RAMANA MAHARSHI / ULLADU NARPADU / SLOKA 26

RAMANA MAHARSHI / ULLADU NARPADU / SLOKA 26

ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS

1.    TRUTH  REVEALED / GRANT DUFF

If the ego is, all else also is. If the ego is not, nothing else is. Verily, the ego is all. Therefore, only the enquiry as to what this ego is, is the giving up of all.

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

The ego rising all else will arise. On it subsiding all will disappear, Hence all is nothing but the ego`s form Know then, O seeker,  that the ardent quest To find the ego is giving up Of all attachments that here keep us bound.

3.    REVELATION / K. LAKSHMANA SARMA

When this thing known as I is risen, then rises all this world; when the I is not, neither does the world exist; therefore this I is itself all the world: therefore  (extinction of the I by) the Quest of ‘Who is this I’, or ‘Whence is he’ is to get rid of the whole (world).

SYNOPSIS  /  Grant Duff Since with the rise of the ego all else rises and with its subsidence all else subsides. To destroy the ego through self-enquiry is alone true renunciation.

Collected from the books published by Ramanasramam.


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