https://www.happinessofbeing.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/The_Path_of_Sri_Ramana_Part_Two-4.pdf
58
63
When a Jnani thus feels everything as the one undivided Self, will not His body also be included in that experience as ‘I’ ?* The experience of the ignorant is ‘I am this body alone’ while that of a Jnani is ‘I am the body as well’, This is explained by Sri Bhagavan Ramana in verse 17 of ‘Ulladu Narpadu’:
“For those who have not realised the Self and as well for those who have realised the Self, this body is ‘I’; but, for those who have not realised the Self, the ‘I’ is confined only to the limit of the body; and for those who have realised the Self within the body (i.e., in this very life time), the ‘I’ shines as the limitless Self. Know that this is the only difference between these two.”
65
Out of the many different kinds of disinterested worship (Nishkama Pooja) the worship of the universe as the form of God is also recommended. Viewing the universe as God and worshipping it can only be done through the imaginative process of the mind. So it will be only the worship of a mental God and not that of Reality. But, to really experience the universe as God (which is really worshipping it) is possible only, after realising the true nature of the Self, where the world and God will not remain as entities other than the Self.
“In the heart at first you see Him who is everywhere; Only then that all exists as Him you’ll be aware.” - Dhyanappattu - Sadanai Saram.
......
68
If these impurities which form the ‘tam’ in ‘Chittam’ are removed,‘Chittam’ will remain as ‘Chit’ (Pure Consciousness) which it really ever IS.
.......
The Path is to attend to ‘I am’ and the Goal is to remain as ‘I am’!
........
72 Chp 2 Bhakti:
“Since his mind form is thus destroyed, and since he is established in the Supreme Truth, for that great Yogi there is not even a single karma to do. For, He has attained His Natural State!”
– Upadesha Undiyar, verse 15.
The fully purified love will shine as Shiva!
5 levels
......
“Because the mind branches out into innumerable thoughts, the power of attention of each thought becomes very weak. As thought subside more and more, the mind becomes one-pointed and thereby gains strength” -
‘Who Am I?’ –
...
In the Path of Love (Bhakti Marga) when such confidence in God: “God will look after everything in my life; why should I think and worry about it” increases, thousands of unnecessary thoughts will depart
.....
. So also, as the discrimination of our Man has now matured, his decision not to pray for anything worldly objects has been brought about by the correct knowledge that God is All-knowing, All-powerful and All-love.
“From now onwards there is no such thing for me as a need in my life. Let anything take place in my life as you will ” “… all such sorts of ups and downs, happiness or misery, prosperity or poverty, honour or dishonour, fame or ill-fame…” The only need is You alone; fulfill that one need of mine, my Lord!
Ramalinga swami
......
“When will the wave of thought in me cease so that I may reach Thee, the most minute as well as the most great?”
– ‘Arunachala Aksharamanamalai’ - Verse 57.
..........
“For Thee I am longing, but without the true knowledge, and I am weary! Do Thou grant me the Supreme Knowledge of Thee, so That my weariness may go, O Arunachala.”
– ‘Arunachala Aksharamanamalai’ – Verse 40
reworded: I am longing for you without really knowing you. Give me the power to know you. So my wearines shall fade.
....
Knowing that the present pangs of separation of our Man are due to his love for Him (God) and this in turn is due to not having the right knowledge of His reality, (Real Nature) and that the only remedy for this is to bestow upon him the Supreme Knowledge; God withdraws from the sight of the Man His unreal aspects, the name and form.
reworded: As long as man cherishes name and form, his Love for God can never be steady.
When grace dawns, God removes the maya of names and forms. He gives him a clear vision of who He is.
The seeker revels in that Reality.
...........
“… realizing one’s own truth in the truth of that True Thing (the Supreme) and being one with It, having been resolved into It, is the true Seeing (realization). Thus should you know”.
– ‘Ulladu Narpadu’ – Verse 8
..
Realising the oneness of one’s own Self as the true nature of God and to merge into It without any residue of individuality, alone is the true seeing and the true attainment of God.
..
127
The knowing of your Self (Sat) is spontaneously ever present, because you are Knowledge itself. So also, even any feeling of love in you cannot be but you, because you are Love itself.
..
The Self-awareness eternally shining and ever directly experienced as ‘I-I’ within you, is the real Feet of your Sad-Guru. Cling to it. That alone will lead you to the goal.
........
“The dissolving of the ice - the ego sense ‘I am the body’ into the ocean – the Guru-Awareness – that is the same as the oneness of Self-Awareness, is the true worship of the Guru.”
– ‘Guru Vachaka Kovai’ - Verse 315
......
“It is only to those who are not able to know themselves as the witness, to whatever is cognized in the waking state as well as to the ignorance in sleep, that are deluded in thinking that God appeared to them and afterwards disappeared.”
– ‘Guru Vachaka Kovai’ - Verse 1072
“Only those who do not know the Self, the eternal Truth as ‘I’, but merely know the transitory body as ‘I’, will see enthusiastically, for a short while, the different names and farms of God and wonder at them.” - G.V.K. - Verse 1070
........
“All the manifestations of God that are obtained through worship, appear and disappear. Therefore, Self, one’s true Nature, shining ever, without appearing and disappearing, alone is the True God.”
– ‘Guru Vachaka Kovai’ - Verse 1073
.......
If you want to be free from fear (the state of fearlessness) be in the state of otherlessness, Self.
......
“Because one has no Love (Swatma Bhakti) to listen to the teaching of the Supreme Self ever going on in the heart, one comes out with great enthusiastic delusion. Because of this one needs a Guru outside.” – ‘Guru Vachaka Kovai’ - Verse 272
.....
“When the mind remains permanently absorbed in its source whence it had its rising – it is Karma, Bhakti; it is Yoga and Jnana also.”
– ‘Upadesha Undiyar’ - Verse 10
.........
Bhakti and Jnana pave the way to the Self. To be as the Self is Jnana; and without loving the Self how to be It? So, if one is as Self, it is the state of fullness of Love. If one has ‘Bhakti one cannot but be as the Self. So Bhakti and Jnana are not two but the Self, like the two faces of the same coin.
.................162 bhakti ends.................
190 chp 3 ends karma
........
Appendix 190
Thus through self-effort in the form of generating karmas there is no possibility of Awakening or Liberation.
...
.............................................end.................................Path of Ramana..................................
No comments:
Post a Comment