Maharshi - What is the nature of the heart?

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Maharshi - What is the nature of the heart?

 

 

What is the nature of the heart?

The sacred texts describing it say: Between the two nipples, below

the chest and above the abdomen, there are six organs of different

colours. One of them resembling the bud of a water lily and situated

two digits to the right is the heart. It is inverted and within it is

a tiny orifice which is the seat of dense darkness (ignorance) full

of desires. All the psychic nerves (nadis) depend upon it. It is the

abode of the vital forces, the mind and the light (of consciousness).

But, although it is described thus, the meaning of the word heart

(hrdayam) is the Self (atman). As it is denoted by the terms

existence, consciousness, bliss, eternal and plenum (sat, chit,

anandam, nityam, purnam) it has no differences such as exterior and

interior or up and down. That tranquil state in which all thoughts

come to an end is called the state of the Self. When it is realized

as it is, there is no scope for discussions about its location inside

the body or outside.

 

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"True surrender is love of God for the sake of love and nothing

else, not even for the sake of liberation. Love itself is the actual

form of God. That is pure bliss. Call it pure bliss, God, Self, or

what you will. That is devotion, that is realization and that is

everything. The experience of not forgetting consciousness alone is

the state of devotion which is the relationship of unfading real

love, because the real knowledge of Self, which shines as the

undivided supreme bliss itself, surges up as the nature of love. Only

if one knows the truth of love, which is the nature of the Self,

will the strong entangled knot of life be untied. Only if one attains

the height of love will liberation be attained. The experience of

Self is only love, which is seeing only love, hearing only love,

feeling only love, tasting only love and smelling only love, and this

is bliss. God does not reside in any place other than the Heart. Be

sure that the heart is the Kingdom of Heaven."

 

 

...."Reality is at once being and consciousness.

To know that is to be that in the heart, transcending thought.

 

That which is bliss is verily the Self.

Bliss and the Self are one and identical.

That alone is Real.

That alone is the real truth.

That is the heart.

 

That which is the source of all,

That in which all live, and that into

which all finally merge, is the heart.

 

In the interior of the heart-cave (there)

shines alone the one absolute as the "I - I",

verily the consciousness - Self.

 

What is called the heart is no other than the absolute.

 

Call it by any name, God, Self, the Heart or Seat of Consciousness,

it is all the same.

 

The beloved heart alone is the refuge for the rising and subsiding

of the "I".

 

The heart is the center of all. That from which beings come

into existence is said to be the absolute. That is the heart.

 

The absolute is the heart.

 

The Self is the heart.

 

The heart is the center from which everything springs.

 

The heart is the "Kingdom of God".

 

~Sri Ramana

 

 

LoveAlways,

 

Mazie