From The Garland - 90-93

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om namo bhagavate sri ramanaya

90

The Self is all true Being - Awareness,

The world perceived as other is

But a perverse misunderstanding.

The rope itself being the seer,

Awareness, would it see some being

Other than itself, some snake?

91

Did the Self lapse from its own wholeness

As Being, you ask, 'How else did this

World come to be?' It came from

Ignorance false. The Self can never suffer

Any change at any time.

92

Experiencing the unbroken oneness

Of pure space, one sees no separate

Pot at all. From seeming movement

Of the seeming pot, it is folly

To infer some movement of the space

Within the pot.

(Sri Muruganar's The Garland of Guru's Sayings - Trans. Prof. K. Swaminathan, Tiruvannamalai; 1996)

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satyam eva jayate nAnritam

Truth alone triumphs, not falsehood.

(Mundaka Upanisad 3. 6)