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Happiness of Being: The Teachings of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi
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How can we weaken and eventually destroy all our viṣaya-vāsanās?
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Dīpāvali Tattva: the reality of Deepavali
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If this world is just a dream, why should we justify to others that it is so?
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We can practise self-abidance only by being self-attentive
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Doership, sleep and the practice of self-attentiveness
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How to practise surrender when faced with a dilemma?
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The direct path to direct perception of our real nature
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How is ego to be destroyed?
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The return of the prodigal son
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Praising or disparaging others is anātma-vicāra
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Why did Bhagavan sometimes say the heart is on the right side of the chest?
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How do we remember being asleep?
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What exists and shines in sleep is nothing other than pure awareness
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We can be self-attentive in waking and dream but not in sleep
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Though we are not aware of any phenomena in sleep, we are aware of our own existence, ‘I am’
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Self-investigation as the way to love
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The dreamer is ourself as ego, not whatever person we seem to be in a dream
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How can we just be?
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What can be simpler than just being self-attentive?
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Though we appear in two distinct modes, we are just one awareness
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Though we now seem to be ego, if we look at ourself keenly enough we will see that we are actually just pure awareness
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To curb our rising as ego, all we need do is watch ourself vigilantly
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There are many interpretations of advaita, but Bhagavan’s teachings are the simplest, clearest and deepest
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To know what we actually are, we need to cease being interested in any person
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Why or how we have risen as ego is inexplicable, but Bhagavan does explain why and how we can cease rising
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What does Bhagavan mean by the term ‘mind’?
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Self-investigation is the only means by which we can surrender ourself entirely and thereby eradicate ego
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Why do we need to distinguish ourself as ego from whatever person we seem to be?
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What we need to investigate is not the act of witnessing but the witness itself
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Why should we try to be aware of ourself alone?
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How to deal with whatever feelings may arise while we are investigating ourself?
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Are there three states, two states or only one state?
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Upadēśa Undiyār verse 16: a practical definition of real awareness
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Is there any difference between being self-attentive and sitting down quietly in meditation?
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How to merge in Arunachala like a river in the ocean?
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Ego seems to exist only when we look elsewhere, away from ourself
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Can we as ego ever experience pure awareness?
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Is it possible for us to attend to ourself, the subject, rather than to any object?
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Is any external help required for us to succeed in the practice of self-investigation?
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The role of grace in all that ego creates
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Which comes first: ego or self-negligence (pramāda)?
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Why does ego rise again from manōlaya and not from manōnāśa?
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Is there any such thing as ‘biological awareness’?
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How can there be any experience without something that is experiencing it?
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How can we be sure that we can wake up from this dream of our present life?
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In what sense and to what extent do we remember what we were aware of in sleep?
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How can we refine and sharpen our power of attention so that we can discern what we actually are?
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How to practise self-enquiry (ātma-vicāra)?
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The ultimate truth is ajāta, but because we seem to have risen as ego and consequently perceive a world, Bhagavan, Gaudapada and Sankara teach us primarily from the perspective of vivarta vāda
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Can there be any viable substitute for patient and persistent practice of self-investigation and self-surrender?
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