Sat-Darshana Bhashya and Talks with Maharshi
Book Specification
Item Code: | NAF182 |
Author: | Kapali Sastriar |
Publisher: | Sri Ramanasramam, Tamil Nadu |
Language: | Sanskrit Text with English Translation |
Edition: | 2021 |
ISBN: | 9788188018697 |
Pages: | 188 |
Cover: | Paperback |
Other Details | 8.5 inch X 5.5 inc |
Weight | 230 gm |
Book Description
Sat-Darshana is Vasishta Ganapati Muni’s inspired Sanskrit Translation of Sri Ramana’s Ulladu Narpadu(Forty Verses on Reality).
Kapali Sastriar, a close disciple of the Muni and scholar-sadhaka of the highest order, has elucidated with clarity and profundity the meaning of these verses in his Sanskrit Bhashya (commentary).
In this book Kapali has complied not only his English translation of Sat-Darshana and his Bhashya, but also his recorded conversations with Sri Ramana. These “Talks” cover the full range of the Maharshi’s teaching and prepare the ground for cultivating a deep insight into Sri Ramana Maharshi’s seminal teachings in the form of forty verses.
The Talks with Sri Maharshi are mainly selected from conversations that D has had with him since 1912. Some of these were later incorporated into the Ramana Gita and one or two booklets. These talks are given with a view to introduce the general reader to the main work, the philosophy of Sat-Darshan. The conversations with Sri Ramana Maharshi have been generally in Tamil, intermixed with a few English and Sanskrit words. We do not say ‘you’ in talking to him, nor does he refer to himself as ‘I’. They are used here for he purpose of the English version. The name of D is not mentioned as it is considered unnecessary for the purpose of the subject.
The translation of the Sat-Darshana slokas is in free verse. The English rendering of the Bhoomika (introduction) as well as the Bhashya (commentary in Sanskrit) is faithful to he spirit of the original. But in some places it is interpretative and amplified in order to make the English appear not a translation but a work readable without reference to the Sanskrit original. The English translation of the commentary on the 44th, the last verse, is not given as the one important subject dealt with therein, namely, the higher value of the revealed word or scripture is to be found substantially in the closing pages of the Bhoomika.
The rules of transliteration of Sanskrit words, in Roman, script had to be overlooked because of printing inconvenience: but wherever a Sanskrit word occurs it is preceded by its English equivalent.
In the closing part of the book is printed the original Tamil Ulladu Narpadu of Sri Maharshi, of which sat-Darshan is the Sanskrit version, in order to be of use to the Tamil knowing reader.
'The Talks' | ||
1 | Initial doubts | 3 |
2 | Rejection of thoughts | 4 |
3 | Vichara and the Grace | 5 |
4 | The Sad-Guru | 5 |
5 | The Self within waits for you | 7 |
6 | Vichara, not intellectual | 9 |
7 | Jnana Siddhi, no inactivity | 9 |
8 | Samadhi, Nirvikalpa and Sahaja - Trance and natural | 11 |
9 | Is Brahman beyond? | 12 |
10 | Retiring abode in the body | 12 |
11 | What is my self now? | 15 |
12 | The secret locus of the Self | 16 |
13 | Realisation and bodily experience | 19 |
14 | The Mukta and the Siddhis | 22 |
15 | Hand your burden to the Lord to hold | 24 |
16 | The Ashramas and the social rule | 27 |
17 | Society and the goal of mankind | 28 |
18 | The equality of the Jnanin | 29 |
19 | Shakti and Shakta : the Eternal Power and the Immutable Presence | 30 |
Introduction | ||
I | Of Non-duality (Advaita) | 33 |
II | Of Creation (Sarga) | 41 |
III | Of Bondage, etc.( Bandhadi) | 46 |
IV | The 'I' - sense (Aham Padartha) | 52 |
V | Of Release (Moksha) | 56 |
VI | Of Sadhana and Siddhi (Disciplind Achievement) | 59 |
VII | The Grace (Anugraha) | 68 |
VIII | Sat-Darshan : (How the work was given to the world) | 70 |
The Great Soul | 71 | |
Note - on the individual soul | 73 | |
Sat-Darshan | ||
1 | God Impersonal, subject of self-absorption | 77 |
2 | God-Personal, Sole Refuge for self-offering | 84 |
3 | The supreme Truth as God, world and soul | 89 |
4 | Religion begins with the triple; Truth transcends it | 91 |
5 | The Exalted state beyond intellectual discussions | 92 |
6 | Infinite Self - The One limitless Eye | 94 |
7 | Bodily self apprehends world of name and form | 97 |
8 | The world - the mind | 98 |
9 | Existence Real, the source of world and mind | 100 |
10 | Truth-perception described | 104 |
11 | Duality's and trinities: their source | 106 |
12 | Knowledge and ignorance, relaive : True Knowledge, their source Absolute | 108 |
13 | The support of the trinity -knower, knowledge and known | 109 |
14 | True knowledge luminious, no void | 110 |
15 | The One Self, Consciousness; manifold its form | 112 |
16 | The unborn self and the notions He, Thou and 'I' | 113 |
17 | Time-spirit, the Eternal Present | 114 |
18 | The Self: Space and Time | 116 |
19 | The ignorant and the wise - difference in bodily consciousness | 118 |
20 | The ignorant and the wise - the world Phenomenal and the world Real | 120 |
21 | Fate and Free-will | 121 |
22 | The Supreme poise of the Self - real seeing | 123 |
23 | See thy Self: See the Lord | 125 |
24 | See the Lord, turn within | 127 |
25 | The 'I' rising, rises All | 128 |
26 | The ego, neither Spirit nor Matter | 129 |
27 | The ego, its character | 131 |
28 | Conquest of the ego, condition for all-conquest | 133 |
29 | No ego in the Real state | 134 |
30 | Deep dive for the Self | 135 |
31 | Calm mind, the real quest for the Self | 137 |
32 | The Jivan-mukta one with the Supreme | 138 |
33 | The ways of jivan-mukta inscrutable | 140 |
34 | Long discussion, weakness of thought | 141 |
35 | The Self, ever the seer | 142 |
36 | The Maya's play | 144 |
37 | Attainment of the Real, the supreme achievement, Siddhi | 145 |
38 | The meditation 'I am He' some help | 147 |
39 | The truth is One, non-dual, known or not | 148 |
40 | Release from the triple karma | 150 |
41 | Bondage and liberation relate to ego, not to the supreme Self | 151 |
42 | Discussion on post-release states, no means; Loss of ego, Release Real | 153 |
43 and 44 | Concluding stanzas of the Sanskrit version of Sat-Darshan | 155 |
Ulladu Narpadu (Forty Verses on Reality) | 157 | |
Forty Verses in Praise of Sri Ramana | 165 |