Tag: ego

• April 25, 2025

  ‘Ego Itself Is Everything’

  If ego comes into existence, then everything comes into existence; if ego does not exist, everything does not exist. Ego itself is everything. –Ramana Maharshi, “Verse 26,” Ulladu Narpadu 1. Start the inquiry by asking whether the world exists. If it exists, then it must be a solid entity, indeed a substance. Is it? The…
• 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…
• December 30, 2024

  What Is The Yoga Of Relaxation?

  What is the yoga of relaxation? The answer comes in this beautiful and astonishingly hard-to-find book entitled Yoga: Art of Relaxation (1979) by Wolter Keers et al. A preliminary and only very partial answer follows: 1. The first suggestion the authors make is that we open to tensions. While the latter remains undefined, we could say…