Tag: ramana-maharshi
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‘Mind In Purity Is The Self’
“Mind in purity is the Self.” –Ramana Maharshi, Be As You Are: The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi (ed. David Godman), p. 118. How can it be that the mind that has been purified is identical with the Self? To understand how this is so, we had better begin our inquiry with the question: “What…
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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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‘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…
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What Is An I-thought In Ramana Maharshi’s Teaching?
The I-thought (aham vritti) is not at all easy to understand experientially–until you get it. To come to this experiential understanding, let’s move in a stepwise fashion: 1.) To begin with, a thought appears. That thought, which is indeed an arising, could be: “I am sitting here” or “I don’t like John” or “What a fine…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 