From the Garland

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--- AHAM - Association of Happiness for All Mankind <ahamcntr

wrote: > Dear Alan

Jacobs,

>

> Information on Sri V. Ganesan's AHAM Center visit and Sat Sanga Schedule:

>

> V. Ganesan, grand nephew of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi, is currently

> staying at the AHAM Center in Asheboro, NC (USA). He will hold Sat Sanga

> along with A. Ramana, AHAM's founder and spiritual director, over both the

> full weeks of 14 - 20 June and 9 - 15 August. If interested in either

> weekly schedule, you may attend the week programs in one of three ways: 1)

> Mon. 2 PM until Sun. 6 PM; 2) Mon. 2 PM until Fri. 11 AM; 3) Fri. 3 PM

> until Sun. 6 PM. Or any single days you wish to attend.

>

> All Ramana Maharshi devotees and admirers are welcome! Come meet and visit

> with Ganesan at the AHAM Center. To attend all or any portion of either of

> these weeks, contact the AHAM Center (USA) for reservations. For more

> information, contact the center; see below.

>

> This is Message #1202 for transforming the mind and realizing the true

> nature of the Self, or real God, based on the Teachings of Bhagavan Sri

> Ramana Maharshi. Please forward it to an interested or caring friend:

>

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> From "The Garland of Guru's Sayings"

>

> Part I - The Quest

>

> 4. Barrenness of the World

>

> 75) The objects of the world are fit to be reveled in only by those

> frenzied ones that are bewildered by the superimposed false reality. The

> enlightened ones have nothing to delight in, save the Beatitude of

> Awareness-Being.

>

> 76) Would the enlightened seers, stabilized in the pure Consciousness of

> the Self, follow the despicable ways of the world, which befit only the

> animal-nature of the sense-bound mind, lacking in strength to abide in

> reality?

>

> 77) To the protest, of what use is attainment of pure Awareness, or the

> nature of mere being and abandoning the countless sensory pleasures, the

> answer is, that abidance in Awareness is the natural happiness of the

> unbroken bliss of the Self.

>

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> From the book, "The Garland of Guru's Sayings" by Sri Muruganar, himself an

> enlightened, direct disciple of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi. This

> translation is by Sri Sadhu Om, also an enlightened direct disciple of Sri

> Bhagavan. This book is soon to be published by AHAM Publications. However

> another translation, by Prof. K Swaminathan, is now available from us for

> purchase. It is $8.95 plus shipping. For more information, e-mail or

> telephone the AHAM Center (USA). Or visit our web site Bookstore:

> http://www.aham.com/bookstore/index.html

>

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