Ramayana In Your Heart

25 April 1961, Rama Navami, Chennai

Professor Kasturi's English.

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The vehicle of human life is drawn on two wheels by the senses, which are driven by the intellect, with discrimination and detachment as the reins, the two wheels being time and action ( and ). The spokes of the wheel are the rules of righteousness (), bound by the rim of love (). The Self is the rider, and it will not come to harm if the axle is truth () and the goal is ().

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, whose birthday, , you are celebrating today was the exponent of the means of saving the Self in this perilous journey from birth to birthlessness. is the embodiment of ; that is why he was able to re-establish . Today is sacred because you get the chance to recapitulate the Glory of God and His relationship with Humanity. As a matter of fact, if you go deeper into the , you will find that is the universal , the in every being. He did not come down to kill the demon ruler ; he is not the son of or of ; nor is He the husband of , weeping for her loss and gladdened by reunion.

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On the day when was crowned Emperor at , every personage got some present or other before leaving the city. alone refused any material gift. He asked to explain to him the mystery of His Life, which he had failed to understand in spite of the length and loyalty of his service. then asked to slake the thirst of and reveal to him the secret of their careers. announced that she was primal nature (), the Energy that agitates in all matter (the ), that transforms and transmutes it into all this variety that binds and blinds. The , she said, was nothing but the play she designed.

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Sweetness of cannot be described is the eternal, unchanging Spirit (). The in every being is ; hence the name . is eternal, so the is said to have been taken by Himself. means that which showers Bliss (), that is all.

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Now, what can give greater Bliss than the ? is Bliss, and He is , the Bliss in your Inner Consciousness. You can understand the only if you keep this aspect in view. Orange has a form and a name; when you squeeze it and take the juice, the form is gone and the name, orange, is also gone. Only the taste remains. The sweetness, the flavour, the essence - only these are experienced. It cannot be exactly described. It is beyond any vocabulary.

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understood from the formless, nameless, sweetness of . , the Spirit (), accepts nature (), , and enacts the play, . is Consciousness, for nature or illusion () activates the Pure Existence of . Now see what happens! Knowledge of Supreme Reality is lost, and wanders about in the jungle, wailing for Her. Of course, or mind is always with Him, for the mind is the instrument with which liberation has to be achieved. (a monkey king) is the spirit of despair, and he has to be overcome with the help of discriminatory wisdom, viz., , who is ’s brother.

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is gone through in everyone’s life You see, it is discrimination that sends emissaries to the various corners to discover where Knowledge of Supreme Reality is available. is Courage. Courage won through unfliching faith - that alone can penetrate the darkness and bring the good news of the dawn. Then crosses the sea of illusion; He destroys the demon of the emotional equality (), namely , and the demon of inertia (), namely (’s brother), and installs goodness (), (’s brother), on the throne.

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After this, meets and receives , who has now become Knowledge derived from experience (), not merely Knowledge of Supreme Reality (). That is represented by the coronation. The is therefore not a story that had an end.

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In each person’s life, a is being gone through: in the three qualities (), the senses, the search, and the spiritual practices. is the son of - he of the ten chariots. What do you think are these ten chariots? They are the senses: the five sense organs of action and the five organs of perception. Truth (), righteousness (), peace (), and love () are the four sons - is truth, is righteousness, is love, and is peace.

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Take as your ideals these great characters depicted in the . You will see how your life is filled with peace and joy if only you dwell with these ideals. The in the heart is to be experienced, not investigated as a mental phenomenon. As you go on reading and ruminating, the inner meaning will flash on you when the mind is cleansed by the elevating ideas therein. Do not exaggerate the importance of things that have but material utility; they fade even while you grasp them by the hand. Search for being (sat) - that which suffers no change. Search for the state of consciousness (), which is unaffected by gusts of passion, which is pure, which is free from egoism or the desire to possess. Only then can you experience the light and illumine the path for others. Search for bliss (), the bliss that emanates from love with no blemish of attachment. Be like bees hovering on the flower of the glory of the Lord, sucking the sweet nectar of grace, silently and joyfully.