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ThePowerOfSilence , " saikali6362 "

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Chapter III – Experience

 

13. The Real Self

 

Part 2:

 

291. He that sees the changing objects (namely the soul, world and

God) does not see the unchanging Supreme Reality, namely Brahman; he

that sees (that) Supreme Reality does not at all see the changing

spectacle.

 

292. The mind (in the case of the ignorant) is greatly confounded,

ignoring the Self-which is (like) the unchanging screen-and looking

upon one of the moving pictures as the individual self, and other

pictures as other selves, and as the world.

 

293. As the sky is in no way affected by the formation and

dispersion of clouds, so the Real Self is in no way affected by the

birth and death of the body.

 

294. Since there is no chance of the thought " I am happy " arising in

that Sate of Non-duality, the Self transcends happiness; It is not

something having the form of happiness. (30)

 

(30) The true nature of the Self is often described as blissful, or

bliss; but this description is inaccurate; it is intended to be only

tentative-until the disciple can understand a more faithful

description; the nearest is that the Self is in the state of tripti

which can be translated as desirelessness.

 

295. The truth of the Real Self is that unborn and deathless

Supreme Reality, which is the basic substance, by virtue of which

all this, which is unreal, seems real.

 

296. As the screen is to the moving pictures (of the cinema-show),

and as the keynote is to the changing musical notes, so is the Real

Self-the eternal, changeless Brahman-to the world, being its basic

substance.

 

Note: Taken from Guru-Ramana-Vachana-Mala by " Who " , pages 62 and 63

 

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