Showing posts with label just being (summa iruppadu). Show all posts
Showing posts with label just being (summa iruppadu). Show all posts
Thursday, 13 May 2021

Learning how to be self-attentive

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A friend sent me a series of three emails, in the first of which he wrote: With regards to Self-investigation, I have a few questions: 1....
Tuesday, 31 March 2020

How can we just be?

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In a comment on my previous article, What can be simpler than just being self-attentive? , a friend called Chandra asked: ‘how to practice ...
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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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Monday, 6 February 2017

How can we see inaction in action?

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A friend recently wrote asking me to explain Bhagavad Gītā 4.18, in which Krishna says that whoever sees inaction ( akarma ) in action ( ka...
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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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Wednesday, 12 October 2016

An explanation of the first ten verses of Upadēśa Undiyār

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For nearly five years I have been editing notes I made in 1977 and 78 of useful ideas and explanations that I heard Sadhu Om telling me or o...
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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, 17 November 2015

Is there more than one way in which we can investigate and know ourself?

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A friend recently sent me an email in which he asked: I had mentioned to you that in my view there appear to be three different approaches ...
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Tuesday, 14 April 2015

What is the difference between meditation and self-investigation?

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A friend recently asked me several questions about meditation and self-investigation, such as what difference there is between them, so this...
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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, 28 December 2014

Our aim should be to experience ourself alone, in complete isolation from everything else

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A few months ago a friend wrote to me asking about the practice of ātma-vicāra (self-investigation or self-enquiry) and whether his descrip...
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Friday, 5 September 2014

The karma theory as taught by Sri Ramana

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Since I started my website one of my long-standing aims has been to include in it detailed and explanatory translations of all of Sri Raman...
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Friday, 1 August 2014

Self-awareness is the very nature of ‘I’

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Last month a friend called Venkat asked me several questions in a series of three comments that he wrote on one of my recent articles, Is c...
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Saturday, 12 July 2014

A paradox: sphuraṇa means ‘shining’ or ‘clarity’, yet misinterpretations of it have created so much confusion

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As a conclusion to my previous two articles, Demystifying the term ‘ sphuraṇa ’ and Self-awareness: ‘I’-thought, ‘I’-feeling and ahaṁ-sphu...
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Tuesday, 8 July 2014

Self-awareness: ‘I’-thought, ‘I’-feeling and ahaṁ-sphuraṇa

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During the past few weeks I have written many comments about ahaṁ-sphuraṇa and related subjects in reply to comments that others have wri...
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Tuesday, 1 July 2014

Demystifying the term ‘sphuraṇa’

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In two comments on one of my recent articles, Since we always experience ‘I’, we do not need to find ‘I’, but only need to experience it a...
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Saturday, 31 May 2014

Since we always experience ‘I’, we do not need to find ‘I’, but only need to experience it as it actually is

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In my previous article, The mind’s role in investigating ‘I’ , I replied to some of the comments on my earlier article, How to attend to ‘I...
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Friday, 21 January 2011

How to avoid creating fresh karma (āgāmya)?

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In a reply that I wrote to one of the comments on my previous article, Second and third person objects , I wrote: Whatever we experience in...
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Sunday, 16 August 2009

Thinking, free will and self-attentiveness

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The following is a reply that I recently wrote to a friend: Regarding your final sentence, ‘We are only given the thoughts that we are allow...
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Monday, 27 July 2009

Self-attentiveness is nirvikalpa – devoid of all differences or variation

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A friend recently wrote to me suggesting: ... Indeed Nan Yar? contains everything we need to know and I would be very grateful if you would...
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