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  • 'Sarvam Vasudeva Mayam Jagat', “The universe is the manifestation of Vasudeva” is one of the basic tenets of the Vaishnava school. Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi explained the tenet in detail to a devotee of Krishna who happened to visit Ramanashram. Indeed ...
  • Darkness At Noon-Part XIICeaseless enquiryThe new has its own challenge. Ramana counsels that one should ceaselessly, without tiring, investigate, enquire into and find out what is this thing called the ‘mind’? On such enquiry, it will be obvious when there are ...
  • Retold by Swami Rama Tiratha during Lecture delivered on November 16, 1902 in the Academy of Sciences, San Francisco.When Alexander- the Great, visited India after conquering all the other countries in the world that were known to him, he wanted to ...
  • Assumed Identity Continued From Part I In the process of discovering our true nature, if we consider ourselves as the body, there is something else remaining apart from the body. For example, we involuntarily say “My head,” “My ...
  • Have we ever stopped to think what our mind is? Or rather what our mind stuff is, though engaging it throughout the day with various activities from dawn to dusk?Our mind is basically made up of thoughts. Thoughts have a different ...
  • Continued From Part I Jagat mithyā ( World is illusion )-Part IIThe Sanskrit word 'Mithya' can be best translated in English as 'Illusory' or 'Unreal'. The word 'Jagat' would mean as the 'Material world' or all that is finite. The ...
  • An article based on the teachings of Ramana Maharshi.The lid of satisfactionNoon is when the sun is at its brightest. To talk of darkness at that time sounds crazy. How can there be darkness when the sun is blazing away? One ...
  • Continued From The First PartThe ‘I’The so called ‘I’, the ego, whether it is simply a thought or the first thought as Sri Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi has aptly put it, or mere body – consciousness (‘I am the body’) ...
  • Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi's teaching was direct that it directed the attention of the seekers immediately to the ultimate, which would have otherwise gone astray in tiring long processes. Bhagavan churned the ocean of scriptural truth, obtained the core ...
  • Continued From The Seventh Part Identifications And Limitations As soon as one awakes the first identification is with a particular name and form. Ramana Maharshi has pointed out that 'I' must either stay merged in the spiritual heart or ...
  • Continued From The Sixth Part What Happened To The Mind In Sleep?When thoughts and the thinker are not there, one is said to be asleep. One seems to be lulled into that state of mental silence by a ...
  • Continued From The Fourth Part In Holistic meditation one's focus is exclusively on the mind, in order to discover its nature. In that discovery is the key to freedom from the fragmentation of the mind, its endless fencing and identifications. ...
 
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