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		<title>Tamil Villages – The Ancient Spiritual Heart of South India</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Feb 2025 17:24:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Tamil Village  life is built on shared values and traditions. I’ve witnessed beautiful rites of passage—like a boy’s first haircut and vibrant festivals such as Karthigai Deepam, where entire communities come together in celebration. These practices reveal a culture deeply committed to continuity and connection.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Ramana Maharshi&#8217;s &#8220;Who am I?&#8221; with comments and notes for practice by Richard Clarke.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jun 2024 19:19:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The South Indian sage Ramana Maharshi is renowned for his teachings on Self-inquiry, the direct path to Self-realization. Ramana attained enlightenment, transcending ego-consciousness, at the age of 16. The book Who am I? is a collection of the earliest teachings of Ramana Maharshi. In silence, he answered questions by writing in the dirt. These early [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Find out the reality &#8211; Ramana Clips Talk 164 3</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Nov 2023 00:24:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Ramana Maharshi: “Find out the reality behind the world.” What is called illusion by one is called changefulness by another. The end is the same in both. Comments by Richard Clarke. From &#8220;Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi.&#8221;]]></description>
		
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		<title>You are illumination itself &#8211; Ramana Clips Talk #164 part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Nov 2023 13:18:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In a short dialog Ramana Maharshi gives the deepest teaching. &#8220;Seek within. The Self is always realized. Something not already realized might be sought afresh. But the Self is within your experience. &#8221; Comments by Richard Clarke. From &#8220;Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi.&#8221;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Find out if you are physical -Ramana Clips Talk # 164 part 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Nov 2023 13:08:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Ramana Maharshi: &#8220;If there be thoughts they will materialize. If they disappear there is nothing to materialize. Moreover if you are physical the world is physical and so on. Find out if you are physical. &#8221; Comments by Richard Clarke. From &#8220;Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi.&#8221;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Atman and soul are the same &#8211; Ramana Clips Talk # 163</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Nov 2023 13:13:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Ramana Maharshi: &#8220;Soul can be without the ego; but the ego cannot be without the soul. They are like bubble and the ocean.&#8221; D.: &#8220;That clarifies the matter. What is Atman?&#8221; M.: &#8220;Atman and soul are the same.&#8221;]]></description>
		
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		<title>All will be well &#8211; Ramana Clips Talk # 161</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Nov 2023 13:24:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Ramana Maharshi: &#8220;Why waste time over such matters? Let each one mind his business. All will be well.&#8221; Comments by Richard Clarke. From &#8220;Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi.&#8221;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Is the world apart from the Self? &#8211; Ramana Clips Talk # 158</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Nov 2023 13:14:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[D.:&#8221; A man, on realizing the Self, can help the world more effectively. Is it not so?&#8221; Ramana Maharshi: &#8220;If the world be apart from the Self.&#8221; Comments by Richard Clarke. From &#8220;Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi.&#8221;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Solitude is making the mind still &#8211; Ramana Clips Talk # 156</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Nov 2023 13:18:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Ramana Maharshi: &#8220;Solitude amounts to making the mind still. This can be done in a crowd too. Solitude cannot efface one’s thoughts. Practice does it. The same practice can be made here too.&#8221; Comments by Richard Clarke. From &#8220;Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi.&#8221;]]></description>
		
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		<title>The mind melts &#8211; Ramana Clips Talk # 152</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Nov 2023 13:27:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Ramana Maharshi: &#8220;Long for it intensely so that the mind melts in devotion. After the camphor burns away no residue is left. The mind is the camphor; when it has resolved itself into the Self without leaving even the slightest trace behind, it is Realization of the Self.&#8221; Comments by Richard Clarke. From &#8220;Talks with [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Self is only one &#8211; Ramana Clips Talk # 151</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Nov 2023 13:14:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Ramana Maharshi: &#8220;The Self is only one. Do you feel hurt if you blame yourself or scorn yourself for your errors? If you hold the Self there is no second person to scorn you. When you see the world you have lost hold of the Self. On the contrary, hold the Self and the world [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Do not mind discomforts, keep steady &#8211; Ramana Clips Talk # 150</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Nov 2023 13:12:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Ramana Maharshi: &#8220;The discomforts will not worry you if your concentration is right. Do not mind the discomforts. Keep your mind steady in meditation. If you have not the strength and endurance to bear mosquito stings how do you hope to gain realization of the Self?&#8221; Comments by Richard Clarke. From &#8220;Talks with Sri Ramana [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Nada meditation, meditation on sound &#8211; Ramana Clips Talk #148</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Nov 2023 13:16:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Ramana Maharshi: &#8220;Nada helps concentration. After it is felt the practice should not be made an end in itself. Nada is not the objective; the subject should firmly be held; otherwise a blank will result. Though the subject is there even in the blank he would not be aware of the cessation of nada of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Realization is of Perfection &#8211; Ramana Clips Talk # 147</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Nov 2023 14:43:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Ramana Maharshi: &#8220;Realization is of Perfection. It cannot be comprehended by the mind.&#8221; Comments by Richard Clarke. From &#8220;Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi.&#8221;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Illusion will not persist after vasanas are annihilated &#8211; Ramana Clips Talk 142</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Nov 2023 13:45:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Ramana Maharshi: &#8220;Illusion will not persist after vasanas are annihilated. In the interval between the knowledge of the identity and annihilation of vasanas, there will be illusion.&#8221; Comments by Richard Clarke. From &#8220;Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi.&#8221;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Remain as the Self &#8211; Ramana Clips Talk # 137</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Nov 2023 13:38:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Lakshman Brahmachari of Sri Ramakrishna Mission asked: “Can one imagine oneself as witness of the thoughts?” Ramana Maharshi.: It is not the natural state. It is only an idea (bhavana) &#8211; an aid to stilling the mind. The Self is ever the witness, whether so imagined or not. There is no need to so imagine [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Know, and not think &#8211; Ramana Clips Talk 131</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Nov 2023 14:20:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[D.: What is moksha (liberation)? Ramana Maharshi: Moksha is to know that you were not born. “Be still and know that I am God.” To be still is not to think. Know, and not think, is the word. Comments by Richard Clarke. From &#8220;Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi.&#8221;]]></description>
		
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		<title>What remains is the Self &#8211; Ramana Clips Talk # 130</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Nov 2023 18:07:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[D: &#8220;Enquiry of ‘Who am I?’ or of the ‘I-thought’ being itself a thought, how can it be destroyed in the process?&#8221; Ramana Maharshi: &#8220;The Vedas also are eloquent in ‘neti’ &#8211; ‘neti’ (not this &#8211; not this) and then remain silent. Their silence is the Real State. This is the meaning of exposition by [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>All go to the same goal &#8211; Ramana Clips Talk # 128</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Nov 2023 13:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“What is the message of the East to the West?” Ramana Maharshi: &#8220;All go to the same goal. To another question Sri Bhagavan said: “How do you say ‘I am’? Do you take a light to find yourself? Or did you come to know it on reading books? How?” The questioner said: “By experience.” Ramana [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Are there two selves? &#8211; Ramana Clips Talk 125</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Nov 2023 13:20:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[D.: And how shall I know it? Ramana Maharshi: Being That, what do you want to know? Are there two selves for the one to know the other? D.: Again, I repeat, sir, how to know the truth of all this and experience the same? M.: There is no gaining of anything new. All that [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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