Awareness Watching Awareness
Mirror Site for "Awareness" pages, originally published on Tripod.
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Ramana Maharshi |
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The Most Rapid and Direct Means to Eternal Bliss |
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Former title: The Impostor | ||
"The ego controls all thinking." "The ego creates arguments against the Direct Path as a preservation strategy." |
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At this site | ||
The author of these pages does not claim to have invented the awareness-watching-awareness method. Rather, after many years of searching, he intuitively discovered the method while on a visit to the Ramana Maharshi ashram in India. Before applying the method, he sought support for it in the teachings of Ramana and other realized teachers, and indeed found support for it there. Many of these supporting sources are referenced below. He then applied himself diligently to the practice, and in a little over two years time experienced the death of the ego and realized his real Self. He considers this method to be the most rapid and direct means to self-realization, and the writings on these pages are intended to explain this simple practice, thereby saving the aspirant many years of vain searching, the result of using less direct means. |
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Pages marked * have been superseded by chapters in the book (above) | |
* Awareness Watching Awareness - Practice Instructions | |
This site | |
* Awareness Watching Awareness - Further Clarification | |
This site | |
* The Abandon Release Method | |
This site | |
* The Reminder Page - Read This Every Day | |
This site | |
Five Sages Teaching the Direct Path | |
The 6 Rings - The most direct and the less direct paths | |
The original index for many of these pages, providing an overview
of Direct Path Teachings. A good starting point or "home base" for the teachings on this site. |
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This site |
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Sri Muruganar | Annamalai Swami |
Sri Sadhu Om Sadhu Om Swamigal |
First Ring - Most Direct Means |
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* How I Discovered the Awareness Watching Awareness Method | |
This site | |
Turning Inward - How to Look Within - How to Practice | |
From Garland of Guru's (Ramana Maharshi's) Sayings by Sri Muruganar | |
This site | |
The World - 108 sayings - On ignoring and turning one's attention | |
away from the world and towards Awareness watching Awareness. | |
From Garland of Guru's (Ramana Maharshi's) Sayings by Sri Muruganar | |
This site | |
Sri Ramana Maharshi's Teachings on the topics of Thinking About, Reading and Discussing Spiritual Teachings |
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Quotes by Sri Muruganar and by Ramana Maharshi (various sources) | |
This site | |
"Choice A" - Quotes | |
Encouraging descriptions of realization by Ramana, Muruganar, others. | |
This site | |
Realization ("Sri Ramana Experience") - by Sri Muruganar | |
One of the most detailed, clearly communicated, profound and heart touching descriptions of the experience of Self-Realization ever written. | |
This site | |
Experiences and Comments | |
The end of the illusion of the ego | |
This site | |
"Inquiry-Abidance" - Brief presentation of AWA Method | |
"How to Practice Self Awareness" - The Awareness Watching Awareness practice is best described as abidance in self-awareness. | |
This site | |
Second Ring |
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The journals of Sri Sadhu Om have been called the most detailed
and clearly expressed instructions ever written on the practice of Self-inquiry
as advocated by Ramana Maharshi. The following are from his book: The Path of Sri
Ramana, which is available at Michael James' website (see below).
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Self-Inquiry - Sri Sadhu Om (chapter 7) | |
Self-inquiry is only an aid to Self-Awareness; only Self-Awareness is the True Direct Path. | |
Although we formally refer to [Self-attention] as ‘directed’, in truth it is not of the nature of a ‘doing’ in the form of directing or being directed; it is of the nature of ‘being’ or ‘existing’. | |
This site | |
The Technique of Self-Inquiry - Sri Sadhu Om (chapter 8) | |
Penetrating insight and detailed instructions on how to apply the principles of Self-inquiry. | |
This site | |
Sri Annamali Swami | |
Sri Annamali Swami was closely associated with Ramana Maharshi for many years. There are currently no writings by him linked on this page. A copy of a very small (pocket edition) book "Annamalai Swami: Final Talks," edited by David Godman, published by AHAM, can be obtained via an internet search, or at Original site. | |
Third Ring |
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Who Am I? - by Ramana Maharshi | |
This site | |
Truth Revealed - 40 Verses on Reality - by Ramana Maharshi | |
"The Divine gives light to the mind and shines within it. Except by turning the mind inward and fixing it in the Divine, there is no other way to know Him through the mind." | |
This site | |
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Nisargadatta Maharaj |
Siddharameshwar Maharaj |
Fourth Ring |
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I AM THAT - Selected comments of Nisargadatta Maharaj | |
Strongly encouraging remarks on how to practice. | |
This site | |
Fifth Ring |
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Direct Path - by Mouni Sadhu | |
Whoever knows of the hidden Direct Path will not waste time following lesser ways. | |
This site | |
Brief Biography of Ramana Maharshi | |
by T.M.P. Mahadevan, 1959, published by the Ramana Maharshi ashram | |
This site | |
"Sri Muruganar and Sri Sadhu Om" - by Michael James | |
A somewhat devotional tribute to these two "poet-saints" by the scholar/translator Michael James, but one that offers interesting background information on their working relationship with Sri Ramana, as they recorded and helped to explain his teachings. | |
This site | |
Sixth Ring |
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Ceasing to Pretend One Wishes to be Liberated | |
A look at tricks the ego uses to preserve its imaginary self. | |
This site | |
Spiritual Business - Why spiritual Truth is distorted into lies | |
This site | |
Sahaja - What is Liberation according to Sri Ramana Maharshi? | |
Avoiding a false sense of liberation | |
This site |
THE FREEDOM RELIGION, INC |
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http://www.thefreedomreligionpress.com | |
Other writings |
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Comments on meetings with Vernon Howard | |
This site | |
Meditation Messages - from "Divine Sparks" | |
Clear and excellent aphorisms on meditation | |
Original site | |
Reasons for changes in the website format | |
(explaining changes to the old website) | |
Original site | |
Direct Path Books (and bookstores that carry them) | |
Original site | |
Groups |
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Links to Sri Ramana groups around the world. | |
The Sri Ramana Community Page | |
Yahoo Groups |
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Group: ETERNAL BLISS This group will explore the teachings in the book: | |
"THE MOST RAPID AND DIRECT MEANS TO ETERNAL BLISS".
Further clarifications, commentaries and explanations will be posted here. |
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Group: First Ring | |
Group: The Path of Sri Ramana - Part 1 | |
Links page |
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Original site (ramanalinks.htm) | |
Ashram in India |
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Interesting information about Arunachala, the Ashram and the people associated with it. | |
Traveling To Sri Arunachala | |
Word document file - Maps and directions - click to open Word document | |
New Translations |
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Michael James tranlated the material by Sri Sadhu Om
linked on this page.
His new translations of Who Am I? (Nan Yar?) and Forty Verses (Ulladu Narpadu) by Ramana Maharshi can be found in a copy of his book: Happiness and the Art of Being. A PDF version is available for free download by following these links: |
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Happiness and the Art of Being by Michael James: Main page for the book | |
Happiness and the Art of Being, free eBook: Direct link to PDF file, 2.0 megabytes | |
His website, dedicated to teachings of Ramana Maharshi: http://www.happinessofbeing.com/ | |
Guru Vachaka Kovai (Garland of Guru's sayings) by Ramana,
Muruganar, Sri Sadhu Om edited by Michael James (a work in progress): http://www.happinessofbeing.com/guru_vachaka_kovai.html |
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The Path of Sri Ramana (Part One) by Sri Sadhu Om - edited
by Michael James Opens a PDF file - 233 pages - 626 KB: http://www.happinessofbeing.com/The_Path_of_Sri_Ramana_Part_One.pdf |
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