SELF-REALISATION IS NOT POSSIBLE WITHOUT SACRIFICE

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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.

 

SELF-REALISATION IS NOT POSSIBLE WITHOUT SACRIFICE: Mahatma Gandhi

says – " Realisation is the final fruit of constant effort. The human

lover scarifies all for his beloved, but his sacrifice is fruitless

in as much as it is offered for the sake of momentary pleasure. But,

the quest of Truth calls for ever greater concentration than that of

the human beloved. There is joy ineffable [too overwhelming to be

expressed] in store for the aspirant at the end of the quest. Still

very few of us are as earnest as even the human lover. Such being the

facts of the case, what is the use of complaining that the quest of

Truth is an uphill task? "

 

 

Only the grace of the Guru within can help you acquire the wisdom

that there is nothing to be renounced except the illusion of " Í, me,

myself " . – Sivanand Saraswati

 

 

Good is restraint in deed; good is restraint in speech; good is

restraint in mind; good is restraint in everything. The person

restraint at all points, is freed from sorrow. – The Buddha

 

Have neither pride nor vanity in the charities you dispense. Give not

something as yours but as something given to you by the Spirit for

giving you to others. – The Chandogya Upanishad

 

Uthistata, jagrata, prapya varan nibodhata – Arise! Awake! and stop

not till the goal is reached. – The Kathopanishasda

 

The Self is established in the luminous city of Brahmn which is the

heart of all human beings (on the right side of the chest). – The

Mundaka Upanishada

 

By speculating on physical facts, Vedic thinkers had arrived at a

unitary conception of the universe. Theirs was a cosmological monism

through the concepts of avyakt - indeterminate nature, neti-

ontological negation, and prana – cosmic energy. The culmination of

their discovery was the unification of all experience in the atman or

Brahmn. – Malay Misra