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CHAPTER 12

 

ON SAKTI [the main topic in this long chapter]

 

Professor K.Swaminathan and Sri Visvanatha Swami Translation

 

On the nineteenth day, the high-minded Bharadwaja Kapali, great among the

learned,questioned Guru

Ramana.

 

Bhagavan;

 

 

7.Kapali:

 

Lord,that Being, in which these differences of triads appear,

 

is it endowed with Sakti or devoid of Sakti ?

 

Bhagavan:

 

8.Child, that Being , wherein these differences of triads appear is said to be

All Powerful by

 

those who know Vedanta.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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CHAPTER 12

 

ON SAKTI [the main topic in this long chapter]

 

Professor K.Swaminathan and Sri Visvanatha Swami Translation

 

On the nineteenth day, the high-minded Bharadwaja Kapali, great

among the learned,questioned Guru

Ramana.

 

Bhagavan;

 

 

7.Kapali:

 

Lord,that Being, in which these differences of triads appear,

 

is it endowed with Sakti or devoid of Sakti ?

 

Bhagavan:

 

8.Child, that Being , wherein these differences of triads appear is

said to be All Powerful by

 

those who know Vedanta.

 

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Ramana Gita [Translation and Commentary by AR Natarajan]

Chapter 12 `On Shakti'

V7

Lord, the Self, on which the triads appear, is it endowed with

Shakti, Power, or is it powerless?

Commentary

The Self is limitless, the unmoving substratum of all change. In

movement, in action alone one sees the expression of power. Does it

mean that the unmoving one, the Self, is devoid of power? Such

doubts arise. The term Shakti has been translated as `Power'

in all

the verses.

 

V8

Child, the Self on which these differences of triads appear is said

to be the repository of all power by those versed in Vedanta.

 

Commentary

Vedic texts proclaim that `the Self is everything' and that

`Brahman

is all'. Ramana too proclaims that `Brahman alone shines as

the

Atman' in the heart. Obviously, the all pervasiveness of the Self

itself is evidence of its omnipotence. Again, God, Iswara, though

always revelling in the Self is the cause of creation, preservation

and destruction. Ramana had earlier clarified to Ganapati Muni that

those who think that the wise are powerless are ignorant.* Body and

mind are both only matter ignited by the energy source within, the

Self. Ramana has explained earlier to the Muni the mechanics of

it.** The question of Self being powerless cannot arise.

[*Ramana Gita Ch2 v18, **Ibid Ch9 vs6 &10]

 

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