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My Two Cents on the Purpose of Life


One way of looking at the whole drama of human life is to see it as one of the avoidance…

Happiness, Purpose of life, Pursuit of happiness, Suffering

Advaita: Non-Dual Spirituality – from Ancient India to our Global Age


Check out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9pemPIBhLE

Advaita, Brahman, Nonduality, Self (Brahman)

Ramana Maharshi on Contemplation


I [Yogi Ramaiah] asked [Ramana] Maharshi about contemplation. He taught me as follows: When a man dies the funeral pyre…

Ramana Maharshi, Self, Self (Brahman), Self-enquiry, Self-realization, Self-realization / Liberation

Ramana Maharshi on God


You now think that you are an individual, there is the universe and that God is beyond the cosmos. So…

Bhagavad Gita, God, Ramana Maharshi

Ramana Maharshi quotes


“If a person overlooks the faults of others, and sees only their merits, and thus keeps his mind serene, his…

Quotes by Ramana Maharshi, Ramana Maharshi, Ramana Maharshi quotes

How To Live in the World – Ramana Maharshi’s Advice


Why should your occupation or duties in life interfere with your spiritual effort? For instance, there is a difference between…

Destiny, Living Like an Actor, Ramana Maharshi, Renunciation, Self

Ramana Maharshi on True Surrender


Q: [Given to Sri Ramana Maharshi in the form of a written note.] They say that one can obtain everything…

Ramana Maharshi, Saranagati, Sense of Doership, Surrender

Free Will by James Fieser


Check out https://www.utm.edu/staff/jfieser/class/120/4-freewill.htm

Destiny, Fate, Free Will, Predeterminism

Free Will: What’s Wrong, and How to Fix It


via https://marvinedwards.me/2019/03/08/free-will-whats-wrong-and-how-to-fix-it/ The author of this “Pressed” post, Marvin Edwards, makes a very good case that free will defined and…

Destiny, Fate, Free Will, Predeterminism

A Path to Truth


One has to thoroughly understand why the World is mere Name and Form (Nama-Rupa), including one’s body and mind including…

Aham brahmasmi, Consciousness, Consciousness (Awareness), Nama-rupa, Name and form

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