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Dear Peter,

 

Joining in with Alan, I want to express the appreciation of the devotees.

 

I sent you a message privately. Please consider putting your writing and

comments on the various verses according to your understanding on the blog

as well. People designated as " contributors " can log on and see how they can

upload their writings for review.

 

The system takes only a short time to get used to. Once you get to know it,

it is simply like writing on a wordprocessor.

 

The webmaster will be putting detailed instructions on how to upload writing

but it is pretty easy to figure out.

 

Namaste and love to all

 

Yours in Bhagavan

Harsha

 

 

On Behalf Of Peter

Wednesday, February 04, 2009 7:16 AM

 

RE: Ulladu Narpadu - first mangalam

 

Dear Alan,

 

Yes, I would like to continue with the rest of Ulladu Narpadu if that is OK.

I thought I might post a verse from there once a week and then in between

verses share some other passages from Sri Ramana's works which hopefully

will help me/us gain a better understanding of the verses. Other people are

very welcome to share any other passages from Sri Ramana's works which they

feel are relevant.

 

Best wishes,

Peter

 

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On Behalf Of Alan Jacobs

04 February 2009 12:02

 

RE: Ulladu Narpadu - first mangalam

 

 

Dear Peter,

 

Thank you for these valuable postings. Is it your intention to continue with

the rest of Ulladu Narpadu? That would be marvellous for us.

 

All best wishes and warmest regards,

 

Yours in Bhagavan,

 

Alan

 

 

--- On Wed, 4/2/09, Peter <not_2 wrote:

 

 

Peter <not_2

RE: Ulladu Narpadu - first

mangalam

Wednesday, 4 February, 2009, 11:47 AM

 

 

 

These words from Bhagavan Ramana may throw some light on the first

mangalam...

 

Devotee: Sri Bhagavan speaks of the Heart as the seat of

consciousness and

as identical with the Self. What does the Heart exactly signify ?

 

Bhagavan: The question about the heart arises because you are

interested in

seeking the source of consciousness. To all deep thinking minds, the

enquiry

about the 'I' and its nature has an irresistible fascination.

 

Call it by any name, God, Self, the Heart or the seat of

consciousness, it

is all the same. The point to be grasped is this, that Heart means

the very

core of one's being, the centre, without which there is nothing

whatever.

The Heart is not physical, it is spiritual. Hridayam equals hrit

plus ayam;

it means `this is the centre'. It is that from which thoughts arise,

on

which they subsist and where they are resolved. The thoughts are the

content

of the mind and they shape the universe. The Heart is the centre of

all.

That from which beings come into existence is said to be Brahman in

the

Upanishads. That is the Heart. Brahman is the Heart.

 

(Maharshi's Gospel, Ch.4)

 

Peter

 

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02 February 2009 16:13

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Ulladu Narpadu - first

mangalam

 

mangalam i:

 

" Can there be a sense of existence without something that is? Is

Real

Consciousness a thing other than That? Since that (Reality) dwells,

thought

free, in the Heart, how can It - Itself named the Heart - be

meditated on?

And who is there, distinct from It, to meditate on It, the Self

whose nature

is Reality Consciousness? Know that to meditate on It is just to be

at one

with It within the Heart. "

 

(from Bhagavan Ramana's forty verses on the nature of Existence,

titled

Ulladu Narpadu, translated by Sri K. Lakshmana Sarma.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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