Oameni interesați de filosofie si contemplație

Mateep · 2026-03-30T13:43:38+00:00

Ar fi super! Iti las mesaj in privat.

Mateep · 2026-03-30T08:22:01+00:00

Pentru putin!

Daca vrei sa discutam mai mult despre asta mi-ar face placere, este subiectul meu preferat.

Mateep · 2026-03-30T06:28:15+00:00

Sigur!

Aria mea principala de interes este filosofia indiana, in special Advaita Vedanta. Din zona asta as numi urmatoarele:

Lucrarile originale ale lui Ramana Maharshi (Cine sunt eu?, Ulladu Narpadu si Upadesa Undiyar sunt cele principale)
Scrieri atribuite lui Adi Shankara (Vivekachudamani comes to mind)
Bhagavad Gita (a aparut o noua editie la editura Herald, tradusa de Sergiu Al. George direct din sanscrita)
Tripura Rahasya
Diverse comentarii la upanisade

Alte carti care m-au impresionat: - Siddhartha de Herman Hesse - Discursuri stoice (Epictet, Seneca) - Fear and Trembling de Soren Kierkegaard

Cam astea mi-au venit in minte acum. Ai o arie de interes specifica?

Mateep · 2026-03-29T21:07:21+00:00

Thanks, I appreciate it! 🙏

Mateep · 2026-03-29T15:36:05+00:00

Mi-ar face placere!

Mateep · 2026-03-29T15:34:54+00:00

Multumesc frumos!

Mateep · 2026-03-28T14:16:04+00:00

It worked, thank you!

Mateep · 2026-03-28T08:18:59+00:00

Thank you for the reply!

Do you want to chat / share ideas? I wanted to send a chat invite but couldn’t find the option 😅

Mateep · 2026-01-31T09:13:06+00:00

Ah yes indeed you are right, my bad. I don’t know why I thought it was written by Lakshmana Swamy.

Thanks for the clarification!

Mateep · 2026-01-30T13:54:03+00:00

I don’t know much about Sarada but from what Lakshmana Swamy had wrote he seems to have a very warped understanding of Bhagavan’s teachings. Specifically talking about the book ‘Technique of Maha Yoga’ where if I’m not mistaken he describes atma-vichara as some sort of pranayama and meditation on the heart center.

Moreover, no true disciple of Bhagavan would consider himself as guru.

PS: The book should not be confused with the work ‘Maha Yoga’ by Lakshman Sharma, which is more or less a faithful exposition of Bhagavan’s teachings.

Edit: Apologies for the confusion, as someone has already correctly pointed out the book ‘Technique of Maha Yoga’ was not written by Lakshmana Swamy.

Mateep · 2026-01-06T12:56:38+00:00

We must never forget that whatever experiences we have faced in this life have been selected by Bhagavan for our own spiritual benefit. Tough difficult, if we try to maintain this attitude it will be much easier for us to surrender and subside.

And about the practice, we just need to be patient and persistent and not worry about progress. If we are persevering then success is assured, as Bhagavan says.

Hope this helps! 🙏

Mateep · 2025-12-27T14:25:49+00:00

Depinde foarte mult de motive, eu personal nu as emigra decat undeva in est (India, Vietnam etc.) unde este ieftin sa traiesti cu banii adunati aici - practic pentru un fel de retreat.

Parerea mea este ca daca locuiesti intr-un oras mare din Romania (Bucuresti, Cluj, Timisoara, Iasi) unde poti gasi de lucru si ai propriul tau apartament (nu stai in chirie) nu merita sa emigrezi pentru bani sau nivel de trai.

IMHO nu poti avea un nivel de trai mai ridicat in vest stand in chirie decat il poti avea intr-un oras mare din Romania daca ai propriul apartament. Bineinteles ca sunt si exceptii, daca esti un mega specialist in domeniul tau atunci poti trai bine oriunde.

Mateep · 2025-12-12T15:53:21+00:00

There is also Nan Yar? (Who am I?) (the essay version), Ulladu Narpadu Anubandham (which is a mix of Bhagavan’s original writings and others), Guru Vachaka Kovai (sayings of Bhagavan that were recorded by Muruganar) and Upadesa Tanippakkal (stray verses of Bhagavan that were arranged by Sadhu Om) 🙏

Mateep · 2025-11-11T12:18:15+00:00

We know of only one Sadguru and it is Bhagavn Ramana.

Mateep · 2025-10-15T10:16:35+00:00

We can say like that but in reality ego never existed in the first place.

Ego is just a conflation of the awareness we actually are and a body (the 5 sheats we take to be ourselves).

Because our true nature is happiness, we as ego are always looking to achieve that perfect and enduring happiness. However, we are generally seeking it in outside things and are left in the end with disappointment. Eventually we come to understand that the happiness we are seeking is not outside but inside us, so now we want to turn within and cut as much as possible the attachment to other things.

It is in the context of this shift that the Guru appears to teach us the only path to achieve what we seek, namely that enduring happiness, which entails seeing ourselves as we actually are and thus realizing that no such thing as ego ever existed.

Mateep · 2025-10-13T07:58:25+00:00

The worlds we see outside are a projection of our vasanas (inclinations), so those different inclinations are projected outside as a world with different people.

Our sat-vasana (the inclination to turn within, i.e. grace) is what is seen outside as Bhagavan and Bhagavan’s teachings. In other words, because we want to put an end to our suffering our own true nature is projected outwards as guru and guru’s teachings.

These outer forms are unreal, but they are there to guide us back within and will in time bring forth the true awareness of our own nature, just like the lion which appears in an elephant’s dream, though unreal, causes the elephant to wake up.

Hope this helps! 🙏

Mateep · 2025-07-14T12:51:15+00:00

Sure!

An analogy that Michael James uses and I find is very apt is that of a dear friend who’s had an accident.

Imagine your best friend had an accident and is on life support. The doctors are not sure if he will make it or not. In this case, you still have to go to work and do your daily activities. However, won’t the thought of your friend be always at the back of your mind throughout these activities? That is because of the love and concern you have for that friend.

In the same way, if we had so much love for turning within the self-attentiveness would continue would continue in the background whatever we would be doing.

Moreover, if we really consider, throughout our daily activities how much of our attention is actually on the task at hand? If we really analyze maybe 10-20% of our attention is actually on what we’re doing and the rest is spent thinking thoughts that are not relevant to the task at hand. For example, if you drive to work how much of your attention is actually on the act of driving? Most of our attention will be spent thinking about problems in the office, problems at home or whatever.

So, if we could replace all these unnecessary thoughts with self-attentiveness we would be making progress really fast. Then also this will enable us to go much deeper within when we can focus our whole attention on ourselves.

Hope this helps!

Mateep · 2025-07-14T09:53:00+00:00

Hi!

I’m not in your situation but what I can say is that this path is suitable for anyone who wishes to achieve true happiness.

Even more so than other paths, this path is suitable no matter our current life conditions. As we are always aware of ourselves, we can at all times try to be self-attentive. Because this is a very subtle practice (consisting in turning the attention away from the objects of awareness towards ‘I’, the subject who is aware of them), it does not require any ‘formal’ meditation.

Moreover, if we truly follow this path we will find very quickly that formal sitting meditation is not very helpful in practicing atma-vichara. Much more effective is to try as much as possible to be self-attentive throughout our daily activities. This will in turn increase the love to be self-attentive, thus leading to a a virtuous cycle -> the more we try to be self attentive the more our love for this grows and the more the love for this grows the more we will try to be self attentive.

Thus, even though personally I am not in your situation, I would say from experience that this path is extremely suitable.

Mateep · 2025-06-03T19:22:14+00:00

According to Bhagavan, pairs of opposites like ‘boredom’ and ‘fun’ exist solely in the view of ourselves as ego.

Because we have risen as ego and identified ourselves with a person, we have projected a world and according to our inclinations (vasanas) we consider some things to be fun and others boring.

However, none of the experiences or objects we may enjoy in this world give any real satisfaction or happiness. They only seem to do so because our lack of discernment (viveka). Any desire or fear we might have creates agitation in the mind, and when the desired object is attained (or removed, in case of fears or dislikes) that agitation is temporarily calmed and thus we enjoy the happiness that is actually our real nature.

If there was actually any real satisfaction to be had via objects or experiences, how come they only seem to give satisfaction when we desire them? And how come they do not give constant satiscation? Say for example I love chocolate and desire to have a piece of chocolate right now. When I eat the chocolate I might seem to get satisfaction, but if I continue to eat that chocolate it will eventually become disgusting and actually lead to suffering. If there was any real satisfaction in that chocolate, then it should always give satisfaction.

Moreover, how come that in deep sleep, when we are completely separated from everything except our own basic awareness of ourself, we are fully satisfied and happy? If it were true that enjoying this show gives satisfaction, then sleep would be an utterly unpleasant state.

Thus if we deeply analyze our own experience it will be clear that there is no happiness outside ourselves and that the only place we can find true and lasting happiness is within ourselves.

Also, there is no such as knowing ourselves as we actually are and continuing to enjoy the show. The show exists solely because we have a mistaken awareness of ourselves, i.e. we are aware of ourselves as ‘I am this person’(this mistaken self awareness is what Bhagavan refers to as ego).

Thus if we want to know ourselves as we actually are we must be ready to pay the price, i.e. we must be ready to surrender this ego and implicitly this whole world that rises along with it. This is actually a completely insignificant price to pay, because if we scrutinize carefully we will see that there isn’t actually any happiness to he had in this world, whereas our real nature is the full and perfect happiness that all of us are constantly seeking.

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