Showing posts with label dream. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dream. Show all posts
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...
Tuesday, 8 February 2022

Āṉma-Viddai verse 1: thought is what causes the appearance of the unreal body and world

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In continuation of my previous article, Āṉma-Viddai : Tamil text, transliteration and translation , in this article I will explain and discu...
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Tuesday, 7 September 2021

Other people seem to be real because we seem to be a person

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A friend asked me, ‘As we believe there is only one dreamer so why is it that when this dreamer awakens all don’t awaken?’, in reply to whic...
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Sunday, 29 August 2021

Is anything other than ourself intrinsically existent?

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A friend wrote to me: Thank you very much for all your contributions to elucidate Bhagavan’s teachings. One of the points (or implications?...
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Tuesday, 29 June 2021

The nature of ego and its viṣaya-vāsanās and how to eradicate them

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A friend wrote to me about an experience that happened to him one evening in a particular set of circumstances: As I was walking home, my m...
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Wednesday, 11 November 2020

If this world is just a dream, why should we justify to others that it is so?

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Yesterday a friend called Asiakas posted a comment on one of my videos, 2020-03-14 Ramana Maharshi Foundation UK: discussion with Michael Ja...
Tuesday, 27 October 2020

Doership, sleep and the practice of self-attentiveness

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A friend wrote to me saying: It appears that the doership tendency is one of the hardest to overcome. I grapple with it quite often these d...
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...
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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Thursday, 28 May 2020

Though we are not aware of any phenomena in sleep, we are aware of our own existence, ‘I am’

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A friend recently wrote to me: There is something I find hard to “understand”. You say that Sri Ramana Maharshi said that when we are in de...
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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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Sunday, 2 February 2020

There are many interpretations of advaita, but Bhagavan’s teachings are the simplest, clearest and deepest

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In a comment on my previous article, To know what we actually are, we need to cease being interested in any person , a friend called Mouna ...
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Sunday, 15 December 2019

Why do we need to distinguish ourself as ego from whatever person we seem to be?

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A friend recently wrote a comment saying ‘I cannot easily see the importance of stressing the necessity of a clear distinction between ego ...
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Wednesday, 11 December 2019

What we need to investigate is not the act of witnessing but the witness itself

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Referring to a passage I wrote in If any state that we take to be waking is actually just a dream, we can infer that there is just one perce...
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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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Wednesday, 24 July 2019

Is there any such thing as ‘biological awareness’?

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A friend recently wrote to me: ‘People seem to have a hard time grasping Bhagavan’s teachings. Would it not be easier just to tell them thou...
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Friday, 28 June 2019

How can there be any experience without something that is experiencing it?

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In four comments on one of my recent articles, In what sense and to what extent do we remember what we were aware of in sleep? , a friend ca...
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Monday, 24 June 2019

How can we be sure that we can wake up from this dream of our present life?

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Yesterday in a comment on one of my videos, 2019-01-12 Ramana Maharshi Foundation UK: discussion with Michael James on Nāṉ Ār? paragraph 1...
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Tuesday, 11 June 2019

In what sense and to what extent do we remember what we were aware of in sleep?

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In a comment on one of my recent articles, How to practise self-enquiry ( ātma-vicāra )? , a friend called Rajat Sancheti wrote: If I give...
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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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