Blogs Posts on "Mano-nasa (annihilation Of Mind)"

Japa of ‘I am’ as an aid to self-attentiveness by Happiness of Being - The Teachings of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi on Oct 29, 2009After I wrote my previous article, ‘Holy indifference’ and the love to be self-attentive, a series of interesting comments have been posted on it discussing the use of japa (repetition) as an aid to the practice of self-attentiveness. In the most...

‘Just sitting’ (shikantaza) and ‘choiceless awareness’ by Happiness of Being - The Teachings of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi on Jul 11, 2009A friend recently wrote to me as follows:I have been reading chapter 9 (Self-Investigation) of your book Happiness and the Art of Being.What you describe regarding the practice of atma-vichara as advocated by Ramana Maharishi, I interpret as being ve...

Svarupa-dhyana and svarupa-darsana by Happiness of Being - The Teachings of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi on Jul 8, 2009A friend recently wrote to me asking:Does svarupa-dhyana, atma-chintana and atma-smarana mean focusing attention on the first thought ‘I am’, consciousness of being? I mean, is it concentration on being, staying without thoughts but still aware o...

Atma-vichara and metta bhavana (‘loving-kindness’ meditation) by Happiness of Being - The Teachings of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi on Jul 4, 2009A friend recently wrote to me asking:I’ve got a question concerning atma-vichara in relation to some meditation techniques.Before I came across Sri Bhagavan's teachings I practised some form of Buddhist meditation which is called ‘metta’ or lov...

Upadesa Tanippakkal – an explanatory paraphrase by Happiness of Being - The Teachings of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi on Jun 26, 2009In continuation of my previous six articles, which were explanatory paraphrases of Upadesa Undiyar, Ulladu Narpadu, Ulladu Narpadu Anubandham, Ekatma Panchakam, Appala Pattu and Anma-Viddai (Atma-Vidya), the following is the last of seven extracts fr...

Anma-Viddai (Atma-Vidya) – an explanatory paraphrase by Happiness of Being - The Teachings of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi on Jun 24, 2009In continuation of my previous five articles, which were explanatory paraphrases of Upadesa Undiyar, Ulladu Narpadu, Ulladu Narpadu Anubandham, Ekatma Panchakam and Appala Pattu, the following is the sixth of seven extracts from the introductory page...

Sri Arunachala Stuti Panchakam – an overview by Happiness of Being - The Teachings of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi on Jun 4, 2009I am currently preparing to upload four new e-books to the Books section of my website, namely Sri Arunachala Stuti Panchakam, Sri Ramanopadesa Noonmalai, Part Two of The Path of Sri Ramana and Sadhanai Saram, and I am drafting introductory pages for...

What is self-attentiveness? by Happiness of Being - The Teachings of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi on Jan 21, 2009A couple of weeks ago a person called Jon posted the following comment on one of my recent articles, Self-attentiveness and time:I’m having a hard time understanding exactly what Self-attentiveness is. I just don’t see where the ‘attentiveness�...

Self-attentiveness, intensity and continuity by Happiness of Being - The Teachings of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi on Dec 31, 2008Last week a person called Teck posted two comments on one of my recent articles, Making effort to pay attention to our mind is being attentive only to our essential self, in the first of which he or she wrote:… My question is, how important is CONT...