Showing posts with label manōnāśa (annihilation of mind). Show all posts
Showing posts with label manōnāśa (annihilation of mind). Show all posts
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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Saturday, 19 September 2020

How is ego to be destroyed?

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A friend wrote to me recently: I came across the following quote supposedly by Bhagavan: Question: How is the ego to be destroyed? Mahar...
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Monday, 29 July 2019

Why does ego rise again from manōlaya and not from manōnāśa?

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In a comment on my previous article, Is there any such thing as ‘biological awareness’? , a friend called Abhilash wrote: ‘Could you clarif...
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Friday, 29 September 2017

Upadēśa Undiyār: Tamil text, transliteration and translation

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The three main sources that I cite in articles on this blog are Nāṉ Ār? , Upadēśa Undiyār and Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu , because these are the three ...
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Thursday, 27 July 2017

Any experience that is temporary is not manōnāśa and hence not ‘self-realisation’

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A recent post on the Facebook page of the Ramana Maharshi Foundation UK was a partial quotation of a paragraph in A Sadhu’s Reminiscences...
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Friday, 7 July 2017

The non-existence of the ego, body and world in manōlaya is only temporary, whereas in manōnāśa it is permanent

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In a comment on one of my recent articles, There is absolutely no difference between sleep and pure self-awareness ( ātma-jñāna ) , a frien...
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Friday, 24 March 2017

After the annihilation of the ego, no ‘I’ can rise to say ‘I have seen’

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In Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu verse 33: the ‘I’ that rises to say ‘I have seen’ has seen nothing , which is the final section of one of my recent artic...
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Tuesday, 21 March 2017

To eradicate the mind we must watch only its first thought, the ego

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A friend recently wrote to me saying that a friend of his had advised him that the way to quieten the mind is to watch it, and he implied th...
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Friday, 6 January 2017

Whether it be called ‘yōga nidrā’ or ‘nirvikalpa samādhi’, any kind of manōlaya is of no spiritual benefit

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A friend recently wrote to me describing how he sometimes goes involuntarily into a sleep-like state, and he asked me about the significance...
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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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Friday, 8 April 2016

Self-investigation (ātma-vicāra) entails nothing more than just being persistently and tenaciously self-attentive

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In a comment on my previous article, Why is it necessary to make effort to practise self-investigation ( ātma-vicāra )? , a friend called P...
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Monday, 12 October 2015

Why is it necessary to be attentively self-aware, rather than just not aware of anything else?

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A friend recently wrote to me asking: I have a question if attention has to be drawn (intentionally) to the self, or is it enough if I just...
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Thursday, 18 June 2015

Prāṇāyāma is just an aid to restrain the mind but will not bring about its annihilation

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In a comment on one of my earlier articles, The fundamental law of experience or consciousness discovered by Sri Ramana , a friend called C...
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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, 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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Thursday, 29 October 2009

Japa of ‘I am’ as an aid to self-attentiveness

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After I wrote my previous article, ‘Holy indifference’ and the love to be self-attentive , a series of interesting comments have been posted...
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Wednesday, 8 July 2009

Svarupa-dhyana and svarupa-darsana

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A friend recently wrote to me asking: Does svarupa-dhyana , atma-chintana and atma-smarana mean focusing attention on the first thought ‘I...
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Saturday, 4 July 2009

Atma-vichara and metta bhavana (‘loving-kindness’ meditation)

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A friend recently wrote to me asking: I’ve got a question concerning atma-vichara in relation to some meditation techniques. Before I came ...
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Monday, 8 June 2009

Upadesa Undiyar – an explanatory paraphrase

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As I mentioned in my previous article, Sri Arunachala Stuti Panchakam – an overview , I am currently preparing to upload four new e-books t...
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Wednesday, 31 December 2008

Self-attentiveness, intensity and continuity

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Last week a person called Teck posted two comments on one of my recent articles, Making effort to pay attention to our mind is being attenti...
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