Showing posts with label sleep. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sleep. Show all posts
Monday, 27 May 2024

Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu Anubandham: Tamil text, transliteration and translation

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In continuation of my translations of other works of Bhagavan, such as Nāṉ Ār? , Upadēśa Undiyār , Upadēśa Sāraḥ , Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu , Upadēśa ...
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...
Sunday, 21 June 2020

How do we remember being asleep?

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A friend wrote to me today asking, ‘In the deep sleep state, it is said that there is no mind. In that case, what is it that carries through...
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Wednesday, 17 June 2020

What exists and shines in sleep is nothing other than pure awareness

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Yesterday I discussed with a friend called Murthy what Bhagavan pointed out to us about what exists and what we are aware of in sleep, and o...
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Tuesday, 2 June 2020

We can be self-attentive in waking and dream but not in sleep

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A friend recently wrote to me: It seems to that “Self-Attention” as taught by Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharishi is possible only when I am in t...
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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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Wednesday, 20 May 2020

Self-investigation as the way to love

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In April of last year a Finnish friend, Jussi Penttinen, invited me to Helsinki, where he had arranged for me to give a talk and answer ques...
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Sunday, 1 December 2019

Are there three states, two states or only one state?

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Referring to one of my videos, 2019-08-10 Ramana Maharshi Foundation UK: discussion with Michael James on Āṉma-Viddai verse 1 , a friend wr...
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Tuesday, 11 June 2019

In what sense and to what extent do we remember what we were aware of in sleep?

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In a comment on one of my recent articles, How to practise self-enquiry ( ātma-vicāra )? , a friend called Rajat Sancheti wrote: If I give...
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Wednesday, 28 February 2018

Our existence is self-evident, because we shine by our own light of pure self-awareness

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In a comment on one of my recent articles, Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu : Tamil text, transliteration and translation , a friend called Sanjay wrote: Mi...
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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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Tuesday, 25 July 2017

What is aware of the absence of the ego and mind in sleep?

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A friend wrote to me today asking: If pure awareness simply is and is not aware of anything else because only it exists, and the ego is not...
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Thursday, 13 July 2017

Pure self-awareness is not nothingness but the only thing that actually exists

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A friend recently wrote to me asking, ‘What is the difference between nothingness and complete self-awareness? I understand the destruction ...
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Wednesday, 28 June 2017

There is absolutely no difference between sleep and pure self-awareness (ātma-jñāna)

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After I wrote the reply that I reproduced in the article I posted here yesterday, namely Māyā is nothing but our own mind, so it seems to e...
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Wednesday, 8 March 2017

Rather than being aware of being aware, we should be aware only of what is aware, namely ourself

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This article is my reply to a recent comment on one of my earlier articles, How to attend to ourself? , in which a friend wrote: ‘I have tr...
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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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Tuesday, 31 May 2016

What is the logic for believing that happiness is what we actually are?

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In a comment on my previous article, How to attend to ourself? , a friend called Sundar referred to my reply to his previous comment and ...
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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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Sunday, 28 February 2016

The role of logic in developing a clear, coherent and uncomplicated understanding of Bhagavan’s teachings

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In my previous article, Why should we believe what Bhagavan taught us? , particularly in the first nine sections, I discussed the logic that...
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