Beauty ＆ Pure 187

The boat may remain in water, but if water enters the boat it will bring great catastrophe. [Likewise] a man may live in the world, but if the world enters [the mind of] the man the whole life will be miserable.

('Guru Vachaka Kovai' 821)

Beauty ＆ Pure 186

Another impatient questioner elaborated long premises and finished asking why some children die a premature death. He required the answer not to satisfy the grown-up ones who look on, but the babies who are the victims.

M.: Let the victims ask. Why do you ask and desire the answer from the standpoint of the child?

Beauty ＆ Pure 185

This body is the cross. The ego – the identification ‘I am the body’ – is Jesus. The killing of the ego through Self-enquiry is the crucifixion of Jesus. The survival of Self from the death of the ego, and Its shining forth as the Supreme Thing is His Resurrection.

Beauty ＆ Pure 184

Bhagavan Ramana said, "...when the mind goes astray, it should be turned inward and made to steady itself in the thought of the Self. That is the only way.” A devotee asked, “To do so, the repeating of the name of Rama is good, is it not?” “Certainly it is good,” said Bhagavan. “What could be better?..." The picture below shows Lord Rama's meeting with Shabri, his great devotee

Beauty ＆ Pure 183

The moon-like jiva [the mind], ever wedded to the sun-like Self, should always remain in her home, the Heart; to forsake the Bliss of Self and go astray for worldly pleasures, is like the madness of a wife who spoils her precious chastity.

Beauty ＆ Pure 182

  The appearance of this illusory world, which is seen as real, is just like the serpent seen in a rope, the thief seen in a tree-stump or the water seen in a mirage.

45. The various ornaments fashioned out of gold are not different from the gold, and similarly, this world of moving and unmoving things, manifested out of Self, cannot be other than Self.

46. Self is hidden when the world appears, but when Self shines forth, the world will disappear. Being different in nature, like the [apparent] dog [seen in] the stone, both cannot be seen together.

(From 'Guru Vachaka Kovai')

Sadhu Om and Michael James: "The nature of Self, the true aspect of Brahman, is not these names and forms, whereas the nature of the world, the false aspect of Brahman, is not Sat-Chit- Ananda, so both cannot be seen simultaneously."

Beauty ＆ Pure 181

'Is it necessary for one who longs for release to inquire into the nature of categories (tattvas)?'

Just as one who wants to throw away garbage has no need to analyse it and see what it is, so one who wants to know the Self has no need to count the number of categories or inquire into their characteristics; what he has to do is to reject altogether the categories that hide the Self. The world should be considered like a dream.

('Who Am I?', Q. 21)