RAMANA GITA STUDY GROUP .CHAPTER 12.V.23,24,25 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:.

 

23.In the activity there can be no diversity for SAT [being].if satta

[Nature of being] be other

than Sakti, then no activity can ever rise.

24.If, in course of time, the great dissolution of the universe

should occur, this activity

merges, as it were, into Being without any difference.

 

25.Without Sakti none of this activity cn ever be; neither creation

nor cognition consisting of

the triad [subject,object and cognition].

 

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Ramana Gita [Translation and Commentary by AR Natarajan]

Chapter 12 `On Shakti'

 

V23

Diversity in Reality would not arise in the absence of movement. The

movement cannot exist apart from Reality.

 

Commentary

Once again the interlaced nature of power and the ground are

emphasised. Earlier the Vedic text that Self itself has become

everything has been explained. Diverse forms for underlying reality

can arise only if there is movement of thought away from the

stillness of existence. Again, how can there be movement unless

sustained by consciousness?

 

V24

If in course of time the great dissolution of the universe should

take place, this activity subsides into the one, the Self.

 

Commentary

What is referred to here is the `Mahapralaya'. What happens is only

a lulling of activity for the time being and not destruction. It

will sprout again when the new cycle of creation starts.

 

V25

All this activity is not possible without `Shakti', `Power', neither

the world nor the awareness of it, consisting of the triad.

 

Commentary

The triad are he seer, the seen and the act of seeing. The mind's

spurce is clearly indicated to be the Self by Ramana in Upadesa

Saram. Tha mind's consciousness, its power, is the reflected power

of the Self. The world has no independent existence of its own. The

mind projects the world and sees it. Hence it is said that neither

the world nor the mind can exist without power, the power being that

of the Self.

 

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