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INSTRUCTION ON SELF-REALIZATION
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The giving up of external objects implies also
the necessity of controlling the sense-organs.
2 Sincerity "To be one in mind and speech",
as Sri Ramakrishna used to put it. He spoke very
highly of this virtue as an essential of spiritual
discipline.
3 Truth This virtue also was greatly emphasized
by Sri Ramakrishna and was looked upon by him
as a precious possession of a spiritual aspirant.
It should be noted here that the cultivation of
these virtues implies the control and purification of
the internal sense, mind, so that it may reflect more
and more of Divine light.
This verse mentions the negative and positive
practices of a spiritual aspirant. Giving up attach-
ment for worldly things is the negative practice and
cultivation of the moral virtues is the positive.]
न पृथ्वी न जलं नाग्निर्न वायुद्यौर्न वा भवान् ।
एषां साक्षिणमात्मानं चिद्रूपं विद्धि मुक्तये ॥३॥
भवान् You पृथ्वी earth न not जल water न not अग्नि: fire
न not वायुः air न not द्यौ: ether न not वा or (त्वं you) मुक्तये
for liberation आत्मानम् Self एषां of these साक्षियां witness
चिद्रूपं consciousness itself विद्धि know.
3.
You are neither earth', nor water,
nor fire, nor air, nor ether. In order to
attain liberation, know the Self as the
witness of all these and Consciousness
itself.
3
The giving up of external objects implies also
the necessity of controlling the sense-organs.
2 Sincerity "To be one in mind and speech",
as Sri Ramakrishna used to put it. He spoke very
highly of this virtue as an essential of spiritual
discipline.
3 Truth This virtue also was greatly emphasized
by Sri Ramakrishna and was looked upon by him
as a precious possession of a spiritual aspirant.
It should be noted here that the cultivation of
these virtues implies the control and purification of
the internal sense, mind, so that it may reflect more
and more of Divine light.
This verse mentions the negative and positive
practices of a spiritual aspirant. Giving up attach-
ment for worldly things is the negative practice and
cultivation of the moral virtues is the positive.]
न पृथ्वी न जलं नाग्निर्न वायुद्यौर्न वा भवान् ।
एषां साक्षिणमात्मानं चिद्रूपं विद्धि मुक्तये ॥३॥
भवान् You पृथ्वी earth न not जल water न not अग्नि: fire
न not वायुः air न not द्यौ: ether न not वा or (त्वं you) मुक्तये
for liberation आत्मानम् Self एषां of these साक्षियां witness
चिद्रूपं consciousness itself विद्धि know.
3.
You are neither earth', nor water,
nor fire, nor air, nor ether. In order to
attain liberation, know the Self as the
witness of all these and Consciousness
itself.