"Just as the pictures in the film, which is placed inside the machine (the cinema projector) are expanded through the magnifying lens and move as very big pictures on the wall,ħ. I, the ignorant one, shall prattle that which Sri Ramana, the Maha-mauni, lovingly told about the Heart and brain, which is more secret than the meaning of any scripture.Ħ. If asked, 'Why is it the Truth?' it is merely because it is the Truth.ĥ. I shall compose, though ungrammatically, the truth of every precious word of the pure sacred sayings I heard. Likewise, Upanishads came from the lips of the Muni (Sri Bhagavan), whose place (or abode) is the Heart, addressed to the Lord (Kavykantha), whose place (or abode) is the brain, and were also heard by us as light is received by the earth.Ĥ. The light of the sun, which exists and shines as the Heart of this earth, illumines the moon in the height, and the moon gives light to the earth ģ. All who heard those words at that time remained speechless as pillars.Ģ. The Heart of the world (Sri Bhagavan) and the brain of the world (Kavyakantha) began to converse between themselves in the beautiful sacred cave (Virupaksha). It should be noted that the boy identifies Bhagavan as the "Muni" and Kavyakantha as the "Lord". The following is a prose rendering of Sri Bhagavan's Tamiḷ translation of the nine verses. They read like the Telugu Dwipada metre." The verses were good and so I translated them into Tamiḷ verses in Ahaval metre. He somehow listened to our conversation and composed nine verses in English, giving the gist of what we were talking about. While Nayana and I were talking, the boy sat in a bush nearby. He had studied up to the school's final class. He stood nearby listening intently to the whole conversation and composed nine verses in English describing the scene and gist of the converstion.Ībout these nine verses the Maharshi said, "When I was in Virupaksha Cave, Nayana came there once with a boy named Arunachala.
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He explained further that the vasanas reside in their subtlest form in the Heart and project themselves through the lens of the brain, outward through the five senses onto the screen of the world, thus utilizing his famous 'cinema-show' analogy of creation.Īmong those present while this conversation occurred was a school boy, N.S.Arunachalam.
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Bhagavan refuted this by saying that if that was true a decapitated person would immediately be free from all vasanas and attain liberation.
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He argued that the brain or sahasrara was of more importance since the cells of the brain contained all the tendencies (vasanas). When Sri Bhagavan was living at the Virupaksha Cave, Ganapati Muni one day contested Bhagavan's assertion that the Heart was the most important center. The new 2004 edition of " The Collected Works of Ramana Maharshi" will have a few additions which in size are not substantial, but like all of Sri Bhagavan's teachings contain seed kernals of potent food to assuage the spiritual hunger of aspirants.