Grace

SRI MURUGANAR SINGS

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 realization'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.

Sri Muruganar in 'Sri Ramana Anubhuti', transl by Robert Butler

SELF-REMEMBRANCE

SELF-REMEMBRANCE

Remembering the Self, one’s real nature, without faltering even slightly,
is the eminent victory of true jnana.

With your consciousness hold fast to and never abandon the substratum, your real nature, the Supreme that can neither be held nor relinquished.

Is the Self something far away that you have to touch? The higher Self exists as one but it is only your thoughts that make you feel it is not.
You can neither think about it nor forget it.

Other than the thought of the Self, any other thought you may associate with, is a mere mental construct, foreign to that Self.

Thinking of the Self is to abide as that tranquil consciousness. Padam, the true swarupa, can neither be remembered nor forgotten.

The Self is self-luminous without darkness and light, and is the reality which is self-manifest. Therefore, one should not think of it as this or that.

All such thoughts would only end in bondage. The purport of meditation on the Self is to make the mind take the ‘form’ of the Self. In the middle of the heart-cave is the pure Brahman directly manifest as the Self in the form of ‘I-I’. Can there be greater ignorance than to think of It in manifold ways, without knowing it as aforementioned?

-Padamalai p 76, 77