Important Spiritual Sharing sent from Sri V. Ganesan

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SOME COMPOSITIONS BY BHAGAVAN

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> VERSES ON THE SELF

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> 1. He who is forgetful of the Self, mistaking the

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> Physical body for Self, and goes through

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> Innumerable births, is like one who wanders

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> All over the world in a dream. Thus realizing

>

> The Self would only be like waking up from

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> The dream-wanderings.

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> 1. One ever is the Self. To ask oneself

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> 'Who and whereabouts am I ?'

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> Is like the drunken man's enquiring

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> 'Who Am I ?' and 'Where Am I

> ?'

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> 1. The body is within the Self. And yet

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> One thinks one is inside the inert body.

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> Like some spectator who supposes

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> That the screen on which the cinema picture

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>

> is thrown

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> Is within the picture.

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>

>

> 1. Does an ornament exist apart from the gold

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> of which it

> is made ?

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> Where is the body apart from the Self ?

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> He who considers the body to be himself

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> is an ignorant

> man.

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> He who regards himself as the Self

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> Is the Enlightened One who has

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> realized the

> Self.

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>

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> 1. The One Self, the Sole Reality, alone exists

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>

> for ever.

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> When even the Ancient Guru, Dakshinamurti,

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> Revealed It only through speechless

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> eloquence [silence] ,

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> Who else could reveal It in spoken words ?

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>

>

> ( These are the last verses composed by Sri Bhagavan

> in

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> Telugu,

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> but to a Tamil metrical form called

> *'Venba'* and then

>

> * *translated them into Tamil.)

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> * *

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> * *

> * * * SELF – KNOWLEDGE*

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> * ( Atma Vidya)*

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> **

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> * **Self-Knowledge is an easy thing.*

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> *The easiest ting there is.*

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> *The Self is something that's entirely real*

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> *Even for the most ordinary man,*

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> *It could be said that a clear gooseberry***

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> *Is an illusion by comparison.*

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> * *

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> *The Self, which shines as Sun within the Heart,*

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> *Is real and all-pervading. 'Twill reveal*

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> *Itself as soon as false thought

> ['I-am-the-body'-idea] *

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> * is destroyed *

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> *And not one speck remains. For this thought is*

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> *The cause of the appearance of false forms,*

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> *The body and the world, which seem to be*

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> *Real things in spite of Self, which steadfast stands,*

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> *The ever-changeless, firm as Truth Itself.*

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> *Then, Self shines; darkness dispelled;*

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> *Afflictions cease and Bliss wells up.*

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> *What is the use of knowing everything else*

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> *Other than the Self ? What else is there to know*

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> *For one when Self Itself is known ?*

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> *On realizing in oneself the Self,*

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> *Which is the only self-effulgent One*

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> *In myriads of selves, the Light of Self*

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> *Will clearly shine within. This is indeed*

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> *The true Play of Grace, the ego's death,*

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> *And the blossoming of the Bliss Supreme.*

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> * *

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> * In order that the bonds of destiny*

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> *And all its kindred may at last be loosed,*

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> *And so that one may also be released*

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> *From the dread cycle of births and deaths,*

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> *This path than others is far easier,*

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> *Therefore 'Be Still' and keep a silent hold*

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> *On tongue and mind and body. That which is*

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> *The Self-Effulgence will arise within*

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> *This is the Supreme Experience. Fear will cease.*

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> *This is the boundless Ocean of Perfect Bliss !*

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> **

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> (** The fruit mentioned in the Tamil text is

> '*Nelli*', widely grown in

> India

>

> but unknown in Europe. It is more or less

> transparent and hence

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> " as clear as the *nelli *in one's

> hand " is the Tamil equivalent to

> the

>

> English saying : " as clear as crystal " .)

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