Guest guest Posted September 29, 2002 Report Share Posted September 29, 2002 Dear All, someone asked to post out of Lucie Cornelssen's "Hunting the 'I'". It may also be of interest to know who she was. Lucie Cornelssen was born in Germany at the end of the 19th century. During the second world war the only German book on Sri Ramana which was available was from the Indologist Heinrich Zimmer "Der Weg zum Selbst" which made great impression on her. She felt very much drawn to Bhagavan and decided to utilize her linguistic and writing talents (she was a professional writer ) to translate more of Sri Bhagavan's words into German. With no Tamil teacher to help her, she spent two years in an hermitage in a German forest. When she finally felt able to read and understand the Tamil, she translated some of Ramana's teaching into German. In the Fiftieth she decided to make a pilgrimage to Arunachala and took her German manuscripts with her. She laid the manuscript on Bhagavan's samadhi. Soon afterwards a German publisher was interested in and the book came out. She spent several months living alone in a small shrine near the Pradakshina road, a few miles from the Ashram spending her time with sadhana. Later she stayed near Ramanashram and was a well known figure there. Besides a short Ramana-Biography and translations of the Talks in German she wrote "Hunting the 'I', which appeared in English and German edition. Here she also gives some practical advice and explanations on self inquiry. in HIM Gabriele ********************************************************************************\ ******** This pure be-ing 'I am' is the first glimpse of the real 'I', the Self, which is by nature Pure Consciousness. When your attention is keen, then you will discover simultanously that there is not now and never has been a wrong 'I'. It has always been the same 'real I', only your mind has covered it up with the idea which it has about your 'person'. There are other opportunities, when we could experience this pure 'I' consciously. One such is during the tiny gap between two thoughts, when the attention has given up its hold on one thought and not yet caught the next one. But since we never tried our attention is not trained this way, and we will hardly succeed in the attempt. There is a better chance to catch it between sleeping and awaking. It is very important to try it, if you are serious in your hunting the 'I'. Take care of a few conditions: Try at night just before you fall asleep to keep as the last thought your intention to catch as the first thing of all on waking in the morning the experience of your true 'I'. Another condition: You should take care not to awaken too abruptly such as by an alarm clock, and also not to jump headlong into your daily morning routine. The moment you awake, don't stir, but remember your intention from last night. You will succeed after a few attempts. And what is possible once even for a moment can be extended by practice. This experiment gives you the advantage that you now know the aim of your endeavour. It will help you in your further sadhana like leavening in the dough. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lucy Cornelssen: Hunting the 'I', p. 25f ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ to be continued Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 29, 2002 Report Share Posted September 29, 2002 Dear Gabriele, Thank you for the information about Lucy Cornelssen. I had posted recently here from her article in Ramana Smrti, and had wondered very much who she was, as I had not seen her referred to in other works of Ramana and his disciples. Now off to satsang with Nome. We are Not two, Richard RamanaMaharshi, "Gabriele Ebert" <g.ebert@g...> wrote: > Dear All, > someone asked to post out of Lucie Cornelssen's "Hunting the 'I'". > It may also be of interest to know who she was. > > Lucie Cornelssen was born in Germany at the end of the 19th century. > During the second world war the only German book on Sri Ramana which was available was > from the Indologist Heinrich Zimmer "Der Weg zum Selbst" which made > great impression on her. She felt very much drawn to Bhagavan and > decided to utilize her linguistic and writing talents (she was a professional writer ) > to translate more of Sri Bhagavan's words into German. > With no Tamil teacher to help her, she spent two years in an hermitage in a German forest. > When she finally felt able to read and understand the Tamil, she translated some > of Ramana's teaching into German. > > In the Fiftieth she decided to make a pilgrimage to Arunachala and took > her German manuscripts with her. She laid the manuscript on > Bhagavan's samadhi. Soon afterwards a German publisher was interested in > and the book came out. > She spent several months living alone in a small shrine near the Pradakshina > road, a few miles from the Ashram spending her time with sadhana. > Later she stayed near Ramanashram and was a well known figure there. > Besides a short Ramana-Biography and translations of the Talks in German > she wrote "Hunting the 'I', which appeared in English and German edition. > Here she also gives some practical advice and explanations on self inquiry. > > in HIM > Gabriele > > ********************************************************************** ****************** > > This pure be-ing 'I am' is the first glimpse of the real > 'I', the Self, which is by nature Pure Consciousness. > > When your attention is keen, then you will discover > simultanously that there is not now and never has been > a wrong 'I'. It has always been the same 'real I', only your > mind has covered it up with the idea which it has about > your 'person'. > > There are other opportunities, when we could experience this > pure 'I' consciously. One such is during the tiny gap between > two thoughts, when the attention has given up its hold on one > thought and not yet caught the next one. But since we never > tried our attention is not trained this way, and we will hardly > succeed in the attempt. > > There is a better chance to catch it between sleeping and awaking. > It is very important to try it, if you are serious in your hunting the 'I'. > Take care of a few conditions: Try at night just before you fall > asleep to keep as the last thought your intention to catch as > the first thing of all on waking in the morning the experience > of your true 'I'. > > Another condition: You should take care not to awaken too abruptly > such as by an alarm clock, and also not to jump headlong into your > daily morning routine. The moment you awake, don't stir, but > remember your intention from last night. > > You will succeed after a few attempts. And what is possible once > even for a moment can be extended by practice. > > This experiment gives you the advantage that you now know the > aim of your endeavour. It will help you in your further sadhana like > leavening in the dough. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Lucy Cornelssen: Hunting the 'I', p. 25f > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > to be continued > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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