TRUTH REVEALED - SLOKA 18

Ramana Maharshi / Ulladu Narpadu /  Sloka 18 Translations:

TRUTH  REVEALED / Grant Duff To those who have not realised (the Self)  as well as to those who have realised, the world is real. To those who have not realised, Truth is to the measure of the world. To those that have realised, Truth shines as the Formless Perfection, and as the Substratum of the world. This is all the difference between them.

THE FORTY ON EXISTENCE / The world is real for wise and ignorant: But where Reality for ignorant Is limited to world. Reality For men of Wisdom is the basic stuff Which formless is and in itself complete That is the difference between the two.

REVELATION / K. Lakshmana Sarma (“Who”) The world is real both to the non-knower  and to the knower of the Real. He that lacks knowledge of the Real believes the Real to be coextensive  with the world. To the knower the Real shines as the fomless One, the basic substance of the world. Great indeed is the difference between the knower of That  and the non-knower!

To the ignorant the world is the sole, self-existent reality, to the Wise that formless, infinite being which underlies the world is the one Reality.

Collected from the works published by Ramanashramam,Thiruvannamalai.