Guest guest Posted November 24, 2008 Report Share Posted November 24, 2008 What a beautiful poem Nair-ji. Your perpetual vitality is inspiring. When the Goddess smiles on us, She makes us poets! :-). Namaste and love to al Harsha advaitin [advaitin ] On Behalf Of Madathil Rajendran Nair Monday, November 24, 2008 4:43 AM advaitin Re: Bhagavan Ramana on world !! A PRAYER TO BH. RAMANA Oh, brilliant eyes! Yet to blossom smile! Visage profoundly serene! Show me the way sublime. Out of this mesh much knotted, In which I am woefully trapped, Made of mind and intellect Understanding and what not, Of teachers by whom I aver, Of books I don't close ever, Of a body demanding care, Of senses gone haywire. I know all these to be Not me, because I see. Yet, I know not the seeing me, For blind is my inner eye. " All you know is you are not, What knows is you " I am taught Knowing this much will suffice You are then verily self-realized. " A mere understanding, isn't this? " I question losing all my wits. " Yes, it is so by all the means, It does take place in the mind " . " Isn't mind in knowing? " I ask " So what? " " The wise does think " they remark " The wise does act, the wise does read, The wise does enjoy the food he eats " . " Granted all that " I concede " The wise knows not that he reads That he acts and that he eats The way you and me so incomplete " . Didn't our Sage say that he is like One in himself fast asleep On a shaky cart on potholed track Knowing not the shocking creaks. My soulful plea Oh, Lord Ramana, Dear Sage of Holy Arunachala! Cast your kind glance upon this me Truth of " Who am I? " so I see. So I realize what it is like Being in this tumultuous sea Knowing and yet knowing not Knowing all as me in me. Soaring up and up the sky Wingless, mindless, ever-free Unbridled by tiresome thinking Freed from burdensome understanding, In the sky of Pure Being To which Your eyes do beckon, To the beauty of spaceless expanse, Where Your smile shines and awakens. ramaNArpaNaM astu Madathil Nair ____________________ advaitin , " Mouna " <maunna wrote: that this methodology wasn't no longer ...> Ramana's Self-Enquiry basically traces the notional mind or I- Thought > (pramata, aham-vritti) to its Source (and of course this has to be done > 'from' the mind itself, thorn removing other thorn, both to be thrown > out afterwards). Source wherefrom all manifested phenomena springs out > (intellectual, emotional and sensorial). Abidance 'there', produces the > dissolution of the I-thought, last step where the brillance of Self, > without impediments, shine of its own accord (since Self- Effulgent). At > this point no further intellectual, emotional or sensorial > 'understanding' is needed, since ANY kind of understanding is just > another function of that very same 'notional' mind that has been > dissolved in the process. Idam-vritti (or otherness, prameia, the world, > etc.) dissolving into Aham-vritti (the I-thought creator of the > Idam-Vritti) and then both evaporating through the sustained effort to > keep alive the Fire of Self-Enquiry (Abidance). In fact, the method > focuses mainly in destroying what is covering the understanding > (specially ignorance in the form of binding vasanas), it doesn't " create > or attain " the Self since it is our nature by default (clearly stated by > Ramana always) --- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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