Showing posts with label self-investigation (ātma-vicāra). Show all posts
Showing posts with label self-investigation (ātma-vicāra). Show all posts
Wednesday, 1 October 2025

Śrī Aruṇācala Aṣṭakam verse 2: When investigating within the mind who he who saw is, I saw what remained when he who saw was completely non-existent

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This article is also available in a clearer and more easily readable format on my main website: Śrī Aruṇācala Aṣṭakam verse 2: When invest...
Tuesday, 30 September 2025

Śrī Aruṇācala Aṣṭakam verse 1: When, by its wonderful act of grace, Arunachala enchanted and pulled my mind close, I saw as this is acalam

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This article is also available in a clearer and more easily readable format on my main website: Śrī Aruṇācala Aṣṭakam verse 1: When, by it...
Tuesday, 8 April 2025

The ‘fourfold means’ (sādhanā catuṣṭayam)

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This article is also available in a clearer and more easily readable format on my main website: The ‘fourfold means’ ( sādhanā catuṣṭayam )...
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, 7 December 2023

Āṉma-Viddai verse 5: in the heart that looks within without thinking of anything else, oneself will be seen

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In continuation of and as a conclusion to the five articles on Āṉma-Viddai that I posted here previously, namely Āṉma-Viddai : Tamil text, ...
Wednesday, 8 November 2023

Āṉma-Viddai verse 4: self-investigation is the easiest of all paths, because it is not doing but just being

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In continuation of four articles on Āṉma-Viddai that I posted here previously, namely Āṉma-Viddai : Tamil text, transliteration and transla...
Thursday, 27 July 2023

Āṉma-Viddai verse 3: knowledge of all other things is caused by ignorance of ourself

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In continuation of three articles on Āṉma-Viddai that I posted here previously, namely Āṉma-Viddai : Tamil text, transliteration and transl...
Tuesday, 16 May 2023

Āṉma-Viddai verse 2: the thought ‘I am this body’ is what supports all other thoughts

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In continuation of two articles that I posted here in January and February of last year, Āṉma-Viddai : Tamil text, transliteration and trans...
Saturday, 24 December 2022

Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 19

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This is the nineteenth in a series of articles that I hope to write on Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai , Bhagavan willing, the completed ones ...
Wednesday, 7 December 2022

Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 18

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This is the eighteenth in a series of articles that I hope to write on Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai , Bhagavan willing, the completed ones ...
Thursday, 27 October 2022

Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 15

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This is the fifteenth in a series of articles that I hope to write on Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai , Bhagavan willing, the completed ones b...
Friday, 23 September 2022

Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 13

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This is the thirteenth in a series of articles that I hope to write on Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai , Bhagavan willing, the completed ones ...
Wednesday, 24 August 2022

Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 11

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This is the eleventh in a series of articles that I hope to write on Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai , Bhagavan willing, the completed ones be...
Saturday, 2 July 2022

Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 8

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This is the eighth in a series of articles that I hope to write on Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai , Bhagavan willing, the completed ones bein...
Friday, 22 April 2022

Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 5

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This is the fifth in a series of articles that I hope to write on Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai , Bhagavan willing, the completed ones being...
Thursday, 14 April 2022

Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 3

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This is the third in a series of articles that I hope to write on Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai , Bhagavan willing, the completed ones being...
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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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...
Saturday, 4 December 2021

What are vāsanās and how do they work?

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A friend wrote to me asking whether the following is ‘a reasonable terse description of the meaning of the term vāsanā ’: vāsanā : an incli...
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Friday, 26 November 2021

The Ramaṇa mahāvākya: ‘நான் நான்’ (nāṉ nāṉ) or ‘अहम् अहम्’ (aham aham), ‘I am I’

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I have recently been trying to complete a detailed explanation about the song Āṉma-Viddai that I began to write more than two years ago but...
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