More on 'The Soul'

[Guest guest]

>From our previous post...

 

"He that imagines the least difference between himself and the Truth shall be

the victim of fear. Whatever is conceived by one as other than the Self has the

power to deceive him"

 

[To continue...}

 

"That the world ceases to appear on the attainment of Deliverance is also

asserted by the Sage in the following: “I shall now state clearly the profound

secret which is the supreme essence of all Vedanta: Understand that when the

ego dies and the real Self is realised as the One reality, then there remains

only that real Self, who is Pure Consciousness.” * "This is also in accordance

with the teaching of the Gita which tells us that even now the world does not

really exist.

“All the creatures are in Me; I am not in them; (in truth) they are not in Me;

such is my divine Maya!"

*Reality in Forty Verses, Supplement, Verse 40

....from Chapter Six, called "The Soul" in the book Maha Yoga by "WHO", Lakshmana

Sharma, who spent more than twenty years in association with Sri Bhagavan: the

entire book can be downloaded free-of-charge from the website of Sri

Ramanasramam.http://www.ramana-maharshi.org/anbudan

 

John

[Guest guest]

I think the last sentence in the first para should say 'also'

instead of 'always'.

 

Alo, the last sentence in the second para should say 'not free'

instead of 'free'.

 

Perhaps an error while converting pdf to word file.

sundar

 

> "On the other hand, while the ego-sense survives, the world

appearance is inescapable. And conversely, so long as one sees the

world, one cannot help confounding the body and the self, and

assuming that the self is finite. And this is worse for thosewho

cherish the false belief that the world is real as such. And in this

there is no real difference between him that thinks that the body is

the self and him that thinks that the mind is the self. The latter

is always thinking of the body as the self — most of the time — just

like the former.

> "Thus it happens that people in the West speak of a dying man

as `giving up the ghost'; they do not say that he is giving up the

body, which they would say if they were free from the delusion that

the body is the self."

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> ...from Chapter Six, called "The Soul" in the book Maha Yoga

by "WHO", Lakshmana Sharma, > anbudan

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> John

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