Ramana Gita Study Group Ch 9. V .11,12,&13.. ON CUTTING THE KNOT

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ON CUTTING THE KNOT

 

SRI RAMANA GITA CHAPER 9

 

KRISHNA BHIKSHU TRANS.

 

11.The Individual permeates the entire body , with that light, then becomes

ego-centric and thinks

that he or she is the body and that the world is different from himself or

herself .

 

12.When the discering one renounces egotism and the 'I am the body' idea and

carries on one

pointed enquiry into the Self, the movement of life-force starts in the nadis.

 

13,This movement of the force separates the Self from the other nadis and the

Self then gets

confined to the Amrita Nadi alone and shines with a clear light.

 

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Life is a pure flame,and we live

by an invisible Sun within us.

 

 

 

 

 

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RamanaMaharshi, Alan Jacobs

<alanadamsjacobs> wrote:

> ON CUTTING THE KNOT

>

> SRI RAMANA GITA CHAPER 9

>

> KRISHNA BHIKSHU TRANS.

>

> 11.The Individual permeates the entire body , with that light,

then becomes ego-centric and thinks

> that he or she is the body and that the world is different from

himself or herself .

>

> 12.When the discering one renounces egotism and the 'I am the

body' idea and carries on one

> pointed enquiry into the Self, the movement of life-force starts

in the nadis.

>

> 13,This movement of the force separates the Self from the other

nadis and the Self then gets

> confined to the Amrita Nadi alone and shines with a clear light.

>

> =====

> Life is a pure flame,and we live

> by an invisible Sun within us.

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RAMANA GITA [Translation and Commentary by AR Natarajan]

 

Chapter 9 .. . . . . .On Cutting the Knot

V11

Because consciousness pervades the entire body, one gets attached to

the body, regards the body as the Self, and views the world as apart

from oneself.

 

V12

When the discriminating one becomes detached and, giving up the idea

that one is the body, single-mindedly enquires, the churning of the

channels takes place.

 

Commentary

Ramana now sets out the method for getting rid of this false notion.

The wrong notion about oneself, of limiting oneself to a particular

name and form, is bound to last only as long as one does not enquire

undistractedly. But once enquiry is afoot about the assumption and

one searches for the true import of `I' then the ego which cannot

bear the searchlight of enquiry takes to its heels.*

Then there is a churning and the life force which was disturbed

throughout the body becomes centred in the supreme channel only.

.. . . in the Ramana-path the enquiry about the self takes place

through two attention focussing devices `wherefrom does this `I'

arise?' and `what is the truth about the I?'.

[*Sat Darshanam v25]

 

V13

On such churning of the channels, the self gets separated from them

and shines forth by clinging to the supreme channel.

 

Commentary

When the spirit of enquiry is absent the `I-thought' is mixed up

with a host of other thoughts. On a properly directed self-enquiry

the link with other varied thoughts is cut, dissipation ends, and

the mind is gathered together at its root. When it is thus deprived

of its associates, the `I-thought', the ego, has necessarily to fall

back on its source, the consciousness. It gets merged there and

shines as `That'. It may be noted that Ramana has stressed that it

happens only on single-minded self-enquiry.

Sri Kapali Sastri in his commentary refers to the churning of the

sea of milk in the Puranas which produced the drink of immortality,

amrita. He says that in like manner self-enquiry dissociates the `I-

thought' from other thoughts and establishes the link with the

eternal, ever liberated Self. As a consequence of the single-minded

enquiry, the individual, functioning hitherto through different

nadis, stays in the channel linking the `sahasrara' with the Heart.

 

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