More on 'The Soul'

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>From our previous post...

 

"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!"

 

[To continue...}

 

"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."

 

....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