Sri Ramana Darsanam (also known as Chaitanya Sakshatkaram)
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In the early 1950s Sadhu Natanananda wrote Sri Ramana Darsanam, a book that contained many previously unpublished stories about Bhagavan.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Also included are previously unpublished poems that give a rare glimpse into the inner experiences that came to Sadhu Natanananda as a result of Bhagavan's teachings and grace.
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 |