From The Garland 145 - 147

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om namo bhagavate sri ramanaya

145

Of the ever-unsteady ego eddying

Like the wayward wind, the source,

The still Heart, is alone the final

Home of rest. The arts povide

But bustling battle fields in between.

146

Those keen and skilled in self-enquiry

Who giving up the exhaustive Veda

And Agama books search inwardly.

Only they gain clarity

And shake of root and branch desire

For trivial objects.

147

Though ardently we study works

Immaculate of radiant wisdom,

Yet as through meditation we make

These gains our own, we must forget

And leave behind what once we learnt.

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

Sri Ramanasramam, Tiruvannamalai; 1996)