RAMANA MAHARSHI / ULLADU NARPADU - PART II

Sloka 10

English Translations:

1.     Truth  Revealed  / Grant Duff

The body is inert like an earthen pot. Since it has no I-consciousness and since in (state of) deep sleep, when bodiless, we do experience our natural being, the body cannot be the I. Who (then) is it that causes I-ness? Whence is he? In the Heart-cave of those who thus enquire, know and abide as the Self, Lord Arunachla Siva shines forth of Himself as the ‘That-am-I’ Consciousness.

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

The body is inert like any pot It is not ‘I’, for consciousness it lacks. While ‘I’ exist even in formless sleep, Do all admit. Within the Heart of him Who seeks. ‘Who, whence am I?’ and stays therein, Lord Arunachala shines forth as ‘I’.

3.    Revelation / K. Lakshmana Sarma The body, like anything made of earth, is insentient; it has no sense of ‘I’;  therefore I am not that; also because it is certain that the Self exists in dreamless sleep, in which there is no body. ‘Who is he that says I?’  Or ‘Whence is he?’  To those that, which pure mind (seeking the Self in this way), become established in the Self, the blissful, perfect Being, namely Arunachala, Himself shines as I.

Synopsis / Grant Duff That Consciousness is the Supreme Being, Lord Arunachala Siva, who reveals Himslf on Self-enquiry.

Collected from the books published by Ramanashramam. mP: 3-2--14