RAMANA GITA STUDY GROUP .CHAPTER 12.V.34,35 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:

 

34.Activity is not other than Being, if you see, indeed

 

all this knowledge of difference is but imaginary .

 

35.This creation called the sport of Sakti is only an idea of Iswara.

 

If the idea is transcended, Being alone remains.

 

This ends Chapter 12 from the Ramana Gita,the Science of Brahman and

the Scripture of Yoga

composed by Ramana's disciple Vasishta Ganapati.

 

 

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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'

 

V34

If one understands properly, activity is not different from the

ground. The thought that they are different would be conjectural.

 

Commentary

Having stated in the preceding verse that Self is seen to be

eternally active, Ramana brings one back to the proposition which he

has repeatedly emphasised in this chapter, namely, that it is the

characteristics activity & stillness which seem to give an

appearance of difference, but in Reality the Self is only one.

Why does Ramana call the idea, that the two are different,

imaginary? It is because it springs from the thought that the

subject is separate from the Self. The ego, imagining itself to be

different from the Self, is unaware of its essential strength and

its link with consciousness. The false knowledge ends when through

properly directed enquiry the doership idea is uprooted.

 

V35

The creation termed the sport of power, is an idea of God only. If

the idea is transcended the Self remains.

 

Comentary

The multifarious creation is born of the eternal activity of God,

Iswara. It is called a `leela', a sport of His powers, His Shakti.

The creator is not apart from His creation and is the consciousness,

the substratum of everything. It is for this reason that Isavasya

Upanishad declares that Iswara pervades the entire universe. The

difference between the idea of creation and that of the individual

is that the Creator is omniscient and omnipotent. His intelligence

is unfettered by attachments, and His powers are limitless. The

individual's creation is the product of a mind which is dissipated

by attachments and the limitations of inadequate power are

superimposed on it.

In the second half of the verse, Ramana reverts to his basic

teaching that the world and mind exist so long as mind's nature is

not understood. If by search for its source the mind merges in the

source, the Self, then all ideation, all conceptualisation would

cease. For, the individual for whom conceptualisation exists would

cease to exist. All that would remain is the one true seer.

If this happens, the differences which exist between God &

individual would come to an end. The difference was one of form and

intelligence*. God's form is the universe in all its variety, the

individual's a particular name and form. God's intelligence is

complete, that of the individual is warped & limited. But once the

import of the true `I' is apprehended these differences are lost and

the one essence remains.

[*Upadesa-Saram v24]

 

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Ramana Gita Chapter 12 concluded.

[sanskrit version in Ramana's handwriting can be seen in `Photo'

file, `RamanaGita album']

 

 

Om Sri Ramanaya Namah

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anu

 

 

 

 

 

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