The Truth of the World

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Dear Friends,

 

A more definative statement kindly sent by Aham on the Truth of the World,

a recent thread.

 

 

--- On Thu, 25/9/08, AHAM - Association of Happiness for All Mankind

<ahamcntr wrote:

 

>> Dear Alan Jacobs,

>

> This is Message #2313 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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>

> Verse 16. To him--(the sage)--that never strays from the

> Self, who is

> Consciousness, this world is of the essence of the SeIf;

> therefore he says

> that the world is real.(7)

>

> (7) The question, " Is the world real? " does not

> admit of a categorical

> answer, because the question itself is ambiguous. The sage

> tells us that

> it is not wrong to say that it is unreal and that it is

> real, provided both

> statements are understood to mean the same thing. This has

> been explained

> in MAHA YOGA; we are to understand that the world is unreal

> in the sense

> that the names and forms that diversify it are unreal, but

> real in the

> sense that the something, on which the names and forms are

> superimposed by

> the ego-mind, is real; It is in this sense that the Sage

> calls the world

> real. He does not endorse the common man's view that

> the world is real

> with all its names and forms.

>

> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

>

> These quotations are from the book,

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

> published by Sri Ramanasramam.