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Richard provides a detailed review and commentary on major writings from Sri Ramana Maharishi, like ”Who am I?”

Richard Clarke


    • May 27, 2023 LATEST EPISODE
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    Ramana Maharshi Podcast - When delusion is destroyed - Atma Vidya Verse 2

    Play Episode Listen Later May 27, 2023 9:57


    Ramana Maharshi: "True, strong, fresh forever stands The Self.  From this in truth spring forth the phantom body  and phantom world.  When this delusion is destroyed and not a speck  remains, the Sun of Self shines bright and real in  the vast Heart-expanse.  Darkness dies, afflictions end, and bliss wells up." Comments by Richard Clarke

    Ramana Maharshi Podcast - Atma Vidya Introduction and Verse 1

    Play Episode Listen Later May 20, 2023 25:08


    Atma Vidya was written by Sri Ramana Maharshi.  Muruganar was instrumental in the creation of this book.   Muruganar wanted to recast a popular Tamil poem that begins,  “Lo, very difficult is Self-Knowledge.”  This did not express what Ramana taught and experienced directly, and Muruganar wanted Ramana's version. Muruganar started:  "Lo, very easy is Self-Knowledge, Lo, very easy indeed." He asked Ramana to finish it.  Bhagavan's response was to write these five verses called Atma Vidya or “Self Knowledge.”   Here's the first verse  Lo, very easy is Self-Knowledge,  Lo, very easy indeed.  Even for the most infirm  So real is the Self  That compared with it the amlak  In one's hand appears a mere illusion. 

    Verse 40 beyond all form- Ramana Maharshi Podcast Forty Verses on Reality

    Play Episode Listen Later May 13, 2023 23:45


    Ramana Maharshi: "If it is said that Liberation is of three kinds, with form or without form or with and without form, then let me tell you that the extinction of three forms of Liberation is the only true Liberation." Comments by Richard Clarke, with a video by Nome, "Beyond name and form" and a guided Self-inquiry led by Richard. 

    Verse 39 are you bound- Ramana Maharshi Podcast Forty Verses on Reality

    Play Episode Listen Later May 6, 2023 13:04


    Ramana Maharshi: "Bondage and Liberation exist so long as thoughts of bondage and liberation exist. These come to an end when an inquiry is made into the nature of he who is bound or free, and the ever-present and ever-free Self is realized." Comments by Richard Clarke. With a short clip from Nome, “Find out if you are bound” and an inquiry guided by Richard.   

    Verse 38 Are you the doer - Ramana Maharshi Podcast Forty Verses on Reality

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 29, 2023 17:35


    Ramana Maharshi: "So long as a man feels himself the doer, he reaps the fruits of his actions. But as soon as he realizes through inquiry who is the doer, the sense of doership drops off and the threefold karma comes to an end. This is the final Liberation." Comments by Richard Clarke, Audio from Nome, "Do you think of yourself as a doer?"

    Song of Ribhu, Chapter 8 Verses 19-24

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 25, 2023 5:35


    In these verses Ribhu tell us more of what is not true for the jivanmukta, and ends with declarations of what a jivanmukta indeed is. Read by Richard Clarke. 

    Verse 37 - You are the Self - Ramana Maharshi Podcast Forty Verses on Reality

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 22, 2023 22:02


    Ramana's words: "The contention, “Dualism during practice, non-dualism on Attainment,” is also false. While one is anxiously searching, as well as when one has found one's Self, who else is one but the tenth man?" Dualism is false, says Ramana. There is no duality.  Comments by Richard Clarke. Audio from Nome, "You are the Self." With a short guided inquiry. 

    Song of Ribhu Chapter 8 Verses 13-18

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 17, 2023 5:33


    In these verses Ribhu tells us what the jivanmukta is not.

    Verse 36 - We are always That - Ramana Maharshi Podcast Forty Verses on Reality

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 15, 2023 13:44


    Ramana Maharshi's words: "Only if the thought “I am the body” occurs will the meditation “I am not this, I am That.” help one to abide as That. Why should we forever be thinking, “I am That?” Is it necessary for man to go on thinking “I am a man?” Are we not always That?" Commentary by Richard Clarke. Audio clip from Nome, "There is no doubt that you Exist always.” 

    Song of Ribhu Chapter 8 Verses 7-12

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 12, 2023 5:33


    Richard Clarke reading The Song of Ribhu, one of Ramana Maharshi's favorite books. From Chapter 8, the definition of the jivanmukta, one liberated while alive. Verses 7 – 12. In these verses Ribhu tell us about the characteristics of the jivanmukta. .

    Verse 35 To abide in the Self is the only attainment - Ramana Maharshi Podcast Forty Verses on Reality

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 8, 2023 18:26


    Ramana Maharshi's words: "To seek and abide in the Reality that is always attained, is the only Attainment. All other attainments (siddhis) are such as are acquired in dreams. Can they appear real to someone who has woken up from sleep? Can they that are established in the Reality and are free from maya, be deluded by them?" Comments by Richard Clarke. With a talk by Nome, "Attainment of the ever attained.”  

    Verse 34 Illusion is born of ignorance - Ramana Maharshi Podcast Forty Verses on Reality

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 1, 2023 17:13


    Ramana Maharshi's words: "It is due to illusion born of ignorance that men fail to recognize That which is always and for everybody the inherent Reality dwelling in its natural Heart-centre and to abide in it," Commentary by Richard Clarke. With an audio from Nome, “Illusion of Duality.”  

    Verse 33 There is only one Self - Ramana Maharshi Podcast Forty Verses on Reality

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 25, 2023 13:57


    Ramana Maharshi's words: "It is ridiculous to say either “I have not realized the Self” or “I have realized the Self,” are there two selves, for one to be the object of the other's realization? It is a truth within the experience of everyone that there is only one Self." Richard Clarke, reviewing and commenting on Sri Ramana Maharshi's book, 40 Verses on Reality.

    Song of Ribhu Chapter 8 Verses 1-6

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 19, 2023 5:53


    Richard Clarke reading The Song of Ribhu. I am starting to read from, Chapter 8, the definition of the jivanmukta, one liberated while alive. I'll read the first six verses In these verses Ribhu tell us about the characteristics of the jivanmukta. . Listen to a few verses of the Ribhu Gita before you meditate and inquire. Email ramanacommentary@gmail.com with question or comments.

    Verse 32 Investigate what you really are, and remain as That - Ramana Maharshi Podcast Forty Verses on Reality

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 18, 2023 18:47


    Ramana Maharshi's words: "Although the scriptures proclaim “Thou art That,” it is only a sign of weakness of mind to meditate “I am That, not this,” because you are eternally That. What has to be done is to investigate what one really is and remain That." Commentary by Richard Clarke, with a discourse by Nome, "Blissfully eternally true."

    Verse 31. Immersed in the Self, nothing remains to be done - Ramana Maharshi Podcast Forty Verses on Reality

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 11, 2023 15:45


    Ramana Maharshi's words: "For Him who is immersed in the bliss of the Self, arising from the extinction of the ego, what remains to be accomplished?" Commentary by Richard Clarke, with a dialog from Nome, "There is nothing else to be known."

    Verse 30 - When the “I” falls - Ramana Maharshi Podcast Forty Verses on Reality

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 4, 2023 18:46


    Ramana Maharshi's words: "If one enquires “Who am I?” within the mind, the individual “I” falls down." You do not need to do anything to make the Self more real; the Self is already entirely real. The Self is just hidden, like the sun behind clouds. Clear away the clouds and the sun appears. It has always been there. Comments by Richard Clarke, and an audio from Nome, "Reality of the Self."  

    Verse 29 Inquire - Ramana Maharshi Podcast Forty Verses on Reality

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 25, 2023 13:29


    Ramana Maharshi's words: "The only enquiry leading to Self-realization is seeking the Source of the “I” with in-turned mind and without uttering the word ‘“I.” Meditation on “I am not this; I am That” may be an aid to the enquiry but it cannot be the enquiry.." Commentary by Richard Clarke, with a short talk by Nome. 

    Song of Ribhu, Chapter 5, Verses 38-40

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 20, 2023 3:15


    In these verses Ribhu summarizes this chapter about discrimination; that the individual, the world, and the idea of a higher power are all only appearances and of the nature of the undivided supreme. Read by Richard Clarke. 

    Verse 28 Dive into oneself- Ramana Maharshi Podcast Forty Verses on Reality

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 18, 2023 20:55


    Ramana Maharshi was one of the most influential spiritual teachers of the 20th century. In this verse, he said, "Just as a man would dive in order to get something that had fallen into the water, so one should dive into oneself, with a keen one-pointed mind, controlling speech and breath, and find the place whence the “I” originates." Commentary by Richard Clarke, with a talk by Nome, "Inquire." 

    Verse 27: Non-emergence of ”I”-Ramana Maharshi Podcast Forty Verses on Reality

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 11, 2023 19:24


    Ramana Maharshi's words: "The State of non-emergence of “I” is the state of being THAT." Comments by Richard Clarke, with a talk by Nome, "Inquiry to know oneself. "

    Song of Ribhu Chapter 5 Verses 31-37

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 8, 2023 6:21


    In these verses Ribhu talks about the mind, what it is and what it is not. Read by Richard Clarke. Respond to ramanacommentary@gmail.com 

    Verse 26 Inquire ”What is this ego?” -Ramana Maharshi Podcast Forty Verses on Reality

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 4, 2023 19:06


    Ramana Maharshi's words: "If the ego is, everything else also is. If the ego is not, nothing else is. Indeed, the ego is all. Therefore the enquiry as to what this ego is, is the only way of giving up everything." Commentary by Richard Clarke, with a talk by Nome, "Inquire," and a short guided inquiry. 

    Song of Ribhu, Chapter5, Verses 25 – 30

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 29, 2023 5:32


    Richard Clarke reads a favorite of Ramana Maharshi, The Song of Ribhu, Chapter5, Verses 25 – 30 In these verses Ribhu talks about thought, ideas and Sankalpas - concepts, and  intentions  Here is a line, "Whatever thought is, that indeed is all."  Email ramanacommentary@gmail.com with question or comments.

    Verse 25 Investigate yourself and all forms takes flight- Ramana Maharshi Podcast Forty Verses on Reality

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 28, 2023 18:36


    Ramana Maharshi's words: "It comes into being equipped with a form, and as long as it retains a form it endures. Having a form, it feeds and grows big. But if you investigate it this evil spirit, which has no form of its own, relinquishes its grip on form and takes to flight." Commentary by Richard Clarke. With a video discourse by Nome, "Beyond Name and Form,"

    Song of Ribhu Chapter 5 Verses 19-24

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 25, 2023 5:11


    Ribhu says, "The idea that concludes "I am the body" Is not a whit real, all that exists is Brahman." Read by Richard Clarke. 

    Verse 24 This inert body does not say “I” - Ramana Maharshi Podcast Forty Verses on Reality

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 21, 2023 13:57


    Ramana Maharshi's words: "This inert body does not say “I.” Reality-Consciousness does not emerge." Commentary by Richard Clarke. With a talk by Nome, "The body is inert and does not know.”

    Song of Ribhu Chapter 5 Verses 13-18

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 19, 2023 5:32


    Richard Clarke reads The Song of Ribhu, Chapter5, Verses 13 – 18 In these verses Ribhu continues with his negations, saying that various appearances are unreal, like the horns of a hare, then starts to reveal the wisdom, All if Brahman.”

    Song of Ribhu, Chapter5, Verses 7 – 12

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 16, 2023 5:40


    Richard Clarke reading The Song of Ribhu, Chapter 5, Verses 7-12. In these verses Ribhu continues with his negations, saying that various appearances are unreal, like the horns of a hare. Listen to a few verses of the Ribhu Gita before you meditate and inquire. Email ramanacommentary@gmail.com with question or comments.

    Verse 23 Inquire whence this ‘I' emerges - Ramana Maharshi Podcast: Forty Verses on Reality

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 14, 2023 19:28


    Ramana Maharshi's words" "The body does not say “I.” No one will argue that even in deep sleep the “I” ceases to exist. Once the “I” emerges, all else emerges. With a keen mind inquire whence this “I” emerges." Commentary by Richard Clarke. With a talk by Nome, Inquire." 

    Verse 22: Turn the mind inward - Ramana Maharshi Podcast Forty Verses on Reality

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 7, 2023 16:05


    Ramana's words: "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. Commentary by Richard Clarke, ramanacommentary@gmail.com. From https://www.free-ebooks.net/religious/Forty-Verses-on-Reality-with-Comments 

    Song of Ribhu Chapter 5, verses 1 to 6

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 4, 2023 6:37


    From these verses: "All objects seen are like the horns of a hare. The seer, too, is like the horns of a hare." Read by Richard Clarke., from Song of Ribhu, the Tamil Ribhu Gita, most used by Ramana Maharshi. Available from publisher: https://satramana.org/web/bookstore/sat-publications/the-song-of-ribhu/  Comments to ramanacommentary@gmail.com

    Verses 35-40 from Forty Verses on Reality - Ramana Maharshi Commentary Podcast

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 2, 2023 10:29


    From these verses, Ramana's words: "Why should we forever be thinking, “I am That?” Is it necessary for man to go on thinking “I am a man?” Are we not always That?" Read by Clay Lomakay from https://www.free-ebooks.net/religious/Forty-Verses-on-Reality-with-Comments

    Verse 21 To see God, be consumed in his infinite light of “I am” - Ramana Maharshi Podcast Forty Verses on Reality

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 31, 2022 14:25


    Ramana Maharshi's words:  "How can one see one's Self? If, since one is a single being, one cannot see one's Self, how can one see God? Only by becoming a prey to Him." Commentary by Richard Clarke. With an audio from Nome, “Knowledge is Non-objective, Mind is Not.”  

    Song of Ribhu, Chapter4 Verses 37-43

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 30, 2022 5:57


    From these verses: "I, myself, am of the nature of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss, Which is the witness of the world in all its variety."  Read by Richard Clarke. ramanacommentary@gmail.com 

    Verses 29-34 -Ramana Maharshi Podcast Forty Verses on Reality

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 26, 2022 10:45


    Read by Clay Lomakayu Ramana's words: "If one enquires “Who am I?” within the mind, the individual “I” falls down abashed as soon as one reaches the Heart and immediately Reality manifests itself spontaneously as “I-I”." From Richard Clarke's "Forty Verses on Reality With comments and practice notes." https://www.free-ebooks.net/religious/Forty-Verses-on-Reality-with-Comments 

    Verse 20 To see God, know your Self - 40 Verses on Reality Podcast

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 24, 2022 17:23


    Ramana Maharshi's words> "He who sees God without seeing the Self sees only a mental image. They say that he who sees the Self sees God."| Comments by Richard Clarke. With a talk by Nome, "The one Self." 

    Song of Ribhu Chapter 4 verses 31 to 36

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 21, 2022 6:34


    From these verses: "I, myself, am of the nature that is of the supreme Brahman, Beyond the reach of mind and words." Read by Richard Clarke.  https://satramana.org/web/bookstore/sat-publications/the-song-of-ribhu/

    Verses 25-28 from Forty Verses on Reality - Ramana Maharshi Commentary Podcast

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 19, 2022 12:20


    Read by Clay Lomakayu Ramana's words: "one should dive into oneself, with a keen one-pointed mind, controlling speech and breath, and find the place whence the “I” originates." From Richard Clarke's "Forty Verses on Reality With comments and practice notes." https://www.free-ebooks.net/religious/Forty-Verses-on-Reality-with-Comments 

    Verse 19 Know the Self and be free of destiny - Ramana Maharshi Podcast Forty Verses on Reality.mp3

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 17, 2022 12:10


    Ramana Maharshi's words:  "Only those who have no knowledge of the Source of destiny and free-will dispute as to which of them prevails. They that know the Self as the one Source of destiny and free-will are free from both." Commentary by Richard Clarke, and a talk by Nome, "Bodiless egoless Self."

    Song of Ribhu: Chapter 4 verse 25-30

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 14, 2022 6:48


    A line from these verses: "I, myself, am of the nature of the supreme, which is only consciousness." Read by Richard Clarke. ramanacommentary@gmail.com

    Verse 18 The Self shines as the substratum Ramana Maharshi Podcast Forty Verses on Reality

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 10, 2022 16:17


    Ramana Maharshi's words: "Truth shines as the Formless Perfection, and as the Substratum of the world." Comments by Richard Clarke. Talk from Nome, , "If the “I” is formless, who experiences what?"

    Verses 19-24 from Forty Verses on Reality - Ramana Maharshi Commentary Podcast

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 5, 2022 11:22


    Read by Clay Lomakayu Ramana's words: "They that know the Self as the one Source of destiny and free-will are free from both." From Richard Clarke's "Forty Verses on Reality With comments and practice notes." https://www.free-ebooks.net/religious/Forty-Verses-on-Reality-with-Comments 

    Verse 17 The “I” shines as the limitless Self - Ramana Maharshi Commentary Podcast 40 Verses on Reality

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 3, 2022 14:50


    Ramana Maharshi's words:  "To those who have not realized the Self, as well as to those who have, the word “I” refers to the body, but with this difference, that for those who have not realized, the ‘I' is confined to the body whereas for those who have realized the Self within the body the “I” shines as the limitless Self." Comments by Richard Clarke. Discourse on the body by Nome. 

    Verse 16 Timeless and spaceless are we - Ramana Maharshi Commentary Podcast 40 Verses on Reality

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 26, 2022 15:38


    Ramana Maharshi's words: "Apart from us, where is time and where is space? If we are bodies, we are involved in time and space, but are we?" Commentary by Richard Clarke and a talk by Nome, “Inconceivable, Timeless, and Perfectly Full.”

    Song of Ribhu: Chapter 4 verses 19 to 24

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 24, 2022 5:00


    Ribhu says, in these verses: "I am ever the one undivided essence." Read by Richard Clarke. 

    Ramana Maharshi Commentary Podcast ”40 Verses on Reality” Verses 14-18 Read by Clay Lomakayu

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 21, 2022 7:38


    Clay Lomakayu read's Richard Clarke Commentary on Ramana Maharshi's "Forty Verses on Reality," Verses 14-18 Ramana Maharshi's words:  "Apart from us, where is time and where is space? If we are bodies, we are involved in time and space, but are we?" https://www.free-ebooks.net/religious/Forty-Verses-on-Reality-with-Comments

    Ramana Maharshi Commentary Podcast ”40 Verses on Reality” Verse 15 Only the present exists

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 19, 2022 13:32


    Ramana Maharshi's words: "Only with reference to the present can the past and the future exist. They too, while current, are the present." Commentary by Richard Clarke. Extract from a dialog with Nome "Now appears only in the waking state of mind” 

    Song of Ribhu Chapter 3 Verses 13-18

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 16, 2022 6:01


    A line from these verses: "All is of the nature of the one undivided essence." Read by Richard Clarke.  ramanacommentary@gmail.com 

    Forty Verses and Commentary: Ramana Maharshi's words with comments, verses10-13

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 14, 2022 8:48


    Clay Lomakayu reads from Richard Clarke's "Forty Verses on Reality with Comments," verses 10-13. Ramana Maharshi's words from verse 11: "Is it not, rather, ignorance to know all else without knowing oneself, the knower?" https://www.free-ebooks.net/religious/Forty-Verses-on-Reality-with-Comments 

    Ramana Maharshi Commentary Podcast 40 Verses on Reality V 14 Find the Real ”I”

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 12, 2022 17:08


    Ramana Maharshi's words: "By enquiring into the nature of the “I,” the “I” perishes. With it “you” and “he” also perish. The resultant state, which shines as Absolute Being, is one's own natural state, the Self." Commentary by Richard Clarke. With a discourse by Nome, "Natural"

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