The proper pradakshina is going round the Self

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Devotees also made pradakshina round Sri Ramana.

This is from A. Devaraja Mudaliar: Day by Day with Bhagavan, p. 172f

 

15.4.1946

"About 8 a.m. Nagamma came into the hall and prostrated herself before

Bhagavan, after having gone round the

hall a few times. Bhagavan said:

'Ah! You too have started going round. Have you learnt it from

Ravanamma? She used to go round and round,

till I spoke to her about it the other day. If one goes round like

that, everybody who comes here thinks 'Apparently

the proper thing here is to go round' and starts going round. Thus all

people go round. After all, the proper

pradakshina is going round the Self, or, more accurately, to realise

that we are the Self and that within us all

the countless spheres revolve, going round and round, as described in

the following stanza of Ribhu Gita

(3rd Chapter, 39th Verse):

 

Reflecting "I am the all-blissful Self"

Is worship as with words and flowers.

True circumambulation is the thought,

"In me the million universes roll",

He who knows all beings bow to him

And he to none,

He bows before the Mahalinga-Self."

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Pradakshina & Friends,

 

If I had my way...and we all know that I don't...

 

True circumambulation is the thought,

"In me the million universes roll",

He who knows all beings bow to him

And he to none,

He bows before the Mahalinga-Self."

 

We can only hope that our frequent "nondualist self reflectors" (you

know who you are) would ponder quotes like this, and balance them

against the frequently endorsed notions that we are "all already

realized", etc..

 

The advaitic sages introduced the notion of MAYA to let us know that

we DO NOT perceive the Truth, that we are NOT realized. More

Importantly, that by utilizing one method, consistently IMITATING the

truth, we might shorten our path to it.

 

What they left out, for what I consider obvious reasons, is that a

method, especially when that method consists in a constantly held

thought, is not THE REALITY, but by disciplined sadhana, will finally

reveal itself, or become, THE REALITY.

 

The notion that we don't exist in a a dualistic world is not only

nonsensical, but one that I don't think any "nondualistic sage" would

contradict. What we forget with amazing devotion to our argumentative

capacities is that argument never settled anything of any philisophic

import. your mind helps you to "feel" that it is right.

 

With enough feeling, you commit, and I for one wish you "Good Luck".

 

yours in the bonds,

eric

 

 

 

, "Gabriele Ebert" <g.ebert@g...> wrote:

> Devotees also made pradakshina round Sri Ramana.

> This is from A. Devaraja Mudaliar: Day by Day with Bhagavan, p. 172f

>

> 15.4.1946

> "About 8 a.m. Nagamma came into the hall and prostrated herself

before Bhagavan, after having gone round the

> hall a few times. Bhagavan said:

> 'Ah! You too have started going round. Have you learnt it from

Ravanamma? She used to go round and round,

> till I spoke to her about it the other day. If one goes round like

that, everybody who comes here thinks 'Apparently

> the proper thing here is to go round' and starts going round. Thus

all people go round. After all, the proper

> pradakshina is going round the Self, or, more accurately, to

realise that we are the Self and that within us all

> the countless spheres revolve, going round and round, as described

in the following stanza of Ribhu Gita

> (3rd Chapter, 39th Verse):

>

> Reflecting "I am the all-blissful Self"

> Is worship as with words and flowers.

> True circumambulation is the thought,

> "In me the million universes roll",

> He who knows all beings bow to him

> And he to none,

> He bows before the Mahalinga-Self."