Upadesa Saram - Post 35

Verse 30

अहमपेतकं निजविभानकम् |

महदिदं तपो रमणवागियम् || ३० ||

ahamapetakaṁ nijavibhānakam |

mahadidaṁ tapo ramaṇavāgiyam || 30 ||

Free from “I,” the innate Light,

This is great tapas; this is the saying of Ramana.

Before even getting into a brief commentary on this verse, the author or this humble soul, with utmost reverence, is reproducing extract from Jnana Vahini, emerged from the God, the Guide, the Supreme Sadhguru, the Poorna Avatar, my Master, Bhagawan Baba. 

"All agitations will cease the moment one enters on the inquiry, "Who am I"? This was the Sadhana that Ramana Maharshi achieved and taught to His disciples. That is also the easiest of all the disciplines.

First, there must be the Subhechchaa, the desire to promote one's own welfare. This will lead to the study of books about Brahmam and its principles, the search for the company of the good, the withdrawal from sensory pleasure and the thirst for liberation.

Even the Mahaavaakya, "Aham Brahmaasmi", has a trace of ignorance sticking on to it, the Aham, considered as separate but identical. This Aham is so persistent that it will disappear only through ceaseless meditation on the implications of "Tatwamasi" and all-inclusive Atma or Brahmam.

The springs of egoism etc., arise from ignorance of the Basic Truth. When knowledge of the Atma dawns, ignorance with its brood of worry and misery will vanish. The mark of the Jnani is the absence of egoism, the extinction of desire, the feeling of equal Love for all without any distinction. These are the fundamentals of Atmajnana."

The author of this blog is filled with such inexpressible inner feeling even while he quotes his Swami above that he feels the whole commentary of all the 30 verses is over with the above quotes from Jnana vahini. 

In this verse, Maharshi does not mean the name and form of Ramana Maharshi who has written the work – but He says that Ramana is the Self which has spoken about Itself. 

The verse has 3 components and let us re-arrange the three to arrive at the essence as well as the sequence of spiritual sadhana.

    1) Mahad Idam Tapo - Through self-enquiry (the reading of  this work and intense tapas on the same).

    2) Aham Apethakam - Devoid of Ahamkara (the tapas or  the self enquiry has to be taken without Ahamkara and ultimately, the practice of this work results in annihilation of Ahamkara).

     3) Nija Vibhanakam - Self shines on its own.

   Let us get further into the above three in the next and the concluding post of Upadesa Saram.
   
Continued...

Love.