Showing posts with label transitive awareness (suṭṭaṟivu). Show all posts
Showing posts with label transitive awareness (suṭṭaṟivu). Show all posts
Monday, 22 March 2021

The second and third paragraphs of Nāṉ Ār?

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In this article I will discuss the history behind the second paragraph of Nāṉ Ār? and the practical and philosophical significance of what...
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Monday, 9 March 2020

Though we appear in two distinct modes, we are just one awareness

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When I woke up on Saturday morning, a fresh clarity occurred to me. If I try to put this clarity into words, as I will do in this article, i...
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Wednesday, 18 April 2018

The ego does not actually exist, but it seems to exist, and only so long as it seems to exist do all other things seem to exist

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A friend recently wrote a series of emails expressing his views and asking questions about the ego and other related matters, so this articl...
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Sunday, 22 January 2017

Like Bhagavan, Sankara taught that objects are perceived only through ignorance and hence by the mind and not by ourself as we actually are

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In two comments on my previous article, What is aware of everything other than ourself is only the ego and not ourself as we actually are , ...
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Sunday, 15 January 2017

What is aware of everything other than ourself is only the ego and not ourself as we actually are

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In a comment on one of my recent articles, Why does Bhagavan sometimes say that the ātma-jñāni is aware of the body and world? , a friend ...
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Monday, 21 November 2016

What is the correct meaning of ajāta vāda?

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In a comment on my previous article, The difference between vivarta vāda and ajāta vāda is not just semantic but substantive , a friend c...
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Wednesday, 19 October 2016

As we actually are, we do nothing and are aware of nothing other than ourself

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In several comments on one of my recent articles, What is the ‘self’ we are investigating when we try to be attentively self-aware? , a frie...
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Saturday, 2 July 2016

Names and forms are all just thoughts, so we can free ourself from them only by investigating their root, our ego

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A friend recently sent me a long email in which she began by saying, ‘The ego generates words in consciousness. The ego presents in conscio...
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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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Tuesday, 17 May 2016

We can separate ourself permanently from whatever is not ourself only by attending to ourself alone

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In a recent comment on one of my old articles, Ātma-vicāra and the ‘practice’ of nēti nēti , a friend called Roger tried to explain why he...
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Sunday, 8 May 2016

The ego is the thinker, not the act of thinking

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In a comment on my previous article, The person we seem to be is a form composed of five sheaths , a friend called Ann Onymous wrote, ‘Ego ...
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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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Wednesday, 16 March 2016

We are aware of ourself while asleep, so pure self-awareness alone is what we actually are

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In many of my articles in this blog, including my most recent one, The role of logic in developing a clear, coherent and uncomplicated under...
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Sunday, 25 May 2014

The mind’s role in investigating ‘I’

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In a comment that he wrote on my previous article, How to attend to ‘I’? , Jacques Franck referred to a sentence in which I wrote, “Theref...
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