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The Original Writings of Bhagavan Ramana: An Overview, Part 1
No one other than God can perform the function of guru
Self-attention dissolves duality, attending to anything else perpetuates it
Guru Vācaka Kōvai verse 85: Ātman is the material cause, not the efficient cause
Upadēśa Taṉippākkaḷ verses 8, 9 and 10: ‘I am this body’ and other delusions
What does Bhagavan Ramana mean by saying we should surrender all our burden to God?
Guru Vācaka Kōvai verse 84: All that appears existed as vāsanās in the heart
We must try to be self attentive as much as possible in all circumstances
Vivarta siddhānta: Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu verse 1 & Guru Vācaka Kōvai verse 83
Upadēśa Taṉippākkaḷ verse 7: We should repent causing harm even accidentally
Bhagavan’s Advent reflects and symbolises what happened during his death experience
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)?
Guru Vācaka Kōvai verse 129
Bhagavan Ramana is KālaKālan: Death to death
What are ‘transitive awareness’ and ‘intransitive awareness’?
Guru Vācaka Kōvai verse 46 and verses for his mother
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