Sri Ramana Paravidyopanishad, The Nature of sin

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The Nature of sin

 

386 The Master says ‘original sin’, affirmed to be the cause of death by the Christians, is not an act done by the first man, but only the sense ‘I am the body’.

 

387 This sin is said to pertain to man, but men are not men in deep sleep. The sense of being a man is due to the identification of oneself with the body. Consequently, the original sin is only this identification of oneself as the body.

 

388 All loss, all vice, and all suffering are only due to the sense of ‘I’. All gain, all virtue and all happiness come from the extinction of the ego.

 

389 To the ignorant one the Self is lost on account of his ego sense. Therefore, even if he gains all things, he is still poor. On the other hand the sage, who has gained his Self by the extinction of the ego, sees nothing else to be gained.

 

~ Sri Ramana Paravidyopanishad, Lakshman Sarma

The Power of the Presence, vol. 3

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