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Sri Ramana Teachings — 328 episodes
The one ego is the ‘I’ who experiences this appearance of multiplicity
Guru Vācaka Kōvai verse 921
How to surrender when faced with the need to make major decisions?
Why does self-investigation (ātma vicāra) seem difficult
If sleep is a temporary death, why do we wake up as the same person
To know what we actually are, we must discard body and world
Guru Vācaka Kōvai verse 871
Upadēśa Taṉippākkaḷ verse 6
We are free either to be swayed or not swayed by any vāsanā
Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu verse 13 and Guru Vācaka Kōvai verse 542
By being self attentive we as ego will dissolve back into our being
Being in the state of supreme bliss is being in service of God
Guru Vācaka Kōvai verse 541
If we constantly remember our being, ‘I am’, that alone is sufficient
Upadēśa Taṉippākkaḷ verses 4 and 5
We don’t need to realise the real but to unrealise the unreal
Guru Vācaka Kōvai verse 362
Bhakti is the mother of jñāna
Guru Vācaka Kōvai verse 209
Upadēśa Taṉippākkaḷ verses 2 and 3 (Significance of Deepavali)
Awareness, ego, vāsanās and phenomena
Philosophical challenges from artificial intelligence
Guru Vācaka Kōvai verse 160
Be without letting go of yourself
Grace, effort and destiny
Guru Vācaka Kōvai verse 130
Upadēśa Taṉippākkaḷ verse 1
What is ‘self-abidance’ (ātma niṣṭhā)?
Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu Anubandham verse 40
Is God personal, impersonal or beyond all such distinctions?
Guru Vācaka Kōvai verse 38
Guru Vācaka Kōvai verse 23
If ego comes into being, everything comes into being
Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu Anubandham verse 39
Guru Vācaka Kōvai verse 22
Thinking ‘I’ or ‘I am’ as an aid to being self-attentive
Self-attentiveness is not just not thinking
Guru Vācaka Kōvai verses 969 and 970
Why is ego not destroyed in sleep or kēvala nirvikalpa samādhi?
Why is consciousness necessarily something other than any phenomenon
Whether active or inactive, we must try to be self-attentive always
Ego will dissolve forever only when it turns back in on itself
Guru Vācaka Kōvai verses 967 and 968
Self attentiveness dissolves ego, the root of all suffering
Studying, understanding and practising Bhagavan’s teachings
Humility is the essence of Bhagavan’s teachings
Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu Anubandham verse 38
Is the ‘witness consciousness’ ego or ātma svarūpa
Guru Vācaka Kōvai verses 696, 965 and 966
Guru Vācaka Kōvai verses 19, 20 and 21
How can the mind remember svarūpa, which is beyond the mind?
Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu Anubandham verse 37
To investigate ourself effectively we need subtle understanding
Guru Vācaka Kōvai verses 579, 647, 589, 586 and 588
Ego alone is the experiencer of all phenomena
We are just one ‘I’, the light that dispels all darkness
Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu Anubandham verse 36
Turned outwards, awareness is ego, turned inwards, it is svarūpa
Śrī Aruṇācala Aṣṭakam verse 4
Śrī Aruṇācala Aṣṭakam verse 3
Being self-attentive alone is self-investigation
Bhagavan Ramana's Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu Anubandham, verse 35
Why and how to be aware of ourself as we actually are
Śrī Aruṇācala Aṣṭakam verse 2
Ego and its suffering can be ended only by self-investigation
Śrī Aruṇācala Aṣṭakam verse 1
Awareness as the jñāna-guru will make the reality known
Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu Anubandham verse 34
As taught by Bhagavan, how to give oneself to God?
Āṉma Viddai is one of the precious gems of Bhagavan’s teachings
Śrī Aruṇācala Padigam verse 11
Śrī Aruṇācala Padigam verse 10
Bhagavan is guru and God living eternally in and as our heart
Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu Anubandham verse 33
Being self attentive is attending to what shines permanently
Śrī Aruṇācala Padigam verse 9
Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu Anubandham verse 32
Whatever appears, we must attend to ourself, to whom it appear
Śrī Aruṇācala Padigam verse 8
We as ego will subside to the extent to which we observe ourself
How can we hold on to self-attentiveness persistently?
Śrī Aruṇācala Padigam verse 7
The simple practice of self investigation (ātma-vicāra)
Śrī Aruṇācala Padigam verse 6
Consciousness, God, suffering and freedom of will
Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu Anubandham verse 31
Rising as ego is the root cause for this entire appearance
Keeping our attention on our being, our fundamental awareness 'I am'
How can we hold on to self-attentiveness uninterruptedly?
Śrī Aruṇācala Padigam verse 5
Other than the base, ‘I am’, everything is a superimposition
Śrī Aruṇācala Padigam verse 4
Ego is pure being-awareness, ‘I am’, conflated with adjuncts
Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu Anubandham verse 30
We should meditate on ourself, not on the thought ‘I am brahman’
Śrī Aruṇācala Padigam verse 3
Liberation is achieved not by doing but by just being as we are
Everything other than ‘I am’ is just an illusory appearance
Śrī Aruṇācala Padigam verse 2
Bhagavan Ramana is the eternal guru in the heart of all
Upadēśa Undiyār - The path to liberation is being, not doing
Always keeping our mind on ourself alone is ātma-vicāra
Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu Anubandham verse 29
The ‘fourfold means’ (sādhanā catuṣṭayam)
Śrī Aruṇācala Padigam verse 1
Śrī Aruṇācala Navamaṇimālai verse 9
Our aim is to know who am I, not just to be free of thoughts
Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu Anubandham verse 28
Unconcerned about thoughts, we must attend only to ‘I’
Śrī Aruṇācala Navamaṇimālai verse 8
Śrī Aruṇācala Navamaṇimālai verse 7
Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu Anubandham verses 26 and 27
We can eradicate ego only by attending to ourself exclusively
To be without rising as ego, we must attend only to our being
Śrī Aruṇācala Navamaṇimālai verse 6
Ego subsides to the extent we attend to ourself exclusively
To eradicate ego, we must persistently try to be self-attentive
Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu maṅgalam verse 1
Śrī Aruṇācala Navamaṇimālai verse 5
Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu Anubandham verse 25
Aruṇācala Tattuvam and Dīpa-Darśaṉa Tattuvam
If Bhagavan is pure being awareness, how did he do anything?
Śrī Aruṇācala Navamaṇimālai verse 4
Śrī Aruṇācala Navamaṇimālai verse 3
Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu Anubandham, verses 23 and 24
To destroy all vāsanās, persistent practice is necessary
Śrī Aruṇācala Navamaṇimālai Verse 2
Fix the mind on yourself, do not think of anything else
Śrī Aruṇācala Navamaṇimālai Verse 1
How to practise silence?
Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu Anubandham verses 21 and 22
Without investigating oneself, how to achieve self-annihilation?
To investigate what we are, we must first distinguish the knower from the known
If we attend to ego carefully enough we will see what we actually are
What is desirelessness and what is renunciation?
Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu Anubandham verse 20
Verse 3 of Śrī Aruṇācala Padigam
As long as ego rises, effort is necessary
Self-investigation and happiness
Not rising as ego is knowing and being what we actually are
What is self-investigation, and what is self-surrender?
How does Arunachala eradicate ego when thought of?
Understanding ego as an erroneous awareness of ourself
What causes ego to rise from sleep?
Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu Anubandham verses 18 and 19
Real knowing is devoid of both knowing and not knowing
Only by persistent practice can we gain the power to remain subsided in our being
Bhagavan's Advent and the path of self-investigation
What is surrender and how to surrender?
The source and substance of ego is our own being, the pure ‘I am’
Self-investigation and overcoming desires
Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu Anubandham verse 17
We are not aware of ourself as we actually are because of ego
Bhakti is the mother of jñāna
Ātma-vicāra is ‘always keeping the mind on oneself’
The nature of ego and how to eradicate it
Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu Anubandham verse 16
Investigating who am I is the means to just be
Why is ego annihilated in manōnāśa and not in manōlaya
Michael answers questions
We are pure existence-awareness and infinite perfect happiness
2024-06-29 Ramana Maharshi Foundation UK: Pure awareness, manōnāśa and manōlaya
What is real? What is unreal? How to unrealise the unreal?
Āṉma-Viddai verse 4 (concluded) with Q&A
Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu verse 28 and the practice of ātma-vicāra
2024-06-02 San Diego Ramana Satsang: Ego, prāṇa, prāṇāyāma and self-investigation
Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu Anubandham verse 15
The nature of the awareness that shines in sleep
What actually exists is only ourself as we actually are
The basics of Bhagavan's teachings
Āṉma-Viddai verse 4 continued with Q&A
What is the proper way to attend to ourself or brahman?
Śrī Aruṇācala Padigam verse 2
Self-investigation, effort, doing and being
Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu Anubandham verse 14
Bhagavan’s description of his death experience
What is real 'seeing' or 'knowing' God?
The blind intelligence of AI cannot help us to see what is real
svarūpa and ego are one in substance but differ in appearance
Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu Anubandham verse 13
The heart of surrender is being without rising as ego
ātma-vicāra is investigating who am I, not asking ‘Who am I?’
bhakti japa, jñāna japa and self-investigation
Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu Anubandham verse 12
Ego, freedom of will, surrender and self-investigation
Āṉ𝘮𝘢 𝘝𝘪𝘥𝘥𝘢𝘪 verse 4 (continued)
If everything is predetermined, how can we have freedom of will and action?
ātma-vicāra is attending to what is permanent, namely ‘I am’
Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu Anubandham verse 11
Why should we believe that we are one without a second?
Sri Ramana Jayanti - Śrī Aruṇācala Pañcaratnam
Bhagavan Jayanthi Celebration: Śrī Aruṇācala Padigam verse 1
Āṉma-Viddai verse 3 (concluded) and verse 4 (commenced)
Metaphysical solipsism does not imply social solipsism
What should we do to attain brahman or pure consciousness?
What bhāvana should one hold during self-investigation?
‘I exist’ is our only permanent and self-evident experience
Āṉma Viddai verse 3 (continued)
Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu Anubandham verse 10
ēka-jīva-vāda and solipsism
What should we attend to or be aware of when going within?
Bhagavan’s death experience and self-investigation
What we are to investigate is ourself, the one and only ‘I’
Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu Anubandham verse 9
Understanding solipsism as taught by Bhagavan Ramana
Bernardo Kastrup and Michael James - Analytic Idealism and Ramana Maharshi’s Advaita
Āṉma-Viddai verse 3 (continued)
What is pure awareness?
Is ego the false identification ‘I am this body’?
Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu Anubandham verse 8
Self-enquiry is just keeping our mind fixed firmly on ourself
What is manōnāśa (annihilation of mind)?
Who is aware of thoughts, feelings, emotions, body and mind? Isn’t it ego?
In your heart cling firmly like an uḍumbu to your real nature (GVK 130)
Longing for Guru Ramana - Meditative Selections from Sri Sadhu Om’s Śrī Ramaṇa Varuhai
Who or what is Bhagavan?
Āṉ𝘮𝘢 𝘝𝘪𝘥𝘥𝘢𝘪 verse 3 (continued)
Since ego exists by grasping form, is it OK to grasp the form of Ramana
Why is self-enquiry not like a thief posing as a policeman?
Viṣaya-vāsanās and vairāgya
Do body and world exist if we do not rise as ego?
How to distinguish the pure ‘I’ from the thought called ‘I’?
Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu Anubandham verses 6 and 7
Bhagavan’s Advent in the context of his teachings
Ego part 1: Who is aware ‘I am’, and who is to practise self-investigation?
Āṉ𝘮𝘢 𝘝𝘪𝘥𝘥𝘢𝘪 verse 3
Why is this entire world as unreal as a dream?
Can self attentiveness be too shallow to weaken 𝘷𝘪ṣ𝘢𝘺𝘢 𝘷ā𝘴𝘢𝘯ā𝘴?
Is self-investigation a mental activity?
How to return to oneself during periods of spiritual dryness or aridity?
What is the relationship between self-investigation and self-surrender?
Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu Anubandham verses 4 and 5
Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu: An introduction
Do we investigate ourself in silence?
The answer to all questions is to know the truth about ourself
Understanding the basics of Ramana Maharshi’s teachings
Āṉ𝘮𝘢 𝘝𝘪𝘥𝘥𝘢𝘪 verse 2 concluded
What is the best way to deal with loved ones who are suffering?
We can give up all identification only by eradicating ego
Why is accepting one fundamental that becomes many certainly the one best option?
Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu Anubandham verses 1 to 3
How do grace, love and effort work together, complementing each other?
How to overcome pride, arrogance and envy on the spiritual path?
Is severance of the knot complete destruction of ego?
What are the traps while turning inwards and how to transcend them?
Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu Anubandham, Maṅgalam (benedictory verse)
How to yield to grace to have love to be pulled inwards constantly?
Āṉma-Viddai verse 2 (continued)
How to distinguish self-attentiveness from quietness of mind?
Is being aware of thinking the awareness I AM or not?
The relevance of studying and thinking for self-investigation
How to ignore the mind and know oneself, its base?
Why does Bhagavan advise us to investigate only ourself, not anything else?
How to cultivate the sharpness of mind to hold onto oneself?
Āṉma-Viddai verse 1 (concluded) and verse 2 (commenced)
Does the idea of prārabdha exist only to help us to let go of ego?
Does the world truly disappear during self-investigation?
How to do self-enquiry and what to observe?
Swami Sarvapriyananda and Michael James discuss Advaita Vedanta and the teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi with
The law of karma as taught by Bhagavan
How to be sure if my attention is on the Self during self-enquiry?
How to develop more love to go within?
What is ego and why does it create everything?
How to practice self-investigation during our daily life?
Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu verse 13
How to purify the mind?
Our aim is to attend to nothing other than our own being
The Path of Sri Ramana: Introduction - By Sri Sadhu Om
Investigating ourself is the antidote to our rising as ego
Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu verse 12
How can we strengthen our love to surrender
Clarifying the practice of self-investigation
Āṉma-Viddai verse 1 (continued)
Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 21 Q&A
Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 21
Self-investigation, self-surrender and prayer
Clarification on some details in the life of Sri Sadhu Om
Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu verse 11
How can we be firmly convinced that happiness lies only within?
Self-investigation and other practices
To know what actually exists, we must subside and lose ourself in it
Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 20 Q&A
Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 20
Self-investigation is the culmination of the path of surrender
Āṉma-Viddai pallavi, anupallavi and verse 1
Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 19 Q&A
Turning back within is the only solution for all problems
Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 19
Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu verse 10
Bhakti is the mother of jñāna
Nāṉ Ār? paragraph 20
How to investigate who am I?
Ego, vāsanās, living in the world and ending its appearance
Self-investigation is a gentle and joyful process driven by love
Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 18 Q&A
Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 18
What does following Bhagavan’s path seriously mean and imply?
Nāṉ Ār? paragraph 19
Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu verse 9
Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 17 Q&A
Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 17
Bhagavan’s path is the pinnacle of the path of bhakti
Upadēśa Sāraḥ verses 29 and 30
Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 16 Q&A
Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 16
Nāṉ Ār? paragraph 18
Bhagavad Gītā Sāram verses 27 and 28
Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu verse 8
Everything is impermanent and hence unreal, except ourself as ‘I am’
Bhagavan knows everything as himself, so we cannot comprehend his omniscience
Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 15 Q&A
Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 15
The root of all diseases is ego, the false awareness ‘I am this body’
Upadēśa Sāraḥ verses 27 and 28
Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 14 Q&A
Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 14
What is salvation?
Are we responsible for our actions?
Nāṉ Ār? paragraph 17
Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu verse 7
Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 13 Q&A
Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 13
Is uninterrupted self-attention the only means to overcome all deep-rooted attachments?
Upadēśa Sāraḥ verses 23 to 26
Bhagavan Ramana, the flower of Vēdānta
Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 12 Q&A
Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 12
Is it possible for us as ego to surrender ourself entirely?