RAMANA GITA STUDY GROUP Ch 14.v7,8...[ AR Natarajan]

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Ramana Gita [Translation and Commentary by AR Natarajan]

Chapter 14 `Jivan Mukti'

 

V7

Liberation is of one kind only. Self-abidance is the same, ending of

bondage is the same. Differences are only in the minds of the

onlookers.

 

Commentary

The onlooker is unable to perceive the essence things and is caught

up in theories about difference in types of liberation such as

during life, at the time of death and in `Brahmaloka'. But the

basic issue is whether there is difference in the state of liberated

persons. The answer is `No'. Why? Because liberation only means firm

Self-abidance.

 

V8

Best of men, the life force of the great person who abides in the

Self and gets liberated while in the body is absorbed in the Self

even here.

 

Commentary

The absorption of life force in the Self is the mark of liberation.

For one who is liberated while in the body such absorption takes

place at the point of the dawning of Self-knowledge.

 

 

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