Excerpts from BHAGAVAN RAMANAS MESSAGE. BY PROF K SWAMINATHAN There are four clear advantages of this teaching ; free from any shadow of the past , which can be listed. It is time for the human race to face the Sun and let the shadows fall behind. 1) the Teaching is holistic. The Self is indivisible and Being as awareness and Bliss is indivisible. There are a thousand ways of cooperating with the Sun. But the way of the tree is most natural and effective. Rootedness is essential for the right use of sunshine. By driving one back to the antique roots of the individual and the race and planting one in ones specific spatio-temporal predicament , the teaching retains the sap of bliss in every circumstance and saves one from false identification with concepts and constructs. One plays many roles, but they are all played in situations which possess wholeness. Retaining ones own wholeness and respecting the wholeness of other persons, one exteriorizes and manipulates things. Vasishtas advice to Rama and chapter 10( sangha Vidya) of Ramana Gita bring out the complementarity between inner Ashanti and outer shanti, the power of love issuing as appropriate action in any given situation. 2) it is heuristic: the eternal is related to the empirical and can and should be tested by its effect in our present life. Exploration, experience and experiment are both social and individual. In action, we share both hoy and responsibility withothers. But learning is always individual. WWisdom cannot be taught, it can only be learnt. We work on ourselves even while working for others. If awareness informs action, action increases, widens ,deepens awareness. Life becomes one continuous learning. One listens,observes,serves, loves , but one does not teach or exploit others. One learns by taking the utmost responsibility on oneself and giving the utmost freedom to others. In self-enquiry, one feels here and now an access of awareness and bliss ,one senses the harmony of human life; and does not look for comfort in some post mortem world. 3) it is irenic . it is not polemic. It conduces to peace, not conflict. I am the whole situation and I am also all other persons involved in it. This situation is my body for the time being. It is to be handled as a whole. My action or my deliberate non-action tends towards reconciliation, never to worsening of a conflict. In the ongoing traffic, I relieve congestion by rising above it. 4) it is serendipitous. One who is concerned with the future rather than with the past, who is striving to become what he really is, is always gaining something, whether it is outer achievement or inner bliss. For him,earths failure is heavens success . doing ones swadharma one grows in height or girth, in inner joy or the power of love. Every child in a well-orderd society should normally and naturally ripen into a sage, if only the educational,economic and political systems are based on a proper understanding of the nature and destiny of man. The words, I am in my Father, ye in me, and I in you, are not a figure of speech, they are a statement of fact. William Blake said: we are all co-existent with God, members of the divine body. We are partakers of the divine nature..Jesus Christ is the only God! But then so am I, and so are you. This may be heresy in the west, but is sound orthodoxy in India. Sri Ramanas message to modern man is a call to recapture the spiritual dimension on earth. As he told his earliest English disciple, that one point where all the religions meet is the realization - not in some mystical sense, but in the most worldly, most literal and everyday sense , and the more worldldy and everyday and practical the better - of the fact that God is everything and everything is God. The search for the Self starts one on a great adventure. It is the combination of a love story and a detective story. The ego parted from the universal self and longing for reunion with it rejoices in its own dissolution. Darkness delights in dying in the light, the mortal in immortality. The food enjoys being eaten even as it becomes the eater. The maharsh founded no organization,initiated no movement. He only reminds of the sun within each human heart and gives us a new orientation. He could well say with William James : I am for those tiny, invisible,moral forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world, like so many soft rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, which yet, if you give them time, will rend the hardest monuments of mans pride Posted by: Arunachala Breeze
Posted on: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 06:49:48 +0000
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