Category: philosophical counseling

• February 28, 2025

  The Ajata Teaching

  There is no creation, no destruction, none bound, none seeking, striving, gaining freedom. Know that this is the supreme truth. —The Garland of the Guru’s Sayings, verse “Bhagavan 28,” p. 234; i.e., Ramana Maharshi’s translation of a key verse from Gaudapada’s Karika This is, in a word, the ajata teaching: not-a-thing has ever come into…
• February 27, 2025

  But Aren’t You Actually Aware In Sleep?

  Questioner: But I am not aware in my sleep.  Ramana Maharshi: True, there is no awareness of the body or of the world. But you must exist in your sleep in order to say now “I was not aware in my sleep”. Who says so now? It is the wakeful person. The sleeper cannot say…
• February 26, 2025

  Remain Here And Find Out Who You Are

  The life of individualised existence, which is a combination of the two opposing entities [chit and jada], is just a manifestation of the mind [manomaya]. —Muruganar, “Verse 73,” Padamalai: Teachings Of Sri Ramana Maharshi Recorded by Muruganar, p. 166. What is life? It is a “combination” of chit and jada, a combination that makes it…
• February 24, 2025

  ‘This Ghostly Ego’

  What a wonder it is! This ghostly ego which is devoid of form comes into existence by grasping a form; grasping a form it endures; feeding upon forms which it grasps, it waxes more; leaving one form it grasps another; when sought for it takes to flight. Know thus. —Ramana Maharshi, Ulladu Narpadu, verse 25…
• February 21, 2025

  The Seeming Existence Of The Ego

  So good. I definitely noticed with this last person I was dating: my aversion to her in “my space” was a product of a self who was afraid of failing, being smothered, oppressed, etc. Without fearing those things, there is no problem. Is There A Self? Yes, and the crux is that there is, seemingly,…