S.S. Cohen - Guru Ramana - Memories & Notes, Maya, 4th January, 1937

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> 4th January, 1937

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> A disciple remarks that Sri Bhagavan often says

> that

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> maya and Reality are the same. How can that be?

> Bh. Shankara was criticised for his views on Maya

> without

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> understanding him.

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> He said that

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> (1) Brahman is real,

> (2) The universe is unreal, and

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> (3) Brahman is the universe.

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> He did not stop at the second, because the third

> explains the other two. It signifies that the

> universe is

> real if perceived as the Self, and unreal if

> perceived apart

> from the Self. Hence Maya and Reality are one and

> the

> same.

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> Guru Ramana - Memories & Notes, S.S. Cohen

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Guru Ramana - Memories

& Notes, S.S.

Cohen

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“Brahman

is the universe.” This is realization.

>From Eight

Stanzas to Arunachala, 7:

He who pursues

this closely, Questioning.....

"What is

the origin of the I '?

And diving

inwards reaches the seat of the mind within.. The Heart

Becomes there

the Sovereign Lord of the Universe.......

>From the Gospel

of Sri Ramakrishna,

Page 477,

paragraph H:

MASTER: “The

jnani reasons about the world through the process of ‘Neti, neti’,

and at last reaches the Eternal and Indivisible Satchidananda. He reasons

in this manner: ‘Brahman is not the living beings; It is neither

the universe nor the twenty-four cosmic principles.’ As a result of

such reasoning he attains the Absolute. Then he realizes that it is the

Absolute that has become all this—the universe, its living beings, and

the twenty-four cosmic principles.

Warm regards,

michael bowes