🕉️ Aruṇācalaramaṇa is paramātman, which blissfully shines as awareness in the heart of each one of us 🕉️
As Bhagavan often used to say, ‘ஞானமே ஞானி’ (ñāṉamē ñāṉi), which means ‘jñāna alone is the jñāni’, and in this context jñāna means ātma-jñāna or pure self-awareness. This is why he also used to say, ‘I am not this body’ and ‘Don’t take this body to be Bhagavan. Bhagavan is what is shining in you as I’, and why he wrote in reply to someone who asked who is Ramaṇa:
ariyādiyi tarajīvara dahavārija guhaiyil laṟivāyrami paramāttuma ṉaruṇācala ramaṇaṉ parivāluḷa murugānala paraṉārndiḍu guhaiyārn daṟivāmviṙi tiṟavānija maṟivāyadu veḷiyām.
Anvayam (words rearranged in natural prose order): aruṇācalaramaṇaṉ ari ādi itara jīvaradu aha-vārija guhaiyil aṟivāy rami paramāttumaṉ. parivāl uḷam urugā nala paraṉ ārndiḍu guhai ārndu, aṟivu ām viṙi tiṟavā nijam aṟivāy; adu veḷi ām.
Aruṇācalaramaṇa is paramātman [the supreme spirit or ultimate self] rejoicing as awareness in the cave of the heart-lotus of all different jīvas [life-forms] beginning with Hari [Viṣṇu].
Heart melting with love, reaching the cave where the sublime supreme dwells, the eye that is awareness opening, you will [thereby] know what is innate [your own real nature, the indwelling Aruṇācalaramaṇa]; [because] it will come out [meaning it will reveal itself].
In this verse Bhagavan affirms that his real nature is அறிவு (aṟivu), which means ‘awareness’, but in this context அறிவு (aṟivu) does not mean சுட்டறிவு (suṭṭaṟivu) or transitive awareness (that is, awareness of anything other than itself) but only pure awareness, which is intransitive (that is, aware of nothing other than itself), because nothing other than pure awareness exists, so there is nothing else that it could ever be aware of.
Michael James Blog: https://happinessofbeing.blogspot.com/2016/11/why-does-bhagavan-sometimes-say-that.html#arunacalaramana
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