Maha Yoga, The Teaching of Ramana

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" Maha Yoga-or The Upanishadic Lore in the Light of the teachings of Bhagavan Sri

Ramana "

 

 

" ..There is a real Self underlying

the three states, who is by

nature immortal and would survive

the reduction to nothingness of the unreal, the ego.

 

Happiness is the very nature of that Self, and hence the Egoless

State is the one thing that is desirable, beyond all comparison

with anything that there is in relativity.

 

The one great difficulty that the

intellect finds in accepting this

teaching is this.

 

The intellect demands a rational

link between the world it knows and the Self or Reality it is

told about.

It wants a bridge over which it

can pass and re-pass between the

two.

Such a bridge does not exist,

and cannot possibly be built by

anyone--even by a Sage.

 

The reason is extremely simple,

namely, the fact that the world

and the reality are negations of

each other.

 

We have seen before that what appears as the world is just the

Reality.

And this was made intelligible

to us by the analogy of the snake

seen in a rope.

So too the world and the Reality

are negations of each other.

 

They cannot be seen simultaneously.

 

The rope is unrelated to the

snake; it did not give birth to

the snake.

So too the world and the Reality

are negations of each other,

in the sense that he that sees

one of them does not and cannot

at the same time see the other.

 

The two cannot be experienced simultaneously.

 

He that sees the world sees not

the Self, the Reality; on the

other hand he that sees the Self does not see the world.

 

So one of them alone can be real-not both. Hence there is no

real relation between them.

 

The world did not come into existence from the Reality.

 

The latter is wholly unrelated to

the former.

 

Therefore, it is clear that the bridge that the intellect demands

does not exist and cannot be built.... "

 

 

by " Who " -K.Lakshmana Sarma

pp. 99-100

 

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Jerry NDS

 

 

 

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