Ramana Maharshi / Ulladu Narpadu / Sloka 29

RAMANA MAHARSHI / ULLADU NARPADU / SLOKA  29

ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS

1.    TRUTH  REVEALED / GRANT DUFF Without uttering the word “I”, to quest with the mind turned inwards, as to whence the “I” rises, is alone the enquiry leading to Self-knowledge. Other than this, can contemplation, “This I am not; That I am”, be by itself the enquiry, though it may be an aid thereto?

2.    THE FORTY ON EXISTENCE / SADHU ARUNACHALA (MAJOR A.W.CHADWICK) `Tis not by constant muttering ‘I’, ‘I’, But diving deep and seeking out the source of the ‘I-thought’; this is the real quest. Such thoughts as ‘This I am not’, ‘I am that’, Are  but a means to help one on the quest. Can such things of themselves make up the quest?

3.    REVELATION / K. LAKSHMANA SARMA Diving into the Heart, -- restraining both speech and mind and seeking ‘where shines the (original) I-Consciousness?’, -- is the direct means of winning the Awarness of the Self. The meditation ‘I am not this body, I am myself That’ is (useful only as)  a preliminary to the Quest. Is it itself the Quest of the Self?

SYNOPSIS  /  Grant Duff To dive thus within is alone Atma-vichara (Self-enquiry). Meditation on a precept concerning the nature of the ‘I’ is merely an aid thereto.

Collected from the books published by Ramanasramam.


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