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

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. 

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. 

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.   

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?"

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. 

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. 

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