TRUTH REVEALED - SLOKA 11

Sloka 11

Truth  Revealed Is it not, rather, ignorance to know all else without knowing oneself, the knower? On knowing oneself, the substratum of knowledge and ignorance, knowledge and ignorance perish.

The Forty on Existence Is it not ignorance to know all else Without attaining knowledge on the Self, Who is th knower of all other things? Ignorance and knowledge disappear With the awareness of the Real Self, Which is the basis from which these two spring.

Revelation How can the knowledge of objects arising in relative existence, to one that knows not the truth of (himself) the knower, be true knowledge? If one rightly knows (the truth of) him in whom both knowledge and its opposite subsist, then alongwith  ignorance (relative) knowledge also will cease once for all.

SYNOPSIS : Self-knowledge, in which both knowledge and pheno-mena fall off,  is alone True Knowledge,  because the Self is the Source of all. To know all else except the knower is but ignorance.

Collected from the works published by Ramanashramam,Thiruvannamalai.

Collected from the works published by Ramanashramam,Thiruvannamalai.