shakti

From ~~~ Letters from Sri Ramanasramam, 115

THE SHAKTI THAT IS, IS ONE

Bhagavan.:

A Jnani may do anything according to his

prarabdha (fate) but he remains unattached and maintains

a dignified aloofness. His shakti works in many ways but he

does not feel happy or unhappy over the success or failure

of his efforts. That is because he sees the world as full of

Brahman and so nothing appears to him to be happy or

unhappy. How can he have feelings of gratification or

sorrow when he does not feel that he is in this body, that he

is in this man or that this is the world? Accordingly it is

said: ‘dristim jnanamayeem kritva pasyeth Brahmamayam jagath’,

when a person gains the outlook of a Jnani that very moment

everything appears to be full of Brahman. Where then is

room for the feeling ‘I am doing?’ They will then realize

that everything is going on through the force of some shakti.

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