[Advaita-l] Commentary on Ramana's Forty Verses

[Akilesh Ayyar]

If so, why would they eat?

On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 4:07 AM Ven Balakrishnan <ventzu at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> “DEAD TO THEMSELVES AND THEIR POSSESSIONS”
>
> Ramanamaharishi is entirely consistent with Sankara saying a jnani will
> inevitably take up the life of a paramahamsa ascetic, since s/he has no
> desires, no fear, no attachments, not even to body-mind - like a snake that
> has shed its skin.
>
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> > On 15 Jun 2021, at 17:26, Akilesh Ayyar via Advaita-l <
> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
> >
> > Namaste,
> >
> > This is the commentary on the next verse.
> >
> > From
> >
> https://www.siftingtothetruth.com/blog/2021/6/15/commentary-on-ramanas-forty-verses-invocatory-part-two-of-two
> > :
> >
> > II. THOSE WHO KNOW INTENSE FEAR OF DEATH SEEK REFUGE ONLY AT THE FEET OF
> > THE LORD WHO HAS NEITHER DEATH NOR BIRTH. DEAD TO THEMSELVES AND THEIR
> > POSSESSIONS, CAN THE THOUGHT OF DEATH OCCUR TO THEM AGAIN? DEATHLESS ARE
> > THEY.
> >
> > *Commentary:* All fear is rooted in the fear of death. But death can only
> > afflict what is born, that is, what is changing: that is, what is
> thought.
> > We have just seen that what is Real is unchanging, and that what is Real
> is
> > us.
> >
> > The Lord who has neither birth nor death is none other than this very
> > Reality, the Heart. This Lord may go by many other names — Shiva or
> Vishnu
> > or God or the Goddess, for example. But ultimately they all refer to this
> > unchanging Reality.
> >
> > In order to take refuge at the feet of this Lord, all else must be given
> > up. This giving up is a kind of death. By dying to what is changing — to
> > what one thought one was, but in fact is not — one realizes oneself to
> > actually be the unchanging. What seems mortal has in fact never been born
> > to begin with, and what is immortal cannot die. And the thought of death
> > cannot occur to the immortals, which are those who have given up their
> > stake in everything changing.
> >
> > At any time, see all the forty verses posts that I have published so far
> > here
> > <https://www.siftingtothetruth.com/blog/tag/Forty%20Verses%20Commentary
> >.
> > Akilesh Ayyar
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