From The Garland 148-149

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om namo bhagavate sri ramanaya

148

Those who know nothing but sense-pleasure,

To ruin and destruction doomed,

Resent transcendence of the senses

And call this fresh and fruitful wisdom

Dry Vedanta!

[sense-pleasures dry up and bring ruin. Jnana is a perennial fount of bliss.]

149

The experience of Vedanta comes

Only to those who are utterly

Without desire. Far, far it is

>From those who still retain desires.

For such the penance is prescribed

Of longing for the Lord who knows

No desire so as to end

For ever all desire.

(Sri Muruganar's 'The Garland of Guru's Sayings' - Trans. Prof. K. Swaminathan,

Sri Ramanasramam, Tiruvannamalai; 1996)

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"ekam sat vipraa bahudhaa vadanti

That which exists is One; sages call it by various names."