The Silent Power
Saint Sages are the salt of the earth. They are the saviours of humanity. They are the sustainers of society. Philo remarks, “Households, cities, countries and nations have enjoyed great happiness, when a single individual has taken heed of the good and beautiful. Such men not only liberate themselves, they fill those they meet with a free mind.”
The Silent Power
An English professor in the purvasrama, Sri Krishnaprem was an orthodox devotee of Krishna and as such had no intention to follow Self-Enquiry. Yet he had a striking experience of the significance of the question, ‘Who am I?’, when he visited Bhagavan for his blessings.
The Silent Power
Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi emphasised several times that the holy Hill Arunachala is the heart of the world and the most ancient and oldest of hills. He also used to say that it is a natural Sri Chakra and that from each angle it has a different appearance. That is why it is a Siva linga with form and without form. From every direction it presents itself in a different majestic posture.
The Silent Power
Of the outer symbol of Sri Arunachala on earth, Lord Siva says, “Meditate on the fact that in the heart of the Hill surges the spiritual glory, within which the whole world is contained.”
The Silent Power
From every angle Arunachala presents a different aspect. But the Sivalinga, representing the Hill, symbolises its true shape, that of the formless including all forms.
CWSV Volume 4, In Woods of God-Realisation
The venomous snake, which is the symbol of all that is most detested and detestable in the animal kingdom, never closes its eyes. Only in our sleep are the weapons forged with which we can contend the evil. Our existence begins in sleep. The foetus sleeps almost...
CWSV Volume 4, In Woods of God-Realisation
The Commander-in-Chief of the Haylians could not venture a pitched battle with the battalions of Napoleonic veterans, but let not let them sleep by making a feint of attacking them as soon as the French troops got to sleep at night. This way in a few weeks an army of...
CWSV Volume 4, In Woods of God-Realisation
We are always drawn to a familiar thing in a strange garb or abnormal position: Cf our own men in a strange country; familiar ideas in foreign books etc. What we actually demand is the thing itself and not the way to obtain it, and of ways the most direct is the best;...
CWSV Volume 4, In Woods of God-Realisation
Carlyle to Emerson: Do not disturb yourself about turning better; write as it is given you, and not till it be given you, and never mind a whit. He that cannot keep himself quiet is of a morbid nature. “I write to implore you to be careful of your health. You...
CWSV Volume 4, In Woods of God-Realisation
“The stronger fishes, after their kind, prey upon the weaker fish.” This is ever our means of living, appointed to us eternally. Space is merely the order in which we look out piecemeal on True Sat (Being). * * * * Space is a mere How. It is not a What. It...
