Originally Posted by
Atanu
Omission? I see no omission.
The point was simply that Shri Ramana never said “I am that”
As far As I know, he never uttered “I am That”, except when explaining “I am that I am” of The Bible.
The sentence was intended to convey: Ramana possibly never uttered “I am That”.
I have not read Ramana uttering “I am That”, which Nirotu claimed.
He never uttered so'ham for himself.
aham AtmA
aham ekam
aham AtmA paraM tattvam
aham eva tattvam
aham eva shivaH
so’haMso’ham
You need not be ashamed to say “I am the Self, the supreme Truth”
“I am That”.
The haMsau (“the individual jIva and the universal AtmA”) is ahaMsa (aham sa) or so’ham (saH aham), declaring “I am That”.
dakshiNAmUrti instructs in silence, but the expression of shrI dakshiNAmUrti may be heard in the three-fold communion of shiSya (nAra), guru (nArAyaNa), and shiva (nara).
And the inner teaching of dakshiNAmUrti whispers:
so’hamiti yAvadAsthitiH saniSThA bhavati
Devotion consists in firmly dwelling in the constant thought so’ham (“I am That”).
shrI ramaNa considered the tripurarahasya as one of the greatest expositions on advaita philosophy, and he often quoted from it, prompting svAmI rAmaNAnanda sarasvatI (shrI muNagala veNkATaramaya) to begin his english translation of the text, which was fully published in 1940. And the shrI ramaNAshramam has republished the translation numerous times since the samAdhi of shrI ramaNa in 1950.
There can be no doubt that shrI ramaNa agreed with translation, and those who knew him claim that he often quoted from the tripurarahasya, which was one of his favorite texts.
And thus, there can be no doubt that shrI ramaNa spoke the following words:
I will tell you the secret. The cycle of births and deaths is from time immemorial caused by ignorance which displays itself as pleasure and pain and yet is only a dream and unreal. Being so, the wise say that it can be ended by knowledge. By what kind of knowledge? Wisdom born of realisation: viz. “I am That”. [17: 24-26]
The inner self is realised in advanced contemplation and that state of realisation is called nirvikalpa samAdhi. Memory of that realisation enables one to identify the inner self with the universal Self (as “I am That”). [17: 69]
When the mind has completely resolved into the Self, that state is called nirvikalpa samAdhi. After waking up from it, the person is overpowered by the memory of his experience as the one, undivided, infinite, pure Self, and he knows “I am That”, as opposed to the puerile I-thought of the ignorant. That is the vijńAna (supreme Knowledge). [20: 56]
guru mahArAja shrI dattAtreya makes no omission.
shrI dakshiNAmUrti makes no omission.
shrI ramaNAshramam makes no omission.
But those who claim that shrI ramaNa never said “I am That” have omitted all of the above.
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