A PARTING MESSAGE from Sri Ganesan before he returns to India

[Guest guest]

Note: Sri V.Ganesan, ther grand nephew of Bhagavan usually gives satsang in his

house Ananda Ramana mon-fri from 9:30 am - 11:00. AJ

 

> *Namaskaram.*

 

> *I am leaving for Holy Arunachala tomorrow*

> *morning at 7 (now, it is 9.30 p.m. at Chennai). *

> *As an offering of prayer to the Sacred Hill *

> *and as a parting message to you I quote*

> *Words of Wisdom [from 'Moments Remembered']:*

> **

> * King Janaka took evening walks everyday in the *

> *royal garden, while his retinue stayed outside. One*

> *day Janaka, when alone in the garden, happened*

> *to hear the conversation of some invisible Siddhas.*

> *The purport of the conversation is as follows :*

> **

> * (1) When the knower and the known become one,*

> * then the Bliss of the Self is experienced. *

> * This is known as Self-Knowledge and this is *

> * what a seeker should aim at.*

> **

> * (2) To eradicate the vasanas the seeker should*

> * contemplate on the Self which bestows light*

> * on the seer, seen and the act-of-seeing. One*

> * should thus contemplate on the eternal Self*

> * which is the centre between being and *

> * non-being.*

> **

> * (3) That in which this entire universe is established,*

> * to which it pertains, out of which it arises,*

> * for which it exists, by which it really is, *

> * that is the self-existent Reality, the Truth.*

> * Let us contemplate on That in the Heart.*

> **

> * (4) One should contemplate the one eternal Self*

> * which reveals itself shining as

> " I " - " I " .*

> * Instead of seeking the Truth in the Heart,*

> * the ignorant goes in search of God outside*

> * oneself. It is like a man throwing away*

> * the valuable Kaustubha Gem in hand*

> * and going after conch shells.*

> **

> * (5) The Self can be realised only by those who*

> * have destroyed completely the hosts of *

> * desires. Knowing the absence of happiness*

> * in the baneful objects (both in the past*

> * and in the future) yet if one clings on to*

> * them one would remain in bondage and *

> * is no better than a donkey.*

> **

> * (6) Just as the celestial Indra struck down the *

> * mountains with his thunderbolt, let us strike*

> * at the senses which raise their hoods*

> * as hissing snakes, with our powerful *

> * discriminative mind. By this the mind*

> * acquires peace, gets equanimity and *

> * becomes one with the Blissful Self.*

> **

> * The King was pure and ripe. On hearing the*

> *Truth thus revealed by the Siddhas he became*

> *so dispassionate that he lost all interest in the*

> *relative world and left the affairs of the kingdom*

> *to his wise ministers and returned to his private*

> *apartments. Left alone he contemplated one-*

> *-pointedly on the Truth. Following is the gist*

> *of King Janaka's experience as revealed by*

> *himself :*

> **

> * " With the destruction of sankalpa, the mind*

> *will also be destroyed easily. The baneful root *

> *of mind being destroyed, the tree of birth and*

> *and death will also be terminated. I declare :*

> *'Oh, I have detected the thief who robbed me*

> *of my Atmic Jewel viz., my Self. His name is*

> *mind. I have been suffering for long due to*

> *this villain. I will now gibbet him and make*

> *him die.'*

> **

> * 'Till now I have not been able to bore a hole*

> *in the pearl of mind. Now I will do so and *

> *make a rosary of it by stringing it in the *

> *thread of experience and wear it on my person.'*

> **

> * Thus, the ripe mind of King Janaka became*

> *introverted and merged with the Self. " *

> **

> *May Sri Bhagavan bless us all !*

> **

> *Love,*

> *Ganesan.*

> * *