TRUTH ABOUT THE WORLD

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--- On Mon, 22/9/08, AHAM - Association of Happiness for All Mankind

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> AHAM - Association of Happiness for All Mankind <ahamcntr

> Daily Message for Transforming the Mind #2310

> " Alan Jacobs " <alanadamsjacobs

> Monday, 22 September, 2008, 10:19 PM

> Dear Alan Jacobs,

>

> This is Message #2310 for transforming the mind and

> realizing the true

> nature of the Self, or real God, based on the Teachings of

> Bhagavan Sri

> Ramana Maharshi. Please forward it to an interested or

> discerning friend:

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>

> Section 1. The Truth About the World

>

> Verse 12. As the dog conceals the stone (of which it is

> made), when taken

> to be a (real) dog, and is (seen to be) only stone, and not

> a dog, when its

> truth is known, so is this world (in the states of

> ignorance and of

> illumination respectively).

>

> Verse 13. So long as this world appears, its substance,

> the Real Self,

> does not appear; when the world ceases to appear, the Real

> Self appears as

> He really is.(4)

>

> (4) Sentences 12 and 13 should be read together; what

> exists is one, the

> real self; It appears as the three--the world, its seer the

> soul, and God

> the Lord of both--when ignorance prevails; what this

> ignorance is will be

> stated in the section on bondage; when ignorance is

> overpassed, then It is

> no longer seen as these three, but appears as it really is,

> as the infinite

> ineffable Self; It cannot appear as both at the same time;

> the reason of

> this is to be gathered from the illustration of the dog

> sculptured in stone.

>

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> These quotations are from the book,

> Guru--Ramana--Vachana--Mala by " Who, "

> published by Sri Ramanasramam.