The proper pradakshina is going round the Self

[Guest guest]

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."