Upadesa Saram, verses 25,26,27,28,29,30, of 30

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The final 6 verses of Upadesa Saram:

 

Thus to know the Lord is

to know our Being,

free of the seeming fetters

of body and thought.

 

And to know Being

is nakedly to be,

since no other knowledge is possible

which is not external and false.

This is the meditation of Being itself.

 

And the truth of knowledge

is Being, which is knowledge,

beyond the fragmented knowings and unknowings

that we prize as the mind's riches,

or deem its ignorance.

In truth, there is nothing to be known.

 

When Being is realized,

and the Knower is Awareness itself,

Vision is no more separate,

but the endless ecstasy of Being

in all forms,

all embraces of experience.

Life is the deathless honey

of consciousness.

 

This State, this movement in Silence,

is the surrender to the Lord

which is His dwelling in the soul,

the rapturous growing into Him.

It is the bliss transcending the concepts

both of fetter and freedom.

 

And this is the true Penance,

and the culmination of Yoga,

to live and move in the silence,

utterly free of the false 'I',

the root of mind in serfdom.

So spake Ramana,

who moves not apart from the Lord.

 

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