Showing posts with label practice taught by Sri Ramana. Show all posts
Showing posts with label practice taught by Sri Ramana. Show all posts
Wednesday, 25 December 2024

Aruṇācala Tattuvam and Dīpa-Darśaṉa Tattuvam: The Reality of Arunachala and Seeing Deepam

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Friday 13th December 2024 was Kārttikai Deepam , which is an annual festival celebrated in the Tamil month of Kārttikai (mid-November to mi...
Thursday, 12 September 2024

Pure intransitive awareness alone is real consciousness and what actually exists

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In section 16.1 of A landscape of consciousness: Toward a taxonomy of explanations and implications Robert Lawrence Kuhn quoted some extra...
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...
Thursday, 24 March 2022

Upadēśa Sāraḥ: Sanskrit text, transliteration and translation (with the original Tamil text)

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उपदेश सारः ( Upadēśa Sāraḥ ), ‘The Essence of Spiritual Teachings’, is Bhagavan’s Sanskrit translation or adaptation of one of the poetic te...
Monday, 31 January 2022

Āṉma-Viddai: Tamil text, transliteration and translation

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The path of self-investigation ( ātma-vicāra ) that Bhagavan taught us is the direct and easy means to eradicate ego, the root and foundatio...
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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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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Monday, 12 July 2021

Freedom, surrender and clinging fast to ‘I am’

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This brief article is adapted from a reply I wrote to a friend today. As you say, our life (in the sense of our outward life as a person i...
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Wednesday, 23 June 2021

Self-investigation is not a matter of one ‘I’ looking for another ‘I’

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A friend wrote to me recently asking, ‘When I try to look within for “I”, I am unable to find it or its source. What is my mistake and how ...
Monday, 17 May 2021

Can self-investigation boost the mind or kuṇḍalinī or cause sleeplessness and other health issues?

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A friend wrote to me saying ‘I keep on practicing Self-Enquiry and I feel that the practice of Self-Enquiry affects the kundalini in my body...
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....
Wednesday, 12 May 2021

Could what exists ever not exist?

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A friend wrote to me: I recently watched your YouTube video discussing the above verse [the first maṅgalam verse of Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu ] as I...
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Thursday, 18 February 2021

In what sense is ego actually just pure awareness?

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In my previous article, In what sense is it true to say ‘everything is one’? , I wrote: So Bhagavan is the ultimate reductionist: All pheno...
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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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Thursday, 31 December 2020

Bhagavan’s verses on birthday celebrations

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Bhagavan was born at one o’clock in the morning on 30th December 1879, which was during the lunar constellation ( nakṣatra ) of punarvasu , ...
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Sunday, 1 November 2020

We can practise self-abidance only by being self-attentive

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A friend asked me to adjudicate on a disagreement that he and another friend had about self-abidance and self-investigation. One of them bel...
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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...
Monday, 26 October 2020

How to practise surrender when faced with a dilemma?

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A friend wrote to me asking for some personal guidance regarding a dilemma he was facing, in which whatever choice he made would have a majo...
Friday, 16 October 2020

The direct path to direct perception of our real nature

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A friend wrote to me recently: I wondered if you could shine some light on something regarding Ramana’s Enlightenment for me. I’ve always t...
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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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