Which translator/version of "40 verses on Reality"

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Dear Group,

 

SAT wants to put a version of "40 verses" in their web site, which

they are redoing now. The version that starts as below is a very

nice translation (obviously of the original Tamil version, not an

english translation of the Sankrit translation done by Ganapati Muni).

 

Does any one know the translator and publisher of the version that

starts below? (I find it one of the best of the translations. SAT

does not want to use any translation that cannot be identified as to

translator, etc., though)

 

Invocation

i. If Reality did not exist, could there be any knowledge of

existence? Free from all thoughts, Reality abides in the Heart, the

Source of all thoughts. It is, therefore, called the Heart. How then

is one to contemplate it? To be as it is in the Heart, is Its

contemplation.

 

ii. Those who know intense fear of death seek refuge only at the feet

of the Lord Who has neither death nor birth. Dead to themselves and

their possessions, can the thought of death occur to them again?

Deathless are they.

 

1. From our perception of the world there follows acceptance of a

unique First Principle possessing various powers. Pictures of name

and form, the person who sees, the screen on which he sees, and the

light by which he sees: he himself is all of these.

 

2. All religions postulate the three fundamentals, the world, the

soul, and God, but it is only the one Reality that manifests Itself

as these three. One can say, 'The three are really three' only so

long as the ego lasts. Therefore, to inhere in one's own Being, where

the 'I', or ego, is dead, is the perfect State.

 

Thank you.

 

We are Not two,

Richard