About Michael James

Last updated: 28th May 2026

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• Translations

  • Nāṉ Ār? (Who am I?)
  • Aruṇācala Tattuvam and Dīpa-Darśaṉa Tattuvam (The Reality of Arunachala and Seeing Deepam)
  • Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai (The Marriage Garland of Syllables for Sri Arunachala)
  • Śrī Aruṇācala Navamaṇimālai (The Garland of Nine Gems to Sri Arunachala)
  • Śrī Aruṇācala Padigam (The Eleven Verses to Sri Arunachala)
  • Śrī Aruṇācala Aṣṭakam (The Eight Verses to Sri Arunachala))
  • Upadēśa Undiyār (The Essence of Spiritual Instructions)
  • Upadēśa Sāraḥ (The Sanskrit version of Upadēśa Undiyār)
  • Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu (Forty Verses on What Is)
  • Upadēśa Kaliveṇbā (The extended version of Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu)
  • Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu Anubandham (The supplement to Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu)
  • Appaḷa Pāṭṭu (The Appaḷam Song)
  • Āṉma-Viddai (The Science of Knowing Oneself)
  • Upadēśa Taṉippākkaḷ (Solitary Verses of Spiritual Teaching)
  • Guru Vācaka Kōvai (The Compilation of Guru’s Sayings)
• Books

  • ஸ்ரீ ரமண வழி (Śrī Ramaṇa Vaṙi)
  • Sadhanai Saram
  • The Path of Sri Ramana
  • Āṉma-Viddai: The Science of Knowing Oneself
  • Happiness and the Art of Being
  • Sri Arunachala Stuti Panchakam
  • Sri Ramanopadesa Noonmalai
  • Guru Vachaka Kovai
• Articles

  • Blog
  • Subjectwise

    • Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai
    • Śrī Aruṇācala Navamaṇimālai
    • Śrī Aruṇācala Padigam
    • Śrī Aruṇācala Aṣṭakam
    • Upadēśa Undiyār
    • Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu
    • Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu Anubandham
    • Ēkāṉma Pañcakam
    • Appaḷa Pāṭṭu
    • Āṉma-Viddai
    • Other original writings of Bhagavan
    • Translations from Anuvāda Nūṉmālai
    • The practice of ātma-vicāra: self-investigation or self-enquiry
    • ‘I am’, ‘I am this’ or ‘I am that’, and ‘I am I’
    • Ahaṁ-sphuraṇa: the clear shining of ‘I’
    • What is our real ‘I’?
    • The nature of ego and its five sheaths
    • Our three states of consciousness: waking, dream and sleep
    • The state of true self-knowledge
    • The philosophy of Bhagavan’s teachings
    • God, guru, grace, devotion and sat-saṅga
    • Action or karma cannot give liberation
    • Purification of mind
    • Compassion and ahiṁsā
    • Death and immortality
    • Non-duality or advaita
    • The appearance of duality
    • The role of reason in understanding and applying Bhagavan’s teachings
    • The science of consciousness
    • Books about Bhagavan’s teachings
  • Chronological

    • 2025 (8)

      • October (3)

        • Śrī Aruṇācala Aṣṭakam verse 4
        • Śrī Aruṇācala Aṣṭakam verse 3
        • Śrī Aruṇācala Aṣṭakam verse 2
      • September (2)

        • Śrī Aruṇācala Aṣṭakam verse 1
        • Śrī Aruṇācala Aṣṭakam
      • April (1)

        • The ‘fourfold means’ (sādhanā catuṣṭayam)
      • March (1)

        • Śrī Aruṇācala Padigam
      • February (1)

        • Śrī Aruṇācala Navamaṇimālai
    • 2024 (5)

      • December (1)

        • Aruṇācala Tattuvam and Dīpa-Darśaṉa Tattuvam: The...
      • September (3)

        • Pure intransitive awareness alone is real consciou...
        • Introduction to Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu.
        • How to know and to be what we actually are
      • May (1)

        • Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu Anubandham: Tamil text, translitera...
    • 2023 (6)

      • December (1)

        • Āṉma-Viddai verse 5: in the heart that looks withi...
      • November (1)

        • Āṉma-Viddai verse 4: self-investigation is the eas...
      • July (1)

        • Āṉma-Viddai verse 3: knowledge of all other things...
      • May (1)

        • Āṉma-Viddai verse 2: the thought ‘I am this body’ ...
      • February (1)

        • Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 21
      • January (1)

        • Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 20
    • 2022 (22)

      • December (2)

        • Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 19
        • Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 18
      • November (2)

        • Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 17
        • Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 16
      • October (2)

        • Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 15
        • Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 14
      • September (2)

        • Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 13
        • Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 12
      • August (2)

        • Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 11
        • Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 10
      • July (2)

        • Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 9
        • Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 8
      • June (1)

        • Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 7
      • April (4)

        • Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 6
        • Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 5
        • Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 4
        • Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 3
      • March (3)

        • Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 2
        • Upadēśa Sāraḥ: Sanskrit text, transliteration and ...
        • Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai: pāyiram, kāppu and ...
      • February (1)

        • Āṉma-Viddai verse 1: thought is what causes the ap...
      • January (1)

        • Āṉma-Viddai: Tamil text, transliteration and trans...
    • 2021 (16)

      • December (1)

        • What are vāsanās and how do they work?
      • November (2)

        • The Ramaṇa mahāvākya: ‘நான் நான்’ (nāṉ nāṉ) or ‘अह...
        • Appaḷa Pāṭṭu (The Appaḷam Song): Tamil text, trans...
      • September (1)

        • Other people seem to be real because we seem to be...
      • August (2)

        • Is anything other than ourself intrinsically exist...
        • We abide as ourself only to the extent to which we...
      • July (1)

        • Freedom, surrender and clinging fast to ‘I am’
      • June (2)

        • The nature of ego and its viṣaya-vāsanās and how t...
        • Self-investigation is not a matter of one ‘I’ look...
      • May (3)

        • Can self-investigation boost the mind or kuṇḍalinī...
        • Learning how to be self-attentive
        • Could what exists ever not exist?
      • March (1)

        • The second and third paragraphs of Nāṉ Ār?
      • February (2)

        • In what sense is ego actually just pure awareness?
        • In what sense is it true to say ‘everything is one’?.
      • January (1)

        • Is it possible for us to have a ‘glimpse of Self’?
    • 2020 (28)

      • December (2)

        • Bhagavan’s verses on birthday celebrations
        • If everything is predestined, how can the law of k...
      • November (4)

        • How can we weaken and eventually destroy all our v...
        • Dīpāvali Tattva: the reality of Deepavali
        • If this world is just a dream, why should we justi...
        • We can practise self-abidance only by being self-a...
      • October (3)

        • Doership, sleep and the practice of self-attentive...
        • How to practise surrender when faced with a dilemma?
        • The direct path to direct perception of our real n...
      • September (2)

        • How is ego to be destroyed?
        • The return of the prodigal son
      • August (1)

        • Praising or disparaging others is anātma-vicāra
      • June (4)

        • Why did Bhagavan sometimes say the heart is on the...
        • How do we remember being asleep?
        • What exists and shines in sleep is nothing other t...
        • We can be self-attentive in waking and dream but n...
      • May (2)

        • Though we are not aware of any phenomena in sleep,...
        • Self-investigation as the way to love
      • April (1)

        • The dreamer is ourself as ego, not whatever person...
      • March (3)

        • How can we just be?
        • What can be simpler than just being self-attentive?
        • Though we appear in two distinct modes, we are jus...
      • February (3)

        • Though we now seem to be ego, if we look at oursel...
        • To curb our rising as ego, all we need do is watch...
        • There are many interpretations of advaita, but Bha...
      • January (3)

        • To know what we actually are, we need to cease bei....
        • Why or how we have risen as ego is inexplicable, b...
        • What does Bhagavan mean by the term ‘mind’?
    • 2019 (33)

      • December (6)

        • Self-investigation is the only means by which we c...
        • Why do we need to distinguish ourself as ego from ...
        • What we need to investigate is not the act of witn...
        • Why should we try to be aware of ourself alone?
        • How to deal with whatever feelings may arise while...
        • Are there three states, two states or only one state?
      • November (4)

        • Upadēśa Undiyār verse 16: a practical definition o...
        • Is there any difference between being self-attenti...
        • How to merge in Arunachala like a river in the ocean?
        • Ego seems to exist only when we look elsewhere, aw...
      • October (2)

        • Can we as ego ever experience pure awareness?
        • Is it possible for us to attend to ourself, the su...
      • August (2)

        • Is any external help required for us to succeed in...
        • The role of grace in all that ego creates
      • July (3)

        • Which comes first: ego or self-negligence (pramāda)?
        • Why does ego rise again from manōlaya and not from...
        • Is there any such thing as ‘biological awareness’?
      • June (3)

        • How can there be any experience without something ...
        • How can we be sure that we can wake up from this d...
        • In what sense and to what extent do we remember wh...
      • May (3)

        • How can we refine and sharpen our power of attenti...
        • How to practise self-enquiry (ātma-vicāra)?
        • The ultimate truth is ajāta, but because we seem t...
      • April (1)

        • Can there be any viable substitute for patient and...
      • March (2)

        • Whatever jñāna we believe we see in anyone else is...
        • Is it possible to have a ‘direct but temporary exp...
      • February (4)

        • What is the relationship between the ‘I-thought’ a...
        • Thoughts and dreams appear only in the self-ignora...
        • What is the correct meaning of ‘Be in the now’?
        • In a dream there is only one dreamer, and if the o...
      • January (3)

        • To understand consciousness can we rely upon the o...
        • What is deluded is not our real nature but only ego
        • How to be self-attentive even while we are engaged...
    • 2018 (15)

      • December (3)

        • Which is a more reasonable and useful explanation:...
        • We should ignore all thoughts or mental activity a...
        • Why is self-investigation the only means to eradic...
      • November (1)

        • Everything depends for its seeming existence on th...
      • October (1)

        • When Bhagavan says that we must look within, what ...
      • September (2)

        • Must we purify our mind by other means before we c...
        • Like everything else, karma is created solely by e....
      • May (1)

        • The ego is the sole cause, creator, source, substa...
      • April (2)

        • The ego seems to exist only because we have not lo...
        • The ego does not actually exist, but it seems to e...
      • March (1)

        • If we investigate the ego closely enough we will s...
      • February (1)

        • Our existence is self-evident, because we shine by...
      • January (3)

        • Why do viṣaya-vāsanās sprout as thoughts, and how ...
        • In what sense does Bhagavan generally use the term...
        • Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu first maṅgalam verse: what exists i...
    • 2017 (39)

      • December (1)

        • Upadēśa Kaliveṇbā: the extended version of Uḷḷadu ...
      • October (1)

        • uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu: Tamil text, transliteration and tr...
      • September (6)

        • Upadēśa Undiyār: Tamil text, transliteration and t...
        • We should not be concerned with anything happening...
        • What creates all thoughts is only the ego, which i...
        • How to find the source of ‘I’, the ego?
        • To be aware of ourself as we actually are, what we...
        • If we choose to do any harmful actions, should we ...
      • August (1)

        • The ego is a spurious entity, but an entity noneth...
      • July (5)

        • Any experience that is temporary is not manōnāśa a...
        • What is aware of the absence of the ego and mind i...
        • Pure self-awareness is not nothingness but the onl...
        • The non-existence of the ego, body and world in ma...
        • What we actually are is just pure self-awareness: ...
      • June (5)

        • There is absolutely no difference between sleep an...
        • Māyā is nothing but our own mind, so it seems to e...
        • Concern about fate and free will arises only when ...
        • Why should we believe that dream is anything other...
        • What is the purpose of questions such as ‘To whom ...
      • May (3)

        • Do we need to do anything at all?
        • How to avoid following or completing any thought w...
        • Does anything exist independent of our perception ...
      • April (1)

        • Why is effort required for us to go deep in our pr...
      • March (7)

        • After the annihilation of the ego, no ‘I’ can rise...
        • To eradicate the mind we must watch only its first...
        • What is ‘remembering the Lord’ or ‘remembrance of ...
        • Is ‘guided meditation’ possible in Bhagavan’s path...
        • There is only one ego, and even that does not actu...
        • Rather than being aware of being aware, we should ...
        • What is the real ‘living guru’, and what is the lo...
      • February (4)

        • I certainly exist, but I am not necessarily what I...
        • What is the difference between God and the ego?
        • What is the difference between pure awareness and ...
        • How can we see inaction in action?
      • January (5)

        • Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu verse 12: other than the real aware...
        • Like Bhagavan, Sankara taught that objects are per...
        • What is aware of everything other than ourself is ...
        • When this world is nothing but an illusion, why do...
        • Whether it be called ‘yōga nidrā’ or ‘nirvikalpa s...
    • 2016 (34)

      • December (3)

        • The jñāni is only pure awareness (prajñāna) and no...
        • Whatever experience may arise, we should investiga...
        • Is it possible for us to see anything other than o...
      • November (3)

        • When the ego seems to exist, other things seem to ...
        • Why does Bhagavan sometimes say that the ātma-jñān...
        • What is the correct meaning of ajāta vāda?
      • October (6)

        • The difference between vivarta vāda and ajāta vāda...
        • As we actually are, we do nothing and are aware of...
        • An explanation of the first ten verses of Upadēśa ...
        • God is not actually the witness of anything but th...
        • Why does the term ‘I am’ refer not just to our ego...
        • ‘I am’ is the reality, ‘I am this’ or ‘I am that’ ...
      • August (4)

        • What is the ‘self’ we are investigating when we tr...
        • Is it incorrect to say that ātma-vicāra is the onl...
        • Why is it so necessary for us to accept without re...
        • The observer is the observed only when we observe ...
      • July (3)

        • If we are able to be steadily self-attentive, wher...
        • Asparśa yōga is the practice of not ‘touching’ or ...
        • Names and forms are all just thoughts, so we can f...
      • June (4)

        • When can there be total recognition that the world...
        • What is ‘the I-feeling’, and do we need to be ‘off...
        • Can our mind be too strong for our actual self to ...
        • Why should we rely on Bhagavan to carry all our bu...
      • May (5)

        • What is the logic for believing that happiness is ...
        • How to attend to ourself?
        • We can separate ourself permanently from whatever ...
        • The ego is the thinker, not the act of thinking
        • The person we seem to be is a form composed of fiv...
      • April (1)

        • Self-investigation (ātma-vicāra) entails nothing m...
      • March (2)

        • Why is it necessary to make effort to practise sel...
        • We are aware of ourself while asleep, so pure self...
      • February (2)

        • The role of logic in developing a clear, coherent ...
        • Why should we believe what Bhagavan taught us?
      • January (1)

        • Why do I believe that ātma-vicāra is the only dire...
    • 2015 (45)

      • December (1)

        • Thought of oneself will destroy all other thoughts
      • November (3)

        • Is there more than one way in which we can investi...
        • Sleep is our natural state of pure self-awareness
        • What happens to our mind in sleep?
      • October (3)

        • The logic underlying the practice of self-investig...
        • Self-investigation (ātma-vicāra) is just the simpl...
        • Why is it necessary to be attentively self-aware, ...
      • September (2)

        • We ourself are what we are looking for
        • Self-knowledge is not a void (śūnya)
      • August (4)

        • What is meditation on the heart?
        • ‘That alone is tapas’: the first teachings that Sr...
        • Trying to distinguish ourself from our ego is what...
        • What is cidābhāsa, the reflection of self-awareness?
      • July (2)

        • By attending to our ego we are attending to ourself
        • Can we experience what we actually are by followin...
      • June (3)

        • The term nirviśēṣa or ‘featureless’ denotes an abs...
        • Prāṇāyāma is just an aid to restrain the mind but ...
        • Attending to our ego is attending to its source, o...
      • May (7)

        • How is karma destroyed only by self-investigation?
        • In order to understand the essence of Sri Ramana’s...
        • The ego is essentially a formless and hence featur...
        • Dṛg-dṛśya-vivēka: distinguishing the seer from the...
        • ‘Observation without the observer’ and ‘choiceless...
        • What is unique about the teachings of Sri Ramana?
        • Being attentively self-aware does not entail any s...
      • April (1)

        • Trying to see the seer
        • Witnessing or being aware of anything other than o...
        • What is meant by the term sākṣi or ‘witness’?
        • Do we need to try to ignore all thoughts, and if s...
        • What is the difference between meditation and self...
        • How we can confidently dismiss the conclusions of ...
        • Any experience we can describe is something other ...
      • March (5)

        • All phenomena are just a dream, and the only way t...
        • Is there any real difference between waking and dr...
        • Self-attentiveness and self-awareness
        • Intensity, frequency and duration of self-attentiv...
        • Investigating ourself is the only way to solve all...
      • February (5)

        • Just being (summā irukkai) is not an activity but ...
        • Self-investigation and body-consciousness
        • Why is it necessary to consider the world unreal?
        • Self-attentiveness is not an action, because we ou...
        • The terms ‘I’ or ‘we’ refer only to ourself, wheth...
      • January (3)

        • The connection between consciousness and body
        • Why are compassion and ahiṁsā necessary in a dream?
        • The fundamental law of experience or consciousness...
    • 2014 (55)

      • December (4)

        • Our aim should be to experience ourself alone, in ...
        • Science and self-investigation
        • Does the world exist independent of our experience...
        • The need for manana and vivēka: reflection, critic...
      • November (5)

        • How to experience the clarity of self-awareness th...
        • Other than ourself, there are no signs or mileston...
        • Is there any such thing as a ‘self-realised’ person?
        • Why should we believe that ‘the Self’ is as we bel...
        • Our memory of ‘I’ in sleep
      • October (4)

        • There is only one ‘I’, and investigation will reve...
        • We cannot experience ourself as we actually are so...
        • The essential teachings of Sri Ramana
        • We can believe vivarta vāda directly but not ajāta...
      • September (5)

        • The perceiver and the perceived are both unreal
        • Metaphysical solipsism, idealism and creation theo...
        • How to avoid doing āgāmya and experiencing prārabdha?
        • Why did Sri Ramana teach a karma theory?
        • The karma theory as taught by Sri Ramana
      • August (5)

        • The crucial secret revealed by Sri Ramana: the onl...
        • The featurelessness of self-attentiveness
        • Establishing that I am and analysing what I am
        • We must experience what is, not what merely seems ...
        • Self-awareness is the very nature of ‘I’
      • July (5)

        • What should we believe?
        • What is enlightenment, liberation or nirvāṇa?
        • A paradox: sphuraṇa means ‘shining’ or ‘clarity’, ...
        • Self-awareness: ‘I’-thought, ‘I’-feeling and ahaṁ-...
        • Demystifying the term ‘sphuraṇa’
      • June (4)

        • Is consciousness a product of the mind?
        • Why do we not experience the existence of any body...
        • What do we actually experience in sleep?
        • Self-investigation, effort and sleep
      • May (5)

        • Since we always experience ‘I’, we do not need to ...
        • The mind’s role in investigating ‘I’
        • How to attend to ‘I’?
        • There is no difference between investigating ‘who ...
        • Ātma-vicāra: stress and other related issues
      • April (4)

        • Scientific research on consciousness
        • Why is ātma-vicāra necessary?
        • Ātma-vicāra and nirvikalpa samādhi(Interview on Ce...
        • Ahiṁsā and sexual morality(Interview on Celibacy: ...
      • March (4)

        • No differences exist in the non-dual view of Sri R...
        • Ātma-vicāra is the only means by which we can expe...
        • Self-investigation and sexual restraint(Interview ...
        • Does the practice of ātma-vicāra work?
      • February (4)

        • We should meditate only on ‘I’, not on ideas such ...
        • Self-attentiveness and citta-vṛtti nirōdha
        • Can self-enquiry be practised during work?
        • Spontaneously and wordlessly applying the clue: ‘t...
      • January (6)

        • By discovering what ‘I’ actually is, we will swall...
        • Why do we not immediately experience ourself as we...
        • Only ‘I am’ is certain and self-evident
        • Investigating ‘I’ is the most radical scientific r...
        • ‘I’ is the centre and source of time and space
        • Focusing only on ‘I’
    • 2013 (2)

      • December (2)

        • Dhyāna-p-Paṭṭu: The Song on Meditation
        • The unique clarity and simplicity of Sri Ramana’s ...
    • 2011 (4)

      • October (1)

        • Manōnāśa – destruction of mind.
      • January (3)

        • Experiencing the pure ‘I’ here and now
        • How to avoid creating fresh karma (āgāmya)?
        • Second and third person objects
    • 2010 (2)

      • August (1)

        • We should seek guru only within ourself
      • January (1)

        • Sri Ramana’s mangalam verse to Vivekacudamani
    • 2009 (23)

      • October (2)

        • Japa of ‘I am’ as an aid to self-attentiveness
        • ‘Holy indifference’ and the love to be self-attentive
      • August (1)

        • Thinking, free will and self-attentiveness
      • July (6)

        • Self-attentiveness is nirvikalpa – devoid of all d...
        • ‘Tracing the ego back to its source’
        • ‘Just sitting’ (shikantaza) and ‘choiceless awaren...
        • Svarupa-dhyana and svarupa-darsana
        • Atma-vichara and metta bhavana (‘loving-kindness’ ...
        • Staying with ‘I am’
      • June (9)

        • Sadhanai Saram – The Essence of Spiritual Practice...
        • Upadesa Tanippakkal – an explanatory paraphrase
        • Anma-Viddai (Atma-Vidya) – an explanatory paraphrase
        • Appala Pattu – an explanatory paraphrase
        • Ekatma Panchakam – an explanatory paraphrase
        • Ulladu Narpadu Anubandham – an explanatory paraphrase
        • Ulladu Narpadu – an explanatory paraphrase
        • Upadesa Undiyar – an explanatory paraphrase
        • Sri Arunachala Stuti Panchakam – an overview
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        • Ekatma Vivekam – the kalivenba version of Ekatma P...
      • April (3)

        • Why to write about self?
        • How to start practising atma-vichara?
        • Atma-vichara – the practice of 'looking at' or 'se...
      • January (1)

        • What is self-attentiveness?
    • 2008 (26)

      • December (6)

        • Self-attentiveness, intensity and continuity
        • Self-attentiveness and time
        • Our basic thought ‘I’ is the portal through which ...
        • Self-enquiry, self-attention and self-awareness
        • The truth of Arunachala and of ‘seeing the light’ ...
        • Making effort to pay attention to our mind is bein...
      • November (5)

        • Advaita sadhana – non-dualistic spiritual practice
        • Self-attentiveness, effort and grace
        • Atma-vichara and the ‘practice’ of neti neti
        • Guru Vachaka Kovai verse 579 and Anubhuti Venba ve...
        • Guru Vāchaka Kōvai – a new translation by TV Venka...
      • July (2)

        • God as paramarthika satya – the absolute reality
        • God as purna – the one infinite whole
      • June (8)

        • Cultivating uninterrupted self-attentiveness
        • Experiencing our natural state of true immortality
        • The true nature of consciousness can be known only...
        • Self-enquiry: the underlying philosophy can be cle...
        • Where to find and how to reach the real presence o...
        • Self-enquiry, personal experiences and daily routine
        • Which sat-sanga will free us from our ego?
        • Experiencing God as he really is
      • May (5)

        • God as both nirguna brahman and saguna brahman
        • The world is a creation of our imagination
        • Introduction to The Truth of Otherness
        • Happiness and the Art of Being — complete Spanish ...
        • Sri Ramanopadesa Nunmalai — English translation by...
    • 2007 (74)

      • December (1)

        • Happiness and the Art of Being is now available on...
      • November (2)

        • The Path of Sri Ramana - Part One e-book copy now ...
        • Happiness and the Art of Being - Canadian publicat...
      • October (1)

        • Happiness and the Art of Being - release of the In...
      • September (4)

        • Sri Arunachala Stuti Panchakam — English translati...
        • Printing of Happiness and the Art of Being
        • Guru Vachaka Kovai – e-book
        • Nan Yar? - complete translation now added to Happi...
      • August (10)

        • Third e-book edition of Happiness and the Art of B...
        • Spanish translation of Happiness and the Art of Being
        • The importance of compassion and ahimsa
        • The supreme compassion of Sri Ramana
        • The crest-jewel of Sri Ramana's teachings
        • The practice of self-investigation is our natural ...
        • The question ‘who am I?’ as a verbalised thought
        • Sri Ramana’s figurative use of simple words
        • Atma-vichara and the question ‘who am I?’
        • Atma-vichara is only the practice of keeping our m...
      • July (6)

        • Happiness and the Art of Being – additions to chap...
        • Our real self can reveal itself only through silence
        • Happiness and the Art of Being – additions to chap...
        • Actions or karmas are like seeds
        • Happiness and the Art of Being – additions to chap...
        • Happiness and the Art of Being will soon be availa...
      • June (1)

        • Repetition of Bhagavan's name
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        • Back online
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        • Please note – for a few weeks I will not have inte...
        • New enlarged e-book edition of Happiness and the A...
        • The 'unconsciousness' that we seem to experience i...
        • The consciousness that we experience in sleep
        • The fear of death is inherent in our love for our ...
        • Knowing our source by a 'sharp intellect' or kurnd...
        • The state of true immortality
        • Taking refuge at the 'feet' of God
        • Overcoming our spiritual complacency
        • The true science of consciousness and drik drisya ...
        • The transcendent state of true self-knowledge is t...
        • I think because I am, but I am even when I do not ...
        • What is True Knowledge? - additions to chapter 5 o...
        • The true import of the word 'I'
        • 'I am' is the most appropriate name of God
        • Everything is just an expansion of our own mind or...
        • Non-duality is the truth even when duality appears...
        • Objective knowledge will disappear along with our ...
        • The Nature of Reality - additions to chapter 4 of ...
        • By self-attentiveness we can experience our true s...
        • Contemplating 'I', which is the original name of God
        • Everything is only our own consciousness
      • February (10)

        • Our real 'I' is formless and therefore unlimited
        • The foundation of all our thoughts is our primal i...
        • Happiness and the Art of Being — final revision is...
        • Our body, mind and other adjuncts are not 'I'
        • Our self-consciousness is the absolute reality
        • Only the absolute clarity of true self-knowledge w...
        • Our waking life is just another dream
        • Are we in this world, or is this world in us?
        • I apologise if I have not replied to any e-mail th...
        • Our imaginary sleep of self-forgetfulness or self-...
      • January (16)

        • Repeating 'who am I?' is not self-enquiry
        • Self-enquiry and body-awareness
        • The aim of self-enquiry is to experience a perfect...
        • The truth that underlies cognition
        • Let us not be distracted from following the real t...
        • 'Giving satsanga'
        • Exposing the unreality of our ego
        • The cognition of duality
        • Can sexual energy really be liberated?
        • Where can we find the clarity of true self-knowledge?
        • Self-consciousness alone is true knowledge
        • Reading, reflection and practice
        • The true import of 'I am'
        • Which spiritual teachings are truly credible?
        • 'Awareness watching awareness'
        • Is a 'human guru' really necessary?
    • 2006 (7)

      • December (7)

        • Consciousness and time
        • Who has attained 'self-realisation'?
        • 'Putting it all together'
        • What is advaita?
        • Is there really any difference between the advaita...
        • Your questions and comments are welcome
        • A new website and e-book about Bhagavan Sri Ramana...
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