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om namo bhagavate sri ramanaya

97

Only the mind by maya's might

Deluded and looking outward sees

The body. The true Self knows no body.

To call the Self of pure Awareness

The body's owner or indweller

Is an error.

98

It is only when the 'I' functions

As the body that the world

Of moving and unmoving objects

Appears 'Out there'. In the absence

Of another, to call the Self

A 'witness' is an error.

[The Self is neither the body's owner nor the world's witness. The jîva is both.]

99

Without the body, the world is not.

Without the mind, the body is not.

Without awareness, there is no mind.

And without being there is no

Awareness.

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

--

"ekam sat viprA bahudhA vadanti

That which exists is One; sages call it by various names."

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