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RAMANA GITA CHAPTER 15. OM, SRAVANA, MANANA, NIDIDHYASANA

 

 

Translation of Prof.K.Swaminathan and Sri Visvanatha Swami

 

Bhagavan:

 

13.When one's mind wanders outside, my child without firm abidance in Being,

even the study of

hundreds of scriptures cannot confer direct, immediate Knowledge .

 

14.Oh great Kaundinya, if firm abidance in Being becomes natural [and

effortless] this indeed is

final freedom and the Supreme State, and is called Direct Realisation.

 

This ends Chapter 15.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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RAMANA GITA CHAPTER 15. OM, SRAVANA, MANANA, NIDIDHYASANA

 

Translation of Prof.K.Swaminathan and Sri Visvanatha Swami

 

Bhagavan:

 

13.When one's mind wanders outside, my child without firm abidance

in Being, even the study of

hundreds of scriptures cannot confer direct, immediate Knowledge .

 

14.Oh great Kaundinya, if firm abidance in Being becomes natural

[and effortless] this indeed is

final freedom and the Supreme State, and is called Direct

Realisation.

 

This ends Chapter 15.

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Ramana Gita [Translation and Commentary by AR Natarajan]

Chapter 15 `Sravana Manana Nidhidyasana'

 

V13

When, without abiding in the Self, the mind wanders, even the study

of hundreds of scriptures cannot confer direct experience.

 

Commentary

An externalised mind, a mind in constant movement outward because of

attachments, cannot turn within and subside in the source. The

inturning of the mind and the plunge within are essential for the

experiencing of the Self. Hence, a mind though learned in

scriptures, if subject to the pulls of the senses, would be

incapable of experiencing the Self.

 

V14

Kaundinya, if firm abidance in the Self becomes natural, it is

freedom, the supreme state, and is termed direct experience.

 

Commentary

During spiritual practice the mind might have long spells of dips in

the Self. But such intermittent abidance can only give a taste of

the happiness and act as a spur to further effort for reaching the

goal. When the mind naturally and without effort, spontaneously

remains merged in its source the Self, then experience of the Self-

abidance is direct.

 

It is final freedom. Then the sense of doership is dead, the

stillness of being is not disturbed by distracting thought. It is

the Supreme State, for it is one where bliss inundates always, and

the experience, being one's own, is direct.

 

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Ramana Gita Chapter 15 `Sravana Manana Nidhidyasana' Concluded.

 

[Note: Sanskrit version of Ch15 in Sri Ramana's handwriting is

in `Photo' file, `RamanaGita' album]

 

Om Namo Bhagavate Sri Ramanaya

= = = = = =

anu

 

 

 

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