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513) Know that only when the state of Brahma Samadhi, where there is no speech or thought becomes so natural to me like that of breathing I shall admit that Your debt which You have incurred by touching me through Your eyes is cleared.
514) If You make me reach Your home, the heart why then shall I need a house to live here? Instead though You give the whole kingdom of heaven to rule over, except the shade of Your Feet, it is nothing but only Your unkindness to me!
533) Graciously think a little about me to make me as the supreme knowledge itself, devoid of mind, the maya by the real awakening from this waking dream through the enquiry ‘Who am I'?534) Graciously think a little about me to give me the great enthusiasm to take to the unbroken Self- Attention with love and the full conviction that attending self alone is the highest and the best of all human endeavours.536) O Annamalai, the great heap of bliss and peace! Graciously think about me so that I shall live in Your home of bliss in the form of the supreme heart space which results, after all the vasanas are swept away.538) O my father, why the waves of thoughts are still remaining in the mind of this wretched one, though I have come across Your divine glance? Have You not yet gladly thought by Your gracious heart to swallow me and to make me turn inward?540) Though You have taught me as clear as the daylight that ones own Selfconsciousness devoid of objective knowledge alone is Jnana, I am stumbling and tottering due to being blinded by the 'I am the body idea'. Therefore, graciously think to save me.553) O Jnana Ramana Guru, who has taken the full responsibility on me (?), if You now abandon me, on some reasons, I will take birth again, and undergo unnecessary sufferings. Will it fit You who has taken me as Your own (slave)?555) Will it fit You who rose between the two powerful ego risings - Brahma and Vishnu, as Annamalai and defeated them, to allow me still to rise as an individual, different from You, as if 1 am this body?556) O Guru Ramana, instead of my attaining Your divine presence which shines as sat-cit-ananda completely devoid of maya, will it fit You (?) to allow an 'I' rising (ego-rising) which has the three gunas (tamas, rajas, and satva)? Does it fit Your Grace?564) Is it not that “useful life" means that the mind should drown into the ocean of heart and lose its entity in the supreme silence? But You have allowed my mind to be dragged along by the senses! Is it only for this that You have given me this body life?572) Make me still and remain ever as the well established Jnana of Self-consciousness. Except You, the Satguru who else can kill the ghostly rise of my mind and make it never rise again?.........614) My mind rises to learn all these worldly arts adn gets more and more taste. But to get to subsidein self, the true art, (?) the mind will obey only by Your power of Grace. It will not subside of it's own accord.617) You should shower Your Grace so that the desire to attend to self changes to love (losing the form of ego). Gracefully aim at me the Brahmastra to have strong vichara of 'Who am I'?622) Conquer my by Your Grace so that I shall never rise again but drown in the heart once for all! To complete this big task befall on both of us, kindly look at me graciously at least for a second by Your gracious eyes.623) The nature of my mind bird is such that it always tries to fly away escaping from my hold and to think about other things only. Kindly throw - spread Your net of silence where there is no trace of vasanas of either name or form - catch the bird making it free from vasanas and keep it within.624) O the almighty, if You ordain that "Let Your mind be pure", my mind which has become dirty due to filthy (attachment) will glow like a diamond and become sat-cit-swarupa. "Those who reach Arunachala, however small the creature be, will get liberation without any effort (sadhana)". Kindly, prove these words of Yours by making it true in my case.625) Mistaking the body as self is the reason for the appearance of the world-picture. In order to kill this false notion put Your Feet in my heart and dance as "I alone Am".635) I have no strength of mind to pursue the quest of the reality, the self. Piercing the heart where the rising 'I am so and so' subsides and lose my self (?). I do not know any other sadhana. That day, You had brought me in Your presence, took over me, what else You intend to do on me further?639) To think of that which appears as second and third person objects (anniya) is waste. To find the source of the 'I', he who attends the above (objects) is Tapas. O my Lord who dragged me to Your Feet only to turn my extroverted nature of the mind to attend inwards (Ahamukha), please help me to turn inward.673) Except by Your gift of Grace, to get the true life of living established in Heart, to remain as self, immersed in mouna samadhi (beyond words), fully detached with the body - there is no other way.686) What is the use by repeatedly thinking that this world is a mirage, a falsedream or a trivial thing? Such a thinking is only an effort made only after the rising of ego 'I'. What benefit will it bring to me, unless Your Grace is bestowed upon me.692) The unshakably (?) strong conviction in me that theasat (the body) is sat (real existent) does not given room to realise the truth even a little. Therefore by Your Grace kindly blossom my heart and reveal the truth.700) Only by Your almighty Grace I can achieve the knowledge of oneness of self. For it is impossible to attain jnana in any birth merely by the effort of my petty intellect which is identifying the body as 'I'.740) I the decitful one, languishing and thinking what tapas can I do forgetting a life of tapas. Ah! I feat whether I will spend the rest of my life in the same useless manner I have spent in the past!780) Just like magnet attracts iron and retains it, the day You draw my mind without movement (chalana) by Your gracious pull, retain in You without getting me extroverted, is the auspicious day for me.818) Tell me, is it in vain that all my prayer to You begging, weeping bitterly on that day for Jnana, the great desolation - the annihilation of 'I' - which is the complete achievement of mouna?819) Is it my fate to waste all the time of my life and die without drowning and dissolving in You, the defectless supreme whole? Is there any scarcity of the fruit of jnana with You to bestow Your bliss upon me? (?)892) Is it not Your nature to wake me up from the original sleep of the forgetfulness of self in which the dream of this waking state is experienced by an individual - 'I' which rises, functions ans sets? Therefore You do the same to me.924) Until the blossoming of supreme silence of sat-cit- ananda in which state nothing is experienced as another 'I', this fool (I) is always be praying to You unceasingly as 'Give me this, fix me in that state, unite with me' and so on, making complaint (?).945) Since my nature is knowing only other things and not myself. With this I am ruining my self. Make me experience that my real nature is knowing only self and not anything else but You ever remaining as my real nature.946) The knowledge of my existence is only that I am this body. This is improper. Destroy this ego knowledge by Your Grace and You, the one alone exists as the existence of sahaja nirvikalpa state.948) With the age old vasana, imagining that there is a body and at the same time attaching (with desire) with the body as I am, graciously do not allow the first person to rise, root it out thoroughly and You ever shine and be as Jnana.950) You, the dense supreme experience of self who is immense and all pervading like the flood of on ocean without any limit of time and space alone survive and shine victoriously as 'I'.951) Ido not wish any more to remain like even a little bit of ego-shadow, You alone exist and shine as the real one, by Your Grace in such a manner that the false 'I' can never rise again.952) Except You, the one perfect whole (poorna) there is no other thing existing. Hence, swallow and digest me, the ego and shine as You alone in such a manner that the ghostly ego cannot rise at all.958) The reason for the apparent existence of the five elements and their physical form is the rising of 'I am the filthy body’. Be gracious in destroying the 'I' - the ego, and let the beginning and endless 'You' and remain as true 'I' and show my unlimited (Akhanda) own state of bliss.971) O my Satguru, shall I tell an example to prove the power of Your Grace? You have named even all the wrongs done by my petty ugly mind as Sadhanas and are (?) venturing forward to give me Self- realisation Your philanthropic (?) compassion is very strange!989) O my father who shine and attract me as an exceptional second person object to remind to me the first personal feeling! When I think of You as Arunachala, You shine within me as the one great feeling of 'T’.990) Thinking You is nothing but thinking of 'I', thinking of me is nothing but the state of non-thinking. Even that is nothing but a vigilant attention of not rising as an 'I'! Why should then be even having an effort of attention? For my mere existence is itself knowing myself.............end............Atma vichar patikam 11 verses on SEfrom sadhanai saram pdf 102/1279. Why is the ego destroyed when we scrutinize “What am I”? Because this “I”-thought (aham-vritti) is a reflected ray of Self-consciousness; and thus unlike other thoughts, which are devoid of consciousness, it is always directly connected with its source. Therefore, when our attention dives deeper and deeper within by following this reflected ray “I,” the length of this reflected ray “I” will diminish until finally it has shrunk to nothing. When the ego, the feeling “I am so-and-so,” thus disappears, the consciousness that will remain shining as “I am I” is the true knowledge of Self.
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