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

Question: Sastra vasana [a latent desire for scriptural knowledge], or the vasanas of knowledge and ignorance – will these too not arise in those jnanis even through forgetfulness?

Answer: As these are vasanas, they will not arise.

During every superimposing avastha the liberated one clearly knows that the illusion of sound and the illusion of real and unreal are only the illusion of the mind, because [he knows that] the superimposed avastha that appears and disappears is false.

Question: If this is so, for such ones what constitutes the worship of God?

Answer: Worship is only seeing the Self

The great tapasvin devotedly worships with the flower of tranquil space and with the mantra of aloneness the deity [who abides as] the expanse of consciousness in the temple of the body. Who can equal those who live forever, revering such jnanis?

 

© 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, July 2004 Issue.
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