Thus Spake Ramana 26

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THUS SPAKE RAMANA - 26

 

Ten ignorant men forded a stream and on reaching the other shore counted

themselves and found only nine. They grew anxious and grieved at the loss

of the tenth unknown man. A wayfarer, ascertaining the cause of their

grief, found that each had left himself out in the count, so he gave each

one a blow and asked them to count. They counted ten and were satisfied.

The tenth man was not got anew. He was all along there and only ignorance

had caused their grief. Similarly also with a man and the Self. There is

nothing to be gained anew. The Self is ever here and now. Because the

limitations have been wrongly assumed, there is the need to transcend them.

Moreover, if it were anything to be gained anew, it would imply its previous

absence. What was absent once, may vanish again also, in which case there

would be no permanence in salvation.