Sadhu Natanananda - Sri Ramana Darsanam #4

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25 When I am all pervading, where can I go?

 

The great incarnations such as Buddha, Sankara and Jesus all came to redeem

the world. When the time of their physical dissolution was approaching,

these teachers, who had already completed the purpose of their

manifestation, imparted a final, divine upadesa to their followers.

Similarly, at the time of his Brahma nirvana, Bhagavan, to consolate all the

devotees who were grieving at the impending separation, looked at them

graciously and spoke the following words: 'Thinking this body itself to be

Bhagavan, they are grieve that Bhagavan is suffering on account of his

illness. What to do? They are worried that Swami is going to pass away.

Where to go? How to go?'

 

Like the ambrosia that cures the bodily ailments of those who partake of it,

these ambrosial words of jnana will instantly free from the disease of

individual existence those who understand this truth. By revealing, for the

last time, his true nature through this divine upadesa, Bhagavan indicated

that everyone's true nature was indeed That.

 

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(p. 43)

 

 

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taken from:

Sri Ramana Darsanam

by Sadhu Natanananda

edited by David Godman

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