Tag: Ramana Maharshi
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Does The First Person Exist?
From “Verse 14” of Ramana Maharshi’s Ulladu Narpadu: English translation: If the first person exists, second and third persons will exist. If, oneself investigating the reality of the first person, the first person ceases to exist, second and third persons coming to an end, the nature that shines as one alone is oneself, the state of…
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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. 