2022 Pentecost Retreat
Text commented by Swami Atmananda
Sri Ramana Darsanam
A Collection of Sadhu Natanananda’s Writings on the Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi
1. The nature of those who have seen the Truth
1 I have seen God. I can show him too
2 As the first Guru indicating Supreme Silence
3 The Selfward look and words of grace
4 Wherever one looks, one sees only God
2. The nature of perception
5 That which is seen first is God
6 Divinity in the form of jnani
7 Those who came with pride became motionless like statues
8 Realization is impossible without the grace of the Guru
3. The nature of the state of firm Consciousness
9 Supreme tranquillity experienced even by birds and beasts
4. The nature of observance of dharma
10 Two exalted persons who captivated the entire world
11 The same shakti that is working here is also working there
5. The nature of the state of pure being
12 He bestowed grace without regarding himself as a Guru
13 Because he is adjunct-free, the Guru is God
14 The greatness of the Guru’s presence and the fullness of tranquillity
15 Wandering mind and still Consciousness
16 Devoted association with grace is living with the Guru
6. The nature of the jnani’s utterances
17 Always aiming at fixity of mind is true service to Guru
18 If attention is directed inward, activities will go on of their own accord
19 Reforming the mind is true service
20 The real meaning of touching the Guru’s feet
21 The experience of the Self is the only true prasad
22 The illumination “I am” is God’s upadesha
23 True namaskaram is only surrender of the ego
24 Guru’s real form is the supreme Reality
25 When I am all-pervading, where can I go?
26 The best form of instruction is a practical demonstration
27 The cause of bondage
7. The nature of enquiry
28 Jnana vichara is only investigation of ‘I’
29 Consciousness of being is the natural state
30 Consciousness, limiting itself, becomes Jiva
31 False identifications
32 One Consciousness is seen in two modes
33 To abide as Consciousness is self-surrender
34 Loss of ego is only avoiding tamas and rajas
35 The witness state is one’s natural state
36 The course of the body will be according to destiny
8. Getting cleared
37 To say that Liberation is of two kinds has only verbal significance
38 Instantaneous Liberation alone is supreme Liberation
39 The method of practice is learning to die
40 If one remains without losing hold of the Self, all the thoughts will be destroyed
41 The emergence of even a single thought is an indication of a departure from the natural state
42 The extinction of vasana-s is the end of sadhana
43 They saw the limit of primal ignorance
44 Supreme tapas is to destroy attachment to the body
45 Search for the remnant of bondage and destroy it completely
46 Excellence in humility is the only true ornament of the spiritually mature
47 The nature of true experience is the non-perception of differences
47(a) The nature and behaviour of the jnani
9. The nature of the firmness of experience
48 Consciousness of being and the Truth of God
49 Self-consciousness [prajnana] and Supreme Reality [Parabrahman]
50 True knowledge and ignorance
51 Internal and external attachments
52 Mind with form and without form
53 Broken and unbroken vritti
54 Perfect repose and perfect effort
55 Formless mind and the three states
56 The experience of bliss and the transcendence of bliss
57 Jivanmukta and the rising of the mind
58 The Brahmavid and prarabdha
59 Prarabdha and agamya
10. The nature of Liberation
60 Clarity of mind, bondage and Liberation
61 Final Liberation and transcendence