RE: Christmas Comes Early This Year

[Guest guest]

Dear Harsha:

 

As I read the words of Sri Ramana posted by you.....I think so my Christmas

gift comes a bit early this year.....did you ever think that you would play

the role of Cyber-space Santa? . Also greatly appreciated the words of

Dilip Kumar Roy as his experience seems so close to my own. Thanks.

 

Namaste,

Linda

 

 

"Harsha (Dr. Harsh K. Luthar)" <hluthar

 

I will be posting the Forty Verses On Reality by Sri Ramana periodically

(from the Mountain Path Journal). Given below is the Introduction,

Invocation and the first three verses.

 

Harsha

 

 

Advaita, non-duality, Identity, is the supreme doctrine. Jnana marga, the

path of knowledge, is the approach to it: Self-enquiry, 'Who am I?', is the

technique Bhagavan taught for this path. There is no more profound and

comprehensive statement of it than his 'Forty Verses on Reality' which are

here given.

 

Invocatory

 

i. If Reality did not exist, could there be any knowledge of existence? Free

from all thoughts, Reality abides in the Heart, the Source of all thoughts.

It is, therefore, called the Heart. How then is one to contemplate it? To be

as it is in the Heart, is Its contemplation.

ii. Those who know intense fear of death seek refuge only at the feet of the

Lord Who has neither death nor birth. Dead to themselves and their

possessions, can the thought of death occur to them again? Deathless are

they.

 

Verses

 

1. From our perception of the world there follows acceptance of a unique

First Principle possessing various powers. Pictures of name and form, the

person who sees, the screen on which he sees, and the light by which he

sees: he himself is all of these.

 

 

2. All religions postulate the three fundamentals, the world, the soul, and

God, but it is only the one Reality that manifests Itself as these three.

One can say, 'The three are really three' only so long as the ego lasts.

Therefore, to inhere in one's own Being, where the 'I', or ego, is dead, is

the perfect State.

 

 

3. 'The world is real.' 'No, it, is a mere illusory appearance.' 'The

world is conscious.' 'No.' 'The world is happiness.' 'No.' What use is it to

argue thus? That State is agreeable to all, wherein, having given up the

objective outlook, one knows one's Self and loses all notions either of

unity or duality, of oneself and the ego.

 

All paths go somewhere. No path goes nowhere. Paths, places, sights,

perceptions, and indeed all experiences arise from and exist in and subside

back into the Space of Awareness. Like waves rising are not different than

the ocean, all things arising from Awareness are of the nature of Awareness.

Awareness does not come and go but is always Present. It is Home. Home is

where the Heart Is. Jnanis know the Heart to be the Finality of Eternal

Being. A true devotee relishes in the Truth of Self-Knowledge, spontaneously

arising from within into It Self. Welcome all to a.