Ramana Gita I, 11

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Verse 11

The profound jnani is always rooted in the Self alone.

He does not think of the universe as 'Unreal' nor does he see it

as apart from himself.

 

Commentary

.... For him [the jnani] the question wether the world is 'Real or

'Unreal' would not arise because the world is 'Unreal' if seen only

as form and name and not if the underlying consciousness is seen.

The wise perceive both, the differences, the names and forms, and

the underlying unity.

Since nothing is seen as apart from himself, the world too is seen

as permeated by consciousness and cannot therefore be 'Unreal'.

 

Elsewhere, Ramana points out that it is futile to endlessly debate

about the nature of the world, whether it is 'Real' or 'Unreal',

'conscious energy' or 'matter' and so on, instead of abiding in the

exalted state where neither the individual nor the world is seen to

exist, separately. ...

 

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Ramana Gita, transl. and commentary by A.R. Natarajan

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