Showing posts with label bhakti (devotion). Show all posts
Showing posts with label bhakti (devotion). Show all posts
Monday, 27 October 2025

Śrī Aruṇācala Aṣṭakam verse 4: Be and shine in my heart as one without a second

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This article is also available in a clearer and more easily readable format on my main website: Śrī Aruṇācala Aṣṭakam verse 4: Be and shin...
Thursday, 9 October 2025

Śrī Aruṇācala Aṣṭakam verse 3: When thinking of your form without thinking, form will cease

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This article is also available in a clearer and more easily readable format on my main website: Śrī Aruṇācala Aṣṭakam verse 3: When thinki...
Sunday, 7 September 2025

Śrī Aruṇācala Aṣṭakam: Tamil text, transliteration and translation

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This article is also available in a clearer and more easily readable format on my main website: Śrī Aruṇācala Aṣṭakam : Tamil text, transli...
Tuesday, 8 April 2025

The ‘fourfold means’ (sādhanā catuṣṭayam)

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This article is also available in a clearer and more easily readable format on my main website: The ‘fourfold means’ ( sādhanā catuṣṭayam )...
Sunday, 23 March 2025

Śrī Aruṇācala Padigam: Tamil text, transliteration and translation

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This article is also available in a clearer and more easily readable format on my main website: Śrī Aruṇācala Padigam : Tamil text, transli...
Sunday, 16 February 2025

Śrī Aruṇācala Navamaṇimālai: Tamil text, transliteration and translation

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This article is also available in a clearer and more easily readable format on my main website: Śrī Aruṇācala Navamaṇimālai : Tamil text, t...
Tuesday, 10 September 2024

Introduction to Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu

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Last year Sandra Derksen asked me to write an introduction for Ramana Maharshi’s Forty Verses On What Is , a book that she had compiled and ...
Tuesday, 3 September 2024

How to know and to be what we actually are

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In June my website, which was previously called ‘Happiness of Being’, was renamed ‘ Sri Ramana Teachings ’, so in August this blog was likew...
Wednesday, 8 February 2023

Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 21

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This is the twenty-first in a series of articles that I hope to write on Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai , Bhagavan willing, the completed one...
Wednesday, 7 December 2022

Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 18

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This is the eighteenth in a series of articles that I hope to write on Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai , Bhagavan willing, the completed ones ...
Thursday, 4 August 2022

Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 10

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This is the tenth in a series of articles that I hope to write on Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai , Bhagavan willing, the completed ones being...
Friday, 22 April 2022

Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 5

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This is the fifth in a series of articles that I hope to write on Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai , Bhagavan willing, the completed ones being...
Thursday, 14 April 2022

Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 3

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This is the third in a series of articles that I hope to write on Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai , Bhagavan willing, the completed ones being...
Thursday, 31 March 2022

Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 2

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This is the second in a series of articles that I hope to write on Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai , Bhagavan willing, the completed ones bein...
Thursday, 10 March 2022

Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai: pāyiram, kāppu and verse 1

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‘அருளும் வேணுமே. அன்பு பூணுமே. இன்பு தோணுமே’ ( aruḷum vēṇumē. aṉbu pūṇumē. iṉbu tōṇumē ), ‘Grace also is certainly necessary. Be adorned wit...
Saturday, 30 January 2021

Is it possible for us to have a ‘glimpse of Self’?

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A friend wrote to me asking, ‘Can the practice become constant? Turning attention inward, I remain there (I-AM). Where does effort stop? I h...
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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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Tuesday, 10 December 2019

Why should we try to be aware of ourself alone?

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Referring to two sentences I wrote while explaining the second sentence of verse 5 of Śrī Aruṇācala Aṣṭakam in one of my recent articles,...
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Tuesday, 25 September 2018

Must we purify our mind by other means before we can practise ātma-vicāra?

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This article is adapted from a series of messages that I exchanged with a friend via WhatsApp.
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Wednesday, 24 January 2018

Why do viṣaya-vāsanās sprout as thoughts, and how to eradicate them?

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A friend wrote to me recently: Through self-inquiry every vasana comes up to the surface. Sometimes I am really lost, sometimes I am cool. ...
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