Practices: The best practices arise from Self within to inform the mind. The Self in the Heart knows what's best for you. The mind does not. Turn within, ask, listen.
Remember:
As often as possible, each day, remind yourself silently that you are not the body or mind. Dehatma buddhi (I-am-the-body idea) must go.
Change your internal language: "The body is being moved to the store." not "I AM going to the store."
Abhyasa (practice):
Abhyasa is to keep the mind turned inward. (The mind, turned outward, IS the world, turned inward, IS the Self.) Trace a circle. The subtle mind arises from the Heart each morning and shines out through the gross senses, dreaming the body and the world outside. At night, the subtle mind dreams inside itself, or lies in the Heart, in darkness. The body in the world is a dream in the same way that a body in dreaming sleep is a dream.
Ahimsa:
Humility, gratitude, sincerity, honesty and consistency are more important than knowledge or perfection.
Atma Vichara:
Asking "Who am I?" drives the mind deeper and deeper while creating a churning in the nadis (causing a natural disidentification with the body/mind sheaths). One is looking for a direct experience of where the feeling of "I" comes from. Atma Vichara dissolves the knot in the heart between the sentient and insentient. It helps the mind to withdraw from all second and third person (unreal) objects.
Turn Inward:
The five sheaths and the world are superimposed on the Self and must be discarded. Keep diving inward. Focus on the Seer. Keep aware of the screen (substratum) on which the three states appear.
Purification:
Of the body/mind. Abstain from anything that does not "feel peaceful". Both love and hatred or anger upset the mind. Pure sattvic mind is peaceful. Rajas, excitement and tamas, dullness and not healthy for the mind.
Selfless Service:
Work is Love, No Doer: Seeing the world as the form of the Self, all as an aspect of yourSelf. The Self is doing the service through me. Attempt to do whatever you do as service, with love for Him, without any expectation of results/reward. Attempt to be lived by love. Thousands of the tiniest acts of love will eventually grow together until only love is shining and acting.
Japa:
Mind set in the right-side Heart: (unbroken silent repetition of Arunachala, Ramana, or mantra, in the Heart). Begin each breath back in the right-side heart.
One Pointed thought:
Try to place yourself in the right-side heart, in silence, while the body works. Dedicate your work to Him. When a thought appears "For whom is this? Me." Who am I?" Try not to forget Ramana and Arunachala for a moment.
Silence:
Since the Self is at the core of your being, when you have questions, place your hand on your right side heart, turn away from the world and drop down within and ask your heart, then listen in silence for help. Both the body and mind should be made silent.
Pranayama (Control of the Breath):
Restrain the breath within to help control thoughts. Outbreath (1) "I am not the body." Inbreath (1) "Who am I?" Hold breath (4) "I Am He.'
Vairagya (dispassion, non-attachment, desirelessness):
These bring about the result. Restrain the mind from projecting outwards. Prompt extinguishment of every thought, as and when it arises, in its source (the Heart), by the practice of the Quest.
Moderation:
Moderation in food, sleep and speech. Pure Sattvic Diet. Sattvic food affects the mind, making it peaceful.
Surrender and Humility:
Not my will, but Thine. Ask your heart what to do, eat, wear, say, and listen. Ask to hear for you, see for you, read for you, speak for you. All the love and wisdom and help you need is there. Give your problems to Him there.
Giripradakshina:
In the morning, try to awaken before daybreak, stay in the heart in silence, and walk around the block or some circle, walking always to the right/clockwise, picturing yourself circling Arunachala.
Pratyahara:
Prior to going to sleep, at night, withdraw into your heart, deeper and deeper, while letting your mind expand outward infinitely, in every direction, outward to Arunachala/Ramana. Ask Him to surround you with His peace and grace and to purify all the aspects of yourself, while you sleep. Ask Him to take it all, everything that blocks love, peace, grace, presence.
Dhyana:
Repetition of the names, etc., mentally (japa) with feelings of devotion, without contacting the objects of the senses, abiding in the Self.
The body and the world are in the mind. If the mind becomes sufficiently pure and humble and silent, it will be absorbed into the heart. If you stay in the heart, the rest will be done for you by your Self within the heart. Try to be very aware of what resonates with your heart and how it feels about each thing the body/mind says or does.
Tapas:
"When the mind enquires from where the notion 'I' arises and dissolves right there at the origin of its birth, that is tapas. On the enquiry as to the exact origin from where the sound of mantra arises, the mind dissolves at the origin itself and that is tapas."
Watch for the pulsation of "I" - "I" in the heart. Watch for radiant light and love to well up from the heart and begin filling the mind and dissolving the world.
What matters is the sincerity, integrity, passionate longing to know your Source. Never give up. Begin over and over and over again. Everything you learn, gain, or become in this worldly life will be lost.
Absolute and un-qualified surrender and the consequent state of one-pointedness. If you go outward for advice, you can be misled, but if you go inward, your Self, Ramana, will guide you from within. You are looking for direct experience, the "I" “I" pulsation, a direct relationship with the One in the heart.
Satsang:
See yourself in all and all in yourSelf.
When the mind becomes still in the Heart, He Himself becomes manifest as the Real Self.
Inwardly change your speech. "The body was moved to the store and back." not "I went to the store." "The body is waking up." not "I am waking up."
Ramana: If the longing is there, Realisation will be forced on you even if you do not want it. Subhechcha (desire for enlightenment) is the doorway for realisation.
Remember:
As often as possible, each day, remind yourself silently that you are not the body or mind. Dehatma buddhi (I-am-the-body idea) must go.
Change your internal language: "The body is being moved to the store." not "I AM going to the store."
Abhyasa (practice):
Abhyasa is to keep the mind turned inward. (The mind, turned outward, IS the world, turned inward, IS the Self.) Trace a circle. The subtle mind arises from the Heart each morning and shines out through the gross senses, dreaming the body and the world outside. At night, the subtle mind dreams inside itself, or lies in the Heart, in darkness. The body in the world is a dream in the same way that a body in dreaming sleep is a dream.
Ahimsa:
Humility, gratitude, sincerity, honesty and consistency are more important than knowledge or perfection.
Atma Vichara:
Asking "Who am I?" drives the mind deeper and deeper while creating a churning in the nadis (causing a natural disidentification with the body/mind sheaths). One is looking for a direct experience of where the feeling of "I" comes from. Atma Vichara dissolves the knot in the heart between the sentient and insentient. It helps the mind to withdraw from all second and third person (unreal) objects.
Turn Inward:
The five sheaths and the world are superimposed on the Self and must be discarded. Keep diving inward. Focus on the Seer. Keep aware of the screen (substratum) on which the three states appear.
Purification:
Of the body/mind. Abstain from anything that does not "feel peaceful". Both love and hatred or anger upset the mind. Pure sattvic mind is peaceful. Rajas, excitement and tamas, dullness and not healthy for the mind.
Selfless Service:
Work is Love, No Doer: Seeing the world as the form of the Self, all as an aspect of yourSelf. The Self is doing the service through me. Attempt to do whatever you do as service, with love for Him, without any expectation of results/reward. Attempt to be lived by love. Thousands of the tiniest acts of love will eventually grow together until only love is shining and acting.
Japa:
Mind set in the right-side Heart: (unbroken silent repetition of Arunachala, Ramana, or mantra, in the Heart). Begin each breath back in the right-side heart.
One Pointed thought:
Try to place yourself in the right-side heart, in silence, while the body works. Dedicate your work to Him. When a thought appears "For whom is this? Me." Who am I?" Try not to forget Ramana and Arunachala for a moment.
Silence:
Since the Self is at the core of your being, when you have questions, place your hand on your right side heart, turn away from the world and drop down within and ask your heart, then listen in silence for help. Both the body and mind should be made silent.
Pranayama (Control of the Breath):
Restrain the breath within to help control thoughts. Outbreath (1) "I am not the body." Inbreath (1) "Who am I?" Hold breath (4) "I Am He.'
Vairagya (dispassion, non-attachment, desirelessness):
These bring about the result. Restrain the mind from projecting outwards. Prompt extinguishment of every thought, as and when it arises, in its source (the Heart), by the practice of the Quest.
Moderation:
Moderation in food, sleep and speech. Pure Sattvic Diet. Sattvic food affects the mind, making it peaceful.
Surrender and Humility:
Not my will, but Thine. Ask your heart what to do, eat, wear, say, and listen. Ask to hear for you, see for you, read for you, speak for you. All the love and wisdom and help you need is there. Give your problems to Him there.
Giripradakshina:
In the morning, try to awaken before daybreak, stay in the heart in silence, and walk around the block or some circle, walking always to the right/clockwise, picturing yourself circling Arunachala.
Pratyahara:
Prior to going to sleep, at night, withdraw into your heart, deeper and deeper, while letting your mind expand outward infinitely, in every direction, outward to Arunachala/Ramana. Ask Him to surround you with His peace and grace and to purify all the aspects of yourself, while you sleep. Ask Him to take it all, everything that blocks love, peace, grace, presence.
Dhyana:
Repetition of the names, etc., mentally (japa) with feelings of devotion, without contacting the objects of the senses, abiding in the Self.
The body and the world are in the mind. If the mind becomes sufficiently pure and humble and silent, it will be absorbed into the heart. If you stay in the heart, the rest will be done for you by your Self within the heart. Try to be very aware of what resonates with your heart and how it feels about each thing the body/mind says or does.
Tapas:
"When the mind enquires from where the notion 'I' arises and dissolves right there at the origin of its birth, that is tapas. On the enquiry as to the exact origin from where the sound of mantra arises, the mind dissolves at the origin itself and that is tapas."
Watch for the pulsation of "I" - "I" in the heart. Watch for radiant light and love to well up from the heart and begin filling the mind and dissolving the world.
What matters is the sincerity, integrity, passionate longing to know your Source. Never give up. Begin over and over and over again. Everything you learn, gain, or become in this worldly life will be lost.
Absolute and un-qualified surrender and the consequent state of one-pointedness. If you go outward for advice, you can be misled, but if you go inward, your Self, Ramana, will guide you from within. You are looking for direct experience, the "I" “I" pulsation, a direct relationship with the One in the heart.
Satsang:
See yourself in all and all in yourSelf.
When the mind becomes still in the Heart, He Himself becomes manifest as the Real Self.
Inwardly change your speech. "The body was moved to the store and back." not "I went to the store." "The body is waking up." not "I am waking up."
Ramana: If the longing is there, Realisation will be forced on you even if you do not want it. Subhechcha (desire for enlightenment) is the doorway for realisation.
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