Tag: nonduality
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What Is Karma Yoga For The Jnana Yogi?
Karma yoga has as its central realm that of action. It is not, as is commonly believed, concerned chiefly with trying to do good on behalf of others. Instead, it’s the arena in which one seeks to transcend certain ego conceptions–two in particular. First, karma marga invites one to become detached from any results–good, bad,…
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Abiding Quietly As The Heart
If what exists were not, would existing awareness exist? Since the existing substance exists in the heart without thought, how to think of the existing substance, which is called ‘heart’? Being in the heart as it is alone is thinking. Know. –Ramana Maharshi, “Maṅgalam (benedictory) verse 1,” Ulladu Narpadu, trans. Michael James and Sri Sadhu Om…
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How Ajata Is A Permanent Solution To Seeing Apparent Defects In Creation
Those who conclude that any defect does not exist in creation without a defect in perception are those who have known the truth. –Ramana Maharshi as cited in Sri Sadhu Om, The Path of Sri Ramana, p. 167. The world, many declaim, is fallen and must be saved. Is this true? On this point, the…
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‘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…
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What Is The Essence Of The Mind?
Pt. 1: A searching investigation of the waking state will show that all that appears is dependent upon mind “in the broad sense.” By the latter, I mean that there’s a conceptual veil cast over what’s appearing such that all is appearing as “name and form.” Pt. 2: The first point is simply intending to…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 