Showing posts with label effort. Show all posts
Showing posts with label effort. Show all posts
Thursday, 5 August 2021

We abide as ourself only to the extent to which we attend to ourself alone

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A friend wrote to me today: When I abide in the self an intense nose pressure comes out. On previous paths this has happened with a chest p...
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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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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, 30 May 2019

How can we refine and sharpen our power of attention so that we can discern what we actually are?

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In a comment on my previous article, How to practise self-enquiry ( ātma-vicāra )? , a friend called Rajat Sancheti wrote: Desires, fears,...
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Friday, 19 April 2019

Can there be any viable substitute for patient and persistent practice of self-investigation and self-surrender?

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As I wrote in the introduction to my previous but one article, Is it possible to have a ‘direct but temporary experience of the self’ or t...
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Sunday, 16 April 2017

Why is effort required for us to go deep in our practice of self-investigation?

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A friend recently wrote to me asking: My question about I-Alone is this: in relaxing attention from objects I can be keenly aware of my exi...
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Wednesday, 8 March 2017

Rather than being aware of being aware, we should be aware only of what is aware, namely ourself

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This article is my reply to a recent comment on one of my earlier articles, How to attend to ourself? , in which a friend wrote: ‘I have tr...
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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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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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Wednesday, 20 May 2015

Dṛg-dṛśya-vivēka: distinguishing the seer from the seen

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In a comment that he wrote on my previous article, ‘Observation without the observer’ and ‘choiceless awareness’: Why the teachings of J. K...
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Thursday, 7 May 2015

What is unique about the teachings of Sri Ramana?

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Last Sunday I talked via Skype with a friend in Argentina about the teachings of Sri Ramana, and at the end of our discussion he asked me to...
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Saturday, 18 April 2015

Do we need to try to ignore all thoughts, and if so how?

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A friend recently wrote to me saying: When you say to experience “I” in total isolation, I try to ignore thoughts, and other perceptions. B...
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Friday, 3 April 2015

Any experience we can describe is something other than the experience of pure self-attentiveness

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Last month a friend wrote to me describing what he experiences when he tries to practise self-investigation ( ātma-vicāra ) and asking wheth...
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Friday, 6 March 2015

Intensity, frequency and duration of self-attentiveness

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A friend recently sent me an email in which he wrote, ‘I now clearly see that it is bhakti alone that can make me better and stronger at at...
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Tuesday, 24 February 2015

Just being (summā irukkai) is not an activity but a state of perfect stillness

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A friend wrote to me recently asking, ‘Is there any way to ascertain whether the feeling of “I” is being attended to? Is it enough if the mi...
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Sunday, 30 November 2014

How to experience the clarity of self-awareness that appears between sleep and waking?

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A friend wrote to me recently saying that she had been following various spiritual paths since childhood and that finally last year Sri Rama...
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Friday, 19 September 2014

How to avoid doing āgāmya and experiencing prārabdha?

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In a comment on one of my recent article, The karma theory as taught by Sri Ramana , Sanjay wrote: Sir, if I my ego subsides completely ...
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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, 18 April 2014

Why is ātma-vicāra necessary?

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A friend recently wrote to me saying that he felt that in my article Does the practice of ātma-vicāra work? I did not really answer the q...
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Friday, 11 April 2014

Ātma-vicāra and nirvikalpa samādhi
(Interview on Celibacy: Part 5)

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This is the final of the following five instalments, which are a slightly modified reproduction of an interview in which I answered seven ...