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The following selections from Sri Ramana Anubhuti (Sri Ramana Experience) by Sri Muruganar describe his experience of realising the Self in Sri Bhagavan's presence. The experience was permanent for Sri Muruganar. He wrote Sri Ramana Anubhuti twenty years after realising the Self. These selections are taken from Power of The Presence Part Two by David Godman. The translation is by Robert Butler.
8. I have ended the confusion of my bewildered, suffering mind.
A lowly cur, I have merged with the gracious feet of my Master.
In the surging brilliance of his divine wisdom’s splendor the
broad ocean of deadly desires has disappeared completely.
9. The dark prison, which bound my tortured soul, crumbled and
I became his servant, finding joyous life in the open sky of his
ambrosial grace. The knot, which locked my spirit to my physical
body, was sundered by the bright sword of my Master’s glance
and was no more.
12. I was a learned fool. My flawed mind knew nothing till I
came to dwell with Him whose glance filled my heart with the
light of awareness. Dwelling in that gracious state of peace,
whose nature is holy silence, so hard to gain and know, I
entered into union with the deathless state of the knowledge
of reality.
13. As the deadly delusion of a body-bound ego faded, a flower
of pure light unfolded at his holy feet. That radiance grew ever
brighter with my love until I realized the flawless knowledge of
the Self, manifesting as the unbroken Awareness ‘I-I’ within my
heart.
15. He became one with my very soul, the Supreme Lord, the
flawless Brahman, the life of all that is, the jewel of the Self,
turning my soul’s night to day with the fulsome rays of true
wisdom’s sun.
16. The confusion of the senses ended and the world’s illusion
was dispelled as grace’s bright sun rose, absorbing me in itself
and obliterating all distinctions. And as I entered the light of a
life lived in the holy silence of the glorious non-dual state, the
‘I’ and all that arises from it subsided and dissolved away.
18. I was wandering deluded in the mind’s labyrinth of dreams,
running hither and thither, desiring one thing after another until
the joy of union with the Lord welled up within me. My body
merged into the infinite light of divine wisdom and my heart
was filled with a deep inner tranquility.
23. Corrupted by the senses’ defilement, yet was I drawn by the
light of the Self which shone in your eyes so that I conceived a
great love for you. With melting heart, like a cow with young
calf, I remain a supplicant at your feet, which hold the reward
of final liberation.
25. Unquenchable, the lamp of grace and true knowledge burns
at his holy feet. Through his gentle smile, where grace's flower
blooms, I have renounced and abandoned the ties of kith and
kin and I have placed myself beneath those bounteous feet,
grasping them closely.
27. He is the teacher of the eternal law through whose glance
the truth unfolded, filling my heart with the dazzling radiance
of his blissful consummate grace, so that the body, ego and
intellect were all no more. I became merged in the divine silence,
which is the abiding knowledge of Lord Siva.
28. A noble lion, he fixed his victorious gaze of true knowledge
upon the rutting elephant of my ego, which was drunk with
self-conceit, filling me with the sweet nectar of union with Lord
Siva so that the inner experience of divine wisdom became my
whole existence.
29. I was bound for destruction through my disastrous
attachment to the world’s illusory reality until, under my fair
Lord’s gracious gaze, my understanding was flooded with the
delightful experience of Lord Siva's bliss, and I entered a new
life in the boundless realm of holy silence.
32. Through the light of inquiry into the nature of the Self,
which is true spiritual practice, and through the precious words
of my teacher, who is established in the state of holy silence
wherein liberation has its origin, my soul has tasted the nectar
of union with Lord Siva in the state of bliss beyond duality,
merging into the all-transcending oneness of his grace.
38. Deeply absorbed in the state of holy silence which reality’s
perfect light illumines, filled with the exaltation of the non-dual
state, my consciousness merged with the Lord and I became
one with Him, winning the greatest reward of all, to dwell in
final bliss, beyond birth and death.
39. As the struggle between desire and aversion came to an end,
I ceased to invoke in mere words ‘the one true Godhead’, and as
the light of reality which is truly sublime grew ever brighter
within my heart, I attained that state of grace, which is to dwell
unwearyingly in holy silence.
40. My poor helpless mind was swept along in the swirling
torrent of objective phenomena until my Lord guided my deluded
understanding into the broad calm of his holy silence so that
the light of his majesty shone in my heart.
42. My divine Lord and grace-bestowing Guru replaced the
loathsome darkness of my mind’s delusion with the clear light
of divine knowledge so that my understanding overflowed with
praise to his glorious reality.
43. Light of lights, graciously he plunged me into the ocean of
divine love at his holy feet so that I tasted the sweetness of final
bliss with which I could not be sated. Origin and source of my
understanding, the spreading radiance of his true teaching
rushed forth in all directions until within my heart it united
with my very being.
44. Through the power of his feet, gracious beacons of
unconditional knowledge, he pierced my desolate existence to
the core, and when his noble gaze fell upon me, spreading the
unfailing light of Sivahood all about, I experienced the
incomparable bliss of authentic being.
48. Transporting me into a realm of pure bliss, the vision of the
authentic Self expanded within my heart and I attained the state
of grace whose essence is love. Then, in the state of holy silence,
bliss and love merged together into realization of the one true
reality, which is the experience of Lord Siva.
49. In holy silence at his flawless feet, thinking, yet beyond the
realm of thought, I established in my heart that consciousness
wherein his self and mine were one. The confusion of eye and
mind, born of treacherous desire, died away, its falsehood
revealed, and amidst grace’s honeyed flood, divine reality was
all.
50. I read the scriptures but my mind could not grasp their
meaning. It was only through the gracious intervention of my
wise teacher and Master, working inwardly, that his own state
of unbroken meditation became permanent within me and my
heart was penetrated and held in reality’s eternal grasp.
53. Without dissimulation he revealed to us through the absolute
purity of his grace that infinite state of pure consciousness,
manifesting as a radiant expanse of light within our hearts, so
that, sitting at the feet of the Creator, with no one to give and
no one to receive, we enjoyed the union we so eagerly sought.
54. He is my Master, manifesting the light of true knowledge,
whose nature is love, and that same knowledge is the means by
which I worship him, so that in my heart, as knowledge and
love merge indistinguishably into holy silence, my true nature
stands revealed.
56. It was fitting that he should accept me into his holy company
and fitting that I, for my part, should approach him as a loving
devotee. Through that fair union, as I became one with him, he
bestowed upon me the glory of liberation, whose attribute is
realization in holy silence.
57. Languishing in the slough of my soul’s defilement, I knew
not a single moment of clear understanding until my Lord
revealed to me my own self as Brahman, and as the light of
grace shone forth from his fair feet, graciously bestowing the
supreme bliss of his holy silence, all was illumined by the
magnificence of his mind, voice and form.
59. Through the ever-present treasure of his grace within my
heart, my life became free of the suffering caused by the
humiliating bonds of the world and the soul. And as the ruinous
effects of my former deeds were consumed like cotton in a flame,
my spirit attained the highest bliss, which is to dwell with my
Master in that state of grace.
61. The pure eternal state of grace beyond the taint of mind
flared up within my heart, spreading through my entire physical
form. The reward I gained was the experience of the self as
Braham and the victory I won was to vanquish the bitter
suffering of birth and death.
63. A poor sinner gripped by the bonds of excessive desire, I
was deluded by my ruinous attachment to the pleasures of the
senses, but when he conferred upon me the bliss of his true
knowledge, all delusion was dispelled. Dwelling thus as one
with Sri Ramana is nothing less than union with Lord Siva.
64. Exposing the vast expanse of the heavenly realm as mere
illusion, and the entire world known to the senses as false, the
‘I’ shone forth as the supreme Self, ruling over me and revealing
to me the goal of the Guru's mantra.
66. The Lord bathed me in the light of my own inner realization
so that the mental trickery that bound me to a world of illusion
was exposed. Then, as all desires and the thoughts that gave
rise to them fell away, the glory of his holy feet was all that
remained, radiating peace and graciously shedding the light
of his true teaching all about me.
68. My mind extinguished, I am his devotee, meditating upon
his ruby feet, which bestow the grace of the Self, whose nature is
pure knowledge. The supreme bliss of realization arising in
the sweet nectar of holy silence has established itself within my
heart as eternal freedom from birth and death.
71. Through my erroneous identification with my ego, which
was filled with desires through my false understanding of the
nature of the soul and the world, I remained enmeshed in the
web of birth and death. But when I attained the blessed state of
grace, wherein I was embraced by the supreme bliss of realisation
of the Self, my heart entered the realm of sublime majesty.
75. He saved me, his humble devotee, from destruction, bringing
me to salvation through his own ambrosial being, even as I
languished in the dark night of my mind’s deadly delusion. Then
indeed did the holy feet of my noble Master, bestowing his grace
in holy silence, become immovably established within my heart,
illuminating my inner being with the golden light of true spiritual
practice.
77. Showing me the light of his true teaching, his holy feet drove
out the ruinous ignorance that, like a dark cloud, defiled my
soul with corruption. Revealing to me in all its clarity the truth
whose nature is liberation, he joyfully filled my heart with the
bliss of profound peace.
79. Through the victorious experience of true realization’s full
glory, the confusion caused by my soul’s defilement disappeared
completely. Then indeed did a tide of deep peace, which my
heart could not contain, well up and spread within me, and as
the flood increased, desire’s thirst was quenched at last.
80. As love for my Master grew to fill my consciousness, the
blissful realization of Lord Siva, like sweetest ambrosia, swept
me up in its flood. Then, as I became established in that same
true awareness, the light of liberation shone out with a steady
radiance within my heart.
81. His gracious gaze entered my heart, bestowing the knowledge
of Lord Siva in all its fullness. All the petty cares of my erring
mind, along with the fears they bring with them, disappeared
completely, and as that false awareness of a personal self which
gives rise to the multifarious and bewildering world of
appearances vanished, a new life began for me at his holy feet.
83. As I waited nervously, weeping and distraught, on the
threshold of his grace-bestowing divine presence, my Master
cut away the worldly desires which so tormented me, and there,
beneath his bounteous foot, I received a noble gift, the realisation
of the true knowledge of Lord Siva.
84. The Lord graciously manifested as my Guru, eradicating the
bondage of my deluded cravings. Revealing to me the glory of
his feet, driving out all my desires, he ruled over me, so that in
my soul only he remained. The joy of reflecting upon my deep
affection for him never leaves my heart.
85. Seeking sanctuary I took shelter at his feet, and he, through
his silent presence, bade me henceforth fear no more. From
that day on, through that authentic union in which he became
ineradicably established within my heart, my life has been filled
with a child-like happiness and profound joy.
87. Abolishing the deep attachment which sent me wandering
in pain from birth to birth, he revealed to me the state of
liberation which is my own birthright, and what is more, he
charged my voice with poetry so that, unworthy as I was, I was
able through his grace to speak of his true wisdom even before
the learned, as if I were goddess of Saraswati herself.
88. A poor devotee, I fell into evil through the mean
quality of my petty mind, but when the experience of the true
knowledge of the Self welled up within my heart, thought
melted away in the spreading radiance of holy silence and he
showed me the radiance of his bliss, eternal and all transcending.
92. There was no good in me. I was no better than a dog, but
when my Master looked upon me, an intense longing for him
arose which penetrated my heart and became established there,
and as the suffering born of the illusion of separateness abated,
the deep peace of a realisation which knows no bounds shone
forth, graciously bestowing the wisdom of the self.
93. My heart was sunk in the sleep of delusion, and my self-
obsessed mind swept up in a whirlwind of dreams so that the
great glory of his true nature was hidden from me until he
revealed it in all its majestic splendor. Such is the compassion
of my Lord and God.
94. Difficult it would be for me to express the lofty nature
of the Lord's compassion other than by sinking into the radiant
inner quietude of holy silence beneath his gracious feet so that
my Father's own divine majesty might become manifest in me.
97. Bidding me behold and embrace him without a second’s
delay, my Lord and Master became inwardly one with me,
absorbing me into the great ocean of his own Self. The realisation
that consists of the merging of consciousness into that Self was
established ineradicably within me and I began a new life,
sharing his divine nature.
100. 'Experiencing the profound bliss of his nature which
knows no taint, I will bathe in the glorious radiance of his
grace.' Such was the clear understanding through which
he conferred his enlightenment upon me. To my soul, the
love of my true father is indeed sweeter than the nectar of
the gods.
101. In the parched desert of my sinful life I groaned in agony,
trembling with fear, until my Lord put an end to my suffering
and revealed to me in the sight of men that state of grace which
even the gods cannot know.
102. Delighting my gaze he showed me his feet which graciously
bestow true knowledge. No one can reach and know them
through the contentious ego with its endless convolutions, but
only through his grace, when the mind is delivered up to be
subdued by the power of those holy feet.
103. As the gracious light of inner realisation entered my heart,
all knowledge acquired through learning was experienced as merely
a creation of the mind, and as it fell away, my futile habitual
mode of awareness, in which I did not cleave to the unconditional
glory of the Self, ripened triumphantly into true knowledge.
104. The shadowy creations of my deluded mind, filled with
desire and worthy only of reproach, faded as the Lord’s divine
grace welled up within me. And for my thoughts, there remains
no object other than the glory of the Self where I dwell in awe
and wonder.
105. My mind’s activity along with my ego subsided and fell
into total abeyance so that no object of thought existed within
my consciousness. Then, in that overflowing emptiness, did I
experience the goal of the Self, eternal and ever present, as my
own true goal.
106. Entirely banishing lust and all the rest, my gracious Lord,
Guru Ramana, true wisdom’s flame, watches over me. Through
his glance alone he revealed to me that upsurge of divine love,
sweet like the rich juice of a ripe mango, which is the bliss of
Lord Siva's blessing.
107. Ocean of compassion, he took pity on this poor ignorant
fool and through his grace, cleansing the evil from my heart, he
established the supreme reality there. Even the final cataclysm
at the universe’s end could not dislodge his radiant feet from
that place.
109. He it is who is eternally one with myself in the state of
one-pointedness, who holds me in his grip like a magnet, who
is not separated from me by so much as an atom. And, as the
vanity of the ‘I am the body’ notion fades and is no more, it is his
presence that illumines my heart with the teaching of the
indivisible Self.
110. Through his glance he united me with himself, false and
deluded knave that I am, and he now dwells illustrious within
my heart of hearts. In holy silence, as the experience of the
immaculate Self, like sweetest nectar, overwhelms me in its
flood, my life has reached fulfillment.
112. Holding me in liberation’s final embrace, my Guru’s holy
feet light up my heart, graciously bestowing the knowledge of
the Self. Awakened through his divine power, I have attained
strength and clarity of mind so that the false desires that held
me in the illusion of worldly bondage have vanished like a
dream.
116. Lost in the fruitless round of birth and death I surrendered
before my Master and my sins were cleansed by his gracious
gaze. Holding to the path of his holy feet my deadly vices
dissolved in the light of my devotions and I merged with the
nature of the real.
120. Through my Master’s gracious revelation, seeking deep
within myself, I knew that it was pure falsehood to claim that
the state of self-forgetfulness in which thought diversifies, giving
rise to the pairs of opposites, could be inherent in the lofty
condition of pure, non-dual consciousness.
123. The nature of his Grace, conferred through the bliss of divine
silence, was such that it established in me an unshakeable
devotion that I experienced as a deep love for my Lord, a love in
which my bondage was ended and my mind dissolved in the
limitless expanse of the Supreme Self.
124. Setting me on the straight path of true knowledge he led
me to the glorious goal of union with him in the one-pointed state
of holy silence. My heart’s gracious jewel, true wisdom’s
sun, he dissipated the dark clouds of the senses’ illusory world.
126. When the Lord’s gracious gaze fell upon me, my heart was
filled with the Self’s divine radiance in which all distinctions
are obliterated so that my evil and treacherous ego faded in the
spreading glory of divine realisation’s dawn, and was no more.
127. Gladly he ruled me, true wisdom’s flame, and now within
my heart where in joy I made for him a home I can perceive no
other. Only he remains, the Supreme Self, manifesting as
consciousness’ pure light, empty and yet replete.
128. Those who perform penances, refusing all sustenance, are
called great men, but never once did I refuse food with its six
flavors. Yet no sooner had his feet entered my heart, delighting
my eyes with their blissful sight, than I fell at once into a state
where my penance became continuous without any effort on
my part.
132. Through the knowledge granted to me by the Lord I came
to realize that the reality that lies beyond the mind is my own
true nature. In that state the objective knowledge which
dominated my fevered mind dissolved and fell away, and in
holy silence the fire of a pure realisation, transcending duality,
was kindled within me.
133. Subduing and bringing me under his control, he drew my
consciousness to himself with the irresistible magnet of his grace.
From the profound depths of his holy silence his gracious glance
cut away my ego’s ruinous cravings in an instant. How great is
the power of his piercing gaze!
136. Even as I grieved over my own lack of worth, he revealed
to me the infinite heaven of his grace, purifying me with his
limitless and all-pervading light. The delusion of a personal self
was swept away and in that clear awareness my existence
became one with Lord Siva.
137. The holy state of grace has become established within my
heart. The false ‘I’ of my personal self, which arises through
lack of attention, has vanished. And as the deadly ocean of
wicked desires was drained, I entered that state of clear
awareness, which is to be one with Lord Siva.
138. A blissful emptiness invaded my heart as he caused me to
experience in holy silence the bliss of his divine grace, proffering
me his holy feet, and with them the eternal truth of the Self. I
am left without even the power of thought to reflect upon this.
139. The Lord filled me with the radiance of his own Self,
established within my heart, so that I was left quite without the
power of thought. Separate from nothing and dependent on
nothing, my true nature is to abide in the profound wisdom of
that Self.
141. Dwelling as the Supreme Self, whose nature is inherently
free of all becoming, that unique reality became established
within my heart as my own true nature and my personal self
was totally annihilated in him.
142. Through the arrogance of the body-bound ego my mind
rushed hither and thither until it was irrevocably defeated as
my consciousness merged into that glorious eternally blissful
state of unbroken awareness, which is the boundless realm of
the one true self.
143. Established in the highest awareness which is of the nature
of the indivisible Self and which is free of a discriminating
consciousness based on discursive thought, my mind’s illusory
cravings have ceased and that enervated state dominated by
desire and aversion has come to a final end.
146. As the natural confusion caused by sinful and injurious
desires ceased and everywhere, all about me, my true blissful
nature became manifest, I was enfolded by the glorious light
of the true and exalted Self, the reality of which is the foundation
of all things and is known as Sadasiva [the being of Siva].
148. He is the holy one who entered my inner being, holding
me in thrall through his compassion so that I dwelt at his feet,
devoting myself to his service. His will, shining within me,
became one with my own nd my ego-self subsided, driven from
my heart by true meditation, which is to be one with him.
150. So deserving of devotion, he is the Lord in whom true
knowledge is embodied. Through His nature I attained an
awareness which is the clear, bright and unadulterated
expression of his love. And it is that loving awareness that opened
up my inner being, eradicating the desire and aversion caused
by the soul’s identification with the body, so that the bondage
of the world’s impurity faded and was no more.
151. Through his gaze he bathed me in the rising flood of his
grace, revealing to me the glory of the Self so that the stain of
my imprisoned soul’s defilement was washed away. Bringing
my existence to ample fulfillment by restoring it to its true nature,
he has become one with me, dwelling within my heart and filling
me with his light.
153. ‘Transforming yourself into the pure gold of realisation
through spiritual practice, be still at my gracious feet
and let your troubles be ended.’ As he spoke these words an exalted
state of awareness grew and came to fruition within me in which
I experienced the truth of the Upanishads and vedic hymns.
156. Through my deep yearning I discovered him within my
heart. As the holy state of grace opened up into the fulfillment of
the real, he bestowed on me the blessed state of divine
contemplation that is his teaching, and his peace transformed
my consciousness into itself.
157. Through his gracious teaching he abolished the desires that
clouded my mind with delusion, engendering in my
consciousness the infinite fulfillment of authentic being. And thus,
in holy silence, the river of my soul ran true at last, filled with
the waters of the experience of the supreme ineffable Lord Siva.
158. Through the glorious wisdom of his all-transcending nature,
which graciously granted me the attainment of final bliss, free
of all mental confusion, I entered a place where all actions,
whether of thought, word or deed, are no more: the realm of holy silence.
164. In glory, severing bondage’s knot, my Master fixed his gaze
upon me, establishing his grace once and for all within my heart.
And as the bliss of true knowledge suffused me, that ego-bound
knowledge, filled with desires that bring suffering in their wake,
was abolished completely.
165. As the glory of his eternal teaching suffused my
understanding with bliss, abolishing the demonic ‘I’ sense which
brings with it the delusion of separateness, I obtained the blessed
reward of his holy feet where, in holy silence, resides the
ineffable reality which is the import of all the Vedas.
166. Through the blessing of your true knowledge, perceiving
without distinction myself in you and you in myself, I have come
to know within my heart Selfhood’s fair and undivided form.
How then shall I praise you when you are fully one with me?
169. Bestowing upon me, through his compassionate glance,
his wisdom, which is like a diamond, hard and bright, my Lord,
Guru Ramana, graciously accepted my surrender. And as the
black cloud of ruinous self-delusion, which wore my body’s form
as a cloak, melted away, I perceived the precious jewel of my
own true form.
172. Gaining a new life, I spent it singing praises to the lofty
truth of his glorious name, albeit in feeble words of little worth.
But my Lord did not deem my words unworthy. Embracing
me in the outpouring of his affection, with more than a mother's
love, he banished my deadly delusion and made me his servant.
173. When I perceived the Self manifesting in his radiant form,
fulfilling my heart’s deepest yearning, I was humbled by the
full flood of his grace which cleansed me of obscuring desires,
and as my ego fell away, I bowed my head in profound humility.
175. Beneath my Guru’s gaze my heart of emptied of guile so
that the false understanding that had usurped my heart
disappeared completely, and there, in silence at his holy feet,
the pure ocean of the Self, which nothing can contain, swept
me into the deep bliss of the absolute Godhead.
182. The disordered and chaotic world created by my deluded
mind’s endless modifications ended when, through his grace, I
entered the harmonious condition of authentic being and found
my true place, merging with his holy feet which bestow the
clear understanding of true knowledge.
184. For there will henceforth be neither pain nor pleasure now
that I have experienced love at my good Lord’s gracious feet.
The desires, which attended that illusory existence lived on the
level of the flawed and untrustworthy mind, have ceased and
my own essential Self has become one with the supreme.
186. There are those who bear the marks of the highest maturity,
but even they will fail to perceive the way to salvation and must
suffer accordingly unless they seek illumination from an enlightened Master
and realize the truth. It is the Sadguru alone
who can cut away the fretters of the world and the soul.
187. No matter that we read the truth in holy books, no matter
how many vows we keep, it is only with the help of the Sadguru
that we can conquer our confusion. Although I was a sinner,
impure in mind, he established me in his own state and showed
forbearance, accepting my homage and becoming my Lord.
195. Through the virtuous state of absorption wherein he dwells
in holy silence as the Self alone, he came and made me his
devotee. In that moment this whole world became as nothing
to me and I entered into a fitting union with him who dwells as
‘That’.
196. Becoming established in the clarity of true knowledge I,
his humble servant, have attained to the consummate state of
holy silence. Abandoning the ego I have forsaken all company
other than that of the Self, whose glorious nature is none other
than my own.
197. Dwelling in the thought-free state of holy silence I
experienced the true knowledge in all its clarity and in the dawn
of the real I entered a new life filled with tranquility. At his
holy feet, becoming immersed in his peace, I took as my own
form that which is beyond bondage and liberation, the Absolute
of Absolutes.
198. Attaining a vision beyond the reach of sight and an
awareness more subtle than the tiniest atom, I have become
established in the absolute reality of the Self. And thus my mind
has merged with the supreme in which there is no going, no
coming, no connection with anything whatsoever. Seeing itself
in all that is, its separation has come to an end.
200. My Heart was filled with that holy silence in which the Self
is fully manifest as that profound reality whose nature is
consciousness. And the peace which I experienced in that
gracious state of pure awareness was transformed into love
for him.
202. When I became worthy of experiencing that reality whose
nature is oneness, and therefore cannot be described, the
confused state in which my mind was divided by the duality of
good and evil was ended and my existence was suffused by the
real.
221. As long as my heart was not filled with the divine blessing
of love and true knowledge bestowed in silence, I was like a
noisy drum, beating out my message in words. But through the
compassion of my savior, who has the power to confer the
final state of total transcendence through his grace, I entered
into the deathless state of silent absorption in him.
226. He revealed to me the transcendent truth so that I came to
dwell in holy silence at his feet, bathing again and again in the
sacred waters of divine awareness until my heart was pure and
refreshed, and as the flame of bliss flared up within me, all my
bitter suffering came to an end.
233. He forgave me my misdeeds and made good my
imperfections. Through the grace of the Self which shines within
the heart, cleansing it of its fundamental corruption, he gave
me the gift of a greater life lived in the real. He is the Lord to
whom I cling as my true support, abandoning all other
attachments.
235. He is my teacher, the Supreme Godhead, whilst, as for me,
I am not worthy of sitting at the feet of such a Master. And yet
through the power of his gracious gaze I was able to offer him
my devotion and remain in unbroken communion with him.
238. Surrounded by desires that led me astray, my heart was
hardened and my understanding was tricked by the illusion of
a personal self. But now that the power of that delusive ego has
dissolved at the bounteous feet of my great Master, my divine
spouse, I will devote my life to the service of those who serve
those holy feet.
241. Hail to the Lord who nourished me with the delicious
ambrosia of the eternal teaching of Sadasiva, who through his
love refreshed my heart, banishing my deluded attachment to
land ownership, wealth and women, who looked upon me
through the Self’s gracious eye and, entering my soul, made it
part of him!
Sri Ramanarpanamastu