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Dear Friends,

 

here is an edited personal letter of Sri V. Ganesan to a Devotee which I have

permission to pass

on .Regards, Alan

 

 

--- "V. Ganesan" wrote:

>

 

> Namaskar.

>

> Please read the profound Words of Wisdom from Bhagavan Ramana :

>

>

> * * * * * * * *

* * * * * *

> * * * * * * * * * * * *

>

> Maharshi: Scenes are projected on the screen in a cinema show. But the moving

pictures do not

> affect or alter the screen. The seer pays attention to the pictures and

ignores the screen.

> They cannot remain apart from the screen. Still its existence is ignored. So

also the Self is

> the screen on which the pictures, namely activities, are going on. The man is

aware of the

> latter, ignoring the former. All the same he is not apart from the Self.

Whether aware

> or unaware the actions will continue.

>

> Devotee: There is an operator in the cinema.

>

> Maharshi: The cinema show is made out of insentient materials. The screen, the

pictures, lamp.

> etc., are insentient and require an operator, a sentient agent. In the case

of the Self, it is

> Consciousness itself and therefore self-contained. There cannot be an

operator apart.

>

> Devotee: Protested that he did not confuse the body with the operator as the

above answer would

> imply.

>

> Maharshi: The functions of the body were kept in mind involving the need for

the operator.

> Because there is the body -- a jada object - an operator, a sentient agent,

is necessary.

>

> Because people think that they are jivas , Sri Krishna has said that God

resides in the

> Heart as the operator of the jivas. In fact, there are no jivas and no

operator. The Self

> comprises all. It is the screen, the pictures, the seer, the actor, the

operator, the light and

> all else. Your confounding it with the body and imagining yourself as the

actor amounts to the

> seer being represented as an actor in a cinema picture. Imagine the actor in

the picture asking

> if he could enact a scene without the screen. Such is the case of the man who

thinks of his

> acting apart from the Self.

>

> * * * * * * * *

* * * * * *

> * * ---- "TALKS" ,p.273-74

>

> I thank you, from the bottom of my Heart, for being a 'tool' to induce me to

refer to the Holy

> Words of Bhagavan Ramana, very early in the morning - as, today, the Tamil

> new month commences - called Maargazhi - the whole month is very auspicious

and very deeply

> sacred !

>

 

>

> Love,

> Ganesan.