Friday 29 September 2017
Sunday 24 September 2017
We should not be concerned with anything happening outside but only with what is happening inside
Posted by Michael James at 16:00 94 comments
Labels: Arunachala, Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi, bhakti (devotion), practice taught by Sri Ramana, self-investigation (ātma-vicāra), self-surrender, Śrī Aruṇācala Padikam
Monday 18 September 2017
What creates all thoughts is only the ego, which is the root and essence of the mind
Posted by Michael James at 19:36 144 comments
Labels: Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi, dream, ego, māyā, Nāṉ Yār? (Who am I?), self-investigation (ātma-vicāra), Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai, Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu, Upadēśa Undiyār
Monday 11 September 2017
How to find the source of ‘I’, the ego?
Posted by Michael James at 18:12 128 comments
Labels: Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi, ego, practice taught by Sri Ramana, self-investigation (ātma-vicāra), Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu
Thursday 7 September 2017
To be aware of ourself as we actually are, what we need to investigate is only ourself and not anything else
Posted by Michael James at 08:04 85 comments
Labels: Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi, ego, practice taught by Sri Ramana, self-investigation (ātma-vicāra)
Tuesday 5 September 2017
If we choose to do any harmful actions, should we consider them to be done according to destiny (prārabdha)?
The discussion began with two comments in which Sanjay Lohia paraphrased something I had said about jñāna, karma, prārabdha and free will in the video 2017-07-08 Ramana Maharshi Foundation UK: discussion with Michael James on the power of silence, to which Salazar wrote a reply in which he said: ‘Prarabdha goes on in every second of our lives, every scratch, every little thing is prarabhda, and no outward action is determined by the ego. If we are vegetarian or eat meat, that’s prarabhda too. So if anybody of Bhagavan’s devotees still eats meat, don’t beat yourself up, that’s as much destiny as if a Hindu eats beef what may create inner turmoil unless one does atma-vichara. So we seem to be a puppet, at least what happens to the body, however we are not victims of prarabhda because we can transcend prarabdha with atma-vichara. The actions of the body will go on as destined, but the inward identification loses its hold’. This triggered a series of other comments in which various friends expressed their understanding of Bhagavan’s teachings in this regard, and during the early stages of this discussion Sanjay wrote an email to me asking me to clarify whether the type of food we eat is decided by our destiny, so this article is written in response to this.
Posted by Michael James at 08:18 155 comments
Labels: 1898 note for his mother, Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi, ego, karma, Nāṉ Yār? (Who am I?), self-investigation (ātma-vicāra), Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu, Upadēśa Undiyār