Showing posts with label māyā. Show all posts
Showing posts with label māyā. Show all posts
Friday, 27 January 2023

Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 20

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This is the twentieth in a series of articles that I hope to write on Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai , Bhagavan willing, the completed ones b...
Friday, 8 November 2019

Ego seems to exist only when we look elsewhere, away from ourself

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In a comment on one of my recent videos, 2019-11-02 Sri Ramana Center, Houston: discussion with Michael James on Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu verse 34 ,...
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Tuesday, 30 July 2019

Which comes first: ego or self-negligence (pramāda)?

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In a comment on one of my recent articles, Is there any such thing as ‘biological awareness’? , a friend called Lewis wrote: I have just f...
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Monday, 18 September 2017

What creates all thoughts is only the ego, which is the root and essence of the mind

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In a comment on one of my recent articles, If we choose to do any harmful actions, should we consider them to be done according to destiny ...
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Tuesday, 27 June 2017

Māyā is nothing but our own mind, so it seems to exist only when we seem to be this mind

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A friend wrote to me today: Someone wrote this on FB yesterday and I am getting confused again because I thought the idea of becoming reali...
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Sunday, 22 January 2017

Like Bhagavan, Sankara taught that objects are perceived only through ignorance and hence by the mind and not by ourself as we actually are

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In two comments on my previous article, What is aware of everything other than ourself is only the ego and not ourself as we actually are , ...
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Sunday, 27 November 2016

When the ego seems to exist, other things seem to exist, and when it does not seem to exist, nothing else seems to exist

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In several comments on one of my recent articles, The difference between vivarta vāda and ajāta vāda is not just semantic but substantive ...
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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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Wednesday, 13 July 2016

Asparśa yōga is the practice of not ‘touching’ or attending to anything other than oneself

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In a comment on my previous article, Names and forms are all just thoughts, so we can free ourself from them only by investigating their ro...
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Wednesday, 11 November 2015

Sleep is our natural state of pure self-awareness

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In the first comment on my previous article, What happens to our mind in sleep? , an anonymous friend wrote: ‘It cannot be correct that we ...
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Tuesday, 11 August 2015

What is cidābhāsa, the reflection of self-awareness?

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In a comment on one of my recent articles, Can we experience what we actually are by following the path of devotion ( bhakti mārga )? , an ...
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Wednesday, 25 March 2015

Is there any real difference between waking and dream?

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A couple of months ago a friend wrote to me asking: You often say that there is, in essence, very little difference between the dream and w...
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Sunday, 16 February 2014

Self-attentiveness and citta-vṛtti nirōdha

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In the second sūtra (aphorism) of his Yōga Sūtra Patanjali famously defines yōga as follows: योगश्चित्तवृत्तिनिरोधः yōgaś-citta-vṛtt...
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Friday, 7 October 2011

Manōnāśa – destruction of mind

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Someone wrote to me recently saying that he thinks the use of the word ‘destruction’ in ‘destruction of mind’ ( manōnāśa ) is just ‘Indian h...
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Tuesday, 25 January 2011

Experiencing the pure ‘I’ here and now

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In a comment on my previous article, How to avoid creating fresh karma ( āgāmya )? , an anonymous friend quoted the following passage from...
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Sunday, 12 July 2009

‘Tracing the ego back to its source’

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A friend recently wrote to me asking: I am stuck at a point where I feel I need help ... While reading Sri Ramana Maharshi’s work and Talks ...
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Friday, 17 April 2009

Why to write about self?

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A question that I am asked quite frequently is why I take so much trouble to write about the nature of self and the means by which we can kn...
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Thursday, 11 December 2008

The truth of Arunachala and of ‘seeing the light’ (deepa-darsana)

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I began to write this article on Thursday of last week, 11th December, which was the day of Kārttikai Deepam , but for various reasons I was...
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Wednesday, 19 November 2008

Guru Vachaka Kovai verse 579 and Anubhuti Venba verse 610

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When I wrote my previous article, Guru Vāchaka Kōvai – a new translation by TV Venkatasubramanian, Robert Butler and David Godman , I unfor...
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Thursday, 17 July 2008

God as paramarthika satya – the absolute reality

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In continuation of three of my earlier articles, God as both nirguna brahman and saguna brahman , Experiencing God as he really is and God...
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