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The ancient Shaivite text, the Ribhu Gita, was a favorite of Ramana Maharshi.
The new book, Evolving Beyond Thought: Updating Your Brain's Software @ amazon.com/Evolving-Beyond-Thought-Updating-Software/dp/197972377X gives a detailed discussion on these verses and has the verses as translations, transliterations and in Sanskrit.
The blogpost "Dancing Hands for Lower Anxiety, Higher Cognition and Awakening" @ happinessbeyondthought.blogspot.com/2018/02/dancing-hands-for-lower-anxiety-higher.html goes through the neuroscience behind these mudras and chanting and how they are used.
In the early days, Ramana and his disciples would recite the Ribhu Gita every night after dinner with each reading a verse in turn. Ramana told one folk who was having difficulty understanding it, "it doesn't matter if you understand the words, just chant it".
The 32 verses that were selected manifested totally spontaneously from the 2000 verses of the Ribhu Gita. This is why "we" was used...She/Universal Consciousness really did it all but that would be too "strange" for many, so this is a compromise rather than arrogate to "me" any responsibility for the selection.
Gratitude to Rich Doyle for arranging the filming and for helpful comments.
For more info:
Gary Weber:
website @ www.happiness-beyond-thought.com;
blog @ https://happinessbeyondthought.blogspot.com;
youTube videos @ youtube.com/channel/UCMSnyxnteEx7IOPIFkfh3og
books - 1) Happiness Beyond Thought: A Practical Guide to Awakening" free download @ preview.tinyurl.com/bslfll8,
2) Dancing Beyond Thought: Bhagavad Gita Verses and Dialogues on Awakening - free download @ preview.tinyurl.com/k2usf7z, and
3) Into the Stillness: Dialogues on Awakening Beyond Thought with Rich Doyle non-dualitypress.org/, New Harbinger @ newharbinger.com/self_help/category/non-duality and amazon.com - paperback and Kindle.
4) Evolving Beyond Thought: Updating Your Brain's Software
Interviews w/Gary Weber
Science and Nonduality 2013 @ youtube.com/watch?v=er-0SE-7JRE&feature=share&list=FLMSnyxnteEx7IOPIFkfh3og,
BATGAP @ batgap.com/gary-weber/,
bloggingheads.tv @ bloggingheads.tv/videos/14840,
TSC Conference @ youtu.be/bEOujFKnHwc,
The Secular Buddhist @ secularbuddhism.org/2014/04/27/episode-198-gary-weber-happiness-beyond-thought-a-practical-guide-to-awakening ,
VoiceAmerica Business: voiceamerica.com/guest/29056/gary-weber
soundcloud channel @ soundcloud.com/gary_weber
FB @ facebook.com/gary.weber.528
An .mp3 of this dialogue is @ happiness-beyond-thought.com/downloads.
The ancient Shaivite text, the Ribhu Gita, was a favorite of Ramana Maharshi.
The new book, Evolving Beyond Thought: Updating Your Brain's Software @ amazon.com/Evolving-Beyond-Thought-Updating-Software/dp/197972377X gives a detailed discussion on these verses and has the verses as translations, transliterations and in Sanskrit.
The blogpost "Dancing Hands for Lower Anxiety, Higher Cognition and Awakening" @ happinessbeyondthought.blogspot.com/2018/02/dancing-hands-for-lower-anxiety-higher.html goes through the neuroscience behind these mudras and chanting and how they are used.
In the early days, Ramana and his disciples would recite the Ribhu Gita every night after dinner with each reading a verse in turn. Ramana told one folk who was having difficulty understanding it, "it doesn't matter if you understand the words, just chant it".
The 32 verses that were selected manifested totally spontaneously from the 2000 verses of the Ribhu Gita. This is why "we" was used...She/Universal Consciousness really did it all but that would be too "strange" for many, so this is a compromise rather than arrogate to "me" any responsibility for the selection.
Gratitude to Rich Doyle for arranging the filming and for helpful comments.
For more info:
Gary Weber:
website @ www.happiness-beyond-thought.com;
blog @ https://happinessbeyondthought.blogspot.com;
youTube videos @ youtube.com/channel/UCMSnyxnteEx7IOPIFkfh3og
books - 1) Happiness Beyond Thought: A Practical Guide to Awakening" free download @ preview.tinyurl.com/bslfll8,
2) Dancing Beyond Thought: Bhagavad Gita Verses and Dialogues on Awakening - free download @ preview.tinyurl.com/k2usf7z, and
3) Into the Stillness: Dialogues on Awakening Beyond Thought with Rich Doyle non-dualitypress.org/, New Harbinger @ newharbinger.com/self_help/category/non-duality and amazon.com - paperback and Kindle.
4) Evolving Beyond Thought: Updating Your Brain's Software
Interviews w/Gary Weber
Science and Nonduality 2013 @ youtube.com/watch?v=er-0SE-7JRE&feature=share&list=FLMSnyxnteEx7IOPIFkfh3og,
BATGAP @ batgap.com/gary-weber/,
bloggingheads.tv @ bloggingheads.tv/videos/14840,
TSC Conference @ youtu.be/bEOujFKnHwc,
The Secular Buddhist @ secularbuddhism.org/2014/04/27/episode-198-gary-weber-happiness-beyond-thought-a-practical-guide-to-awakening ,
VoiceAmerica Business: voiceamerica.com/guest/29056/gary-weber
soundcloud channel @ soundcloud.com/gary_weber
FB @ facebook.com/gary.weber.528
An .mp3 of this dialogue is @ happiness-beyond-thought.com/downloads.
