Maharshi: surrender -[11]

[Guest guest]

thank you Viorica for these teaching posts. I want to learn; why is the

reference to Siva from among the the tree gods: Brahma Vishnu and Shiva?

 

~k~

 

Question:

I have faith in Murti Dhyana (worship of form).

 

Will it not help me to gain Jnana (knowledge)?

 

Sri Ramana Maharshi:

Surely it will. Upasana (meditation) helps concentration of mind. Then the

mind is free from

other thoughts and is full of the meditated form. The mind then becomes one

with the object

of meditation, and this makes it quite pure.

 

Then think who is the

worshipper. The answer is 'I',

that is the Self. In this way the Self is ultimately gained.

 

Worshipping the formless reality by unthought thought is the best kind of

worship. But when one

is not fit for such formless worship of God, worship of form alone is

suitable. Formless worship

is possible only for people who are devoid of the ego-form. Know that all

the worship done by people

who possess the ego-form is only worship of form.

 

The pure state of being attached to grace (Self), which is devoid of any

attachment, alone,

is one's own state of silence, which is devoid of any other thing. Know

that one's ever abiding

as that silence, having experienced it as it is, alone is true mental

worship (Manasik-Puja).

 

Know that the performance of the unceasing true and natural worship in

which the mind is submissively

established as the one Self, having installed the Lord on the

Heart-throne, is silence, the best of all forms

of worship. Silence, which is devoid of the assertive ego, alone, is

liberation. The evil forgetfulness of Self,

which causes one to slip down from that silence, alone, is non-devotion

(Vibhakti). Know that abiding as that

silence with the mind subsided as non-different from Self, is the truth of

Siva Bhakti (devotion to God).

 

When one has completely surrendered oneself at the feet of Siva, thereby

becoming of the nature of the Self,

the resulting abundant peace, in which there is not even the least room

within the Heart for one to make any

complaint about one's defects and deficiencies, alone is the nature of

supreme devotion. One's thus becoming

a slave to the Lord and one's remaining quiet and silent, devoid even of

the egotistical thought 'I' am His slave',

is Self-abidance, and this is the Supreme Knowledge.

[Guest guest]

K:

 

Shiva is referred to because Arunachala is believed to be the abode of Shiva

and is

referred to as Shiva himself by some.

 

Mark

 

 

 

 

 

 

thank you Viorica for these teaching posts. I want to learn; why is the

reference to Siva from among the the tree gods: Brahma Vishnu and Shiva?

 

~k~

 

Question:

I have faith in Murti Dhyana (worship of form).

 

Will it not help me to gain Jnana (knowledge)?

 

Sri Ramana Maharshi:

Surely it will. Upasana (meditation) helps concentration of mind. Then the

mind is free from

other thoughts and is full of the meditated form. The mind then becomes one

with the object

of meditation, and this makes it quite pure.

 

Then think who is the

worshipper. The answer is 'I',

that is the Self. In this way the Self is ultimately gained.

 

Worshipping the formless reality by unthought thought is the best kind of

worship. But when one

is not fit for such formless worship of God, worship of form alone is

suitable. Formless worship

is possible only for people who are devoid of the ego-form. Know that all

the worship done by people

who possess the ego-form is only worship of form.

 

The pure state of being attached to grace (Self), which is devoid of any

attachment, alone,

is one's own state of silence, which is devoid of any other thing. Know

that one's ever abiding

as that silence, having experienced it as it is, alone is true mental

worship (Manasik-Puja).

 

Know that the performance of the unceasing true and natural worship in

which the mind is submissively

established as the one Self, having installed the Lord on the

Heart-throne, is silence, the best of all forms

of worship. Silence, which is devoid of the assertive ego, alone, is

liberation. The evil forgetfulness of Self,

which causes one to slip down from that silence, alone, is non-devotion

(Vibhakti). Know that abiding as that

silence with the mind subsided as non-different from Self, is the truth of

Siva Bhakti (devotion to God).

 

When one has completely surrendered oneself at the feet of Siva, thereby

becoming of the nature of the Self,

the resulting abundant peace, in which there is not even the least room

within the Heart for one to make any

complaint about one's defects and deficiencies, alone is the nature of

supreme devotion. One's thus becoming

a slave to the Lord and one's remaining quiet and silent, devoid even of

the egotistical thought 'I' am His slave',

is Self-abidance, and this is the Supreme Knowledge.

 

 

 

 

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