What's New

Since its launch in December 2006, the major changes and new additions to this website are, in reverse chronological order, as follows:

1. 3rd July 2008: A new section, How to buy books by Sri Sadhu Om and Michael James, was added to the Books page, and the relevant sections of the following pages were updated accordingly: Guru Vachaka Kovai, The Path of Sri Ramana and Other books by Sri Sadhu Om and Michael James. Links to the following new articles in my blog were added to the List of Articles on the Articles page:
   • Cultivating uninterrupted self-attentiveness
   • 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
   • The world is a creation of our imagination
   • Experiencing our natural state of true immortality
   • God as both nirguna brahman and saguna brahman
   • Experiencing God as he really is
   • Where to find and how to reach the real presence of our guru?
   • Which sat-sanga will free us from our ego?
   • Introduction to The Truth of Otherness
   The other significant change that I made today was to remove the 'Notify Me' form from the left-hand margin of each page. The main reason why I decided to do so was because in May my old PC died a natural death (and repairing it would have cost as much as a new PC), and I had much difficulty in recovering my data from it. I eventually managed to recover my e-mail address book, in which I had stored the list of addresses of those who had requested me to notify them of additions and changes to this website, but to recover all the related e-mails would have consumed too much of my limited time. Therefore I decided not to continue this notification system. However, to make it easier for anyone to keep track of the additions and changes that I will be making to this website in future, in the left-hand margin I have added a note below the What's New link indicating the date on which it was last updated.
   
   
2. 16th May 2008: The The original writings of Sri Ramana section in the List of Articles on the Articles page was updated with a link to the new article, Sri Ramanopadesa Nunmalai – English translation by Sri Sadhu Om and Michael James.



3. 14th May 2008: On the page Happiness and the Art of Being, the section about the Spanish translation was updated with information about the newly completed translation, which is now available on the AtivarnAshram website as a PDF e-book, La Felicidad y el Arte de Ser.



4. 24th December 2007: A print-friendly PDF copy of my introduction to and translation of Nan Yar? (Who am I?) and a similar print-friendly PDF copy of my introduction to and synopsis of The Path of Sri Ramana were both added.



5. 5th December 2007: The page Happiness and the Art of Being was updated with information about the availability of this book on Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.ca, Amazon.fr, Amazon.de and other online book retailer sites. The page The Path of Sri Ramana was also updated with information about the availability of The Path of Sri Ramana - Part One on Amazon.com.



6. 22nd November 2007: A new page introducing The Path of Sri Ramana by Sri Sadhu Om was added, together with an e-book copy of The Path of Sri Ramana – Part One, and several other pages were updated accordingly, including the Home Page, the Site Map, Books, Other Books, Nan Yar? and About Michael James. In the Bibliography and on some other pages the titles of Sri Ramana's poems and other Tamil texts were added in Tamil script.



7. 8th November 2007: The page Happiness and the Art of Being was updated with the addition of images of the front covers of both the Canadian publication and the Indian publication, and with information about the further progress of the Spanish translation.



8. 1st November 2007: The Printed Versions section of the page Happiness and the Art of Being was updated to announce the release of the Canadian publication of this book, and to give details about the availability of both the Canadian and the Indian publications.



9. 17th October 2007: The Printed Versions section of the page Happiness and the Art of Being was updated to announce the release of the Indian edition of this book and the expected release of the Canadian editon.



10. 28th September 2007: A list of articles was added to the Articles page.



11. 27th September 2007: The page Happiness and the Art of Being was expanded, and the announcement about the forthcoming printed edition of this book was updated to reflect its expected release in the third week of October 2007. The title of the home page was also changed from 'Happiness is Our Essential Being' to 'The Teachings of Sri Ramana'.



12. 4th September 2007: An e-book copy of the English translation by Sri Sadhu Om and Michael James of Guru Vachaka Kovai was added.



13. 1st September 2007: An English translation of Nan Yar? (Who am I?) was added, and the entire website was restructured. The Resources page was replaced by five new pages, Translations, Books, Articles, What's New and Bibliography, and its contents were divided among these new pages.



14. 24th August 2007: A note about the Spanish Translation of Happiness and the Art of Being was added.



15. 23rd August 2007: The third e-book edition of Happiness and the Art of Being was added.



16. 26th July 2007: An announcement about the forthcoming printed edition of Happiness and the Art of Being was added.



17. 20th March 2007: The second e-book edition of Happiness and the Art of Being was added.



18. 26th December 2006: As an extention to this main website, I started a blog, Happiness of Being – Teachings of Sri Ramana, which is now a growing archive of articles that I have written from time to time about the philosophy, science and art of true self-knowledge as taught by Sri Ramana.



19. 15th December 2006: This website was launched, and at that time its principal content was the first e-book edition of Happiness and the Art of Being.