Author: Andrew Taggart
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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…
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A Brief Summary Of Koyre’s From the Closed World To The Open Universe
Intention Because Alexandre Koyre’s brilliant From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe (1957) can, for those who aren’t scholars in the history of science or in the history of ideas (and I am certainly not the former), I’d like to provide a way of understanding the text below. In essence, I surface what I…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 