David E Has has always up

Dear friend - although the Holiest place is in the Heart of One and All , still you are blessed to live in that Holy Place . You need no t understand all these haughty concepts - they are just medicine for the over- complicated mind . Jesus said " Blessed are the Pure in Heart as they will see God " , so you only have to develop a Pure Mind and a Loving Heart to See and Be That which you seek 🙏🕉️

Thanks Alex. I'm going to get it for myself

Thank you for sharing. I was thinking what a thrilling experience it would be if Bhagavan appeared in my dream. And in a way he has appeared in my dream, this so-called waking state. In the form of his teachings and in the form of Michael's blog and videos, and of course in the form of the holy hill Arunachala. So Bhagavan's grace is ever-present and always available, and it's just my foolishness that I don't immediately try to turn fully within and surrender to him.

Rajat very true, yes he has appeared in this dream also for us! As Michael has mentioned, it is those critical patients that need the best doctor!

You may not agree with my views on this subject, but you may at least be interested to read and consider what I wrote in 'Why are compassion and ahiṁsā necessary in a dream?': happinessofbeing.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/why-are-compassion-and-ahimsa-necessary.html

Sri Ramana Teachings thank you for the link to your blog, Michael. i will respond there.

must have missed that.. didn't notice these 'obligations' that you are referring to. he emphasized in discovering 'what is the I' and suggested to let the rest take care of itself

Hey. Do you have a link to the pdf? The ones I have found online are like 300 pages

PLEASE TYPE- EVERYTHING IS NOTHING BY RANJIT MAHARAJ ON GOOGLE. YOU WILL GET IT

Please consider the note that Bhagavan wrote for this mother in December 1898 (happinessofbeing.blogspot.co.uk/2016/06/why-should-we-rely-on-bhagavan-to-carry.html#dec98note), in which he explains that our mind, speech and body will be made to do whatever they are destined to do, that nothing will happen unless it is destined to happen, and that whatever is destined to happen will certainly happen, so we can surrender all thoughts about worldly tasks, since they will be done even if we devote all our attention only to our fundamental self-awareness, 'I am'. Attending only to ourself and thereby giving no room to the rising of any thoughts about anything else is the correct practice not only of self-investigation (ātma-vicāra) but also self-surrender, as explained by Bhagavan in the first sententence of the thirteenth paragraph of Nāṉ Yār? (happinessofbeing.blogspot.co.uk/2016/06/why-should-we-rely-on-bhagavan-to-carry.html#ny13): ஆன்மசிந்தனையைத் தவிர வேறு சிந்தனை கிளம்புவதற்குச் சற்று மிடங்கொடாமல் ஆத்மநிஷ்டாபரனா யிருப்பதே தன்னை ஈசனுக் களிப்பதாம். āṉma-cintaṉaiyai-t tavira vēṟu cintaṉai kiḷambuvadaṟku-c caṯṟum iḍam-koḍāmal ātma-niṣṭhā-paraṉ-āy iruppadē taṉṉai īśaṉukku aḷippadām. English translation: Being ātma-niṣṭhāparaṉ [one who is steadily fixed in oneself], giving not even the slightest room to the rising of any cintana [thought] other than ātma-cintana [thought of oneself], alone is giving oneself to God.

Samsara is Nirvana, Nirvana is samsara. There is nothing you can or need to do about it. You are it whatever the experience is. 😘

keep trying. Do not just ask the question "Who am I". Hold to the "I" thought (sense).

As Bhagavan said, the mind is very gross and blunt at first. It requires persistent practice to become sharp and subtle. In that very subtle state of mind, it can penetrate deep within when the inquiry is done. Otherwise, inquiry done at a gross level is just as distracted as the wandering mind. Then it determines that “this doesn’t work” and gives up. Those who have persisted in this for many lifetimes (like Bhagavan) have appeared to have succeeded quickly and easily- but it takes a lot of persistence to first sharpen the mind.

If your would like to join these meetings of the ‘Ramana Maharshi Foundation UK’, you can ask to have your name added to the list of people to whom they will send the joining instructions each month by writing to enquiries@ramana-maharshi.org.uk, as explained on their website: ramana-maharshi.org.uk

That at least would be advisable.....😉😂👍

Yes, please do.

The ego creates these complications, or seeming paradoxes, with attachment to logic. Don't try so hard to understand. Don't even try to experience. Just be.

yes but you could say that the false authority we place on so many of our waking actions - accepting guilt and praise for things largely outside of our voluntary control - is just like the false authority we adopt in dreams - forgetting we were dreaming.

Well, maybe that's what he said, but what we should not forget to mention is that Freud today is largely considered as outdated. So where does this leave us in regards of this dream debate?😘

These philosophers were just studying the dream universe projected by the ego. It is of no use to those aiming to eradicate the ego

Because the speaker is frenetic. Bhagavan, his life and teaching, radiated peace. He used few words, and his preferred method was silence. Frankly, it is difficult to see how this man's enthusiasm can be sincere, since he has worked himself into a loquacious frenzy, infatuated with concepts and a cult of personality. The commenters mostly seem dazzled by his passion and verbiage, but, I suspect, these are the pitfalls; not the path.

Bubba, pūrṇa means what is full, whole, complete, entire or all (see www.sanskritdictionary.com/?iencoding=iast&q=pūrṇa ), whereas śūnya means what is empty, void, non-existent or zero (see www.sanskritdictionary.com/?iencoding=iast&q=śūnya ). Our real nature, which is pure awareness, is pūrṇa, because it is all that actually exists, so it is the infinite fullness of existence, awareness and happiness (sat-cit-ānanda), and it is śūnya only in the sense that it is completely devoid of ego (subject) and phenomena (objects), which are non-existent, because though they seem to exist in the view of ourself as ego, they do not actually exist.

Nothing one can say can ever be entirely accurate. Actually it's all Maya, all play and distraction. Therefore bagavans must direct teaching was transmitted in silence. 😘

You also don't feel the five senses operating in the waking state. What you feel is that you are experiencing a world that is made out of matter and many different objects. If you would experience seeing, hearing, touching ect. taking place in form of a sort of a projection onto the screen of your mind, you would realise that the center you're are so used to think of as "I" went somehow missing. 😘

A friend has volunteered to make subtitles for all these videos, so when that is completed it will hopefully compensate for this issue

Great Thank you.......great lectures

That is really a great idea. Appreciate your work. Bhagavan' s blessings

A distracted outgoing mind is more interested in other things like creating drama rather than going inward and knowing itself

What we need to give up entirely is the thinker. We give up thinking entirely whenever we fall asleep, but thinking returns because we have not eradicated the ego, the ‘I’ who thinks. The ego is the erroneous self-awareness ‘I am this body’, in which ‘this body’ refers to whatever body we currently experience as ourself, whether in this state or in any other dream, so we can eradicate it only by being aware of ourself as we actually are. Therefore rather than being concerned about thoughts, we should be concerned about ourself, the thinker: who am I? That is, we need to investigate ourself by being so keenly self-attentive that we experience pure self-awareness, which is what we actually are.

" I am ".

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