Ramana Maharshi / Ulladu Narpadu

SLOKA 23

TRANSLATIONS:

1. Truth  Revealed The Divine gives light to the mind and shines in its interior. Except by turning the mind inward and fixing it in the Divine, how else to know Him through the mind?

2. The Forty on Existence God shines within each little intellect And brightens it with His almighty flame. How else can He be known by intellect Than by the act of introverting it And merging there in perfect unity With God the infinite, the Light of Lights?

3. Revelation This blissful and transcendal Being, who is Pure Consciousness, is ever shining within the mind as Himself the Real Self, imparting to the mind (whatever) light of consciousness (it has). Such being the case, how can a man know Him by the mind alone, failing to merge the mind in Him by turning it inwards?

4. SYNOPSIS : The Lord shines as the Source of the mind. To turn the mind within towards the Source and to abide therein steadfastly is the only way to seek the Lord.

collected from the books published by Ramanasramam.


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