Month: January 2022
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How Can We Keep Up Our Spiritual Practice In The Midst Of Our Daily Activities?
The questioner asks Annamalai Swami a question that is relevant for anyone–perhaps like you, dear reader–who is committed to spiritual practice. It is: “How can we keep up our sadhana in the middle of all our daily activities? It is very difficult” (Annamalai Swami: Final Talks, ed. David Godman, p. 59). Annamalai Swami’s answer is…
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The Constancy, Intensity, And One-pointedness Of Self-inquiry
In Annamalai Swami: Final Talks (ed. David Godman), a questioner asks Annamalai Swami a very important question. He or she wonders why asking, “Who am I?,” has not brought about Self-realization. After all, Sri Ramana Maharshi seems, at the age of 16, to have asked, “Who am I?,” but one time and, in a flash,…
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Annamalai Swami On The Need For Constant Meditation
In Final Talks with Annamalai Swami, a student asks Annamalai Swami, a disciple of Ramana Maharshi when Ramana was alive and, in later years, a fine teacher in his own right, about how he or she can “stabilize” in the Self. After all, the questioner states, “One can have a temporary experience of the Self……
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Realizing The Non-existence Of Ignorance
Recently, my wife Alexandra read aloud an excellent passage from S.S. Cohen’s little book Guru Ramana: [Female Disciple]: Why then do we need to concentrate? [Ramana]: Concentration, meditation and all spiritual practices are not performed with the object of realising the Self, because the Self is ever-present, but of realising the non-existence of ignorance. This is very direct…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 