Sloka 20, Ulladu Narpadu - Part II / Ramana Maharshi / Indian Philosophy

ULLADU NARPADU : PART -II Sloka 20

English Translations:

1.     Truth  Revealed  / Grant Duff Verily that Divinity which shines as ‘I’ (the Self) in the cavity of the Heart-lotus is adored as the Lord Guhesa. When, through intensive practice, the bhavana  “He am I”, that  is “That Guhesa am I”, is as firmly established as happens to be the ‘I’-notion deep-rooted in your body, and when you abide as ever as that Divinity  itself, It shines forth, whereupon the avidya (ignorance), namely (the notion) “The perishable-body-am-I”, is dispelled even like the darkness before the rising sun.

2.    The Forty on Existence Sadhu Arunachala (Major A.W.Chadwick)

The Lord who shines as ‘I’ within the Heart Is praised as Lord Guhesa. Meditate: ‘Lord of the Cave am I’ incessantly, And rest in That as in thy body sense, By strength of this the body myth will flee As darkness is dispersed by blazing Sun.

3.    Revelation / K. Lakshmana Sarma The Supreme Being dwelling inside the cave of the Heart is called the Lord of the Heart. If by meditating ‘I myself am He’ the conviction ‘I am He’ becomes as firmly etablished as (is now) the conviction ‘I am the body’, then ignorance will vanish just as darkness does before the sun.

Synopsis / Grant Duff Being one with the Lord of the Heart, the Self Absolute, is as natural and spontaneous in Wisdom (Vidya), as the false identification with the body is in ignorance (Avidya).

Collected from the books published by Ramanashramam. mP: 4-2--14