Mountain Path April 2006

 [07:44, 27/08/2020] +91 86869 03779: “We shall meditate on that which, 

existing in the form of Self, 

is the atma  tattva, 

is effulgent, 

and which residing in all living things always says ‘I’, ‘I’.

To seek for a God outside, leaving the God residing in the cave of the Heart, is

like throwing away a priceless gem and searching for a trivial bead.” 

🕉 Yoga  Vasishta

[07:45, 27/08/2020] +91 86869 03779: BHAGAVAN AND MANIKKAVACHAKAR

Tiruvachakam references in Bhagavan’s replies to devotees.

When Bhagavan replied to devotees’ questions, he sometimes illustrated the point he was trying to make by quoting extracts from the Tiruvachakam.

Mr B. C. Das, the physics lecturer, asked, ‘Contemplation is possible only with control of mind and control can be accomplished only by contemplation. Is it not a vicious circle?’

Bhagavan: Yes, they are interdependent. They must go on side by side. Practice and dispassion bring about the result gradually. 

Dispassion is practised to check the mind from being projected outward; 

practice is to keep it turned inward. 

There is a struggle between control and

contemplation. It is going on constantly within. Contemplation will in due course be successful.

Devotee: How to begin? Your grace is needed for it.

Bhagavan: Grace is always there. ‘Dispassion cannot be acquired, nor

realisation of the truth, nor inherence in the Self, in the absence of the Guru’s grace,’ 

the Master quoted.

Practice is necessary. It is like training a roguish bull confined to his stall by tempting him with luscious grass and preventing him from straying.

Then the Master read out a stanza from Tiruvachakam which is an address to the mind, saying, 

‘O humming bee [namely, mind]! 

Why do you take the pains of collecting tiny specks of honey from innumerable flowers? There is one from whom you can have the whole storehouse of honey by simply thinking or seeing or speaking of Him.

Get within and hum to Him [hrimkara].’

- Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi, Talk No.220.

The original verse.

Do not sip the nectar,

tiny as a millet seed

found in any flower,

but speed to that mystic dancer

and hum the praise of Him, King Bee,

He who, whenever we think of Him,

whenever we behold Him,

whenever we speak of Him,

perpetually pours forth the honeyed bliss

that melts all our bones to the core. 

- ‘Tirukkottumbi’, verse 3. 

Devaraja Mudaliar has also noted (My Recollections of Bhagavan Sri Ramana p. 52) that Bhagavan spoke very highly of the sentiments expressed in this verse.

Source: Mountain Path. April 2006.