RAMANA GITA STUDY GROUP .CHAPTER 12.V.14,15,16 On Sakti

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CHAPTER 12

 

ON SAKTI [the main topic in this long chapter]

 

Professor K.Swaminathan and Sri Visvanatha Swami Translation

 

On the nineteenth day, the high-minded Bharadwaja Kapali, great among the

learned,questioned Guru

Ramana.

 

Kapali:

 

14.Bhagavan, this activity of Iswara which is the cause of this vast Universe,

is it Eternal or

not/? Please enlighten me .

 

15.Bhagavan:

 

Though the Supreme moves because of His own Supreme Sakti, He is in Reality

unmoving.

 

Only the Sage can understand this profound mystery .

 

16.Movement by itself is activity and activity is called Sakti.

 

The Supreme Person through his Sakti created all that we see ..

 

 

 

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by an invisible Sun within us.

 

 

 

 

 

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CHAPTER 12

 

ON SAKTI [the main topic in this long chapter]

 

Professor K.Swaminathan and Sri Visvanatha Swami Translation

 

On the nineteenth day, the high-minded Bharadwaja Kapali, great

among the learned,questioned Guru

Ramana.

 

Kapali:

 

14.Bhagavan, this activity of Iswara which is the cause of this vast

Universe, is it Eternal or

not/? Please enlighten me .

 

15.Bhagavan:

 

Though the Supreme moves because of His own Supreme Sakti, He is in

Reality unmoving.

 

Only the Sage can understand this profound mystery .

 

16.Movement by itself is activity and activity is called Sakti.

 

The Supreme Person through his Sakti created all that we see ..

 

 

 

=====

Life is a pure flame,and we live

by an invisible Sun within us.

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Ramana Gita [Translation and Commentary by AR Natarajan]

Chapter 12 `On Shakti'

 

V14

Kapali said, Bhagavan, is the activity of God, which is the cause

of this vast world, eternal? Please clarify.

 

Commentary

……….The doubt is raised because God is eternal. Can it be said that

his activity too is eternal?

 

V15

Though movement is caused by the Supreme's inherent power, actually

it is unmoving. This is a secret known only to sages.

 

Commentary

In verse twelve Ramana has already explained that in Reality there

is no movement. Here he reiterates this proposition and puts a stop

to the argument. Movement itself being illusory the whole

explanation relating to Iswara and His powers is from the relative

point of view. Since doubts would continue to arise, Ramana states

that it is a secret known only to sages. Once a person learns to

abide in the natural state, the truth would be revealed.

 

V16

Only movement is activity and it is termed `Power'. Everything seen

is created by the Supreme person through His own power.

 

Commentary

The creator and His power being one the entire creation is the

manifestation of his own power since nothing exists outside the one,

the Supreme. Everything, stability and movement, can only be aspects

of it. Ramana brings out the same idea in his Upadesa Saram where he

points out `Is there another consciousness to light Existence?

Existence itself is the consciousness from which the `I' arises.'*

[*Upadesa Saram verse 22]

 

 

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