Sri Ramana Darsanam (also known as Chaitanya Sakshatkaram)

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Book Specification

Item Code:	IDI998
Author:	Sadhu Natanananda, Edited by David Godman
Publisher:	Sri Ramanasramam, Tamil Nadu
Language:	English
Edition:	2013
ISBN:	9788188225637
Pages:	146
Cover:	Paperback
Other Details	8.3" X 5.4"
Weight	180 gm

Book Description

Publisher's Note

Sri Ramana Darsanam was originally published by Sadhu Natanananda himself in Tamil in 1957. Since 1973 this work has been a Sri Ramananasramam publication.

David Godman, the compiler of Be As You Are, has edited and arranged the text for this first ever English edition. The translation itself was done by Dr. Venkatasubramanian.

We are also including two long poems by Sadhu Natanananda - Atma gita and tiruvarut Selvam - that have never been published before, even in Tamil. They were discovered in the ashram archives a few years ago.

We are happy to publish this collection of Sadhu Natanananda's writings and we hope that spiritual aspirants will find this work useful in their pursuit of truth.

Back of the Book

Sadhu Natanananda was a distinguished scholar and devotee who first met Bhagavan in Skandashra. His collection of dialogues with Bhagavan - Upadesa Manjari in Tamil and Spiritual Instructions in English - has appeared in several editions of Bhagavan's own Collected Works. Sadhu Natanananda also edited Vichara Sangraham (Self-Enquiry) in both the essay and the question-and-answer formats. Bhagavan also gave him the job of arranging the verses of Guru Vachaka Kovai, Muruganar's authoritative compendium of Bhagavan's teachings.

In the early 1950s Sadhu Natanananda wrote Sri Ramana Darsanam, a book that contained many previously unpublished stories about Bhagavan. However, it is not merely a collection of anecdotes. Sadhu Natanananda uses these stories to make a penetrating analysis of Bhagavan's life and teachings.

Also included are previously unpublished poems that give a rare glimpse into the inner experiences that came to Sadhu Natanananda as a result of Bhagavan's teachings and grace.

CONTENTS

	Verses in praise of the work and the author by Muruganar	1
	Prefatory verses by the author	3
	Sri Ramana Darsanam Introduction	5
	Scene 1: The nature of those who have seen the truth
I	I have seen God. I can show him too	8
2	As the first Guru indicating Supreme Silence	9
3	The Selfward look and words of grace	10
4	Wherever one looks, one sees only God	11
	Scene 2: The nature of perception
5	That which is seen first is God	12
6	Divinity in the form of jnani	13
7	Those who came with pride became motionless like statues	14
8	Realisation is impossible without the grace of the Guru	15
	Scene 3: The nature of the state of firm consciousness
9	Supreme tranquility experienced even by birds and beasts	16
	Scene 4: The nature of observance of dharma
10	Two exalted persons who captivated the entire world	18
11	The same sakti that is working here is also working there	20
	Scene 5: The nature of the state of pure being
12	He bestowed grace without regarding himself as a Guru	22
13	Because he is adjunct-free, the Guru is God	25
14	The greatness of the Guru's presence and the fullness of tranquillity	26
15	Wandering mind and still consciousness	27
16	Devoted association with grace is living with the Guru	28
	Scene 6: The nature of the jnani's utterances	29
17	Always aiming at fixity of mind is true service to Guru	31
18	If attention is directed inward, activities will go on of their own accord	32
19	Reforming the mind is true service	33
20	The real meaning of touching the Guru's feet	34
21	The experience of the Self is the only true prasad	36
22	The illumination 'I am' is God's upadesa	37
23	True namaskaram is only surrender of the ego	40
24	Guru's real form is the supreme reality	41
25	When I am all pervading, where can I go?	43
26	The best form of instruction is a practical demonstration	44
26 (a)	The cause of bondage	49
	Scene 7: The nature of enquiry	51
27	Jnana vichara is only investigation of 'I'	51
28	Consciousness of being is the natural state	52
29	Consciousness, limiting itself, becomes Jiva	53
30	False identifications	53
31	One consciousness is seen in two modes	55
32	To abide as consciousness is self-surrender	56
33	Loss of ego is only avoiding tamas and rajas	56
34	The witness state is one's natural state	58
35	The course of the body will be according to destiny	60
	Scene 8: Getting cleared	63
36	To say that liberation is of two kind has only verbal significance	64
37	Instantaneous liberation alone is supreme liberation	66
38	The method of practice is learning to die	69
39	If one remains without losing hold of the Self, all the thoughts will be destroyed	70
40	The emergence of even a single thought is an indication of a departure from the natural state	71
41	The extinction of vasanas is the end of sadhana	73
42	They saw the limit of primal ignorance	74
43	They saw the limit of primal ignorance	75
44	Search for the remnant of bondage and destroy it completely	75
45	Excellence in humility is the only rue ornament of the spiritually mature	77
46	The nature of true experience is the non-perception of differences	79
46(a)	The nature and behaviour of the jnani	80
	Scene 9: The nature of the firmness of experience	88
47	Consciousness of being and the truth of God	88
48	Self-consciousness [prajnana] and Supreme reality [Parabrahman]	89
49	True knowledge and ignorance	90
50	Internal and external attachments	92
51	Mind with form and without form	92
52	Broken and unbroken vritti	93
53	Perfect repose and perfect effort	95
54	Formless mind and the three states	96
55	The experience of bliss and the transcendence of bliss	97
56	Jivanmukta and the rising of the mind	101
57	The Brahmavid and prarabdha	101
58	Prarabdha and agamya	107
	Scene 10: The nature of liberation	109
59	Clarity of mind, bondage and liberation	110
60	Final liberation and transcendence	112
	Concluding Benediction	114
	Atma Gita	116
	Tiruvarut Selvam [The Wealth of Divine Grace]	131
	Glossary	143

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