SRI RAMANA – THE SUPREME INCARNATE

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Source and courtesy: Sri Ramana Kendram, Hyderabad

This article was published in Sri Ramana Jyothi,

monthly magazine of the Kendram.

 

SRI RAMANA – THE SUPREME INCARNATE

By Swami Rajeswarananda

 

Swami Rajeswarananda, born in Madras, a great devotee of Sri Ramana, got his

name as a sannyasi of the Ramakrishna Order. He edited The Call Divine during

its first twelve years. He was mentor of Prof. T.M.P.Mahadevan who was Head,

Department of Philosophy, Madras University, and a well-known devotee of Sri

Ramana. He authored Erase the Ego and Teachings. He writes:

 

Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi is no concept in mind and no form in matter. He is

no theory in name nor practice in form. He is the substratum, the berock of

Truth in all names and forms. He is the life in all individuals and the only

light in all souls. He is the Divine Presence in one and all. He is the Basic

Principle, the fundamental fact in our everyday existence.

 

He is not external to us but ever present in us though we might fail to realize

Him as such. He is awake in us while we are asleep. He is the very embodiment of

Existence-Knowledge-Bliss ( ) ever

and ever. We cannot see Him anywhere but can see (realize ) Him everywhere. He

is the wisdom of the wise, the strength of the strong, the brilliance of brain

and the illumination of soul. He is the real " I " , the One in all our apparent

" I-s " of many.

 

He is the Supreme Consciousness that includes and transcends all the lesser

forms of consciousness. He is the absolute and lives in the Infinite. He is the

eternal rooted in Immortality. He is the Centre of an infinite circle without a

circumference. He is the harmony and peace in the melody of the cosmos. He is

the Seer in all sights, the hearer in hearing, and the knowledge in knowing.

 

He sees without eyes, speaks without tongue, hears without ears and thinks

without mind. He is far, He is near. He is the means and He is the end in the

goal of life. He is the underlying Unity in the midst of all diversities that

exist on the surface. He is immortal and eternal, omnipresent, omnipotent, and

omniscient.

Eminent poet Harindranath Chattopadhyaya reflects the same feeling poetically:

 

Eternity has worn a human face,

Contracted to a little human span,

Lo, the Immortal has become a man,

A self-imprisoned thing in time

 

(Source: The Call Divine and Golden Jubilee Souvenir.)