हिन्दी
Karma must ever yield its proper fruit, for thus it is ordained by God, Himself, Supreme Creator. Then is Karma God? No, for it is itself insentient.
Of Karma the results must pass away, yet it leaves seeds which in their turn will sprout and throw the actor back into the flood of Karma’s Ocean. Karma cannot save.
But acts performed without attachment’s urge and solely for the service of the Lord will cleanse the mind and indicate the way which leads at length unto the final goal.
Worship, reciting of God’s holy name, and meditation, mainly are performed by body, voice and mind, and they excel each other in the order here set down.
If we but recognise this Universe of eightfold form as form of God, Himself, and serve in adoration all the world. This is of God most excellent worship.
Constant repeating of the holy name is more than praise, at length the voice will sink to silent repetition in the Heart, and in this way is meditation learnt.
Better than meditation that recurs in broken fits and starts is that which is a steady ceaseless flow, like to the course of falling oil or a perennial stream.
Worship of God as in no way distinct from him who worships, or in other words thinking that. He is I., is better far than any other kind of worshipping.
To rest in the Real Being, that transcends our every thought, by reason of the strength of our devotion to something conceived; This of supreme devotion is the truth.
To be absorbed again into one’s Source (Heart) Is Karma, Bhakti, Yoga, Jnanam (Knowledge), all these things in truth. or put in other words Good works, Devotion, Union, Gnosis, too.
As by the fowler birds are caught in nets, so by the holding of the breath within, the mind can be restrained. This a device that will affect absorption of the mind.
For mind and life expressed in thought and act, that is with thought and action as their function, diverge and branch like two boughs of a tree, but both of them spring from one single stem.
Suppression of the mind in two ways comes, absorption and extinction; mind absorbed will live again, but mind, which is destroyed will never more revive, for it is dead.
When, by the means of restraint of the breath, the mind has been controlled, then make it flow along a single current, that achieved, its form will then entirely disappear.
For the Great Sage for whom all form of mind has disappeared and who is ever one with the Reality, there is no Karma more, for He, indeed, the True Self has become.
When mind has given the sense-objects up, which are external and has drawn within, and has perceived its own refulgent form, then verily alone True Gnosis is.
When pondering with constant vigilance upon the actual nature of the mind, one finds that there is no such thing as mind; This, of a truth, is the straight course for all.
The mind is nothing but a lot of thoughts, of all these many thoughts ’this the thought ’I’ That is the root. So, we can see by that, the mind in truth is only the thought ’I’.
Whence, therefore, does this ’I-thought’ have its birth? With vigilant and ever active mind, seek this, and crestfallen the ’I’ becomes. The search, itself, the quest of Wisdom is.
This search pursued till ’I’ has disappeared, there now vibrates the ’I-I’ all alone, the quest is finished, there’s no more to seek. For this is really the Infinite Self.
This is eternally the true import of the term ’I’. For in the deepest sleep, we do not cease to be. We still exist even though here there is no sense of ’I’.
As I am pure Existence, I am not the body nor the senses, mind nor life, nor even ignorance, for all these things are quite insentient and so unreal.
As there is not a second consciousness to know Existence, it must follow that, Existence is itself that consciousness; So, I myself am that same consciousness.
In their real nature as Existence both Creatures and the Creator are the same, the unique principle. Difference is found only in attributes and knowledge.
Realization of the Self alone, eliminating all its attributes; Is God-Realization of a truth, as it is He that shines forth as the Self.
To be the Self that is to know the Self, as there is no duality in Self. This is Thanmaya-Nistha, or the state of absolutely being That in truth.
That knowledge is true knowledge which transcends knowledge and ignorance both equally. And this alone is truth. For there is no subject or object there that can be known.
If one can only realize at heart what one’s true nature is, one then will find that Infinite Wisdom, Truth and Bliss, without beginning and without an end.
Remaining in this state of Supreme Bliss, devoid of bondage and of freedom too, is found to be a state in which one is wrapped in perpetual service of the Lord.
By ardent quest and shedding ego’s veil, realize the Self, the One that’s ego-less, and function thus; the sole right penance is this. So teaches Bhagavan Sri Ramana, who is the SELF of everything that is.
