Guru on Nostr: Ulladu Narpadu (Forty Verses on Existence) Verse-35: "To seek and abide as the ...
Ulladu Narpadu (Forty Verses on Existence) Verse-35:
"To seek and abide as the (eternally) accomplished existence-reality is (true) accomplishment. All other accomplishments are like the accomplishments that appear in dream. When one wakes up from sleep, are they seen to be real? Will they that are established in the true state and are rid of delusion, be deceived by them? Thus should you know."
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We are the Self. Because of nescience we do not realize our nature as the Self which is existent-reality. We imagine that we are born and we die, that we are confined within the bodies which we call ours, that we are agents and enjoyers, etc. All this is the work of nescience. When through right knowledge nescience is destroyed, we come to our own. It is no new achievement; it is the Self-gain (atma-labha), the greatest of all gains.
All other gains are in fact nothing. Sri Ramana compares them to the gains we may have in our dreams. We may strike a huge treasure in our dream and become millionaires, all of a sudden. But of what use is all this treasure in wakeful life? We cannot buy even a meal with the millions acquired in a dream. Similarly, the gains such as wealth and progeny that we seek for and get in our wakeful experience will prove themselves to be myths when we realize the Self. There is not even a hope of Immortality through wealth, etc., as Sage Yagnavalkya teaches Maitreyi in the 'Brhadaranyaka Upanishad'. When we wake up from the slumber of ignorance, the false ends disappear, the unreal vanish. Those that know the truth are not duped by them, for they are no longer under their spell.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
"To seek and abide as the (eternally) accomplished existence-reality is (true) accomplishment. All other accomplishments are like the accomplishments that appear in dream. When one wakes up from sleep, are they seen to be real? Will they that are established in the true state and are rid of delusion, be deceived by them? Thus should you know."
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We are the Self. Because of nescience we do not realize our nature as the Self which is existent-reality. We imagine that we are born and we die, that we are confined within the bodies which we call ours, that we are agents and enjoyers, etc. All this is the work of nescience. When through right knowledge nescience is destroyed, we come to our own. It is no new achievement; it is the Self-gain (atma-labha), the greatest of all gains.
All other gains are in fact nothing. Sri Ramana compares them to the gains we may have in our dreams. We may strike a huge treasure in our dream and become millionaires, all of a sudden. But of what use is all this treasure in wakeful life? We cannot buy even a meal with the millions acquired in a dream. Similarly, the gains such as wealth and progeny that we seek for and get in our wakeful experience will prove themselves to be myths when we realize the Self. There is not even a hope of Immortality through wealth, etc., as Sage Yagnavalkya teaches Maitreyi in the 'Brhadaranyaka Upanishad'. When we wake up from the slumber of ignorance, the false ends disappear, the unreal vanish. Those that know the truth are not duped by them, for they are no longer under their spell.
#SriRamanaMaharshi