RAMANA GITA STUDY GROUP .CHAPTER 12.V.20,21,22 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.

 

Bhagavan:.

 

20.Oh best of men, without Sakti, Being is not apprehended.

 

Sakti has two names, vyapara [Activity] and asraya [Ground] .

 

21.The learned say that work such as the creation, sustenance, and dissolution

of the universe is

vyapara [Activity] .

 

Oh best of men, asraya [Ground] is nothing other than Being.

 

22.Because Being is itself everything, it depends on nothing else .

 

He who understands Sakti as both Activity and Ground , he alone knows .

 

 

 

 

 

 

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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.

 

Bhagavan:.

 

20.Oh best of men, without Sakti, Being is not apprehended.

 

Sakti has two names, vyapara [Activity] and asraya [Ground] .

 

21.The learned say that work such as the creation, sustenance, and

dissolution of the universe is

vyapara [Activity] .

 

Oh best of men, asraya [Ground] is nothing other than Being.

 

22.Because Being is itself everything, it depends on nothing else .

 

He who understands Sakti as both Activity and Ground , he alone

knows .

 

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Ramana Gita [Translation and Commentary by AR Natarajan]

Chapter 12 `On Shakti'

 

V20

Awareness of Self is not possible without power. Power has two

aspects- activity and ground.

 

Commentary

Movement cannot be perceived without a stationary base. How is the

opposite also true? How is it possible to apprehend the ground

through movement, through power? When through self-enquiry the mind

is pushed within, one becomes aware of the sparkle of the Self

as `I'-`I' within the Heart. The movement referred to must therefore

be understood as diving within, the inner journey linking one with

consciousness.

 

V21

The learned say that work such as creation of the universe is

movement. The ground is only the Self.

 

Commentary

Creation includes the sustenance and dissolution of the world also.

This is termed activity. The base of all the three is only the Self.

 

V22

Self is not dependent on anything else because of its universality.

He who understands it to be both movement and ground alone knows.

 

Commentary

The Self itself is the subject, `the eye complete and limitless'*.

It is self-luminous and the source of luminosity of all creation. In

this verse Ramana again stresses the integral nature of God, the

manifest and unmanifest.

[*Sat Darshanam v3]

 

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