Sorupa Saram - IV The Essence of One’s Own True Nature - Sorupananda

Question: what is the benefit of this experience?

Answer: It is obtaining the Self that is beyond the mind.

I did not obtain anything other than my Self. I had my Self in my possession all the time. Separate from me, there is no bondage or release. If one sees [this], even the mind that enquires into these is non-existent.

Question: As soon as one obtains this experience, who should be worshipped?

Answer: The Guru, the ‘I’ and the body should be worshipped, seeing them as one’s own Self.

I will worship as my own Self the gracious Guru who showed everything to be like a conjuror’s trick, or the Self that is realized after thus scrutinizing everything, or the body-temple that came [into being] to terminate the evil of birth.

Question: How to get rid of the vasana of the gross body?

Answer: It should be rejected by seeing it as the form of food.

Your body which remains as the sheath of food! If you do as I tell you, you will experience bliss as long as you live. I swear to this. Do not go near evil and useless vasanas. Whatever comes according to prarabdha, remain a mere witness.

© Permission granted by "The Mountain Path (Jayanti, 2004). Copyright David Godman. Translation by Dr. Venkatasubramaniam and Robert Butler. Edited by David Godman. Website: www.ramana-maharshi.org. Part II of this article appeared in Sploendour, Agust 2004 Issue.

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