Sloka 12 / Ulladu Narpadu / Ramana Maharshi / Indian Philosophy

RAMANA MAHARSHI / ULLADU NARPADU : PART -II Sloka 12

English Translations:

1.     Truth  Revealed  / Grant Duff Cast off the notion ‘I-am the-body-contemptible’. Ponder over and realise the Self of perennial bliss. Seeking to know the Self while cherishing the body is like getting hold of a crocodile taking it to be a raft, in order to cross a river.

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

Cast off the sense ‘I am the body`d shell’, Seek always the real Self of Ceaseless Bliss. That man who strives the Self to realize Through the perfection of the body, he Mistakes an alligator for a log And seated on it hopes to cross the stream.

3.    Revelation / K. Lakshmana Sarma Give up the sense of ‘I’ in this body, -- which is not the Self, being inert and full of imperfections -- and win experience  of the Real Self, the transcendental Reality, which is endless Bliss. The man that hopes to know the Self with mind intent on nourishing the body is just like a man trying to cross a river taking hold of an alligator, mistaking it for a log of wood.

Synopsis / Grant Duff And that is never possible while one cherishes the body.

Collected from the books published by Ramanashramam. mP: 6-2--14