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| | Topics — Ramana Maharshi |
 | | Ramana Maharshi believed that death and evil were maya, or illusion, which could be dissipated by the practice of vicara, by which the true self and the unity of all things would be discovered. | | | He was captivated by legends of the local pilgrimage place, Mt. Arunachala, from which the god Shiva was supposed to have arisen in a spiral of fire at the creation of the world. | | | For liberation from rebirth it is sufficient, he believed, to practice only vicara and bhakti (devotional surrender) either to Shiva Arunachala or to Ramana Maharshi. |
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http://www.actualfreedom.com.au/library/topics/ramana.htm
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| | Christian meditation and Christian cultivation |
| | We'll see these two factors of vitarka and vicara mentation mentioned over and over again in cultivation texts. | | | In the Buddhist description, the first dhyana still contains vitarka mental clinging, and vicara mental activities as well. | | | Investigation (vicara) refers to thorough and detailed research; its nature is to cause the mind to be earnest and ardent and to examine in a subtle manner the objects of mental discourse. |
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http://www.meditationexpert.com/Articles/christianmeditation.htm
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| | Realization.org: Advaita Vedanta |
| | Making a strenuous attempt to do this, even though it's impossible, is a main component of Ramana Maharshi's method of self-inquiry ( vicara in Sanskrit). | | | If you try long enough, eventually you will become convinced that your ordinary sense of yourself — your ego — is not really you. | | | If you could, it would become something of which you are aware. |
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http://www.realization.org/page/topics/advaita_vedanta.htm
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| | Shankara bio |
| | Govind Chandra Pande, Sankaracarya, vicara aura sandarbha, National Publishing House, New Delhi, 1992. |
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http://www.sanskrit.org/Shankara/shankar%20bio.html
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| | Zolag-Pali Glossary |
| | cetasikas which have to be cultivated for the attainment of jhana: vitakka, vicara, piti, sukha, samadhi |
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http://www.zolag.co.uk/pglos.html
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