2023-02-25 Ramana Maharshi Foundation UK: Clarifying the practice of self-investigation

[@SriRamanaTeachings]

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[@albertoiztueta3850]

thank you!

[@akn650]

Om Namo Bhagavathe Sri Ramanaya! 🙏🙏🙏

[@visweshwaranr]

I had the same doubt which was clarified today.thankyou gurudev. I had such an enriching learning to today.🙏

[@Axito2]

You fill all the gaps, which the mind could use to turn outward again. We "can't take" all these inward turning concepts with us into beeing , where we Just are... Nervertheless I enjoy listening to your words over and over again 😄😄 You are so amazing dear Michael(ness) ❤️

[@SriRamanaTeachings]

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[@Leenyazbek]

It feels like Shakespeare's "To be, or not to be, that is the question " reflects the essence of Bagavhans's teaching. Thank you 🙏

[@VirendraSingh-iu2nc]

Thank you very much🌹👌.

[@rviswanathan]

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[@michaeldillon3113]

Viswanath I think that you must be a great devotee - you always show your respect to Michael but you don't seem to need to ' go out ' and make a comment , unlike people like myself with unrestrained minds ✌️🕉️

[@rviswanathan]

@@michaeldillon3113 🙏 That's perhaps because I still have a long way to go before I can have doubts & the stuff to write comments about

[@michaeldillon3113]

@@rviswanathan Bless you 🙏

[@johnmcdonald260]

@@michaeldillon3113 No reason for you to be apologetic of your seeming need to "go out". All actions of the body and mind are determined by prarabdha, and since the mind and body is always active there seems to be always a “going out”. To compare oneself with those whose prarabdha is less active and less communicative on a blog (or in general) is delusion. We cannot possibly judge about the state of a mind in the amount of comments it posts (or its general activity). Somebody post 1 comment within a year, oh my God, he must be close to realization, somebody else post 1000 comments within a year, see how chatty he is, he must be a beginner. But those are only immature judgments of the ego which cannot possibly know the state of somebodies apparent mind. Two examples to illustrate, the first example is true for most if not all who read these comments: A comment is written and simultaneously the mind has turned within (with different deep levels depending on the sadhaka) and therefore there are different levels of identification with the doer who writes that comment. Yet, all of those feel still that they are the one responsible for that comment. The second example: One can be perfectly turned within and the mind still posts a comment. However there is no identification with that action at all and no responsibility is taken. Thus it is silly to agonize about posting too much, and all other seeming misdeeds since it is all prarabdha anyway. The ego judging its action just creates more fresh karma, thus lamenting about one's shortcoming is ultimately counter-productive. But that is also at least part prarabdha and therefore the only conclusion is to turn within, everything else is maya and delusion.

[@Legion6363]

self ref pt 41:47 42:06 to 42:18

[@sonusanat]

Please answer my questions 🙏 1) Does self enquiry method also requires opening of chakras and escaping through sahasrara like other yoga techniques teaches? Is opening of kundalini chakras mandatory? 2) Read in a book where maharshi says when we meditate I, I, I, it leads to heart on the physical body. He also says heart is the source of all thoughts and we have to focus on the source of the thoughts means do we have to concentrate on the heart? Physical heart place while doing self enquiry?

[@josefbruckner7154]

Sanath M, our inner heart is our real nature. The physical heart and our innermost heart are completely different. Self-investigation has nothing to do with any yoga techniques, chakras, kundalini etc.

[@sonusanat]

@@josefbruckner7154 thank you 🙏

[@sourcetext]

The Teaching is: You are not the body or mind you are Eternal Spirit Trapped in the body and mind you have forgotten over many incarnations. The Matrix is your own bio computer brain machine that keeps you in the illusion of being a physical Being in a physical world VIA the nervous system and the five senses ( the Fallen Angel and Original Sin or original mistake METAPHORS) Meditation separation is the ancient secret practice of putting the body and mind to sleep but staying AWAKE and ALERT inside ( like s computer in sleep mode) until you remember or Experience your Self as Eternal Spirit... again. If you remain in your True and Original state after meditation it is called Nirvana, Samadhi, Cosmic Consciousness, Heaven within Luke 17 21, Prodigal Son The Holy Grail to Eternal Life ( not s real cup but a literary image), AWAKE as Eternal Spirit again by Buddha, Silf realization by Yogananda, leaving the body ( going inside) but not dying By Ramana Maharshi, Socrates and Krishnamurti , Moksha Self Salvation,The Eternal "Inner Witness" by Krishnamurti, The Eternal Now by Nostradamus, becoming a Demigod ( half Human half God) etc etc all the same.❤

[@TheDeepening718]

I'm afraid of this encroaching watered down version of Ramana's teaching where the soul is real but is just a thought too somehow. The Self. ALONE. Exists.

[@josefbruckner7154]

Deeper Exegesis, you may look deep down inwards who is afraid of Ramana's teaching. As you say, because self alone exists it never becomes afraid. 🙂

[@christianandersson2217]

Thank you! 🙏

[@elogiud]

Thank you...