Namaste 🙏 Hello, and welcome to our new series on Ulladu-Narpadu. Ulladu-Narpadu means “40 Verses on Reality”, and these are verses that were written by Bhagavān Rāmana over a period of several years apparently, and later on collated into a book, and arranged in sections according to their topics. So in other words, it was never intended to be an anthology or a philosophical work in itself; it was simply verses that occurred spontaneously to Rāmana, and then he wrote them down, and they were collected later. So it does have that weakness that it’s not all one piece, it wasn’t conceived as a comprehensive work on philosophy or on Rāmana’s viewpoints, but it just kind of happened. We’re going to be going through this because it is considered one of the seminal works on Rāmana’s views, and it really does have a lot of good stuff in it. So, rather than try to introduce it any further, I’m going to jump right into the prefatory verses:

“Without awareness of Reality, can Reality exist?

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