Ramana Gita Study Group Ch 7 V.7,8,9,, Self Enquiry

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SELF ENQUIRY-COMPETENCE AND COMPONENTS

 

SRI RAMANA GITA CHAPER 7

 

KRISHNA BHIKSHU TRANS.

 

7.Wonderful mystic powers may be had through other means.Even when they are

obtained,bliss can be

had only through Self Enquiry .

 

8.Krishni asked;

 

Who is said to be fit to go on with this Enquiry?

 

can one know by himself his own fitness ?

 

Bhagavan replied:

 

One whose mind is pure through Upasana [spiritual practice]or other means,or by

the merit of his

deeds in past lives,whose mind perceives evils [imperfections] alone, in the

body, and sensory

objects.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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RamanaMaharshi, Alan Jacobs

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SELF ENQUIRY-COMPETENCE AND COMPONENTS

 

SRI RAMANA GITA CHAPER 7

 

KRISHNA BHIKSHU TRANS.

 

7.Wonderful mystic powers may be had through other means.Even when

they are obtained,bliss can be

had only through Self Enquiry .

 

8.Krishni asked;

 

Who is said to be fit to go on with this Enquiry?

 

can one know by himself his own fitness ?

 

Bhagavan replied:

 

One whose mind is pure through Upasana [spiritual practice]or other

means,or by the merit of his

deeds in past lives,whose mind perceives evils [imperfections]

alone, in the body, and sensory

objects.

 

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Alan

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Ramana Gita [translation &commentary by AR Natarajan ]

 

Ch 7 contd.

Vs 7

Marvellous occult powers are possible through practices other than

self-enquiry. But even if one secures such powers ultimately self-

enquiry alone gives liberation.

 

Commentary

A common human hankering is for powers, `siddhis'. Such powers

dazzle the unwary. They lead one away from the single-minded search

for Self-knowledge. Ramana always cautions against their

lures. . . . .they help no one to know the Self. Ramana advises

Humphreys that "clairvoyance clairaudience are not worth having when

far greater illumination and peace is possible without them than

with them."*

[*Glimpses - Humphreys – P26]

Ramana also points out that such powers are no better than dreams.

They come and go. They involve exercise of the mind and are within

its framework. Liberation implies freedom from thought movements

following erasure of latent tendencies. True power can only be firm

abidance in the Self, in the Heart, for then one cannot relapse into

the illusion that one is the body.

 

Vs 8

Who is considered fit for self-enquiry? Can one know his own fitness?

 

Vs 9

He whose mind has been purified by spiritual practices or by

accumulated merit of past lives, and who has distaste for the body

and the sense objects is fit for such enquiry.

 

(commentary to follow vs9,10& 11 taken together)

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