Who can question Nayana?

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Dear Sri Janaardana Kalianandaswami ,

 

To illustrate your point about the very close relationship between Ramana and

Nayana `I append

Ganapati Muni's Hymn to the Guru

 

Regards in His Grace, Alan

 

 

Hymn to the Guru

or Gurugita of Vasishta Ganapati Muni

 

 

 

1. THE UNMANIFEST from which all this manifestation takes birth,

which sustains it, into which it resolves itself - That the Eternal is:

 

 

2. In which support, in which matchless Strength,

this cosmos (this Brahma's Egg)with its myriads of globes firmly abides:

 

 

3. Which is the Splendour concrete, the source of all lights,

of the sun, of the planets; which, yea, is the power

that is there for the power of Brahma and the rest of the gods:

 

 

4. By whose Light, the desireless knowing the truth are delighted;

by whose magic, the little minds have a dual vision cast on the All

(the One Sum Total, Samaste):

 

 

5. On which by meditation men have become immersed in the Delight of Atman;

Where to stay is liberation, to Which even an inclination has the same purport:

 

 

6. That Brahman, called the Primal Sound, Pranava - unwearied let it reign

supreme

bearing the Ramana-name, so pleasing to me, for my meditation:

 

 

7. It holds fast to the root, but its abode is in the Heart's lotus;

yet it flows for the lotus of the head, and from behind for the energy of the

senses:

 

 

8. With the outward eye it makes for the body's illusion,

with the eye inward for experience of the Self's oneness:

 

 

9. Seeing the multitude of objects, or retired from it, it stands(as ever) for

Mukti, release,

by the inner movement, by the realisation of oneness:

 

 

10. This Light of Atman, the Pure, bearing the Ramana-name for me -

may it ever throb in my heart's lotus:

 

 

11. (The Light)from the lamp named Ramana, penetrating the walls of Ganapati's

speech,

nurtures the wondrous elegance of (Ramana's)Gita:

 

 

12. That, which by its rays dispels the darknesses of the ignorant -

let that truth dawn upon you

in concentration and meditation of Tara, the Original Sound:

 

 

13. By going up, by going down, by the movements in the adhars1 and in the head,

it fixes movements - and what more, itself pervades moving everywhere:

 

 

14. It is devoid of support; it resembles the Sky,

Full, Silent, let that Brahman in Guru's form swell itself in me:

 

 

15. Of whose truth on hearing, knowledge indirect comes,

but whose contact in particular causes that direct knowledge.

 

 

16. That Brahman, named Ramana, whose thought(leads to)liberation,

permanent encompassing, let That deposit me in the Delight.

 

 

17. In accordance with his view, lovingly,

Vasishta, urged by the Delight of the primal sound of Silence, Tara,

gave out this Hymn to the Guru, deep and lucid.

 

 

 

 

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alan

 

 

 

 

 

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