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Soul and The Drama of This World


A friend shared the following: Source: The Marginalianhttps://share.google/aF6gajROev0gJ8Uzd I replied: The soul is distinct from the Self. Self is the … More

Caste, Caste System, Clay Pot Analogy, Gunas, Nonduality, Sdvaita, Self, Soul, World Drama

My Final Hurrah!


Just published on Amazon my 20th book (I hope this will be my last book) “Summa Iru: My Formal Renunciation … More

Advaita Vedanta, Brahman, Consciousness, Desires, Enlightenment, Hinduism, Love, Meditation, Mind, My book, My Poems, Nisargadatta Maharaj, Non-duality, Nonduality, Philosophy, Poems, Poetry, Ramakrishna Paramahansa, Ramana Maharshi, Religion, Self, Silence, Spirituality, Summa iru, Thinking, Truth, Vedanta

Big B & Other Poems


Big B You can keep blockingAs many as you want toBut how will you block lifeThat will keep expressing itselfThrough … More

Boundaries, Life, Mystery of life, Poem, Poetry, Relationships, Self, Self and the other, The Other

How Many I’s?


“Are there two I’s? Me and the Truth? Can’t be so, right? What gives?”

Ego, How many selves, Oneself, Quotations, Quote, Quotes, Self, Truth, Who am I

Is the World Real?


A friend wrote to me: “Trying to understand Reality,By renouncing the world,Is like trying to understand the ocean,By ignoring the … More

Brahman, Clay and pot, Consciousness, Criteria for reality, Criteria for truth, Dream analogy, God, Hinduism, Indian Philosophy, Jagat mithya, Meditation, Mithya, Name-and-form analogy, Philosophy, Ramana Maharshi, Reality, Religion, Sankaracharya, Self, Spirituality, Unchanging, Unreality of the World, What is "real"?, World

I Am Not A Thought – So Who Am I Really? – Nisargadatta Maharaj Wisdom


Advaita, Brahman, Freedom, Libertaion, Mind, Nisargadatta Maharaj, Nonduality, Philosophy, Self, Self-enquiry, Self-realization, Thoughts, Upainshads, Who am I, You are not the mind

“There Is No Creation, No Destruction”: Ramana Maharshi | Ajata Vada | Non-Duality | Truth | Maya


Body-mind identity, Brahman, Creation, Destruction of the world, I thought, Personal world, Pralayam, Ramana Maharshi, Self, Suffering, Unchanging Self, Who am I?, World

Tasya Bhāsā Sarvam Idam Vibhati – by His light all this is illumined


“Sarvam idam vibhati” (सर्वमिदं विभाति) means “All this shines” or “Everything is illumined,” a key phrase from Vedic scriptures like the Katha … More

Brahman, Katha Upanishad, Sarvam Idam Vibhati, Self, Self-luminous, Svayam Prakash, Truth

Show me how to dissolve the ‘I’ | J. Krishnamurti


Questioner: ‘Show me how to dissolve the ‘I’, the ‘me’. Without that, everything else is futile. ‘ ‘Show me how … More

I Me Mine, Life, Meditation, Mental health, Mindfulness, Self, Spirituality

How to remain in a no-mind state?


“Thou art the woman, Thou art the man, Thou art the youth and the maiden too. Thou art the old … More

Advaita, Mind, Nonduality, Self

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