SELF AWARENESS AT THE HELM OF
AFFAIRS - a reflection
‘’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’
Those ones established in firm
Self abidance only perform selfless service to Society, as ordained by the
Self.
Mind ceases to exist in silence.
Silence is the door to Faith. Faith is surrender to the Self. Faith merges with
the Self. All faiths, all symbols of sectarian thoughts, all colors end up
finally in their one and only goal, the Self, they merge and become one with
the Self. Self is the Goal of all births. Self is God, formless and nameless, compassion,
grace, peace, joy and bliss supreme.
Mind gives man billions of
fragments of one single identity and one gets caught in its swirling currents unable to collect oneself into one single
identity. The power of concentration becomes very week, indulgence in pleasure
becomes uncontrollable, ignorance reigns and one is lost in the cauldron of
thoughts
.
One has an original, ‘one’s own’,
powerful true single identity which can shine only in the absence of the mind.
So establishing oneself in silence is
absolutely necessary. How does one tackle the Mind, the ever powerful
current of incessantly running thoughts
which weakens one’s attention, takes
away the power to concentrate on one single subject and hides the vision of one’s true identity ?
A ‘Direct Path’ exists to the
Self for those in conflict and for those serious seekers of truth who look for
Freedom from Bondage. To tackle the Mind the question now is ‘ Who wants to tackle the Mind?’ The answer
will naturally be, ‘I’ want’ it. Hence it is essential that one’s ‘I’ and it’s
source have to be searched in ones inwardness and retrieved.
This is a choiceless matter for
one until one knows the truth about one’s ‘I’. Bhagavan Sri Ramana
Maharshi puts it simply as ‘ In the
absence of Yoga viyoga happens and in the absence of viyoga Yoga happens to one’.
Hence one is left with no other alternative as Yoga has to happen in one’s life
sooner or later.
The creator creates existence and
sustains it until it’s dissolution when the purpose is fully served.
An Avatar is a spontaneous birth of
the creator in human form in perfect self abidance born as a shepherd to take
care and guide his herds. All Avatars hitherto born on earth are
personifications of Compassion, Grace did selfless service to human society as
guides.
Life does not blossom to its
intended extend for one who has not understood his prime duty as that of
realising his own true Identity. His or Her duties to family and society will naturally follow as second and third ones.
Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi is
an Avatar born to guide the human society as a whole and remove the ignorance
of the above prime duty which naturally removes all doubts and fears from life
for man.
‘Self Enquiry’ as advocated by
Sri Bhagavan is a Secular subject fit
for all to pursue easily due to the
simple directions that are projected
very clearly and understandably irrespective all existing divisive
factors in the world that divide human society into fractions.
In the year 1999 the Govt. Of India
released postal stamp of Sri Ramana Maharshi and held an international Seminar on ‘SELF ENQUIRY’ in Bangalore guided
by Sri A.R.Natarajan, president of the
RAMANA MAHARSHI CENTRE for LEARNING, BANGALORE.
Mohanakrishnan Annavangote
Ramana Maharshi Centre, Guruvayur
Camp: Bangalore
