Ramana ARUNAchALA ΨShiVA

2012-01-30T16:38:00.000-08:00

If the mountain calls you, you have to go. But where is the mountain?

2012-01-28T18:43:00.001-08:00

New light, new golden ocean breeze blowing through our blog fresh with bay-salt rhymed on wheat yellow dune grass; oh how lovely; clean air of this one moment filling all space and time blessed by Ramana, eyes of divinity shining in the sunlight over us always, always turning self back on self no room for wiggling out of it, every drop of coast air is your very being.

2012-01-28T13:08:00.000-08:00

Perhaps, I require a translation for listeners. Now I present each presence is how me mind only appears to be. Dropping any pretence. all action is all falling sounds of concepts slipping and stilling judgements. Nope, no longer makes much of any sense. No pretense. No concept. No witness. No object, nor subject. No guff.

some sounds slipping still. . .

infinite trident of course tears tear without and rip within breath as remaining veils O' vasanas are all still shred to a pure light of an infinite funeral pyre of a body that is not.

2012-01-27T01:17:00.000-08:00

"It was with great hesitation that I acceded to the suggestion of friends to prepare a simplified translation of Sri Bhagavan's Ullardu Narpadu. When undertaking the task I used 6 different English translations and avoided all technical terms. I also wrote brief commentaries on each verse. The following synopsis which gives the gist of every verse."
S. S. Cohen

Forty Verses on Reality by Ramana Maharshi; Synopsis by S. S. Cohen

1. Awareness is All, seer and seen, real and apparent.

2. The triad - Creator, soul and world - is the creation of the ego and disappears with the ego.

3. Speculations about the Creator and world avail nothing; Self-realisation is the heart's cry of all.

4. Form and formlessness of the Creator depend on the ego's conception of itself.

5. The world is the body inclusive of the five sheaths, for without them the world cannot be conceived or perceived.

6. The world is what the mind conceives through the senses.

7. The world rises and sets with the knowledge of it. Both have their source in the Self.

8. Any sincere worship eventually leads to Realisation.

9. The dyads and triads are supported by the One, which can be discovered by enquiry.

10. Knowledge and ignorance are interrelated. Real knowledge arises by inquiring for whom both knowledge and ignorance occur.

11. Not to seek the Self which is the source of both knowledge and ignorance is real ignorance.

12. True knowledge is self-effulgent; it is neither knowledge nor ignorance.

13. Knowledge of diversity is ignorance, yet it is not apart from the Self, like the shapes of ornaments which are not apart from the gold.

14. 'You' and 'he' exist when the 'I' exists. If the root of the'I' - the One - is found, 'you' and 'he' will also shine as the One.

15. Past and future are only the present when they occur, thus the present alone exists.

16. Time and space do not exist apart from the Self.

17. To those who have not realised, the 'I' is of the size of the body. To those who have, it is limitless.

18. To those who have not realised, the world is confined to the space it occupies. To those who have, it is the limitless substratum of the world.

19. Arguments about destiny and free-will are carried on by those who have not realised. Those who have are free from both.

20. Seeing the Self is seeing God, so the Self is not other than God.

21. To see God is to be asorbed by God.

22. God shines in the mind. But to know God the mind has to turn inward.

23. Although the world disappears with the 'I', the 'I' continues to exist in sleep as in waking.

24. Neither the body nor the Self says 'I'; between them the ego rises and ties them together.

25. The ego takes a body and accomplishes various acts. It takes one body after another until it is destroyed by vichara.

26. The ego being the all, surrendering it is surrendering all.

27. To destroy the ego the source of its emergence has to be sought and retained as the real state.

28. The seeking has to be deep within oneself, like diving to recover a precious object that has fallen into deep waters.

29. The vichara is not muttering 'I', but sinking the mind into its source.

30. On reaching the heart, the 'I' subsides and the real 'I''I' manifests in its place.

31. Having extinguished the ego, the jnani has no other purpose in life but to remain immersed in the bliss of Self.

32. Although 'Thou are THAT' say the Vedas, not to investigate into one's nature and 'abide as That' is mental weakness.

33. Self-knowledge is not duality; the Self being single, it is itself both the object as well as the subject.

34. Disputing the nature of the Self without attempting Self-realisation merely constitutes delusion.

35. Thaumaturgic powers are like dream magic; they do not entrap the Self-realised.

36. It is not necessary to go on meditating 'I am That' for one is always THAT.

37. Non-duality prevails always, whether as the world or as the Self.

38. The sense of doership reaps the fruits of action; karma ends when the doer realises his true nature.

39. Bondage and Liberation are mere notions in the mind; they cease when he who is bound is inquired into and realised.

40. True Liberation has no form, and destroys the very ego which distinguishes between one kind of it and another.

2012-01-26T01:43:00.000-08:00

Arunachala is now an open group

I am pleased to announce that, as the owner of this group, I have just switched us to an open discussion group. All future discussions...

cave of Heart

2012-01-24T19:32:00.000-08:00

"... The sadhana of loving God as He really is, as 'I am,' with all one's heart, having rejected all other thoughts, is identical to the path of true devotion as taught by Bhagavan on many occasions:

Question: That is why I am asking you whether God could be worshipped through the path of love.

Bhagavan: … Love itself is the actual form of God, If by saying, 'I do not love this, I do not love that,' you reject all things, that which remains is swarupa, that is, the real form of the Self. That is pure bliss. Call it pure bliss, God, atma or what you will. That is devotion, that is realisation, that is everything.

If you thus reject everything, what remains is the Self alone. That is real love. One who knows the secret of that love finds the world itself full of universal love.

Jesus instructed his followers that they should not merely love God with all their heart, they should also love their neighbours as themselves. Here Bhagavan is saying that this automatically happens when the first commandment, loving God with all one's heart, is fulfilled. When one experiences 'Love … the actual form of God', the world itself, including all possible neighbours, is experienced as one's own Self, and is found to be 'full of universal love'.

The experience of not forgetting consciousness ['I am'] alone is the state of bhakti, which is the relationship of unfading real love, because the real knowledge of Self, which shines in the undivided supreme bliss itself, surges up as the nature of love. Only if one knows the truth of love, which is the real nature of Self, will the strong entangled knot of life be untied. Only if one attains the height of love will liberation be attained. Such is the heart of all religions. The experience of Self is only love, which is seeing only love, hearing only love, feeling only love, tasting only love and smelling only love, which is bliss. ..."

http://davidgodman.org/rteach/fnofgod5.shtml

2012-01-23T20:28:00.000-08:00

2012-01-23T12:32:00.001-08:00

2012-01-22T20:37:00.000-08:00

Infinite Thank You Richard and G. Immense gratitude, His Grace ~ One Arunachala Heart . Wa~Ah . no words, only love, Arunachala joy, I am with . . _/\____ trina-agni pitrinam kavanagh

Three More Caves

near Skandashram

on Arunachala

2012-01-22T20:25:00.000-08:00

Ramana Maharshi Ashram Area INDIA

2012-01-22T20:23:00.000-08:00

Shiva Temple Tiruvanamalai

2012-01-22T19:57:00.001-08:00

Ramana Maharshi -- Abide as the Self (A)

Thank you C.Shack for posting this series again here and now . These were all pulled from youtube years back and I missed them very much. There world needs more like this beloved grace shining Ramana .I shall watch over and over again. being still . . tri ~ha! and I what do I know about the world needs, the arrogance of me..

2012-01-22T09:22:00.000-08:00

DAKSHINAMURTI

The Self alone, the Sole Reality,

Exists for ever.

If of yore the First of Teachers

Revealed it through unbroken silence

Say, who can reveal it in spoken words?

~Ekatma Panchakam, Sri Bhagavan

Sri Bhagavan once told the story that follows to Sri Muruganar. This brings out the profound significance of the Supreme Silence in which the First Master, Sri Dakshinamurti is established.

Sri Bhagavan said,

"When the four elderly Sanakadi rishis first beheld the sixteen year old Sri Dakshinamurti sitting under the banyan tree, they were at once attracted by Him, and understood that He was the real Sadguru. They approached Him, did three pradkshinas around Him, sat at His Feet and began to ask shrewd and pertinent questions about the nature of reality and the means of attaining it. Because of the great compassion and fatherly love (vatsalya) which He felt for His aged disciples, the young Dakshinamurti was overjoyed to see their earnestness, wisdom and maturity, and gave apt replies to each of their questions. But as He answered each consecutive question, further doubts arose in their minds and they asked further questions. Thus they continued to question Sri Dakshinmurti for a whole year, and He continued to clear their doubts through His compassion answers. Finally, however Sri Dakinshinmurti understood that if He continued answering their questions, more doubts would arise in their minds and their ignorance (ajana) would never end. Therefore, suppressing even the feeling of compassion and fatherly love which was welling up within Him, He merged Himself into the Supreme Silence. Because of their great maturity (which had ripened to perfection through their year long association with the Sadguru), as soon as Sri Dakshinamurti assumed Silence, they too automatically merged into Supreme Silence, the true state of the Self.

Wonderstruck on hearing Sri Bhagavan narrating the story in this manner, Sri Muruganar remarked that in o book was it mentioned that Sri Dakshinamurti ever spoke anything. "But this is what actually happened", replied Bhagavan curtly. From the authoritative way in which Sri Bhagavan relied and from the clear and descriptive way that He told the story, Sri Muruganar understood that Sri Bhagavan was none other than Sri Dakinshinamurti Himself!

2012-01-22T08:46:00.000-08:00

SILENCE IS THE TRUE UPADESA

Once a devotee came and said that the great sages of the past had travelled extensively preaching the Truth and thus had served the world at large. Similarly, if Bhagavan were to travel thus it would be beneficial to many. Smilingly Bhagavan replied that his being settled in one place was also beneficial and narrated the following story.

BRAHMA, THE LORD of Creation, once lost interest in the works of creation and thought of taking the life of tapas. So, out of his mind he created Sanaka, Sanatkumara, Sanandana and Sanatsujata, with the intention to hand over to them his job in the course of time. They grew up and mastered all the branches of study. Brahma then decided to hand over to them his job and to retire. Sage Narada came to know of his father's intention. Since Narada knew his brothers were full of dispassion and fit to be initiated into the path of Self-knowledge, he decided to warn them beforehand of Brahma's intention. On hearing this the four brothers, who had no intention to follow the path of action, left home in search of a guru without informing their father. They all proceeded to Vaikunta, the abode of Vishnu. There they saw Lakshmi sitting on the Vishnu's couch massaging his Feet. On seeing this they though, "How can this family man bound by the inimate glance of his consort render us any help in learning adhyatma vidya. Look at the splendour of this palace and this city! That is enough. Let us seek the help of Lord Siva."

Lord Siva, who was in Kailas with His family, knew beforehand about their coming and understood their plight. He was sure that they would be disappointed on seeing Him with a family, so taking pity on them He decided to impart spiritual knowledge to them. The kind-hearted Lord left Mount Kailas and taking the youthful form of Dakshinamurti seated Himself with Chinmudra under a banyan tree on the Northern side of Lake Manasarovar, on the way by which the disappointed devotees were returning to their homes. When they came and sat before Him, He went into samadhi. He was in Perfect Repose. Silence prevailed. They saw Him. The effect was immediate. They fell into samhadi and their doubts were cleared.

Silence is the true upadesa. It is the prefct upadesa. It is suited only for the most advanced. Others areunable to draw full inspiration from it. Therfore they require words to explain the Truth. But Truth is beyond words. It does not admit d explanation. All that is possible to do is only to indicate it.

2012-01-21T09:26:00.000-08:00

recently created . . an elastic hemp bound rudraksha seed-Shiva's trident O' Shiva's tears

for thy lover beloved Shiva breathed by Ramana's devote daughter. am grateful for that constant caressing of divine breath sitting still and flowing up and within spine and heart. there is no other, there is only spirit O'Arunachala tears of grace . . immense contentment, joy and sorrow as left body consciousness disappears to appear as void of knowing One tear O'infinite breath.

trina-agni pitrinam kavanagh

2012-01-20T23:02:00.001-08:00

The Sage is perfectly still, motionless, undisturbed by my arrival. I listen to the rhythmic purring of the fan above his head and look full into the eyes of this seated figure in the hope of catching his notice.

If he is aware of my presence, he betrays no hint, no sign. He is supernaturally quiet, steady as a statue. Not once does he catch my gaze. His eyes look into remote space. It is an ancient theory of mine that one can take the inventory of a man's soul from his eyes but before those of the Maharshi I hesitate, baffled.

The minutes creep by with unutterable slowness. A half hour, and then this too passes by and becomes an hour. There is something in this man which holds my attention as steel filings are held to a magnet. I cannot turn my gaze away from him. But it is not until the second hour that I become aware of a silent resistless change which is taking place within my mind. A steady river of quietness seems to be flowing near me, a great peace penetrating the inner reaches of my being.

The suspicion arises within me that this mysterious peace invading the troubled water of my soul comes from the Maharshi.
Paul Brunton

2012-01-20T12:57:00.000-08:00

I am forever found

within formed folds

of his free fathomless face

supreme most shining grace

that is, and is not

always all one shall be

is there ever any where

and one that I am not?

Ramana Arunachala Shivaya!

Grace! Gratitude, courtesy

Wendle Field ~ Artist

2012-01-19T02:10:00.000-08:00

An educated visitor asked Bhagaven about dvaita and advaita.
"Identification with the body is dvaita. Non-identification is advaita."

His Eyes . .

2012-01-17T19:32:00.000-08:00

Being Truth

Be. Simple.

2012-01-17T13:58:00.002-08:00

2012-01-16T10:17:00.000-08:00

RAMANA UG

REALISATION

within as one pointed still silent grace Ramana I-am

Ramana said,

"I can give you, but can you take it?"

"Either you are free, or you are not free at all."

"There are no steps leading you to that."

as chaotic spin of pain,pleasure body of world I-am Ug

not that It could only happen to be

if RM and UG ever conceived

anything I am it and only that

RAMANA Alone

Breathe It All In, Let it All Out. Being Good To Self, Still Arunachala, Within Any Chaos That May Surround

2012-01-14T19:25:00.000-08:00

2012-01-13T19:26:00.000-08:00

Udaseena [indifference]

84 In relationships with the world, any attitude other than indifference [udaseena] will only lead to suffering.

Bhagavan: Yes. Oudasinyam abhipsitam. Indifference is advised. But what is it? It is absence of love and hatred. When you realise the Self on which these phenomena pass, will you love or hate them? That is the meaning of indifference.

2012-01-12T11:55:00.000-08:00

AUM JAI NAMO RAMANA SHIVAYA! the waking treeline touching sunlight. source roopa root Ramana . forever folds of His faithful face. that contains no head to sound of. within Is HIS hollowed cheekbones. direct sunlight Is His twinkling eyes. shining supreme silent still sound OM. O' grace Beloved Ramana -Shiva . Is Lord Shiva. Shivoham-God That-Self

2012-01-11T15:45:00.000-08:00

ARUNACHALA RAMANA . . Thank you Alan Jacobs.

http://pitrinam.blogspot.com/2011/03/arunachala-ramana.html

2012-01-10T14:14:00.000-08:00

ARUNACHALA!

2012-01-09T20:04:00.000-08:00

Bhagavan: By turning the mind inwards one can overcome the worst of greifs. Grief is only possible only when one thinks of oneself as a body. If the form be transcended, one will know that the Self is eternal - that there is neither birth nor death; it is the body that is born and dies, not the Self; the body is a creation of the ego., which however is never perceived apart from a body. One should consider that in sleep one was not aware of a body; one will then realise that the body is not real. On waking from sleep the ego arises; then thoughts. Find out to whom the thoughts belong. Ask wherefrom they arise. They must spring from the Self, which is consciousness. Apprehending this truth even vaguely helps towards extinction of the ego; and thereafter the one infinite existence will be realised; in that state there are no individuals - only that one being. Hence there is no ground for even the thought of death.

If one thinks oneself to have been born, one cannot escape the thought of death. Let one therefore question whether one was born at all. One will then find that the real Self is ever-existent and that the body is only a thought - the first of all thoughts, the root of all mischief.

2012-01-09T12:06:00.000-08:00

Breathe It All In, Let it All Out. Being Good To Self, Still Arunachala, Within Any Chaos That Happen To Surround, Om May Breath Precede Tongue

serve Self . breath alone. take it in. let it go. be good to the Self. That Is all there Is. en Padam. a foot a self . alone, All One _/\__ at His foot. within Her lap.

Beloved Father's face is focus of most happy, only happening Home where there Is only One head. His most auspicious graceful gaze Is pure shining concentrated being absorbed. Arunachala!

now nowhere here I have dug for effulgent lingam to stand erect to find the end where all Light of Eternal source is contained and uncontained. there is no end. breath of constant death life flows freely . no attachment no blockage. unfathomable and inexpressible.

impossible, yet I share heart. AUM! death to death. Om Jai Sri Bhagavate Ramanya!

"On the day his father died he felt puzzled by death and pondered over it, whilst his mother and brothers wept. He thought for hours and after the corpse was cremated he got by analysis to the point of perceiving that it was the 'I' which makes the body to see, to run, to walk, and to eat.

'I now know this "I" but my father's "I" has left the body.'

2012-01-08T20:24:00.000-08:00

Om Jai Ramana . . His shining Grace

me moon full to fullest and beyond

Stories of Ramana Maharshi, Collection 3

"You have withheld from me all the knowledge of gradual attainment while living in the world setting me at peace; such care indeed is blissful and not painful, for death is in life in truth glorious." Bhagavan Ramana

‎"Father, I have come," Ramana said. More words were superfluous. Thanks to the overflowing grace of Arunachala the schoolboy became the enlightened jnani Ramana at Madurai. This had happened on July 17, 1896. Now the physical separation too had ended. it could not be otherwise.

2012-01-04T14:37:00.000-08:00

a very good read . . Search for a genuine Guru

Ramanaramanaramana Sat Guru!

2012-01-03T15:43:00.000-08:00

Devotee: Why should there be re-incarnation for the perfect being.
Maharshi: If you are perfect, why do you fear being reborn.
D: Not that I fear. But you say I must be reborn.
M: Who says it? You are asking the questions.
D: I mean that you are a perfect being and I am a sinner and you tell me that I must be reborn to perfect myself.
M: No I do not say so. I say that you have no birth and therefore no death.
D: Do you mean that I was not born?
M: Yes. You are thinking you are the body and you confuse yourself with its birth and death. But you are not the body and you have no birth and death.
D: Do you not uphold the theory of rebirth?
M: No. But I want to remove your confusion that you will be reborn. See for whom this question arises. Unless the questioner is found, the questions can never be set to rest.
Talks, 3rd March 1939

2012-01-02T16:36:00.000-08:00

The eight limbs can be defined differently:

Yama is controlling the aggregate of sense organs, realizing the defect present in the world (the body, etc.).

Niyama is maintaining a stream of mental modes and rejecting the contrary ones (maintaining uninterrupted love for the supreme Self).

Asana is that which assists constant meditation on Brahman.

Pranayama is removing the unreal aspects of name and form ojbects constituting the world.

Pratyahara is preventing name and form which have been removed from re-entering the mind.

Dharana is make the mind stay in the Heart without straying outward.

Dyana is meditation of the form "I am pure consciousness" resulting in staying as 'I' shining as Self.

Samadhi is the cessation of the 'I' manifestation into direct experience.

The distinction between yoga with eight limbs and knowledge with eight limbs is set forth elaborately in the sacred texts. Forgetfulness

Blessed NowHere New Year 2012

2011-12-31T22:52:00.000-08:00

2011-12-29T23:23:00.000-08:00

And the lovely verses 16-18 of the Essence of Instruction:

When the mind withdraws from external objects of sense and beholds its own effulgent form, that is true wisdom.

When the mind unceasingly investigates its own nature, it transpires that there is no such thing as mind. This is the direct path.

The mind is merely thoughts. Of all thoughts, the thought 'I' is the root. Mind is only the thought 'I'.

Whence does this 'I' arise? Seek within; it vanishes. This is the pursuit of Wisdom.

2011-12-27T12:25:00.000-08:00

~ -A-UM- ~

such a great link . . grace, gratitude

The Rishis noticed that when a person uses a lot of energy, his exhalation of the "h" sound is intensified. You can see that when you laugh, cry, engage in sex, or perform a strenuous physical activity, the sound "h" predominates.

The Rishis determined that the sound "h" represents the vital energy, or life force, called prana. When prana is expelled through heavy exhalation, one feels a loss of energy and confidence, and an inability to concentrate. On the other hand, when you're feeling energized or uplifted, you may notice that your inhalation increases. In a state of repulsion, or exhalation, we lose prana, or "h", while our energy and mental capacity decrease. In a state of attraction, or inhalation, our energy and our level of concentration increase.

Therefore, by controlling the loss of prana, we can increase our state of attraction, and thereby increase our energy. This can be achieved by controlling the sound "h", which we can do through practice of Ajapa Yoga."

and Ramana satguru . .

do click above to see full link. .

One should not use the name of God mechanically and superficially without the feeling of devotion.
Acute diseases will not be cured merely by repeating the name of the medicine but only by drinking the medicine. Similarly, the bonds of birth and death will not cease merely by doing many repetitions of mahavakyas such as `I am Siva'. Instead of wandering about repeating `I am the supreme', abide as the supreme yourself. The misery of birth and death will not cease by vocally repeating countless times `I am that', but only by abiding as that. "

2011-12-26T20:47:00.001-08:00

Muruganar: Human beings, who possess insignificant power, do not have the power to change their own minds, which are supposedly under their control. This being so, trying to alter the events of the external world, which are under the the strong control of the powerful Iswara, can be classified as ignorance. Unless such efforts are aligned with what Iswara has already ordained, (in which case, success is a coincidence, like a fruit falling off a tree when a crow alights on a branch) they usually end in failure. Such attempts only lead to disappointment.

2011-12-26T14:01:00.000-08:00

Even as I grieved, thinking thoughts I should not think, he became my Lord, spreading his radiance within my Heart so that I tasted the sweet nectar of his bliss. He is the heavenly one who fills my sight with his form, which is pure consciousness. He is the Mount Arunachala's exalted Guru Ramana.

Padam's Grace Towards Muruganar, Padamalai,

2011-12-25T18:24:00.000-08:00

31 Know that suffering is only in the bewildered vision of the jiva that has been grabbed by the stupidity of becoming attached to the false ego.

Guru Vachaka, Verse 952: One's own reality, which shines within everyone as the Heart, is the ocean of unalloyed bliss. Therefore, like the unreal blueness of the sky, misery exists merely in the imagination, not in reality.

p313, Death and Suffering, Padamalai,

2011-12-25T11:56:00.000-08:00

Being well. Arunachala Deepam ~ Happy Christmas . . O' Peace! Om Shanthi! . . All Facebook accounts officially deleted. I am all ways always with in Heart dear ole precious friends . . Eternal blessings . One infinite hug . to touch without touching . . am missing many . ca,and some of all, everything . without missing anything, nor anyone at all. lalalove and love alone, tri

2011-12-24T16:43:00.000-08:00

Associating with mind, the demoness

16 Do not associate with the mind that rises like the goddess who smites men with love. Destroy it by abiding in the Self.

17 Should you succumb to its spell and embrace it, alas, it will destroy your life by drowning you in the intoxication of pride.

18 That demoness, the mind, is extremely adept at amorously caressing you with false pretences.

19 Heed this warning! From now on, stay away from that utterly sinful woman, without even mentioning her name.

The Nature of the Mind, Padamalai,

2011-12-24T13:59:00.001-08:00

16 From time immemorial you have been existing only as That which you are struggling hard to know.

BHAGAVAN: The Self is ever-attained [nityasiddha]. Each one wants to know the Self. What kind of help does one require to know oneself? People want to see the Self as something new. But it is eternal and remains the same all along. They desire to see it as a blazing light, etc. How can it be so? It is not light, not darkness (na tejo, na tamah). It is only as it is. It cannot be defined. The best definition is 'I am that I am". The srutis [scriptures] speak of the Self as being the size of one's thumb, the tip of the hair, an electric spark, vast, subtler than the subtlest, etc. They have no foundation in fact. It is only being, but different from the real and the unreal; it is knowledge, but different from knowledge and ignorance. How can it be defined at all? It is simply being.

17 The ultimate state of supreme liberation is one's own real nature. It is always attained. Knowing this, be still.

The Self, Padamalai,

2011-12-22T21:23:00.001-08:00

serve all Self well

2011-12-20T10:24:00.000-08:00

I Know. too much or rather, only Think I know. so either way, I go mute. Shh still quiet; wait and See. One thing: Occupy Presence. sent heart, wrapped presence. for the sky is not blue at all . without being noticed . am most noteworthy . .

2011-12-18T08:48:00.001-08:00

"At first I was terribly disappointed because nothing seemed to strike me in the way I had expected. I found Sri Bhagavan seated on a couch, as quiet and unmoving as a statue. His presence did not seem to emanate anything unusual, and I was very disappointed to discover that he displayed no interest in me at all. I had expected warmth and intimacy, but unfortunately I seemed to be in the presence of someone who lacked both."

a selection of stories of meeting His Grace . . .

2011-12-16T20:00:00.000-08:00

I wonder if is it wise to leave open all our doors, writing, thoughts, windows, books, homes, and most vulnerable raw hearts, . . for any and all to interpret , and devour as they may. There is always risk to offend ego's interpretation. As I see from here, there is such a thing, as too much sharing. Go within. . perhaps, not everything, should always be shared with everyone, everywhere. It is, as it is . . leave it alone.

2011-12-15T18:41:00.000-08:00

115. Like fire that consumes all else but Itself, Padam entered my Heart, spreading its sweetness, the delightful ambrosia of its grace.

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119. Padam, the sun of supreme jnana, presided over me with such delight that in its presence the waxing and waning moon-mind, the perceiving ego, drew back in shame.

Padam's Grace Towards Muruganar, Padamalai,

2011-12-15T17:49:00.000-08:00

12. Cast off the notion 'I-am-the-body-contemptible' . Ponder over and realize the Self of perennial bliss. Seeking to know the Self while cherishing the body is like getting hold of a crocodile, taking it to be a raft, in order to cross a river.

Truth Revealed (Sad-Vidya)

2011-12-15T08:37:00.000-08:00

Dear Friends,

I did not block any. I have left Facebook . . at of the height of that full cleansing eclipsed moon of Arunachalam Karthik Deepam.

I do not appreciate that it has to look as if one 'blocked' all 'friends', when one leaves Facebook. In my opinion they do that on purpose to keep all activated . guilt (and fear) are some hefty motivators.

Remove everything on your own. Take it down, the same way you put it up. . and then 'Delete' don't just 'Deactivate'. I will send you the magic link via email if you 'like'. As long as your profile exists, Facebook makes money off of you. Fb uses you for marketing and the powers that 'think' they be are able to more easily insert global control.

I have 'privacy issues'. Once began, for and as students, at a university, has become global and now 'gone viral'. This once 'Gracebook' and rather lovely social, including anti-social 'ethernet cafe' has gotten out of hand exponentially.

I refused to 'Subscribe to Mark Zuckerberg'. Facebook would not allow me to block him . or rather, so, it appeared to be. He is un-reportable, or the 'block' list availability is backed up on his account. hmm. and Who cares? I was just playing my own games, seeing what I can do. . testing my limitations.

Each one is the Self, and yet still veiled . . each moment is new, and then it is dead. Facebook and reflection is still rather only that, can never be clear and pure no matter how we may like to imagine it to be.

Each of us sees through our own eyes, very differently. Words are tricky at the best of times even among close friends and immediate families. Add barriers that are language, culture, tradition, religion, personality, dreams, habits, and moods: into that colourful mix. . and it is a wonder how we even hear and see one an other at all.

What are our intentions and who is to know? I have no intentions, all action is desireless . .'tis one spirit that shines forth . . and I thank you for shining to this one that truth again and again.

Things are never how they may appear to be. I appreciate our connections beyond words. All reside within this heart all ways always find me now.here.

There is nowhere to go, All Love and Love Alone,

Warmest Regards, Sincerely, Tri

Karthik Deepam Shivabhishekam

2011-12-15T06:22:00.000-08:00

by Sri Maha Kaleshwar Mandir

Shiva Abhishekam performed on Sunday Nov. 21st, 2010, at Sri Maha Kaleshwar Mandir. Camphor deepam was burned on top of Lord Maha Kaleshwar after the abhishekam in honor of Arunachalam Karthik Deepam today.

http://vimeo.com/17088359

2011-12-13T14:02:00.000-08:00

No guff. There is no ignorance, nor arrogance. There is no realization. There is no suffering and there can be no joy. There is nothing beyond that. Should this be the Self, how can I be such a void? Devoted repeated reflection removes this impossibility. So it is . .

2011-12-13T11:56:00.000-08:00

Mooji's Tiru Satsang cancelled, click here

and then here : Tiru: only

Satsang Near the Fire Place.
Monte Sahaja, November 14th, 2011.

"Wanting to be in a different state becomes a kind of illness. What it really means is that you are not going to be happy in any state. This human existence will flow only when a human being discovers and merges with The Supreme Being. Then alone will Harmony prevail."
- Mooji

2011-12-12T16:18:00.001-08:00

vellingiri mahadeepam 2011 Uploaded by sumarudha on Dec 12, 2011

வெள்ளிங்கிரி திருக்கார்த்திகை மகாதீபம் 2011

2011-12-12T07:12:00.000-08:00

three links I like very much to share with friends:

Posts from Arunachala-Live -

holy-flame-lit-atop-mt-arunachala-deepam-festival-tiruvannamalai

longest-total-lunar-eclipse-tiruvannamalai

2011-12-11T08:32:00.000-08:00

there is Infinite joy. there is Immense suffering. there is only pure peace. Being as I-am-I. I am blind. I am deaf. I am dumb. I am left to burn, left burnt to comfort of numb. As Is That. . I-I Remain

2011-12-09T18:32:00.000-08:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=1275AtWP7uk

2011-12-09T17:31:00.000-08:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zKH97Jl1DE&feature=related

2011-12-08T13:51:00.000-08:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOUDjcrToSE&feature=related

Live updates!!

2011-12-05T19:35:00.001-08:00

The Essence of Instruction, The Collected Works of Sri Ramana Maharshi

‎11.

Holding the breath controls the mind,
Like a bird caught in a net.
Breath-regulation helps
Absorption in the Heart.

12.

Mind and breath (as thought and action)
Fork out like two branches.
Both spring
From a single root.

13.

Absorption is of two sorts:
Submergence and destruction.
Mind submerged rises again;
Dead, it revives no more.

2011-12-05T00:47:00.001-08:00

A visitor asked, "What should one who is an absolute beginner do in the spiritual line?"
B: The very fact that you put this question shows you know what to do. It is because you feel the want of peace that you are anxious to take some steps to secure it.
V: What is the method to be adopted for securing peace?
B: The conception that there is a goal and a path to it is wrong. We are the goal. We are peace always. What is required is to get rid of the notion that we are not peace.
V: The books say that the guidance of a Guru is necessary.
B: The Guru will only say what I am saying now. He will not give you anything you have not already. It is impossible for anyone to get what he has not got already. Anything that comes to you is transient. It will also go. What always is will alone remain. The Guru cannot give you anything new.

2011-12-03T00:10:00.000-08:00

Looking through old papers, inspirations, remembrances, notations.
One stands out, long forgotten, when did this come to me, how. No memory.
Reading afresh, like new, tears blurring the precious message:

When I met my Guru, he told me, "You are not what you take yourself to be. Find out what you are. Watch the sense of 'I am', find your real Self". I obeyed him, because I trusted him. I did as he told me. All my spare time I would spend looking at myself in silence. And what a difference it made, and how soon.

My Guru told me to hold on to the sense 'I am' tenacioiusly and not to swerve from it even for a moment. I did my best to follow his advice and in a comparatively short time I realized within myself the truth of his teaching. All I did was to remember his teaching, his face, his words constantly. This brought an end to the mind; in the stillness of the mind I saw myself as I am - unbound.

I simply followed my Guru's instruction which was to focus the mind on pure being 'I am', and stay in it. I used to sit for hours together, with nothing but the 'I am' in my mind and soon peace and joy and a deep all-embracing love became my normal state. In it all disappeared - myself, my Guru, the life I lived, the world around me. Only peace remained and unfathomable silence.
Nisargadatta Maharaj

2011-12-01T15:10:00.000-08:00

Tiruvannamalai Karthigai Deepam 2011 the video

and a very good article on deepam found here

2011-11-29T14:53:00.000-08:00

I am

one

infinite breath,

om tat draupadi darshan

let us say, just for fun, that

Ramana is but a puppet on a string,

pulled round by some supreme sound om .

how does that 'I' thought

idea of concept change anything

let see what strange things shall happen

only wait and one shall see and be

that we are already have always been

and all ways shall be

om tat only that

2011-11-28T09:08:00.000-08:00

Adi Shankaracharya Adi Shankara

2:39:32 - 2 years ago

2011-11-27T13:06:00.001-08:00

remember this, that I am! I have been at arunachala during month o' kartika in 1991. same moon as now times . as I lay waiting to die once. full circle, sliver o' moon to shield . ramblin' round arunachala carrying Ramana's pot . as he guides me grace with his walking stick

stirring and stilling all fire all one all round nowhere light comes gradual to grass on fire now here alone all one consumed quickly from the ancestors as that sun streaks to rise and set and moon waxes wanes within without ca! ca,ca,and all That om ing om.

2011-11-26T08:30:00.000-08:00

2011-11-25T21:49:00.000-08:00

Palinaswami asked me to copy and out give him some stanzas of Shankara, but where were notebooks or paper with us at the time? I collected scraps of paper, stitched them together into a notebook, wrote out the stanzas and gave them to him. At that time we had nothing but a pot; we did not even have a towel. In the early days of our stay in Virupaksha Cave, Palanaswami alone had a towel to wrap around him. The cave had no iron doors then; it had a wooden door with a wooden latch. We would fasten it from the outside with a small stick, go round the hill, wander hither and yon, return after a week or ten days, then open the door with the help of another stick. That was our key at the time; no need to keep it anywhere! This notebook was the only article we took with us. As Palinaswami wore a towel, he used to fold the book and tuck it into his waist.
Sri Bhagavan Ramana

2011-11-25T12:07:00.000-08:00

M: He also can. Though not learned now, he might have learnt the teachings in preceeding births, done actions dedicated to God; his mind already pure enough, he can now readily acquire the qualities needed for enquiry into the Self.

2011-11-21T19:41:00.000-08:00

VISANAKSHAYA, THE ANNILATION OF LATENCIES

M: They say: After repeatedly hearing from the master about the Self, reflecting on It and directly knowing It, the seeker should give up the shastras even as the pole used to stirr up the corpse in the burning ground is finally consigned to the burning fire of the corpse, From a study of the shastras let the seeker of Liberation gather an indirect knowledge of the Self and put it into practice by reflecting on It until by experiencing It a direct knowledge is gained and rejects the chaff, let him leave the shastras aside. The main desirous of liberation should make use of the shastras only to gain the knowledge of the Self and then proceed to reflect on It; he should not be simply talking vedanta, nor even thinking of It. For talk results in only so much strain on speech, similarly thinking on the mind, no useful purpose can be served by either. Therefore only know just what need be known and give up tiresome study. Controlling his speech and mind a sensible seeker should always engage in meditation. This is the teaching of the shastras.

. .

2011-11-19T18:04:00.000-08:00

Ramana's mahanirvana room, doors open, sublime energy radiating, knocking me over, my god was this what it was like in his physical presence

. .

2011-11-19T10:04:00.000-08:00

much is pre-conceived notion, not worth talking about. do as I do and nothing really to speak of. too many words . . so none may say it. say nothing. make no more.noise alone. me may be .only mad. Om Siva! Mercy me. Enough! no more words . simply shut up and do it,. or mercy Be. I die trying

asking for nothing

open to receive
all and any
that may present self.

create me nest
to rest in death
a pure space
in a hollow ground

Siva Is I,
this I know
for the sutras
tell me so
Ramana Is with, within
this I know
for his grace shines
and caresses me so

seems to be as I like, rather require and simply Is. pain at His will beyond, and with supreme pleasure. . ca, and none of it. for none of it is is mine. There is nothing and there is no thing wrong with me . . Heart and mind are filled beyond capacity . . must empty mind to nothing new now. . to acquire more Heart space for the Self . . beginning to Being to become. to fan to flame to flourish to flower. to Beauty be bliss blossoms .

Om mouna BE great gracious Grace is, Is simply IS.

DEEPAM KARTHIGAI

2011-11-17T11:02:00.000-08:00

OM NAMAHA SHIVAYA!

. . Tiruvannamalai to witness the Karthigai Festival . .

seek, find, see, be now here

Thank you to

. Arunachala Grace! everything is JOY ~ Immense gratitude

Sri Ramana Maharshi:
‘We already are the formless, silent Awareness before, during and after all transient appearances. When we rediscover that, our limited sense of I dissolves and the natural bliss of our true nature shines forth.’”

2011-11-16T23:45:00.000-08:00

Sometimes facebook is overwhelming. The vague sense of feeling obligated to contribute. The flow of commentary. Saccharine sentiment. So much. Too much.
It's much quieter here. Watching the slide show tick over. Sitting quietly, looking at a photo.
Letting a few words ripen and mellow and settle to be digested in their own time.
Opening to Ramana-Arunachala magic.
To rest.
Silence.

2011-11-16T14:09:00.000-08:00

no mind, no matter . . not this, not that . . I am beside me Self.

2011-11-12T20:15:00.000-08:00

BHAGAVAN PADAM

The refrain

The bondage free state in which the feet [the Self] and the head [the ego] merge and become one is the Padam of Guru Ramana, which shines at the summit of the Vedas.

When Manuganar composed Padamalai, he had the idea of composing a work that would be chanted by devotees who would sing it to increase their 'remembrance of the divine feet of the Lord'. This refrain he composed, intending it to be chanted after each verse.

2011-11-12T09:16:00.000-08:00

2011-11-11T23:55:00.000-08:00

He said it so simply:
"The Ordainer controls the fate of souls in accordance with their prarabdhakarma. Whatever is destined not to happen will not happen, try how hard you may. Whatever is destined to happen will happen, do what you may to stop it. This is certain. The best course, therefore, is for one to be silent".

2011-11-08T19:27:00.000-08:00

(Deepam at Arunachala from 2007 . . one month time in this year. Blessed Shiva Shakti sacred moon days).

me detached head is only Is attached with devotion beyond bowing, chanting, begging Iam dragged up His steep most holy hill that Is He by me open forehead at me request by that raw wound that is me mind that shreds and sheds me body in burned bits and pieces within wind o' garland me winding heart flowers. in blooming fire rises to absorb that funeral stick o'pyre that raises me to ride green grass both growing and burning all around trina-Agni to attach to surrender into That fire to His infinite divine that bottom of divine destructive dancing foot . . (ca, concepts, concepts) Om Namaha Shivaya! Infinite Bows to He who Is Death of Death .Om Siva Siva Sivanataraja Om en Padam om swaha

2011-11-05T15:21:00.000-07:00

Ψ Ramana's Marital Garland Of Letters - Arunachala Akshramanamalai

Tamil Hymn translated and sung by/at http://www.arunachala-ramana.org/

http://www.arunachala-ramana.org/music/arunachala_aksharamanamalai.mp3

Translation read by Trina Kavanagh

. . posting when able . . upload fail . . over and again . . om arunachala shivaya

2011-11-04T19:41:00.001-07:00

2011-11-04T13:42:00.000-07:00

Facebook has created connections of heart that would have only existed there, in spirit without it's intercession. . but this concentrated communion of consciousness exists everywhere in all ways always, and has no need to be anywhere doing anything but what it is. . . only that.

2011-11-01T02:09:00.000-07:00

I first arrived at the ashram at about 1pm and went to the hall. After a few minutes the attendant went out leaving Bhagavan and me alone in the hall. I sat down and Bhagavan gazed at me in silence for about 10-15 minutes. There was a great feeling of physical relief and relaxation while he looked at me. I felt a wonderful coolness pervade my body. It was like immersing myself in a cool pool after being outside in the hot sun.
Swami Annamalai

2011-10-29T09:47:00.000-07:00

Padam made me still

167 Padam made it possible for us to know the deeply subtle experience of the Self, which is to remain still.
168 Saying, 'Enough of dancing, now be still,' Padam bestowed on me the state of true jnana that exists in my Heart as my own nature,
169 Padam drew me into the shade of this beautiful and glorious feet, the experience of the Self that shines when one keeps still.
170 The sovereign grace of Padam completed my Sadahana with the words 'Be still'. What a wonder is this!

Padam's Grace Towards Muruganar, Padamalai, Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi, Recorded by Muruganar, First English Translation

2011-10-29T08:55:00.001-07:00

Padam gave me Sivam

214 Padam, Sivam, shines as endless space within my Heart, as my very existence, beyond the reach of objective knowledge.
215 Indivisible, all-pervasive Sivam itself entered my Heart, that refuge that could not be entered, shining as Padam, the truth.
216 Padam caused my true nature to flourish as the golden form of Sivam, the Self, grace-consciousness, driving away my wretched defilement.
217 Golden Padam bestowed upon me, as an endowment within my Heart, the blissful Sivam, which is both the absolute emptiness and absolute fullness.
218 Like a father, Padam, grace, revealed and gave to me in the Heart a gift, that rich hoard of hidden treasure which is Sivam, perfect contentment of mind.
219 Padam in its grace granted within my Heart, even here in this birth, the purity of a life lived n the state of Sivam.
220 Padam established my mind in the tapas of true jnana, wherein the mind disports itself within Sivam.

Padamalai, Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi, Recorded by MURUGANAR

2011-10-28T18:09:00.000-07:00

Ramana and His mother's tranquil sounds

2011-10-27T18:19:00.000-07:00

" Therefore, leaving the corpse-like body as an actual corpse and remaining without even uttering the word 'I' by mouth, if one now keenly enquires, 'What is it that rises as '"I"? then in the Heart a certain soundless sphurana, 'I-I', will shine forth of its own accord. It is an awareness that is the single and undivided, the thoughts which are many and divided having disappeared. If one remains still without leaving it, even the sphurana - having completely annihilated the sense of the individuality, the form of the ego, 'I am the body' - will itself in the end subside, just like the flame that catches the camphor. This alone is said to be liberation by the great ones and scriptures. "
Bhagavan, Vichara Sangraham, Padamalai, Self-enquiry

2011-10-24T14:14:00.000-07:00

When Ramana Maharsi died, a comet appeared in the sky. His student is Papaji (H. W. L. Poonja) and

Gangaji, who stills lives and teaches.

Continued on http://www.vimeo.com/9600297

Please buy the original video and other original books so that you support the Arunachala Centers

and other publishers of Ramana Maharsi.

And spread the word. :-)

" Her son was her sole refuge. . . a couch was forced upon him."

2011-10-23T02:35:00.000-07:00

A remark was made to Bhagavan that I was working very hard and had become weak and should be given some rest. Bhagavan said, "Yes, we have to give him some rest. We have to give freedom to him."

A few days later I went with Mahdava Swami to Bhagavan's bathroom to help him with his morning bath. We gave him the usual oil bath and massage. When the bath was over, Madhava Swami asked, "Bhagavan, the people who take ganja lehiyam (a cannabis-based ayurvedic preparation) experience some kind of ananda. Is it the same as the ananda in the scriptures?"

"Eating this ganja is a bad habit" replied Bhagavan. Then, laughing loudly, he came over and hugged me and called out, "Ananda! Ananda! This is how the ganja people behave!"

It was not a brief hug. Madhava Swami told me later that he held me tightly for about two minutes. After the first few seconds I completely lost awareness of my body and the world. Initially there was a feeling of happiness and bliss, but this soon gave way to a state in which there were no feelings and no experiences. I did not lose consciousness. I just ceased to be aware of anything that was going on around me. I remained in this state for about 15 minutes. When I recovered my usual world consciousness I was standing alone in the bathroom.

As soon as I recovered normal consciousness I knew that my life at Sri Ramanasramam had come to an end. I ate a belated breakfast in the dining room and went up onto the hill to look for Bhagavan. I found him sitting on a big rock.

"I have decided to leave the ashram" I said. "I want to go and to Palakottu to live alone and meditate."

"Ah. Very good! Very good! Very good!" exclaimed Bhagavan.

Within a few hours having the experience I had handed in my keys and was walking to Palakottu.
Annamalai Swami

2011-10-22T15:19:00.001-07:00

I love the slide shows on the blog. Please trina don't ever remove them

All Jnanis are One

2011-10-19T13:54:00.000-07:00

From Divine Reality, the story of Shri Baba Neeb Karoli Ji Maharaj
Maharaj was at the Haldwani Furniture Mart with one of his devotees, Puran Chandra Joshi. Puran later told that Baba was talking to others and then became absorbed in deep thought. He remained silent in that mood for some time. Then he said faintly, "Puran, give a spoonful of water to drink. He is in great agony." Joshi could not understand what the matter was, but nevertheless poured two spoonfuls of water into Baba's mouth. After some time two tears fell from Baba's eyes and he turned to Puran and said "Ramana is no more. India has lost a great saint today."
This incident occured on 14 April 1950.

2011-10-16T14:08:00.000-07:00

Ramana on Sadguru
Only the supreme Self which is ever shining in your Heart as the reality, is the Sadguru. The pure awareness shining as the inward illumunination "I" is his gracious feet. These inner holy feet can be held naturally and unceasingly. With an inward-turned mind, cling to this inner awareness which is your own real nature.
En Padam

2011-10-13T20:24:00.000-07:00

Thanks dearest Marco ;) and all friends. ARUNACHALA Heart! Love,

Everything Is ~Joy! Lift Up Your Heart

2011-10-10T02:27:00.000-07:00

It was on the morning of September 1st 1896, three days after leaving home, when he arrived at Tiruvannamalai station. With quick steps, heart throbbing with joy, he hastened straight to the great Temple. In mute sign of welcome the gates of the three high compound walls and all the doors, even that of the inner shrine, stood open. There was no one inside, so he entered the inner shrine alone and stood overcome before his Father Arunacheleswar. There, in the bliss of Union, the journey ended.
Ramana Maharshi & the Path of Self-Knowledge, Arthur Osborne

QUESTIONS WITH HALF KNOWLEDGE

2011-10-08T08:23:00.000-07:00

Letters from Sri Ramanasramam, by Suri Nagamma - 126
QUESTIONS WITH HALF KNOWLEDGE - 28th June, 1947

A few days back a meeting of the Vysya Sangam was held in this town. A number of prominent Vysyas from Andhra State attended it. Two days back all of them came to the Ashram in the morning and one of the chief men amongst them addressed Bhagavan thus: 'Swami, God has become jiva. Will the grief that the jiva suffers affect God or not?' Bhagavan did not give a reply immediately but remained silent. The questioner waited for a while and asked, 'Swami, shall I wait until you give me a reply?' 'Who is it that is asking the question?' said Bhagavan. 'A jiva,' he said.

'Who is that jiva? What does he look like? Where was he born? Where does he get dissolved? If you enquire and find out, he who is known as jiva will be found to be God himself.

Then it will be known whether the grief experienced by the jiva will affect God or not. When that is known, there will be no trouble at all.' 'That is what we are unable to know,' said the questioner. 'There is no effort required to know one's self. You exist during sleep but all the things in the world that you see are not visible then. When you wake up you see everything. But you existed then and exist now (during sleep and while awake). That which comes on you in your wakeful state should be thrown out,' said Bhagavan. 'How are we to throw it out?' enquired the other. 'If you remain as you are, it will go out of its own accord. Your nature is to be. If you see the Reality as it is, the unreal will go away as unreal,' said Bhagavan. 'What is the method by which this can be seen?' asked the questioner. 'By enquiring '˜Who am I?' and '˜What is my true state?'' said Bhagavan. 'How am I to enquire?' asked that questioner. Bhagavan kept silent.

The questioner waited for a reply for a while and then, saying, 'Yes, this is the method,' he touched the feet of Bhagavan despite the objections of the attendants and went away with all the members of the Vysya Sangam. After they had left, Bhagavan said to those sitting near him, 'Don't they know the reply? They just wanted to test me. They felt that their work was over, when they touched my feet. What more do they require?' A rich Reddy from Nellore who happened to be there said, 'Ananda is said to be Atma. Ananda is free from sorrow.

If so, when the jiva experiences ananda, will he be free from sorrow?' Bhagavan replied, 'There can be ananda (joy) only if there is duhkha (sorrow). It is only if a thing is known as duhkha then ananda can be known. If duhkha is not realised, how can ananda be realised? So long as there is one who knows, these two will exist. Vastu (the thing that is) is above sukha and duhkha. Even so, that vastu is known as sukha because Sat is above sat and asat. Jnana is above jnana and ajnana, Vidya is above vidya and avidya. The same thing is said about several other things. So what is there to say?' said Bhagavan. The same idea is expressed in stanza ten of 'Unnadhi Nalupadhi'.

2011-10-06T12:54:00.000-07:00

Arunachala! Her beloved grace, sacred hill, I yearn for Thee beauty, absolute truth. His foot,en padam , Victory >:-))_/V\_ all to me Self . alone all one as I am I am stretched to selfish core, and impatient and unresistent to any movement, inert uncontrol, sat within, uncontained, as pure running river rapids of orange shining blue infinite fire, burns that still flow, alone ca all one heart . ma sucah. om :*that*: om. , I am It, and not. something still shudders at the power I know I-am-I am to give up let go all attachments smoke in illusion rotting death of ancestors, what is not mine. Everything No.thing. It is, that, That Is all power all there really, only simply is. some.thing shudders to think.

SRI MAHARSHI A SHORT LIFE SKETCH PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED

2011-10-05T09:10:00.000-07:00

" More than a year before his Maha Nirvana, Bhagavan quoted and rendered into Tamil verse a sloka from Srimad Bhagavatam (Skandha XI, ch. 13, S1.36):

"Let the body, the result of fructifying karma,
rest or move about, live or die,
the Sage who has realised the Self is not aware of it,
just as one in a drunken stupor is not aware of his clothing."

" Late in 1949 Bhagavan picked up and expounded a verse from Yoga Vasishtam:

"The Jnani who has found himself as formless pure Arareness is unaffected though his body be cleft with a sword.
Sugar cane does not lose its sweetness though broken or crushed." "

SAD-VIDYA

2011-09-28T18:29:00.000-07:00

TRUTH-REVEALED

34.
To be the Self in the Heart is supreme Wisdom.

All verbal wrangling about the nature and existence of the Self is but play of Maya ."

2011-09-22T06:36:00.000-07:00

Virupaksha caves of Arunachala Holy Mount 2011

RAMANA MAHARSHI - ARUNACHALA SHIVA

O Arunachala!
Ocean of Grace in the form of Hill !
Graciously bestow Thy Grace on me !

-Arunachala Aksharamanamalai

Tribute to
Sri Ramana Maharshi
& Arunachala Shiva.

The highest goal of man is to enquire 'Who am I?'
and realize the Self
If a human being does not try to realize this,
he lives in vain.

One must be ready to sacrifice everything for the truth.

Know that you are really the infinite being, the Self.

Divine Grace is essential for realization.
It is only given to those
who strive hard and ceaselessly
on the path toward freedom.

The cause of your misery is not the life outside you
It is in you, as the 'ego'

The ego falls, crestfallen, when one enquires
'Who am I?' and enters the heart.

The very purpose of Self-enquiry is to focus
the entire mind at its source.

Merging into the source of ego, which is the fullness
of consciousness, and abiding there is realization.

There must be enduring effort to go inward all the time
until the self is realized.

One who seeks his real Self
will not be afraid on any obstacle

The body-consciousness is the wrong 'I'.
Give up this body-consciosness

The thought "Iam the body' is ignorance.
Direct your attends only towards
removing the ignorance.

Mind alone is the cause of bondage and release

Success in turning the mind inward is achieved
by practice and dispassion
and it succeeds only gradually

Really there are only two methods,
Enquiry and devotion. One leads to the other.

A devotee concentrates on God.
A seeker, follower of the Jnana-marga, seeks the Self.
The practice is equally difficult for both.

Attachment is bondage.
Attachment dissappears with the elimination of the ego.

Renunciation and realization are the same.
Renunciation is the giving up of the ego

If you renounce and give up everything,
and what remains is only liberation.

The Self is like the pearl; to find it
you must dive deep, into the silence,
deeper and ever deeper, until it is reached

Silence is the speech of Self

Silence is bliss.
Silence is peace.
and hence

Silence is the Self.

Perfect peace is the Self.

If one's mind had peace,
the whole world will appear peaceful.

Your duty is to be, and not to be this or that.
The method is summarized in 'BE STILL'

What does STILLNESS mean? It means 'Destroy yourself'
beacause every name and form is the cause of trouble.

By remaining in contact with realized sages
the man gradually loses the ignorance

The Guru's Grace works
automatically and spontaneously.

The point to be grasped is this,
the Heart means the core of one's Being

Reality is only one and that is the Self
All the rest is mere phenomena in it, of it, and by it.

The Self, which is consciousness, is alone real.
Nothing else is.

Effortless and choiceless awareness is our real nature

Existence or Consciousness is the only reality

The bliss of the Self is always with you
and you will find it for yourself
if you would seek it earnestly.

Happiness is our real nature.
That happiness does not depend
on our possessions or achievements.

To be one's own Self is Samadhi.

The state in which the unbroken experience
of existence-consciousness
is attained by the still mind alone is Samadhi.

One's own reality,
which shines within everyone as the heart,
is itself the ocean of unalloyed bliss.

The power of a Jnani's Self Realization
is more powerful than all occult ppwers.

Siddhi' (Occult power) is to know and realize
that which is ever Real.
Other 'siddhis' are mere dream 'siddhis'.

Self-abidance alone is a miracle.
The other miracles are like dreams

Rebirth is due to vasanas which are binding
But they are destroyed in the one of Self-Realization

Forgetfulness of the real nature is the real death.
Rememberance of it, it is the true birth.

There is neither past nor future. There is only present.
Yes, even the present is mere imagination

No thought will go in vain,
Each person will get results according to his thoughts

Freewill and destiny are ever existent
Destiny is the result of past action

Complete effacement of the ego is necessary
to conquer destiny

whether you achieve this effacement
through Self-enquiry or through bhakti-marga

Absolute consciousness which is Self-awareness
destoys the ego and bestows liberation.

Love itself is God

The experience of Self, is only love,
which is
seeing only love,
hearing only love,
feeling only love,
tasting only love,
smelling only love,
which is bliss.

2011-09-21T19:50:00.000-07:00

The snake is a rope. The apple is in hand.

2011-09-20T15:19:00.000-07:00

I-am-I am Ramana's devote daughter, minding Ishwari's children, playing at present with wee warrior Celtic Goddess, upon that grass, that He has stretched out before me eyes. om on Fire, consumed quickly. . from the ancestors. Grace , mouna . . Be.

appears that may be , mind hears only noise. as an idea, a concept, . . mind hears noise as attack , on personal individual ego , based on what it knows, and 'thinks it ; to know , that . to be true.

within concentration. , beyond any language, concept , is how one strives to always see. heart sounds sublime. there is no more noise. only silence. en padam, om divine garland of marital letters, om jai namo padamalai, bhagavate ananda jai ramanaya om swaha

2011-09-18T19:15:00.000-07:00

" To glory in it and celebrate it is like delighting in and decorating a corpse. To seek one's self and merge in the Self ~ ~ that is true wisdom. " Sri Ramana Maharshi