Sri Ramana Teachings

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Philosophy and practice of self-investigation (ātma-vicāra) and self-surrender (ātma-samarpana) as taught by Bhagavan Ramana.

Sri Ramana Teachings

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Being in the state of supreme bliss is being in service of God

Guru Vācaka Kōvai verse 541

If we constantly remember our being, ‘I am’, that alone is sufficient

Upadēśa Taṉippākkaḷ verses 4 and 5

We don’t need to realise the real but to unrealise the unreal

Guru Vācaka Kōvai verse 362

Bhakti is the mother of jñāna

Guru Vācaka Kōvai verse 209

Upadēśa Taṉippākkaḷ verses 2 and 3 (Significance of Deepavali)

Awareness, ego, vāsanās and phenomena

Philosophical challenges from artificial intelligence

Guru Vācaka Kōvai verse 160

Be without letting go of yourself

Grace, effort and destiny

Guru Vācaka Kōvai verse 130

Upadēśa Taṉippākkaḷ verse 1

What is ‘self-abidance’ (ātma niṣṭhā)?

Guru Vācaka Kōvai verse 129

Bhagavan Ramana is KālaKālan: Death to death

What are ‘transitive awareness’ and ‘intransitive awareness’?

Guru Vācaka Kōvai verse 46 and verses for his mother

Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu Anubandham verse 40

Is God personal, impersonal or beyond all such distinctions?

Guru Vācaka Kōvai verse 23

If ego comes into being, everything comes into being

Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu Anubandham verse 39

Thinking ‘I’ or ‘I am’ as an aid to being self-attentive

Self-attentiveness is not just not thinking

Why is ego not destroyed in sleep or kēvala nirvikalpa samādhi?

Why is consciousness necessarily something other than any phenomenon

Whether active or inactive, we must try to be self-attentive always

Ego will dissolve forever only when it turns back in on itself

Self attentiveness dissolves ego, the root of all suffering

Studying, understanding and practising Bhagavan’s teachings

Humility is the essence of Bhagavan’s teachings

Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu Anubandham verse 38

Is the ‘witness consciousness’ ego or ātma svarūpa

Guru Vācaka Kōvai verses 696, 965 and 966

Guru Vācaka Kōvai verses 19, 20 and 21

How can the mind remember svarūpa, which is beyond the mind?

Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu Anubandham verse 37

To investigate ourself effectively we need subtle understanding

Guru Vācaka Kōvai verses 579, 647, 589, 586 and 588

Ego alone is the experiencer of all phenomena

We are just one ‘I’, the light that dispels all darkness

Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu Anubandham verse 36

Turned outwards, awareness is ego, turned inwards, it is svarūpa

Śrī Aruṇācala Aṣṭakam verse 4

Śrī Aruṇācala Aṣṭakam verse 3

Being self-attentive alone is self-investigation