P V S Suryanarayana Raju: 19 books

Upadesa is a Sanskrit word which literally means facilitating an entity to come back to its source,its home.Saram means the essence of such instruction towards that direction.The essential nature of mind is consciousness.But being covered by cloud of tendencies,past experiences,thoughts mind forgets...

Bhagawan never advised accumulation of information in the name of spirituality. His method is self-inquiry which is a process of de-learning and throwing contents of the mind through understanding. Every other spiritual methods require the “me” to do it. Majority of spiritual techniques involve...

What is it that is to be investigated in self-Inquiry?We have to investigate whether there is such an entity as the “thinker”, the “me” as noun apart from thought. If we remove all thoughts from the thinker does an entity, as “thinker” remain? So thought is the thinker. One part of the...

In the silent observation of self-inquiry in which there no choice or condemnation thought and feeling unfold themselves.In this process we actualize the potential of the Self (Atman).In self-inquiry we understand ourselves,our impulses,reactions,the whole process of thinking,conscious as well as...

TRAVELS THROUGH SACRED INDIAby Roger HousdenGURUS AND ASHRAMSThere could hardly be two people more different than Poonja and Sri Nannagaru, though both of them ascribe their awakening to the grace of Sri Ramana Maharshi, Sri Nannagaru has spent much of his life as a farmer in a village of Andhra Pradesh,...

Man as he is, is simply living in a dream -- the dream of the ego, ambition, power, prestige. The man of wisdom is one who has come to understand that all this is going astray. One day it happened that I was at Mulla Nasruddin's house. Mulla Nasruddin's teenager son had dented a fender of...

self-inquiry is not an effort against the mind but rather a loving way of witnessing the mind which is the result of evolution and contains the whole experience of existence. Your mind is not personal, it represents the whole evolutionary process. So self-inquiry is an impersonal way of exploring...

Man is astray. The sin is not to be committed, it has already been committed. That is the meaning of the Christian parable that Adam committed the sin -- the first man. Man is born astray, that is the meaning of it, we are already in sin.The word 'sin' is very, very beautiful. The original...

The society is pleasure oriented, brutal, callous, highly corrupt flowing as a stream of misery in which we are knowingly or unknowingly caught.Every one wants to get out of that stream but they do not know how.There is seeming security in family, nation at physical level, religion at psychological...

Bhagawan never advised accumulation of information in the name of spirituality. His method is self-inquiry which is a process of de-learning and throwing contents of the mind through understanding. Every other spiritual methods require the “me” to do it. Majority of spiritual techniques involve...

Humanity is in dark state of Self-ignorance.Ego is a product of this Self-ignorant dark state and the god,religion,poetry,art,painting it creates are all outcome of this darkness.The culture of human society,its education,family system,beliefs,dogmas all add to this metaphysical sleep and keeps the...

In the silent observation of self-inquiry in which there no choice or condemnation thought and feeling unfold themselves.In this process we actualize the potential of the Self (Atman).In self-inquiry we understand ourselves,our impulses,reactions,the whole process of thinking,conscious as well as...

BELIEVE AND YOU WILL NEVER FIND, and whatsoever you find will be nothing but the projection of your own belief -- it will not be truth. WHAT HAS TRUTH TO DO WITH YOUR BELIEVING? Doubt, and doubt totally -- because doubt is a cleansing process. It takes out all junk from your mind. It makes you again...

Sage Sri Sankaracharya, the great Indian Philosopher and social reformer who lived in the 8th century, was born in a tiny village Kalady in Ernakulam District of Kerala, India, on the banks of famous River Periyar. In his short lifespan of thirty-two years, he became one of the greatest teachers of...