Ramana Maharishi: Do not cling to the form of the Guru; True Bhagavan resides in your Heart
"Bhagavan [Ravi: Ramana Maharishi] had once told me: ‘Do not cling to the form of the Guru, for this will perish; do not cling to his feet for his attendants will stop you. The true Bhagavan resides in your Heart as your own Self. This is who I truly am.’"
Truly awesome! So appropriate a message from Ramana Maharishi's life for Sathya Sai devotees now.
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Truly awesome! So appropriate a message from Ramana Maharishi's life for Sathya Sai devotees now.
More on it here: https://www.facebook.com/ravi.s.iyer.7/posts/1625112264372011.
Human Experience has two phenomena- the subjective phenomenon and the objective phenomenon.
ReplyDeleteThe Subjective Phenomenon is Sat Chid Ananda (the very "knowing" of our being is blisfful) our real nature, and the objective phenomenon or the objective process of this "knowing" comes through Nama and Rupa-Name and Form.
As an ignorant soul, for a great while Nama and Rupa of this objective universe first and then as we get illumined in spirituality, the name and form of Our Lord/God/Guru inspires our thoughts, feelings, words and actions.
As we progress in our journey we observe our Lord and Guru. whose every thought, word and deed is Sat Chit Ananda. He inspires us to be like(Se) Him (Va). When we do our "Seva" Like Him our thoughts, words and deeds too become suffused with Sat Chid Ananda,
Slowly He points that the Sat Chid Ananda of Himself is verily the Sat Chid Ananda of our ownself and there is no difference between His Name and Form and our True Nature.
we are expressing the spirit within and not reflecting the matter (nama rupa) without. and disassociate with Nama and Rupa of the world and our Lord/Guru, it is our spirit in its intangible nature suffused with Sat Chid Ananda that inspires our thoughts, feelings, words and actions.
Dissolving the nama (Name), we go to Chit (Awareness) , Dissolving the rupa (Form) we go to Sat (Being), Transcending both nama and rupa, we go to bliss (Ananda)
This whole thing cannot be understood intellectually but experientially.
So the more we go out of the objective nama rupa of the world and of our Lord/God/Guru, the more our subjective phenonoma of our spirit, our real nature as Sat Chid Ananda finds expression in our living experience. The subject (Sat Chid Ananda) is reflected in the objects we experience (Nama Rupa)