Showing posts with label self-forgetfulness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label self-forgetfulness. Show all posts
Thursday, 28 May 2020

Though we are not aware of any phenomena in sleep, we are aware of our own existence, ‘I am’

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A friend recently wrote to me: There is something I find hard to “understand”. You say that Sri Ramana Maharshi said that when we are in de...
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Thursday, 5 May 2016

The person we seem to be is a form composed of five sheaths

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In a pair of comments that I wrote in reply to some other comments on my previous article, Self-investigation ( ātma-vicāra ) entails nothi...
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Tuesday, 31 March 2015

All phenomena are just a dream, and the only way to wake up is to investigate who is dreaming

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In the seventeenth paragraph of Nāṉ Yār? (Who am I?) Sri Ramana advises us that if we wish to know what we really are, we should completel...
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Monday, 22 June 2009

Ekatma Panchakam – an explanatory paraphrase

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In continuation of my previous three articles, Upadesa Undiyar – an explanatory paraphrase , Ulladu Narpadu – an explanatory paraphrase a...
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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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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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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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Saturday, 6 December 2008

Making effort to pay attention to our mind is being attentive only to our essential self

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Referring to a sentence that I wrote in my recent article Self-attentiveness, effort and grace , “We can free ourself from thoughts, sense-p...
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Friday, 27 June 2008

Cultivating uninterrupted self-attentiveness

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In a comment on one of my recent articles, Self-enquiry, personal experiences and daily routine , an anonymous friend wrote: “...uninterrup...
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Friday, 20 June 2008

The true nature of consciousness can be known only by self-enquiry

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The anonymous friend whose comment I replied to in my previous article, Self-enquiry: the underlying philosophy can be clearly understood o...
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Tuesday, 21 August 2007

The supreme compassion of Sri Ramana

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Towards the end of chapter 10, ‘The Practice of the Art of Being’, on page 558 of the second e-book edition (page 589 of the forthcoming pri...
Monday, 19 March 2007

The 'unconsciousness' that we seem to experience in sleep

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On pages 329-330 of the present e-book version of Happiness and the Art of Being there are two paragraphs in which I write: Though in our p...
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Saturday, 17 February 2007

Only the absolute clarity of true self-knowledge will put an end to all our dreams

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In continuation of my earlier posts Our imaginary sleep of self-forgetfulness or self-ignorance , Are we in this world, or is this world in ...
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Wednesday, 14 February 2007

Are we in this world, or is this world in us?

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In continuation of my earlier post Our imaginary sleep of self-forgetfulness or self-ignorance , the following is more of the additional mat...
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Tuesday, 6 February 2007

Our imaginary sleep of self-forgetfulness or self-ignorance

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Since many people have expressed a desire to have a printed copy of my book, Happiness and the Art of Being , I have recently been revising ...
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Saturday, 13 January 2007

The cognition of duality

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With reference to my article 'The Nature of Our Mind', which appeared in the latest issue of The Mountain Path and which is an extr...
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