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Last week a person called Teck posted two comments on one of my recent articles, Making effort to pay attention to our mind is being attentive only to our essential self , in the first of which he or she wrote: … My question is, how important is CONTINUITY and INTENSITY of self abidance/attention for our progress (of recognizing our true being)? Recently I started to intuit that these 2 factors are of very critical importance in our progress. … In his or her second comment , Teck continued: I think I need to elaborate more about what I mean by intensity and continuity. By the 1st I mean the degree of “alertness/mindfulness” of our attention to awareness itself, while ignoring others eg feeling, thoughts etc., kind like when a cat trying to catch a mouse, it’s attention is very alert/focused. Continuity is very obvious, it’s simply the ability to sustain our attention on our consciousness/awareness without interruption. I suspect that the speed of our realization (progress) depends on ...

With reference to a reply that I had written to an earlier comment quoting pages 584-5 of Happiness and the Art of Being , last week the following anonymous comment was posted on one of my recent articles, Making effort to pay attention to our mind is being attentive only to our essential self : When once one has the intensity, there is no question of doing meditation or vichara in short periods with various intervals or going in for long ardous sessions as time itself is a subsequent factor having no relevance to our essential being of, “I AM”, unless one does some yoga exercise. Yes, time is a phenomenon that appears to exist only when our mind is active — that is, when it is attending to anything other than itself — so when we are wholly absorbed in self-attentiveness time is truly non-existent. Therefore, all questions and concern about time exist for us only when our love to abide in our natural state of clear thought-free self-conscious being is not yet sufficiently intense ...

Last week the following anonymous comment was posted on an old article in this blog, The transcendent state of true self-knowledge is the only real state : Very frequently reference is being made in works purporting to explain the teachings of Bhaghavan that the very fundamental thought, subsequent to which all the other thoughts arise, is the thought, ‘I’. My question is can there be a thought at the level of the pure I. Any thought can be of the form of the modification of the I, attaching it to a phenomenal object with a relative subject being there. So is it not a fact that tracing all thoughts to the basic I thought presupposes the idea of steering clear of thoughts by knowing the unassociated I. Apart from thoughts there can be no I thought. Hence there is no question of tracing everything to the I thought. Bhaghavan has given this method, I feel, out of compassion to direct individuals to the feeling of subject. Otherwise it would delude us into the idea that there is an I thou...

A few weeks ago a very long anonymous comment was posted on one of my recent articles, Self-attentiveness, effort and grace . Though this comment was posted under the identity ‘Anonymous’, the name ‘Michael Langford’ was written at the end of it. I do not know whether or not this comment was actually posted by Michael Langford (though I suspect it probably was not), but except for his name at the end of it, the entire comment is a verbatim copy of a webpage that he wrote entitled Sri Sadhu Om - Self Inquiry , which is one of the many pages in the Awareness Watching Awareness section of the Albigen.Com website. Most of this webpage, Sri Sadhu Om - Self Inquiry , is an edited copy of chapter seven of Part One of The Path of Sri Ramana , a PDF copy of which is available on my website, Happiness of Being . However, before his edited copy of chapter seven, Michael Langford has written the following two introductory paragraphs: Sri Sadhu Om spent five years in the company of Sri Ramana ...

I began to write this article on Thursday of last week, 11th December, which was the day of Kārttikai Deepam , but for various reasons I was unable to complete it till today, 18th December. Kārttikai Deepam is an annual festival celebrated in the Tamil month of Kārttikai (mid-November to mid-December) on the day on which the moon is in conjunction with the constellation Pleiades (known in Tamil as kārttikai and in Sanskrit as kṛttikā ), which always coincides with the full moon or comes one or two days before or after it. On this day a beacon light or dīpam (popularly spelt as deepam ) is lit on the summit of the holy mountain Arunachala, at the foot of which lies the temple-town of Tiruvannamalai, where Bhagavan Sri Ramana lived for the last fifty-four years of his bodily life. On Kārttikai Deepam day in 1931 (called prajōtpatti in Hindu calendars, the fifth year in the 60-year Jupiter cycle), which was 24th November, when answering some questions on the subject Sri Ramana expla...