Sloka 11 / Ulladu Narpadu Part II / Ramana Maharshi / Indian Philosophy

Sloka 11

English Translations:

1.     Truth  Revealed  / Grant Duff

Who is born? Know that he alone is born who enquires into the Brahmic Source whence he is (in fact) born. He is eternally the Supreme, ever new.

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

He who is born in Brahman, his true source, By ardent searching wherefrom he was born, `Tis that one only who is really born. And he is always born, the Lord of Saints, The Ever-New. So, with one-pointed mind, Pursue thy search for Self incessantly.

3.    Revelation / K. Lakshmana Sarma

That man of the elevated mind who becomes born in his own cause, namely the Transcendental Being through the Quest ‘Whence am I’, is alone really born; he is born once for all; that Lord of Sages is ever new.

Synopsis / Grant Duff Self-realisation is alone the true Birth.

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