RAMANA MAHARSHI / ULLADU NARPADU / SLOKA 39

RAMANA MAHARSHI / ULLADU NARPADU / SLOKA  39

ENGLISH  TRANSLATIONS:

1. TRUTH  REVEALED / GRANT DUFF

Only so  long as one considers oneself ‘I am bound’, do thoughts of bondage and Liberation subsist. On enquiring who the bound one is, the Self alone subsists, eternally attained and eternally Free. Thus, when thought of bondage comes to an end, can thought of liberation survive?

2.    THE FORTY ON EXISTENCE / SADHU ARUNACHALA (MAJOR A.W.CHADWICK)

The thought of freedom and bondage is For him who thinks ‘I am the one who`s bound’. In trying to find out the one who`s bound There rests the Self alone,  the Ever-free, With no more sense of bondage. So how can The sense of freedom still occur to him?

3. REVELATION / K. LAKSHMANA SARMA

If there be the thought ‘I am bound’, then will arise also the thought of deliverance. When, by the Quest of ‘Who am I that is bound’, the Ever-Free Real Self alone remains, ageless and deathless, to whom can the thought of bondage come? If that thought cannot arise, then how can the thought of deliverance arise to the Sage who has done with actions?

SYNOPSIS  /  Grant Duff

The notions of bondage and liberation are correlative and coexistent. On enquiry, ‘who is bound’, the notion of bondage vanishes, and so does that of Liberation. The One eternally free alone remains self-revealed.

Collected from the books published by Ramanasramam.


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