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What bhāvana should one hold during self-investigation?
What bhāvana should one hold during self-investigation?
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149 minutes
Released:
Dec 13, 2023
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Podcast episode
Description
In a Zoom meeting with the Ramana Maharshi Foundation UK on 9th December 2023, Michael answers various questions about Bhagavan’s teachings.
The first question Michael answered was:
I have a question about the attitude (bhavana) one should hold when conducting self-investigation. There are 2 different ideas I can read in Bhagwan's teachings:
The first being "Investigating the Self as I" or "Who am I" or "What am I" or "I am I". The second is "God is I" or "Bhagwan is shining as I" or "I am Brahman"
They both lead to attention on the self, but the feeling is subtly different. The first one is more analytical, and driven by a curiosity. The second one devotional, and is driven by a longing to be one with Bhagwan. I understand that these ultimately the same path, but to me these carry subtly different perfumes. Can you comment in this, please?
This episode can also be watched as a video here and a more compressed audio copy in Opus format (which can be listened to in the VLC media player and some other apps) can be downloaded from here.
The first question Michael answered was:
I have a question about the attitude (bhavana) one should hold when conducting self-investigation. There are 2 different ideas I can read in Bhagwan's teachings:
The first being "Investigating the Self as I" or "Who am I" or "What am I" or "I am I". The second is "God is I" or "Bhagwan is shining as I" or "I am Brahman"
They both lead to attention on the self, but the feeling is subtly different. The first one is more analytical, and driven by a curiosity. The second one devotional, and is driven by a longing to be one with Bhagwan. I understand that these ultimately the same path, but to me these carry subtly different perfumes. Can you comment in this, please?
This episode can also be watched as a video here and a more compressed audio copy in Opus format (which can be listened to in the VLC media player and some other apps) can be downloaded from here.
Released:
Dec 13, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai verse 3: In a Zoom meeting of the ‘Ramana Maharshi Foundation UK’ on 30th April 2022 Michael James discusses verse 3 of Śrī Aruṇācala Akṣaramaṇamālai: ----more---- அகம்புகுந் தீர்த்துன் னககுகை சிறையா யமர்வித்த தென்கொ லருணாசலா ahampuhun dīrttuṉ ṉahaguhai ... by Sri Ramana Teachings