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.

Episode Date
Upadēśa Taṉippākkaḷ verse 7: We should repent causing harm even accidentally
Sep 14, 2026
Bhagavan’s Advent reflects and symbolises what happened during his death experience
Sep 13, 2026
The one ego is the ‘I’ who experiences this appearance of multiplicity
Sep 10, 2026
Guru Vācaka Kōvai verse 921
Sep 07, 2026
How to surrender when faced with the need to make major decisions?
Aug 27, 2026
Why does self-investigation (ātma vicāra) seem difficult
Aug 21, 2026
If sleep is a temporary death, why do we wake up as the same person
Aug 21, 2026
To know what we actually are, we must discard body and world
Aug 20, 2026
Guru Vācaka Kōvai verse 871
Aug 19, 2026
Upadēśa Taṉippākkaḷ verse 6
Aug 10, 2026
We are free either to be swayed or not swayed by any vāsanā
Aug 08, 2026
Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu verse 13 and Guru Vācaka Kōvai verse 542
Aug 03, 2026
By being self attentive we as ego will dissolve back into our being
Jul 27, 2026
Being in the state of supreme bliss is being in service of God
Jul 27, 2026
Guru Vācaka Kōvai verse 541
Jul 24, 2026
If we constantly remember our being, ‘I am’, that alone is sufficient
Jul 19, 2026
Upadēśa Taṉippākkaḷ verses 4 and 5
Jul 12, 2026
We don’t need to realise the real but to unrealise the unreal
Jul 10, 2026
Guru Vācaka Kōvai verse 362
Jul 06, 2026
Bhakti is the mother of jñāna
Jun 20, 2026
Guru Vācaka Kōvai verse 209
Jun 20, 2026
Upadēśa Taṉippākkaḷ verses 2 and 3 (Significance of Deepavali)
Jun 15, 2026
Awareness, ego, vāsanās and phenomena
Jun 10, 2026
Philosophical challenges from artificial intelligence
Jun 09, 2026
Guru Vācaka Kōvai verse 160
Jun 04, 2026
Be without letting go of yourself
May 31, 2026
Grace, effort and destiny
May 18, 2026
Guru Vācaka Kōvai verse 130
May 14, 2026
Upadēśa Taṉippākkaḷ verse 1
May 07, 2026
What is ‘self-abidance’ (ātma niṣṭhā)?
May 02, 2026
Guru Vācaka Kōvai verse 129
Apr 28, 2026
Bhagavan Ramana is KālaKālan: Death to death
Apr 28, 2026
What are ‘transitive awareness’ and ‘intransitive awareness’?
Apr 27, 2026
Guru Vācaka Kōvai verse 46 and verses for his mother
Apr 25, 2026
Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu Anubandham verse 40
Apr 19, 2026
Is God personal, impersonal or beyond all such distinctions?
Apr 17, 2026
Guru Vācaka Kōvai verse 23
Mar 31, 2026
If ego comes into being, everything comes into being
Mar 25, 2026
Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu Anubandham verse 39
Mar 14, 2026
Thinking ‘I’ or ‘I am’ as an aid to being self-attentive
Feb 28, 2026
Self-attentiveness is not just not thinking
Feb 19, 2026
Why is ego not destroyed in sleep or kēvala nirvikalpa samādhi?
Feb 12, 2026
Why is consciousness necessarily something other than any phenomenon
Feb 10, 2026
Whether active or inactive, we must try to be self-attentive always
Feb 08, 2026
Ego will dissolve forever only when it turns back in on itself
Feb 04, 2026
Self attentiveness dissolves ego, the root of all suffering
Jan 29, 2026
Studying, understanding and practising Bhagavan’s teachings
Jan 29, 2026
Humility is the essence of Bhagavan’s teachings
Jan 24, 2026
Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu Anubandham verse 38
Jan 18, 2026
Is the ‘witness consciousness’ ego or ātma svarūpa
Jan 14, 2026
Guru Vācaka Kōvai verses 696, 965 and 966
Jan 06, 2026
Guru Vācaka Kōvai verses 19, 20 and 21
Jan 01, 2026
How can the mind remember svarūpa, which is beyond the mind?
Dec 30, 2025
Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu Anubandham verse 37
Dec 16, 2025
To investigate ourself effectively we need subtle understanding
Dec 14, 2025
Guru Vācaka Kōvai verses 579, 647, 589, 586 and 588
Dec 06, 2025
Ego alone is the experiencer of all phenomena
Dec 02, 2025
We are just one ‘I’, the light that dispels all darkness
Nov 26, 2025
Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu Anubandham verse 36
Nov 20, 2025
Turned outwards, awareness is ego, turned inwards, it is svarūpa
Nov 15, 2025
Śrī Aruṇācala Aṣṭakam verse 4
Nov 10, 2025
Śrī Aruṇācala Aṣṭakam verse 3
Oct 28, 2025
Being self-attentive alone is self-investigation
Oct 27, 2025
Bhagavan Ramana's Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu Anubandham, verse 35
Oct 18, 2025
Why and how to be aware of ourself as we actually are
Oct 14, 2025
Śrī Aruṇācala Aṣṭakam verse 2
Oct 04, 2025
Ego and its suffering can be ended only by self-investigation
Oct 02, 2025
Śrī Aruṇācala Aṣṭakam verse 1
Sep 28, 2025
Awareness as the jñāna-guru will make the reality known
Sep 22, 2025
Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu Anubandham verse 34
Sep 14, 2025
As taught by Bhagavan, how to give oneself to God?
Sep 13, 2025
Āṉma Viddai is one of the precious gems of Bhagavan’s teachings
Sep 09, 2025
Śrī Aruṇācala Padigam verse 11
Sep 03, 2025
Śrī Aruṇācala Padigam verse 10
Aug 21, 2025
Bhagavan is guru and God living eternally in and as our heart
Aug 19, 2025
Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu Anubandham verse 33
Aug 11, 2025
Being self attentive is attending to what shines permanently
Aug 10, 2025
Śrī Aruṇācala Padigam verse 9
Aug 05, 2025
Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu Anubandham verse 32
Jul 30, 2025
Whatever appears, we must attend to ourself, to whom it appear
Jul 28, 2025
Śrī Aruṇācala Padigam verse 8
Jul 23, 2025
We as ego will subside to the extent to which we observe ourself
Jul 22, 2025
How can we hold on to self-attentiveness persistently?
Jul 18, 2025
Śrī Aruṇācala Padigam verse 7
Jul 14, 2025
The simple practice of self investigation (ātma-vicāra)
Jun 29, 2025
Śrī Aruṇācala Padigam verse 6
Jun 25, 2025
Consciousness, God, suffering and freedom of will
Jun 24, 2025
Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu Anubandham verse 31
Jun 18, 2025
Rising as ego is the root cause for this entire appearance
Jun 15, 2025
Keeping our attention on our being, our fundamental awareness 'I am'
Jun 12, 2025
How can we hold on to self-attentiveness uninterruptedly?
Jun 10, 2025
Śrī Aruṇācala Padigam verse 5
Jun 04, 2025
Other than the base, ‘I am’, everything is a superimposition
May 31, 2025
Śrī Aruṇācala Padigam verse 4
May 27, 2025
Ego is pure being-awareness, ‘I am’, conflated with adjuncts
May 25, 2025
Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu Anubandham verse 30
May 21, 2025
We should meditate on ourself, not on the thought ‘I am brahman’
May 16, 2025
Śrī Aruṇācala Padigam verse 3
May 11, 2025
Liberation is achieved not by doing but by just being as we are
May 05, 2025
Everything other than ‘I am’ is just an illusory appearance
May 04, 2025
Śrī Aruṇācala Padigam verse 2
Apr 26, 2025
Bhagavan Ramana is the eternal guru in the heart of all
Apr 20, 2025
Upadēśa Undiyār - The path to liberation is being, not doing
Apr 19, 2025
Always keeping our mind on ourself alone is ātma-vicāra
Apr 17, 2025
Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu Anubandham verse 29
Apr 13, 2025
The ‘fourfold means’ (sādhanā catuṣṭayam)
Apr 08, 2025
Śrī Aruṇācala Padigam verse 1
Apr 02, 2025
Śrī Aruṇācala Navamaṇimālai verse 9
Mar 15, 2025
Our aim is to know who am I, not just to be free of thoughts
Mar 14, 2025
Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu Anubandham verse 28
Mar 09, 2025
Unconcerned about thoughts, we must attend only to ‘I’
Mar 03, 2025
Śrī Aruṇācala Navamaṇimālai verse 8
Feb 27, 2025
Śrī Aruṇācala Navamaṇimālai verse 7
Feb 20, 2025
Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu Anubandham verses 26 and 27
Feb 15, 2025
We can eradicate ego only by attending to ourself exclusively
Feb 13, 2025
To be without rising as ego, we must attend only to our being
Feb 07, 2025
Śrī Aruṇācala Navamaṇimālai verse 6
Feb 04, 2025
Ego subsides to the extent we attend to ourself exclusively
Feb 01, 2025
To eradicate ego, we must persistently try to be self-attentive
Jan 31, 2025
Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu maṅgalam verse 1
Jan 30, 2025
Śrī Aruṇācala Navamaṇimālai verse 5
Jan 29, 2025
Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu Anubandham verse 25
Jan 27, 2025
Aruṇācala Tattuvam and Dīpa-Darśaṉa Tattuvam
Jan 12, 2025
If Bhagavan is pure being awareness, how did he do anything?
Jan 12, 2025
Śrī Aruṇācala Navamaṇimālai verse 4
Dec 31, 2024
Śrī Aruṇācala Navamaṇimālai verse 3
Dec 29, 2024
Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu Anubandham, verses 23 and 24
Dec 21, 2024
To destroy all vāsanās, persistent practice is necessary
Dec 06, 2024
Śrī Aruṇācala Navamaṇimālai Verse 2
Dec 03, 2024
Fix the mind on yourself, do not think of anything else
Nov 30, 2024
Śrī Aruṇācala Navamaṇimālai Verse 1
Nov 16, 2024
How to practise silence?
Nov 09, 2024
Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu Anubandham verses 21 and 22
Nov 07, 2024
Without investigating oneself, how to achieve self-annihilation?
Nov 02, 2024
To investigate what we are, we must first distinguish the knower from the known
Oct 29, 2024
If we attend to ego carefully enough we will see what we actually are
Oct 16, 2024
What is desirelessness and what is renunciation?
Oct 11, 2024
Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu Anubandham verse 20
Oct 09, 2024
Verse 3 of Śrī Aruṇācala Padigam
Oct 08, 2024
As long as ego rises, effort is necessary
Oct 06, 2024
Self-investigation and happiness
Oct 03, 2024
Not rising as ego is knowing and being what we actually are
Oct 01, 2024
What is self-investigation, and what is self-surrender?
Sep 26, 2024
How does Arunachala eradicate ego when thought of?
Sep 23, 2024
Understanding ego as an erroneous awareness of ourself
Sep 19, 2024
What causes ego to rise from sleep?
Sep 15, 2024
Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu Anubandham verses 18 and 19
Sep 08, 2024
Real knowing is devoid of both knowing and not knowing
Sep 05, 2024
Only by persistent practice can we gain the power to remain subsided in our being
Sep 02, 2024
Bhagavan's Advent and the path of self-investigation
Sep 01, 2024
What is surrender and how to surrender?
Aug 26, 2024
The source and substance of ego is our own being, the pure ‘I am’
Aug 24, 2024
Self-investigation and overcoming desires
Aug 17, 2024
Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu Anubandham verse 17
Aug 14, 2024
We are not aware of ourself as we actually are because of ego
Aug 07, 2024
Bhakti is the mother of jñāna
Aug 04, 2024
Ātma-vicāra is ‘always keeping the mind on oneself’
Aug 01, 2024
The nature of ego and how to eradicate it
Jul 27, 2024
Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu Anubandham verse 16
Jul 25, 2024
Investigating who am I is the means to just be
Jul 19, 2024
Why is ego annihilated in manōnāśa and not in manōlaya
Jul 14, 2024
Michael answers questions
Jul 08, 2024
We are pure existence-awareness and infinite perfect happiness
Jul 05, 2024
2024-06-29 Ramana Maharshi Foundation UK: Pure awareness, manōnāśa and manōlaya
Jul 01, 2024
What is real? What is unreal? How to unrealise the unreal?
Jun 16, 2024
Āṉma-Viddai verse 4 (concluded) with Q&A
Jun 15, 2024
Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu verse 28 and the practice of ātma-vicāra
Jun 12, 2024
2024-06-02 San Diego Ramana Satsang: Ego, prāṇa, prāṇāyāma and self-investigation
Jun 09, 2024
Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu Anubandham verse 15
Jun 06, 2024
The nature of the awareness that shines in sleep
May 31, 2024
What actually exists is only ourself as we actually are
May 24, 2024
The basics of Bhagavan's teachings
May 21, 2024
Āṉma-Viddai verse 4 continued with Q&A
May 19, 2024
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
Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu: An introduction
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