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Articles on the Teachings of Sri Ramana
Introduction
This page is intended to form the principal link between this website and its extension,
a blog named Happiness of Being – The Teachings of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi,
which is a growing archive of articles that I have written on the philosophy and practice of the
spiritual teachings of Bhagavan Sri Ramana.
List of Articles
In the following list, links to all the main articles in this
archive
are arranged under different headings, but this arrangement is far from perfect,
because many of these articles could well be classified under more than one
heading. In particular, the practice of atma-vichara —
self-investigation, self-scrutiny or ‘self-enquiry’ — is a theme that runs
through most of them, but under the heading
The practice of atma-vichara: self-investigation or self-enquiry
I have included only those articles that focus strongly on this central topic.
In addition to being listed here, the articles are indexed clearly in the left margin of every page of the
archive, firstly according
to date in reverse chronological order under the heading
Article Archive, and secondly in greater detail according to subject
arranged alphabetically under the heading
Index of Topics.
Some of the articles listed below are extracts from Happiness and the Art of Being (HAB), because they are portions that were not in the
first e-book edition but were added either in the
second e-book edition or in the
third e-book edition, which is the same as the
printed book. I have therefore indicated all such articles by placing in brackets
after each of them the initials HAB followed by a page reference.
The practice of atma-vichara: self-investigation or self-enquiry
- The crest-jewel of Sri Ramana’s teachings (HAB pages 565 to 569)
- What is self-attentiveness?
- Cultivating uninterrupted self-attentiveness
- Self-attentiveness, intensity and continuity
- Self-attentiveness and time
- Self-attentiveness, effort and grace
- The aim of self-enquiry is to experience a perfect clarity of self-consciousness
- By self-attentiveness we can experience our true self-consciousness unadulterated by our mind (HAB pages 235 to 236)
- Self-attentiveness is nirvikalpa – devoid of all differences or variation
- Svarupa-dhyana and svarupa-darsana
- ‘Tracing the ego back to its source’
- Knowing our source by a ‘sharp intellect’ or kurnda mati (HAB pages 518 to 521)
- How to start practising atma-vichara?
- Making effort to pay attention to our mind is being attentive only to our essential self
- Our basic thought ‘I’ is the portal through which we can know our real ‘I’
- Self-enquiry: the underlying philosophy can be clearly understood only by putting it into practice
- The true nature of consciousness can be known only by self-enquiry
- Self-enquiry, personal experiences and daily routine
- Atma-vichara is only the practice of keeping our mind fixed firmly in self (HAB pages 439 to 441)
- Atma-vichara and the question ‘who am I?’ (HAB pages 441 to 445)
- Sri Ramana’s figurative use of simple words (HAB pages 445 to 450)
- The question ‘who am I?’ as a verbalised thought (HAB pages 450 to 456)
- The practice of self-investigation is our natural state of self-conscious being (HAB pages 456 to 459)
- ‘Just sitting’ (shikantaza) and ‘choiceless awareness’
- Atma-vichara and metta bhavana (‘loving-kindness’ meditation)
- Repeating ‘who am I?’ is not self-enquiry
- Japa of ‘I am’ as an aid to self-attentiveness
- Staying with ‘I am’
- Thinking, free will and self-attentiveness
- ‘Holy indifference’ and the love to be self-attentive
- Atma-vichara and the ‘practice’ of neti neti
- ‘Awareness watching awareness’
- Self-enquiry, self-attention and self-awareness
- Atma-vichara – the practice of ‘looking at’ or ‘seeking’ ourself
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‘Putting it all together’
- Reading, reflection and practice
- Exposing the unreality of our ego
- Self-enquiry and body-awareness
Our three states of consciousness: waking, dream and sleep
- The consciousness that we experience in sleep (HAB pages 111 to 112)
- The ‘unconsciousness’ that we seem to experience in sleep (HAB pages 369 to 370)
- Our imaginary sleep of self-forgetfulness or self-ignorance (HAB pages 119 to 125)
- Are we in this world, or is this world in us? (HAB pages 125 to 129)
- Our waking life is just another dream (HAB pages 129 to 136)
- Only the absolute clarity of true self-knowledge will put an end to all our dreams (HAB pages 136 to 141)
- Our self-consciousness is the absolute reality (HAB pages 141 to 142)
The state of true self-knowledge
- Self-consciousness alone is true knowledge
- The transcendent state of true self-knowledge is the only real state (HAB pages 382 to 385)
- Who has attained ‘self-realisation’?
- The true import of ‘I am’
- The true import of the word ‘I’ (HAB pages 354 to 355)
- I think because I am, but I am even when I do not think (HAB pages 362 to 363)
- Our real ‘I’ is formless and therefore unlimited (HAB pages 153 to 155)
- Our body, mind and other adjuncts are not ‘I’ (HAB pages 162 to 166)
The science of consciousness
- The true science of consciousness and drik drisya viveka (HAB pages 428 to 429)
- Consciousness and time
The appearance of duality
- Everything is only our own consciousness (HAB pages 206 to 212)
- Everything is just an expansion of our own mind or ego (HAB pages 314-7 & 318)
- Objective knowledge will disappear along with our mind when we know ourself as we really are (HAB pages 304 to 309)
- The foundation of all our thoughts is our primal imagination that we are a body (HAB pages 173 to 179)
- The cognition of duality
- The truth that underlies cognition
- The world is a creation of our imagination
- Why to write about self?
- Non-duality is the truth even when duality appears to exist (HAB pages 310 to 314)
- Is there really any difference between the advaita taught by Sri Ramana and that taught by Sri Adi Sankara?
- What is advaita?
- Advaita sadhana – non-dualistic spiritual practice
Action or karma cannot give liberation
- Actions or karmas are like seeds (HAB pages 258 to 261)
- Can sexual energy really be liberated?
- Overcoming our spiritual complacency (HAB pages 477 to 481)
- The fear of death is inherent in our love for our own being (HAB page 479)
- Taking refuge at the ‘feet’ of God (HAB pages 481 to 484)
- The state of true immortality (HAB pages 484 to 486)
- Experiencing our natural state of true immortality
God, guru, devotion and sat-sanga
- The truth of Arunachala and of ‘seeing the light’ (deepa-darsana)
- God as both nirguna brahman and saguna brahman
- Experiencing God as he really is
- God as purna – the one infinite whole
- God as paramarthika satya – the absolute reality
- Repetition of Bhagavan’s name
- ‘I am’ is the most appropriate name of God (HAB pages 343-4 & 345)
- Contemplating ‘I’, which is the original name of God (HAB pages 219 to 221)
- Our real self can reveal itself only through silence (HAB pages 344 to 345)
- Where to find and how to reach the real presence of our guru?
- Is a ‘human guru’ really necessary?
- Which spiritual teachings are truly credible?
- Where can we find the clarity of true self-knowledge?
- Let us not be distracted from following the real teachings of Sri Ramana
- Which sat-sanga will free us from our ego?
- ‘Giving satsanga’
- The supreme compassion of Sri Ramana (HAB pages 592 to 601)
- The importance of compassion and ahimsa (HAB pages 601 to 609)
The original writings of Sri Ramana
- Sri Arunachala Stuti Panchakam – English translation by Sri Sadhu Om and Michael James
- Sri Arunachala Stuti Panchakam – an overview
- Sri Ramanopadesa Nunmalai – English translation by Sri Sadhu Om and Michael James
- Upadesa Undiyar – an explanatory paraphrase
- Ulladu Narpadu – an explanatory paraphrase
- Ulladu Narpadu Anubandham – an explanatory paraphrase
- Ekatma Panchakam – an explanatory paraphrase
- Ekatma Vivekam – the kalivenba version of Ekatma Panchakam
- Appala Pattu – an explanatory paraphrase
- Anma-Viddai (Atma-Vidya) – an explanatory paraphrase
- Upadesa Tanippakkal – an explanatory paraphrase
- Nan Yar? – complete translation now added to Happiness of Being website
- Sri Ramana’s mangalam verse to Vivekacudamani
Books about Sri Ramana’s teachings
- Guru Vachaka Kovai – e-book
- Guru Vachaka Kovai – a new translation by TV Venkatasubramanian, Robert Butler and David Godman
- Guru Vachaka Kovai verse 579 and Anubhuti Venba verse 610
- Sadhanai Saram – The Essence of Spiritual Practice (sadhana)
- The Path of Sri Ramana - Part One e-book copy now available
- New enlarged e-book edition of Happiness and the Art of Being (regarding the second e-book edition)
- Third e-book edition of Happiness and the Art of Being
- Happiness and the Art of Being – additions to chapter 2 (HAB pages 128 & 134)
- The Nature of Reality – additions to chapter 4 of Happiness and the Art of Being (HAB pages 246-7, 270, 274 & 287-8)
- Happiness and the Art of Being – additions to chapter 5 (HAB pages 306-7, 312-3, 314-5, 316-7, 317-8, 320 & 329-30)
- What is True Knowledge? – additions to chapter 5 of Happiness and the Art of Being (HAB pages 330, 331 & 333-4)
- Happiness and the Art of Being – additions to chapter 7 (HAB pages 395, 402 & 407-8)
- Introduction to The Truth of Otherness
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