Supplement to the Forty Verses

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Rahul, the Supplement to the Forty Verses is of course available in the

Collected Works, which is a free download from Sri Ramanasramam. I don't know

of any other translation really. A "working translation" is under preparation.

By that, I mean a model where the devotee has the opportunity to "see" the

vocabulary, and a full explanation of how the translation was reached. It is

not ready yet, as some of the Verses continue to mystify.One of the Verses has

a story attached to it which has touched me. The devotee who worked very

closely with Sri Bhagavan wrote under the name of "WHO", who was indeed Sri

Lakshmana Sarma. He liked to translate Sri Ramana's Tamil into Sanskrit, and he

also composed Sanskrit Verses himself. His commentary on "Ulladu Narpadu" was

written with close collaboration with Sri Bhagavan, who showed him how the

Tamil venba worked.In this story, however, "WHO" did not translate one Verse

into Tamil: rather it was the other way around! Ramana decided to translate it

into Tamil, and this is what became Verse 11 of the Supplement. So the original

is written by WHO!Our Miles has made a translation of the original (undoubtedly

inspired by Ramana) into English which is displayed here. The Tamil is really

lovely with plenty of deep sub-tones, and it will be posted when it is ready

along with the other Verses of the Supplement. It must have been quite an

honour to have Bhagavan translate a 'modern' Sanskrit composition into

Tamil!Here is his translation of the Sanskrit into English:

lebhe janiM yaH parame svamUlevicArya kasmAdahamityudAraH |sa eva jAtaH sa ca

nityajAtonavo navo 'yaM satataM munIndraH ||"That noble one who, by means of

the enquiry 'Whence am I?', has attained birth in the supreme source of his

being (the Self), He alone is born. In truth, He is constantly born. That Lord

of Sages is ever new."(Lakshmana Sarma's Sanskrit verse 57 of Revelation;

translated by M. Wright) RamanaMaharshi, Ananda

<oneness.univ wrote:>> > .....Verses 2 & 3 from the Supplement to the

Forty Verses.> > John,> thanks so much for the beautiful replies. Is the

supplement available> online, do you have a link?> > i was able to find the 40

verses though at:>

http://www.realization.org/page/namedoc0/40_verses/40_verses_1.htm> > In

Ramana,> ananda>