RAMANA MAHARSHI / ULLADU NARPADU / SLOKA 32

RAMANA MAHARSHI / ULLADU NARPADU / SLOKA  32

ENGLISH  TRANSLATIONS:

1.    TRUTH  REVEALED / GRANT DUFF The scriptures proclaim “THAT thou art”. Why not investigate what one really is, and abide thus? To simply contemplate, “THAT I am, not this” is only want of mental strength. Really one is eternally THAT.

2.    THE FORTY ON EXISTENCE / SADHU ARUNACHALA (MAJOR A.W.CHADWICK) `Tis proclaimed by the vedas: “Thou art that!” Without immediately discovering What `Tis I am resting steadfast there, Is it not simple weakness to reflect ‘Yes, That I am’, ‘Not this’? For of a truth One is for ever nothing else than That.

3.    REVELATION / K. LAKSHMANA SARMA Instead of winning one’s own natural state -- the state which is taught by Revelation by the words ‘Thou art That’ -- by entering the Heart by the Quest of ‘Who am I’ man goes on meditating ‘I am That, I am not the body’, because of mental weakness. That Reality is Itself ever shining as the Self !

SYNOPSIS  /  Grant Duff Even as the Srutis declare, one is and ever has been That alone. One should therefore abide as That. Instead thereof, merely to meditate on the nature of the  ‘I’ is a confession of one`s mental weakness.

Collected from the books published by Ramanasramam.


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