Sri Ramana Teachings

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Philosophy and practice of self-investigation (ātma-vicāra) and self-surrender (ātma-samarpana) as taught by Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi.

Episode Date
What is the proper way to attend to ourself or brahman?
May 14, 2024
Śrī Aruṇācala Padigam verse 2
May 14, 2024
Self-investigation, effort, doing and being
May 11, 2024
Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu Anubandham verse 14
May 09, 2024
Bhagavan’s description of his death experience
May 01, 2024
What is real 'seeing' or 'knowing' God?
Apr 24, 2024
The blind intelligence of AI cannot help us to see what is real
Apr 17, 2024
svarūpa and ego are one in substance but differ in appearance
Apr 13, 2024
Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu Anubandham verse 13
Apr 09, 2024
The heart of surrender is being without rising as ego
Apr 02, 2024
ātma-vicāra is investigating who am I, not asking ‘Who am I?’
Mar 12, 2024
bhakti japa, jñāna japa and self-investigation
Mar 09, 2024
Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu Anubandham verse 12
Mar 04, 2024
Ego, freedom of will, surrender and self-investigation
Feb 26, 2024
Āṉ𝘮𝘢 𝘝𝘪𝘥𝘥𝘢𝘪 verse 4 (continued)
Feb 18, 2024
If everything is predetermined, how can we have freedom of will and action?
Feb 16, 2024
ātma-vicāra is attending to what is permanent, namely ‘I am’
Feb 11, 2024
Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu Anubandham verse 11
Feb 07, 2024
Why should we believe that we are one without a second?
Jan 30, 2024
Sri Ramana Jayanti - Śrī Aruṇācala Pañcaratnam
Jan 26, 2024
Bhagavan Jayanthi Celebration: Śrī Aruṇācala Padigam verse 1
Jan 22, 2024
Āṉma-Viddai verse 3 (concluded) and verse 4 (commenced)
Jan 21, 2024
Metaphysical solipsism does not imply social solipsism
Jan 17, 2024
What should we do to attain brahman or pure consciousness?
Jan 07, 2024
What bhāvana should one hold during self-investigation?
Dec 13, 2023
‘I exist’ is our only permanent and self-evident experience
Dec 11, 2023
Āṉma Viddai verse 3 (continued)
Dec 09, 2023
Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu Anubandham verse 10
Dec 07, 2023
ēka-jīva-vāda and solipsism
Dec 06, 2023
What should we attend to or be aware of when going within?
Nov 28, 2023
Bhagavan’s death experience and self-investigation
Nov 14, 2023
What we are to investigate is ourself, the one and only ‘I’
Nov 08, 2023
Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu Anubandham verse 9
Nov 08, 2023
Understanding solipsism as taught by Bhagavan Ramana
Oct 30, 2023
Bernardo Kastrup and Michael James - Analytic Idealism and Ramana Maharshi’s Advaita
Oct 27, 2023
Āṉma-Viddai verse 3 (continued)
Oct 22, 2023
What is pure awareness?
Oct 17, 2023
Is ego the false identification ‘I am this body’?
Oct 12, 2023
Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu Anubandham verse 8
Oct 08, 2023
Self-enquiry is just keeping our mind fixed firmly on ourself
Oct 05, 2023
What is manōnāśa (annihilation of mind)?
Oct 03, 2023
Who is aware of thoughts, feelings, emotions, body and mind? Isn’t it ego?
Oct 03, 2023
In your heart cling firmly like an uḍumbu to your real nature (GVK 130)
Sep 22, 2023
Longing for Guru Ramana - Meditative Selections from Sri Sadhu Om’s Śrī Ramaṇa Varuhai
Sep 19, 2023
Who or what is Bhagavan?
Sep 17, 2023
Āṉ𝘮𝘢 𝘝𝘪𝘥𝘥𝘢𝘪 verse 3 (continued)
Sep 14, 2023
Since ego exists by grasping form, is it OK to grasp the form of Ramana
Sep 13, 2023
Why is self-enquiry not like a thief posing as a policeman?
Sep 12, 2023
Viṣaya-vāsanās and vairāgya
Sep 10, 2023
Do body and world exist if we do not rise as ego?
Sep 07, 2023
How to distinguish the pure ‘I’ from the thought called ‘I’?
Sep 05, 2023
Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu Anubandham verses 6 and 7
Sep 03, 2023
Bhagavan’s Advent in the context of his teachings
Sep 01, 2023
Ego part 1: Who is aware ‘I am’, and who is to practise self-investigation?
Aug 31, 2023
Āṉ𝘮𝘢 𝘝𝘪𝘥𝘥𝘢𝘪 verse 3
Aug 30, 2023
Why is this entire world as unreal as a dream?
Aug 27, 2023
Can self attentiveness be too shallow to weaken 𝘷𝘪ṣ𝘢𝘺𝘢 𝘷ā𝘴𝘢𝘯ā𝘴?
Aug 23, 2023
Is self-investigation a mental activity?
Aug 16, 2023
How to return to oneself during periods of spiritual dryness or aridity?
Aug 14, 2023
What is the relationship between self-investigation and self-surrender?
Aug 12, 2023
Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu Anubandham verses 4 and 5
Aug 11, 2023
2023-08-03 Michael and Sandra: Book launch Ramana Maharshi’s Forty Verses on What Is (part 1)
Aug 05, 2023
Do we investigate ourself in silence?
Jul 30, 2023
The answer to all questions is to know the truth about ourself
Jul 29, 2023
Understanding the basics of Ramana Maharshi’s teachings
Jul 28, 2023
Āṉ𝘮𝘢 𝘝𝘪𝘥𝘥𝘢𝘪 verse 2 concluded
Jul 14, 2023
What is the best way to deal with loved ones who are suffering?
Jul 09, 2023
We can give up all identification only by eradicating ego
Jul 06, 2023
Why is accepting one fundamental that becomes many certainly the one best option?
Jul 05, 2023
Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu Anubandham verses 1 to 3
Jul 03, 2023
How do grace, love and effort work together, complementing each other?
Jul 01, 2023
How to overcome pride, arrogance and envy on the spiritual path?
Jun 30, 2023
Is severance of the knot complete destruction of ego?
Jun 29, 2023
What are the traps while turning inwards and how to transcend them?
Jun 26, 2023
Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu Anubandham, Maṅgalam (benedictory verse)
Jun 23, 2023
How to yield to grace to have love to be pulled inwards constantly?
Jun 21, 2023
Āṉma-Viddai verse 2 (continued)
Jun 15, 2023
How to distinguish self-attentiveness from quietness of mind?
Jun 15, 2023
Is being aware of thinking the awareness I AM or not?
Jun 14, 2023
The relevance of studying and thinking for self-investigation
Jun 10, 2023
How to ignore the mind and know oneself, its base?
Jun 09, 2023
Why does Bhagavan advise us to investigate only ourself, not anything else?
Jun 04, 2023
How to cultivate the sharpness of mind to hold onto oneself?
Jun 01, 2023
Āṉma-Viddai verse 1 (concluded) and verse 2 (commenced)
May 18, 2023
Does the idea of prārabdha exist only to help us to let go of ego?
May 17, 2023
Does the world truly disappear during self-investigation?
May 16, 2023
How to do self-enquiry and what to observe?
May 14, 2023
Swami Sarvapriyananda and Michael James discuss Advaita Vedanta and the teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi with
May 10, 2023
The law of karma as taught by Bhagavan
May 07, 2023
How to be sure if my attention is on the Self during self-enquiry?
May 05, 2023
How to develop more love to go within?
Apr 22, 2023
What is ego and why does it create everything?
Apr 14, 2023
How to practice self-investigation during our daily life?
Apr 08, 2023
Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu verse 13
Apr 06, 2023
How to purify the mind?
Mar 29, 2023
Our aim is to attend to nothing other than our own being
Mar 24, 2023
The Path of Sri Ramana: Introduction - By Sri Sadhu Om
Mar 15, 2023
Investigating ourself is the antidote to our rising as ego
Mar 14, 2023
Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu verse 12
Mar 06, 2023
How can we strengthen our love to surrender
Feb 28, 2023
Clarifying the practice of self-investigation
Feb 28, 2023
Āṉma-Viddai verse 1 (continued)
Feb 26, 2023
Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 21 Q&A
Feb 26, 2023
Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 21
Feb 26, 2023
Self-investigation, self-surrender and prayer
Feb 12, 2023
Clarification on some details in the life of Sri Sadhu Om
Feb 10, 2023
Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu verse 11
Feb 10, 2023
How can we be firmly convinced that happiness lies only within?
Feb 05, 2023
Self-investigation and other practices
Feb 05, 2023
To know what actually exists, we must subside and lose ourself in it
Feb 04, 2023
Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 20 Q&A
Feb 02, 2023
Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 20
Feb 02, 2023
Self-investigation is the culmination of the path of surrender
Jan 29, 2023
Āṉma-Viddai pallavi, anupallavi and verse 1
Jan 29, 2023
Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 19 Q&A
Jan 28, 2023
Turning back within is the only solution for all problems
Jan 27, 2023
Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 19
Jan 16, 2023
Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu verse 10
Jan 12, 2023
Bhakti is the mother of jñāna
Jan 11, 2023
Nāṉ Ār? paragraph 20
Jan 08, 2023
How to investigate who am I?
Jan 02, 2023
Ego, vāsanās, living in the world and ending its appearance
Dec 22, 2022
Self-investigation is a gentle and joyful process driven by love
Dec 19, 2022
Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 18 Q&A
Dec 13, 2022
Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 18
Dec 11, 2022
What does following Bhagavan’s path seriously mean and imply?
Dec 09, 2022
Nāṉ Ār? paragraph 19
Dec 09, 2022
Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu verse 9
Dec 05, 2022
Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 17 Q&A
Nov 28, 2022
Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 17
Nov 28, 2022
Bhagavan’s path is the pinnacle of the path of bhakti
Nov 27, 2022
Upadēśa Sāraḥ verses 29 and 30
Nov 27, 2022
Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 16 Q&A
Nov 27, 2022
Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 16
Nov 26, 2022
Nāṉ Ār? paragraph 18
Nov 12, 2022
Bhagavad Gītā Sāram verses 27 and 28
Nov 11, 2022
Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu verse 8
Nov 11, 2022
Everything is impermanent and hence unreal, except ourself as ‘I am’
Nov 03, 2022
Bhagavan knows everything as himself, so we cannot comprehend his omniscience
Nov 03, 2022
Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 15 Q&A
Nov 02, 2022
Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 15
Nov 02, 2022
The root of all diseases is ego, the false awareness ‘I am this body’
Oct 18, 2022
Upadēśa Sāraḥ verses 27 and 28
Oct 13, 2022
Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 14 Q&A
Oct 13, 2022
Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 14
Oct 13, 2022
What is salvation?
Oct 12, 2022
Are we responsible for our actions?
Oct 12, 2022
Nāṉ Ār? paragraph 17
Oct 11, 2022
Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu verse 7
Oct 09, 2022
Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 13 Q&A
Sep 28, 2022
Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 13
Sep 28, 2022
Is uninterrupted self-attention the only means to overcome all deep-rooted attachments?
Sep 18, 2022
Upadēśa Sāraḥ verses 23 to 26
Sep 17, 2022
Bhagavan Ramana, the flower of Vēdānta
Sep 16, 2022
Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 12 Q&A
Sep 15, 2022
Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 12
Sep 15, 2022
Is it possible for us as ego to surrender ourself entirely?
Sep 14, 2022
Can we reconcile planning and expectation with surrender?
Sep 10, 2022
‘If we unrealise the unreal, the real alone will remain’
Sep 09, 2022
Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu verse 6
Sep 08, 2022
What advice did Bhagavan give about how to sharpen our self-vigilance?
Sep 04, 2022
Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 11 Q&A
Aug 28, 2022
Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 11
Aug 28, 2022
Practising self-investigation
Aug 27, 2022
Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 10 Q&A
Aug 26, 2022
Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 10
Aug 26, 2022
Why are Bhagavan’s teachings always so fresh and well suited to each of us?
Aug 25, 2022
Bhagavan’s teachings go beyond all religions but are the heart of each of them
Aug 19, 2022
Upadēśa Sāraḥ verses 21 and 22
Aug 16, 2022
‘I am I’, sphuraṇa and the ‘I’-thought
Aug 09, 2022
Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu verse 5
Aug 07, 2022
However much we may fail, we must persevere in trying to be self-attentive
Aug 06, 2022
Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 9 Q&A
Jul 31, 2022
Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 9
Jul 31, 2022
Upadēśa Sāraḥ verses 19 and 20
Jul 13, 2022
Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 8 Q&A
Jul 11, 2022
Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 8
Jul 11, 2022
Nāṉ Ār? paragraph 16
Jul 04, 2022
Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu verse 4
Jul 03, 2022
Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 7 Q&A
Jun 28, 2022
Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 7
Jun 28, 2022
The solution to all challenges on the path
Jun 20, 2022
Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu verse 3
Jun 20, 2022
How to practise self-investigation
Jun 15, 2022
Upadēśa Sāraḥ verse 18
Jun 15, 2022
Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 6 Q&A
Jun 14, 2022
Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 6
Jun 14, 2022
Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 5 Q&A
May 29, 2022
Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 5
May 29, 2022
The practical value of Bhagavan’s teaching that all this is just a dream
May 19, 2022
Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 4 Q&A
May 15, 2022
Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 4
May 15, 2022
Upadēśa Sāraḥ verses 16 and 17
May 09, 2022
Bhakti is the mother of jñāna
May 09, 2022
Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu verse 2
May 08, 2022
Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu verse 5
May 05, 2022
Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 3 Q&A
May 01, 2022
Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 3
May 01, 2022
The core teachings of Bhagavan
Apr 24, 2022
We can help others only by rectifying ourself
Apr 18, 2022