Tag: ramana-maharshi
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Your Inquiry Into ‘yourself’ Reveals Only YOURSELF
Once you contemplate “Who am I?” enough, you come to the conclusion that you’re neither the perceiver (of the so-called world), nor the gross body, nor the energy body, nor the mind. The most obvious candidate staring you in the face is that you are a self. And as you begin to contemplate this sense…
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There’s No Questioner Who Asks, ‘Who Am I?’
There is no entity by [the] name of ‘mind.’ Because of the emergence of thought, we surmise some thing from which they start: that we term mind. When we probe to see what it is, there is nothing like it. After it has ‘vanished,’ Peace will be found to remain eternal. –Ramana Maharshi as cited…
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Why Don’t I Know The Self? It’s Due To Thought
Dear A, Ramana Maharshi’s Reply Sri Bhagavan admitted the truth of the disciple’s statement and pointed out why the Self, though obvious, is yet [apparently–AT] hidden. It is the wrong identity of the Self with the body, etc. D.: How did the wrong identity arise? M.: Due to thoughts. If these thoughts are put an end…
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Why Do I Oscillate Back And Forth Between The Body-identity And Higher States?
Question: It’s funny how the feeling of aliveness is so deeply buried in this body. Even when I get out a level or a few [and come to higher states] and see my life beyond time, as part of a complete super-I, I am still oscillating and undulating back into a deep place within this…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 