RAMANA MAHARSHI / ULLADU NARPADU / SLOKA33



RAMANA MAHARSHI / ULLADU NARPADU / SLOKA  33

ENGLISH  TRANSLATIONS:

1.    TRUTH  REVEALED / GRANT DUFF

“I have not realised the Self”; “I have realised the Self”, to say either is to invite ridicule. Because, are there two selves in order that one may objectify the other? That the Self  is but one, is a truth within the experience of all.

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

‘I do not know myself’, ‘I know myself’, To speak in this way  is ridiculous. Are there two selves so it is possible For one the other to objectify? The Self is one and can be only one, For is not this experience of all?

3.    REVELATION / K. LAKSHMANA SARMA

The two statements, ‘I do not know myself ’ and ‘I know myself ’ are equally ridiculous. Has any one, anywhere, two selves so that the self can become an object of knowledge to himself ? Know from the common experience of all men alike that the real Self is only one.

SYNOPSIS  /  Grant Duff The Self  is one; and Self-knowledge is unique  in that the knowing Self is itself the known Self. It can never become a known or unknown object.

Collected from the books published by Ramanasramam.


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