with label ajāta. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ajāta. Show all posts
Tuesday, 8 September 2020

The return of the prodigal son

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A friend wrote to me recently asking: If all the Bhagavan’s teachings are telling us to ignore the world and only look within, then why doe...
Wednesday, 15 April 2020

The dreamer is ourself as ego, not whatever person we seem to be in a dream

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A friend called Reinhard recently sent me what he described as ‘a pleasant exchange with David [Godman] about ajata and the discrepancy to ‘...
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Monday, 20 January 2020

Why or how we have risen as ego is inexplicable, but Bhagavan does explain why and how we can cease rising

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In my previous article, What does Bhagavan mean by the term ‘mind’? , I explained that the mind is essentially just ego, and in the third se...
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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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Wednesday, 20 February 2019

What is the relationship between the ‘I-thought’ and awareness?

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Recently a friend wrote asking me to ‘clarify the relationship between the I-Thought and Awareness’, and after I replied to him he wrote ask...
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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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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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Monday, 30 April 2018

The ego seems to exist only because we have not looked at it carefully enough to see that there is no such thing

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For a few days last week I was in a place where I did not have any internet connection except on my phone, but on and off during that time I...
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Thursday, 27 July 2017

Any experience that is temporary is not manōnāśa and hence not ‘self-realisation’

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A recent post on the Facebook page of the Ramana Maharshi Foundation UK was a partial quotation of a paragraph in A Sadhu’s Reminiscences...
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Saturday, 28 January 2017

Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu verse 12: other than the real awareness that we actually are, there is nothing to know or make known

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In section 16 of one of my recent articles, What is aware of everything other than ourself is only the ego and not ourself as we actually a...
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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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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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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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Sunday, 5 October 2014

We can believe vivarta vāda directly but not ajāta vāda

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In a comment on my previous article, The perceiver and the perceived are both unreal a friend called Sanjay asked whether advaita vāda is...
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Sunday, 28 September 2014

The perceiver and the perceived are both unreal

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In a comment that he wrote on one of my earlier articles, What should we believe? , a friend called Venkat asked: Bhagavan said that ajata...
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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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