Advaita as explained by Ramana Mahashi

RAMANA MAHARSHI / ULLADU NARPADU / SLOKA 25

ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS:

1.    Truth  Revealed / Grant Duff Holding a form it comes into being, and while it holds a form it endures; holding a form, it feeds itself and grows big. Giving up one form it assumes another. When sought, it takes to flight, this evil spirit, the ego, which has no form of its own.

2.    The Forty on Existence / Sadhu Arunachala (Major A.W.Chadwick) Of form `tis born, in form it has its roots, On form it lives, feeding on forms it thrives, From one to other of these forms it flits In constant change. But yet the thing itself, If it be sought, will quietly slip away. Know it to be the formles ego-ghost.

3.    Revelation / K. Lakshmana Sarma This phantom without a form, the ego, comes into being taking hold of a form (a body); keeping hold of the form it continues to exist; keeping hold of the form and enjoying sense-objects it greatly waxes to strength; giving up a form (at death) it takes hold of a new one; when (the truth of) it is sought, it will surely run away.

SYNOPSIS  /  Grant Duff The ego is verily a ghost with no form of its own but feeding on any form it holds, which when sought for takes to flight.

Collected from the books published by Ramanasramam.


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