RAMANA GITA STUDY GROUP Ch 5-vs13-17..[ AR Natarajan]

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Ramana Gita (translation & commentary by AR Natarajan)

Chapter 5 contd.

 

Vs 13

The Heart is to the body what the sun is to the world. The mind

in `Sahasrara' is like the orbit of the moon in the world.

Vs 14

Just as the sun gives light to the moon, the Heart lights the mind.

 

Commentary

……….the moon has no separate existence from the sun – so too the

mind only reflects the consciousness of the Heart. It is because of

this that enquiry centered on finding out the mind's source will

take one back to the Heart.

 

Vs 15

A mortal absent from the Heart sees only the mind, just as the light

of the moon alone is seen at night when the sun has set.

Vs 16

Unaware that the true source of consciousness is one's own Self, and

mentally perceiving objects apart from oneself, the ignorant are

deluded.

 

Commentary

In the waking state, we function only with our minds. In dream state

one's identity need not be the same. In sleep, the mind too is

asleep. Proceeding only with reference to the waking experience one

is apt to presume that the mind is all, and that it is independently

conscious…….

...only a properly directed enquiry would reveal the truth, that the

origin of the mind's light is the Heart, just as the moon's light is

derived from the sun.

 

Vs 17

The mind of the knower, abiding in the Heart, is merged in the

consciousness of the Heart like the moonlight in daylight.

 

Commentary

There is a world of difference between a Heart based life and the

mind based one. For those whose mind is dead, in the sense that

latent tendencies are destroyed, only the form of the mind remains.

It is rid of content.

 

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