Fw: The Heart - 2

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RamanaMaharshi

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Saturday, August 11, 2001 11:28 PM

The Heart - 2

Q: In that case, how can it be localised in any part of the body?

Fixing a place for the Heart would imply setting physiological

limitations to that which is beyond space and time.

A: That is right. But the person who puts the question about

the position of the Heart considers himself as existing with

or in the body. While putting the question now, would you

say that your body alone is here but you are speaking from

somewhere else? No, you accept your bodily existence.

It is from this point of view that any reference to a physical

body comes to be made. Truly speaking, pure consciousness

is indivisible, it is without parts. It has no form and shape,

no 'within' and 'without'. There is no 'right' or 'left' for

it.

Pure consciousness, which is the Heart, includes all, and

nothing is outside or apart from it. That is the ultimate

truth.

From this absolute standpoint, the Heart, Self or consciousness

can have no particular place assigned to it in the physical body.

What is the reason? The body is itself a mere projection of the

mind, and the mind is but a poor reflection of the radiant Heart.

How can that, in which everything is contained be itself confined

as a tiny part within the physical body which is but an

infinitesimal,

phenomenal manifestation of the one reality?

But people do not understand this. They cannot help thinking in terms

of the physical body and the world. For instance, you say, 'I

have come

to this ashram all the way from my country beyond the Himalayas'.

But that is not the truth. Where is 'coming' or 'going' or any movement

whatever, for the one, all-pervading spirit which you really are?

You are where you have always been. It is your body that moved

or was conveyed from place to place till it reached this ashram.

This is the simple truth, but to a person who considers himself

a subject living in an objective world, it appears as something

altogether visionary!

It is by coming down to the level ordinary understanding that

a place is assigned to the Heart in the physical body.

Sri Ramana Maharshi

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All paths go

somewhere. No path goes nowhere. Paths, places, sights, perceptions,

and indeed all experiences arise from and exist in and subside back

into the Space of Awareness. Like waves rising are not different than

the ocean, all things arising from Awareness are of the nature of

Awareness. Awareness does not come and go but is always Present. It

is Home. Home is where the Heart Is. Jnanis know the Heart to be the

Finality of Eternal Being. A true devotee relishes in the Truth of

Self-Knowledge, spontaneously arising from within into It Self.

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