Sri Annamalai Swami
Taken from Annamalai Swami's "Dairy Extracts"
At various times I used to jot down brief answers or statements by Bhagavan (Ramana Maharshi) which for some reason or another inspired me at the time they were spoken.I usually omitted the question or the context of the answer because at the time I did not think that they were particularly relevant.The following list contains 12 such items.
a. The flow of the river stops once it reaches the ocean and becomes one with the ocean. Likewise, if one's mind is always meditating on the Self, eventually it becomes Atmamayam (that it, it will be the same nature as the Self).
b. When someone asked Bhagavn how to get rid of anger he answered, "Become angry with anger. Desire is the root of anger. Desirelessness is absolute happiness."
c. The natural name of every person is mukti.
d. He is a real man who does not let go his hold on the Self state while he is attending to whatever problems come of their own accord and without his desire.
e. He who thinks, "I am the body" is committing the sin of suicide. He who thinks "I am the Atman" is a person of very great fortune. A moment of meditation on "I am the Atman" will destroy all sanchita karma just as the sun destroys darkness. How can karma remain undestroyed in the one who constantly meditates like this?
f. When sleep comes, be awake. Sleep when you are awake. This is to sleep without sleeping. To be free from worries is to sleep without sleeping.
g. Desire is maya. Desirelessness is God.
h. The man who loves all-supporting God with the understanding that nothing can be achieved by his own actions, and who expects instead that all actions will be performed by God alone, that man is lead every minute by God along the path of truth.
i. Everyone is seeing himself everywhere. One is in the same state that God and the world are in.
j. Natural devotion is to one's Self and to remain permanently in that state without forgetting it.
k. God is tinier than the atom and larger than the cosmos. All are forms of God. Because of our sense of difference we think that we are an individual person. There is no mistake greater than this in the world.
l. One can only think of spoiling others after one has spoiled oneself.
Taken from Annamalai Swami's "Dairy Extracts"
At various times I used to jot down brief answers or statements by Bhagavan (Ramana Maharshi) which for some reason or another inspired me at the time they were spoken.I usually omitted the question or the context of the answer because at the time I did not think that they were particularly relevant.The following list contains 12 such items.
a. The flow of the river stops once it reaches the ocean and becomes one with the ocean. Likewise, if one's mind is always meditating on the Self, eventually it becomes Atmamayam (that it, it will be the same nature as the Self).
b. When someone asked Bhagavn how to get rid of anger he answered, "Become angry with anger. Desire is the root of anger. Desirelessness is absolute happiness."
c. The natural name of every person is mukti.
d. He is a real man who does not let go his hold on the Self state while he is attending to whatever problems come of their own accord and without his desire.
e. He who thinks, "I am the body" is committing the sin of suicide. He who thinks "I am the Atman" is a person of very great fortune. A moment of meditation on "I am the Atman" will destroy all sanchita karma just as the sun destroys darkness. How can karma remain undestroyed in the one who constantly meditates like this?
f. When sleep comes, be awake. Sleep when you are awake. This is to sleep without sleeping. To be free from worries is to sleep without sleeping.
g. Desire is maya. Desirelessness is God.
h. The man who loves all-supporting God with the understanding that nothing can be achieved by his own actions, and who expects instead that all actions will be performed by God alone, that man is lead every minute by God along the path of truth.
i. Everyone is seeing himself everywhere. One is in the same state that God and the world are in.
j. Natural devotion is to one's Self and to remain permanently in that state without forgetting it.
k. God is tinier than the atom and larger than the cosmos. All are forms of God. Because of our sense of difference we think that we are an individual person. There is no mistake greater than this in the world.
l. One can only think of spoiling others after one has spoiled oneself.
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