D I A G R A M of Ramana Maharshi

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<http://terebess.hu/english/img/maharshi.gif>

 

from the above diagram

 

The Example -The Exemplified

 

1. The Lamp -The Self

 

2. The door -Sleep

 

3. The door-step -Mahat-tattva

 

4. The inner wall -Nescience or the causal body

 

5. The mirror -The egoity

 

6. The windows -The five cognitive sense-organs

 

7.The inner chamber -Deep sleep in which the causal body is manifest

 

8. The middle chamber -Dream in which the subtle body is manifest

 

9. The outer court -Waking state in which the gross body is

manifest

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The Self which is the lamp (1) shines of its own accord in the inner chamber,

i.e., the causal body (7) that is endowed with nescience as the inner wall (4)

and sleep as the door (2); when by the vital principle as conditioned by time,

karma, etc., the sleep-door is opened, there occurs a reflection of the Self in

the egoity-mirror (5) that is placed next to the door-step - Mahat-tattva; the

egoity-mirror thus illumines the middle chamber, i.e., the dream state (8), and,

through the windows which are the five cognitive sense-organs (6), the outer

court, i.e., the waking state. When, again, by the vital principle as

conditioned by time, karma, etc., the sleep-door gets shut, the egoity ceases

along with waking and dream, and the Self alone ever shines. The example just

given explains how the Self is unmoving, how there is difference between the

Self and the egoity and how the three states of experience, the three bodies,

etc., appear.

 

from

<http://terebess.hu/english/maharshi1.html>

 

Era

 

ps: I don't know how to scan gif, if someone would do it please

 

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