Indian philosophy / Ramana Maharshi / Ulladu Narpadu

Translations:

1.    Truth  Revealed This inert body does not say “I”. Reality-Consciousness never emerges. In between the two, and limited to the measure of the body, something emerges as “I”. It is this that is known as Chitjada-granthi,(the knot betwen the Conscious and the inert), bondage, soul, subtle body, ego, samsara, mind and so forth.

2.    The Forty on Existence Insentient the body; the Real Self Cannot be born. Between the two springs up The ‘I-thought’, still within the body’s bound. This is knot which body binds to spirit, Called bondage, individual ego, mind. The subtle body and samsara too.

3.    Revelation The inert body cannot say ‘I’; the real Consciousness has no beginning; between them comes to birth an I limited to the body; this is the mind, the knot between Consciousness and the inert (body); conditioned existence, the ego, bondage and the subtle body; this is the true nature of the (so-called) soul.

SYNOPSIS : The ego is the subtle bond between the unself-conscious body and the Absolute Self-conscious Reality.

collected from the books published by Ramanasramam.


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