Photo by Dev Gogoi - 26.11.2021 - Arunachala “Aprés Kartikai Deepam, 8th night 🙏”
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The blossoming of pure self-awareness will consume our ego and everything else
O Arunachala, sun of bright rays which swallow everything, make my mind-lotus blossom.
O Ocean of amṛta [the ambrosia of immortality], which is the fullness of grace, O Supreme Self, Arunagiri, who swallow everything by your spreading rays [of pure self-awareness], shine as the sun that makes my budding heart-lotus blossom fully.
~ Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi - verse 27 of Sri Arunachala Aksaramanamalai, and verse 1 of Sri Arunachala Pancharatnam
Note by Michael James:
What Bhagavan describes in these two verses as the blossoming of the mind-lotus or heart-lotus is the blossoming of pure self-awareness within us, and what he describes as swallowing everything is what results from such blossoming. That is, when we penetrate deep within and thereby experience ourself alone, we will experience ourself as the pure and featureless self-awareness that we always actually are, and in the infinite clarity of this pure self-awareness our ego and everything else will be swallowed forever, just as a picture projected on a screen would be swallowed entirely if the bright light of the sun fell upon it.
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Photo by Dev Gogoi