Some practical tips for Self Enquiry | Dialogue in Arunachala | 2026

[00:00:00]Yes. Yes. Right.

[00:00:03]On talking about the self inquiry technique is the question. First of all, self inquiry is not a technique.

[00:00:15]Only Jadaavastu can happen through technique.

[00:00:20]Atmakyana has no technique. Technique can happen only with ego.

[00:00:27]Self inquiry happens when atma from within initiates you when the self from within pulls. Bhagan Ramana says when the first experience came to him he said there was a strange fascination for the mind to trace the I thought to its source for the intellect to trace the I thought to its source so you have to trace the ego to its source who is this you this is the question first First of all, why should you know?

[00:01:18]This is not a question answer thing. We are not seeking answer. We are seeking our own inner being.

[00:01:28]Many people they go to class. So they think we are seeking some verbal answer.

[00:01:34]We are not seeking verbal answer.

[00:01:38]We are not seeking.

[00:01:40]We are seeking lakshi. Anyway, who is the enquirer?

[00:01:46]The suda buddhi intellect is enquiring.

[00:01:50]We have already told this bondage comes in the mind and liberation also happens in the mind. Inupa there is neither bondage nor liberation. It is eternally free.

[00:02:09]brings the mega itself removes the mega.

[00:02:17]Mind alone brings in bondage. When the same mind throughana gets purified, it it gives way. The screen is removed.

[00:02:30]So it is the pure sukshma buddhi which is enquiring the intellect. Sukshma buddhi is subtler than the ego.

[00:02:41]That alone is subtler than the ego.

[00:02:45]So it is the attention comes there. The buddhi is the nyanata in Gita Bhagan says buddhicam atrium that transcendental can be caught by buddhi.

[00:03:07]Only Buddhi can do because Buddhi comes from satuna.

[00:03:12]Nature priti satuna is the source for buddhi.

[00:03:18]And when the buddhi is sufficiently purified that buddhi it just wipes out maya.

[00:03:34]Okay. So it is the attention here is intellect. But you need not know that you have to have that state. If we are constantly going to ask questions instead of asking turning towards the questioner one answer after the another answer you will get and again the intellect will create doubt on that answer and another question will arise it will go non-ending we are not here if you are interested in academics then it is okay that is why Bhagavan always said find out the questioner find out the doubter Turn towards the eye. Because the moment the attention is turned towards the eye, you will feel that thro that.

[00:04:28]This aami is I thought and more and more you look at that I thought. I I I I then the eye gets churned. It gets separated from the body, mind, intellect, senses, wasas and shines for throps as pure chaitana that is puri that is the nature of realization.

[00:04:59]So that is the intellect gains that joy of holding to that sporty.

[00:05:11]So here the questioner is asking I think it is the ego eye itself is focusing on I.

[00:05:20]We have already answered that holding on to the I I Bhagavan in says It is all that whole song is to remove this mooly in the form of I because when you sleep no I thought when you wake up the first thing that arises is this I thought then arises you he everything.

[00:06:07]So you inquire means who is you? This attention intellect for a moment. You know when we wake up from sleep there is a moment where the eye has not arisen which they call the sya swap of prao s in the interval between the waking and sleep for a moment. So the eye has not aris but the intellect is there very much attention is there if you can catch hold of that momentum is so simple sharat in one place says in between two thoughts in between the sleep and waking there is a moment he calls it as namishi the only moment moment where you are pure, you are not associated with this flesh, with this limitation. That moment the buddhi recognizes it.

[00:07:24]So who is doing this exercise? You have to ask.

[00:07:28]I am getting doubt. Who is getting doubt?

[00:07:32]I no clarity for me. Who is saying no clarity again and again put this who don't allow the eye to wake up to come to the forefront then you will know Arunachala said Bhagan Raman Bhagan got thisa from Arunachala he says perfect. He says, "Aunachala told me turn inward and always constantly look at the eye with in inward attention. Look at the eye.

[00:08:25]Then you will come to know yourself. You need not ask others till that experiences experience surfaces.

[00:08:37]Hold on to that I thought.

[00:08:41]So this is the upadesha.

[00:08:45]In effect there is only I entity which seems like three.

[00:08:50]Yes maam there is a song.

[00:08:54]It begins like this.

[00:09:08]one principle which is omara it becomes three I this world and my knowledge in sushupti nothing exists this is simple experiential observation in deep sleep neither I exist nor the world exists nor my knowledge. The moment the I thought arises you, he everything comes.

[00:09:34]This tripput comes this triputy merges in the source in the heart and this triputy arises from the hearts heart and expands as this worldly phenomenon.

[00:09:51]So this is the simple thing atma vara we have to do somehow it is actually it is the true meditation.

[00:10:01]Finding out the meditator is meditation.

[00:10:06]You have to somehow turn your attention inward.

[00:10:11]You can first use some mantra some japa.

[00:10:14]We call it as alamboasana ash. Some japa you do or some prayer inwardly so that your attention from outside is turned inward.

[00:10:28]Then you slowly ask this question who is inside who is within who is if I open who is seeing if I close my eyes who is inside imagining seeing the thoughts. And when I sleep, who is asleep?

[00:10:49]What is it that is there in the sleep?

[00:11:04]In waking who is that all this you just till you the answer comes as experience don't give any ready made answer don't give any readym made answer from Bhagat Gita or from upanishad or some book I am atma no no keep only the question not the answer and focus the question on yourself in the over it is very very great attention is needed. That is why people say oh no no noadam is okay all story but is also only but people say because we cannot strain unless you strain how will you come out caught in this dream how are you going to wake up so turn towards the no vikata That bodha, the knower behind all knowledge, the seer behind all perception, the eye which is inside within me, just touch that eye with your attention. Your attention can do that and you will have a strange feeling of deep contentment kind of courage arises within you.

[00:12:46]Fearlessness more and more you will touch the center.

[00:12:52]More and more your attention moves towards the center.

[00:13:02]Go deeper deeper deeper in Vishnuama.

[00:13:06]One name for Bhagavan is Mahagara deep pit because it is infinite. The mind can go inward inward inward inward till you attain that the person who goes inward is lost there.

[00:13:29]the I thought vanishes there.

[00:13:38]So that is at Arun Aruna.