UPADESA SAARAM OF RAMANA MAHARSHI – AN APPRECIATION (Verse 24)

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UPADESA SAARAM OF RAMANA MAHARSHI – AN APPRECIATION (Verse 24)

 

UPADESA SAARAM OF RAMANA MAHARSHI – AN APPRECIATION (Verse 25)

 

 

Veshahaanatah:One who gives up the gross and subtle conditionings,

Swaatma darsanam:the vision of one's Self is revealed (and)

Isa darsanam:the vision of the Lord

Swaatma rupatah: as the Self is obtained.

 

One who gives up the conditioning factors like the ego, gains Self-

realisation. The vision of the Lord as the Self is true God-

Realisation.

 

As the difference between jeeva and Isa is only in vesha, the outer

apparel. If the vesha is taken away, what remains is the real state,

and that is Isa. The seeker should ruthlessly and completely eschew

all false notions born out of false identification such as, `I am

the body' , `I am the mind' , `I am ignorant' , `I am intelligent'

and so on. All these false notions constantly lend credence and

strength to the ego.

 

The injunction that one should eliminate the false notion that one is

the body with a form, name etc. is, admittedly, very difficult.

Nevertheless, it can surely be accomplished, to some extent or to a

great extent, by dint of determined efforts to change the pattern and

direction of thought from its old ruts. And such change becomes

possible by adhering to a daily programme of Swadhayaaya, Satsanga,

and quiet but intense Atma vichara through the great question: Who am

I?

 

One who accomplishes a disengagement with the conditioning factors

and thereby transcends ignorance, comes upon the vision of the

indwelling Self, which has been called here as swaatma darsanam.

 

It may be noted that one can get the vision of the Lord in a

particular form, say Gopala or Rama, in meditation. But such a vision

of the form should not be mistaken for the vision of one's true

Nature. A form, since it is seen, is inert, finite and perishable.

The Lord is Infinite and Imperishable. Therefore, Isa darsanam is

only to experience the One Infinite Self.

 

prof laxmi narain (prof_narain)

 

Source and courtesy: Sri Ramana Kendram, Hyderabad

This article was published in Sri Ramana Jyothi,

monthly magazine of the Kendram.