Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 19
This is the nineteenth in a series of articles that I hope to write on Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai, Bhagavan willing, the completed ones being listed here.
Saturday, 24 December 2022
Wednesday, 7 December 2022
Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 18
This is the eighteenth in a series of articles that I hope to write on Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai, Bhagavan willing, the completed ones being listed here.
Friday, 25 November 2022
Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 17
This is the seventeenth in a series of articles that I hope to write on Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai, Bhagavan willing, the completed ones being listed here.
Wednesday, 9 November 2022
Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 16
This is the sixteenth in a series of articles that I hope to write on Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai, Bhagavan willing, the completed ones being listed here.
Thursday, 27 October 2022
Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 15
This is the fifteenth in a series of articles that I hope to write on Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai, Bhagavan willing, the completed ones being listed here.
Friday, 7 October 2022
Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 14
This is the fourteenth in a series of articles that I hope to write on Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai, Bhagavan willing, the completed ones being listed here.
Friday, 23 September 2022
Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 13
This is the thirteenth in a series of articles that I hope to write on Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai, Bhagavan willing, the completed ones being listed here.
Tuesday, 6 September 2022
Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 12
This is the twelfth in a series of articles that I hope to write on Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai, Bhagavan willing, the completed ones being listed here.
Wednesday, 24 August 2022
Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 11
This is the eleventh in a series of articles that I hope to write on Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai, Bhagavan willing, the completed ones being listed here.
Thursday, 4 August 2022
Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 10
This is the tenth in a series of articles that I hope to write on Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai, Bhagavan willing, the completed ones being listed here.
Thursday, 21 July 2022
Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 9
This is the ninth in a series of articles that I hope to write on Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai, Bhagavan willing, the completed ones being listed here.
Saturday, 2 July 2022
Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 8
This is the eighth in a series of articles that I hope to write on Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai, Bhagavan willing, the completed ones being listed here.
Friday, 17 June 2022
Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 7
This is the seventh in a series of articles that I hope to write on Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai, Bhagavan willing, the completed ones being listed here.
Thursday, 28 April 2022
Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 6
This is the sixth in a series of articles that I hope to write on Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai, Bhagavan willing, the completed ones being listed here.
Friday, 22 April 2022
Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 5
This is the fifth in a series of articles that I hope to write on Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai, Bhagavan willing, the completed ones being listed here.
Sunday, 17 April 2022
Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 4
This is the fourth in a series of articles that I hope to write on Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai, Bhagavan willing, the completed ones being listed here.
Thursday, 14 April 2022
Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 3
This is the third in a series of articles that I hope to write on Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai, Bhagavan willing, the completed ones being listed here.
Thursday, 31 March 2022
Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 2
This is the second in a series of articles that I hope to write on Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai, Bhagavan willing, the completed ones being listed here.
Thursday, 24 March 2022
Upadēśa Sāraḥ: Sanskrit text, transliteration and translation (with the original Tamil text)
उपदेश सारः (Upadēśa Sāraḥ), ‘The Essence of Spiritual Teachings’, is Bhagavan’s Sanskrit translation or adaptation of one of the poetic texts that he originally wrote in Tamil, namely உபதேச வுந்தியார் (Upadēśa-v-Undiyār). Like all his original writings, both these versions of this poem are extremely deep and rich in meaning and implication, so in order to understand them clearly and correctly we need to do careful śravaṇa (hearing, reading or studying attentively), manana (considering and thinking deeply about what is meant and implied) and nididhyāsana (deep contemplation on that towards which all these teachings are ultimately pointing, namely our own real nature, which is sat-cit, our fundamental awareness of our own existence, ‘I am’).
Thursday, 10 March 2022
Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai: pāyiram, kāppu and verse 1
‘அருளும் வேணுமே. அன்பு பூணுமே. இன்பு தோணுமே’ (aruḷum vēṇumē. aṉbu pūṇumē. iṉbu tōṇumē), ‘Grace also is certainly necessary. Be adorned with love. Happiness will certainly appear’, sings Bhagavan in his concluding statements of the final verse of Āṉma-Viddai, and as he often said, ‘Bhakti is the mother of jñāna’, thereby implying that all-consuming and heart-melting love (bhakti) is the sole means by which we can know and be what we actually are. This truth is implicit in all his teachings, but in no other text does he express it as clearly, emphatically and heart-meltingly as he does in Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai.
Tuesday, 8 February 2022
Āṉma-Viddai verse 1: thought is what causes the appearance of the unreal body and world
In continuation of my previous article, Āṉma-Viddai: Tamil text, transliteration and translation, in this article I will explain and discuss the meaning and implications of the first verse of this text, and in subsequent articles I will do likewise for each of the other four verses:
Monday, 31 January 2022
Āṉma-Viddai: Tamil text, transliteration and translation
The path of self-investigation (ātma-vicāra) that Bhagavan taught us is the direct and easy means to eradicate ego, the root and foundation of all our troubles, but there is a widespread belief that it is a very difficult path and therefore suitable only for a few spiritually mature aspirants. Even among the devotees who lived with him this was a widely held belief, as Muruganar discovered to his surprise in the following way.
