[Sri Ramakrishna] Self

February 11, 2002

Being Sri Aurobindo's poem, one can hardly say

anything more than appreciate the depth of it and also

that it is so simply explanatory regarding what 'Self'

would mean!!

GW

--- sam43_1999 <sam43_1999 wrote:

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Reminded me of this poem:

The Self's Infinity

I have become what before Time I was.

A secret touch has quieted thought and sense:

All things by the agent Mind created pass

Into a void and mute magnificence.

My life is a silence grasped by timeless hands;

The world is drowned in an immortal gaze.

Naked my spirit from its vestures stands;

I am alone with my own self for space.

My heart is a center of infinity,

My body a dot in the soul's vast expanse.

All being's huge abyss wakes under me,

Once screened in a gigantic Ignorance.

A momentless immensity pure and bare,

I stretch to an eternal everywhere.

18/19-9-1939

Sri Aurobindo

Ramakrishna, Gee & lt;g_warudi & gt;

wrote:

& gt;

& gt; Hullo Vishwajit,

& gt; Let me attempt in a very `lay' fashion to help

you to

& gt; identify what `self' is. I am myself still

looking for

& gt; my `self', but know this much that the `self'

is

& gt; something which is so near yet so far. So near,

coz

& gt; its in us waiting to be recognized, but so far,

coz,

& gt; we identify everything else as `self' except the

real

& gt; thing. For, we mistake that as self, which

responds to

& gt; the `navras' and that which is `jadh' or gross.

Viz

& gt; our body, whence actually the body is the

most

& gt; unimportant….the self is that which is free,

which is

& gt; not bound by anyone or any thing. Yet, it is the

one

& gt; thing that can give us a true `freedom' since,

when we

& gt; know our `self' no impulses, no elements can

control

& gt; us, instead we can control these agencies and

then

& gt; that would be `freedom'………I cannot omit to

mention

& gt; this quote I came across once in a book, & quot;Do

not do

& gt; what you want, then you may do as you like. & quot;

Doing as

& gt; you like would perhaps be possible when one

knows

& gt; one's SELF as it were. I don't know if I am

anywhere

& gt; close to the correct understanding, but I too am

in

& gt; the process of trying and have the Almighty's

blessing

& gt; in the form of a very good friend who has

been

& gt; instrumental in helping me in the process.

& gt; Much more can be offered in the from of

explanation,

& gt; but this is how I perceive it.

& gt; GW

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