Sloka 7, Ulladu Narpadu of Ramana Mharshi / Indian Philosophy

ULLADU NARPADU : PART -II

Sloka 7

English Translations:

1.     Truth  Revealed  / Grant Duff

Master : Which is the light for you? Disciple : For me by day (it is) the sun; by night a lamp. M :     What is the light that perceives that light? D :     That light is the intellect. M :     What is the Light that knows the intellect? D : It is the ‘I’. M :You are (therefore) the supreme Light of (all) lights. D : That verily am I.

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

‘What gives you light?’  ‘It is the sun by day, A lamp by night’. ‘ `Tis what light knows this light?’ ‘It is the eye.’  ‘What light knows this again?’ ‘The light of mind’. ‘What knows the light of mind?’ ‘Oh, that is I’. The Guru then replies; ‘As such thou art the Light of Lights’. ‘I AM’.

3.    Revelation / K. Lakshmana Sarma

‘What is th light for thee (for seeing objects)? ‘By day sun, by night lamps and the like’. ‘What is the light for seeing these?’  ‘The eye’. ‘What is the light for seeing that?’  ‘The mind’. ‘By what light dost thou perceive the mind?’  ‘I myself perceive it’. ‘Therefore thou art thyself the Light of all lights, infinite and transcending all’. ‘True, I am That’.

Synopsis: The Self is pure Consciousness: it is the Source of all kinds of illumintion.

Collected from the books published by Ramanashramam. mP28-1-14