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The Mountain Path Vol. 11 No. 3, July 1974 Arunachala! Thou dost root out the ego of those who meditate on Thee in the heart. Oh Arunachala! Vol. 11, No. Ill, July 1974 " Reveal Thyself ! Thou only art Reality, Oh Arunachala ! " (A QUARTERLY) — The Marital Garland ** Arunachala! Thou dost root out the ego of those who of Letters, verse 43 meditate on Thee in the heart, Oh Arunachala !" —The Marital Garland of Letters, verse 1 Vol. 11 JULY 1974 No. Ill Publisher : T. N. Venkataraman, President, Board of Trustees, CONTENTS Sri Ramanasramam, Tiruvannamalai. Page EDITORIAL : Tradition — Viswanatha Swami . 135 Advaita — Arthur Osborne . 139 Editorial Board: Hindu Ethics — D. S. Sarma . 140 Sri Viswanatha Swami Where are you Going ? If so, Why ? Sri Ronald Rose — Ronald Rose . 141 Prof. K. Swaminathan The Central Principles of Hinduism Sri T. P. Ramachandra Aiyer — Dr. Karan Singh . 144 Sri M. C. Subramaniam Faith — Cornelia Bagarotti . 145 Sri Philip Pegler Means and Ends — Sadhu Arunachala . 146 Sri Ramamani The Breath of Nature — Fr. Thomas Merton 147 Sri Bhagavan A Bhakta Too — N. N. Rajan 148 An Episode in the Life of Sri Ramakrishna — Jagannatb Chatopadhyaya . 149 Managing Editor : Life and Death —Lama Anagarika Govinda 150 V. Ganesan, The Spirit of Religion — Dr. P. Nagaraja Rao 151 Sri Ramanasramam, Prayer and Meditation — K. Padmanabhan . 153 Tiruvannamalai. The Teachings of Pujyapada . 154 Sanatana Dharma and Religious Conversion — H. H. Sri Chandrasekhara Bharati Swami 155 Have Mercy — Dag Hammarskjold . 158 Annual Subscription : How I Came to the Maharshi . 159 INDIA Rs. 6 Garland of Guru's Sayings -- Sri Muruganar . 161 FOREIGN £ 0.75 $ 2.00 Sri Yogaswami of Jaffna — An American Devotee . 163 Life Subscription : J nana of Mukti According To Madhva Rs. 125 £ 12.50 $ 30 — H. J. Noranha, S.J. 167 Single Copy : Shiva —• K. S. 169 Rs. 1.75 £ 0.20 $ 0.45 Stories from Yoga Vasishtha ~ II : Punya and Pavana . 170 Glory of Arunachala . 174 Vidura's Wisdom . 177 The Beginning and the End — Wei Wu Wei 178 CONTENTS — (Contd.) tEt(t <Jl{mittiattt Jtait} Page (A QUARTERLY) Book Reviews 179 Ashram Bulletin 185 The aim of tliis journal is to set Introducing. Sri T. A. J. Pillai 192 forth the traditional wisdom of *]] 194 religions and all ages, especially List of Life Members — Sri Ramanasramam as testified to by their saints and List of Life Subscribers — The Mountain Path 196 mystics, and to clarify the path* Letters to the Editor available to seekers in the condi• —• Replies by Lucia Osborne 197 tions of our modern world. Contributors are requested to give the exact data Contributions for publication as far as possible for quotations used, i.e. source should be addressed to The Editor, and page number, and also the meaning if from The Mountain Path, Sri Ramanas• another language. It would simplify matters. 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'•(c) U.K., France, Belgium, Greece, Italy, Monaco, Switzerland, East, South and West Africa 1.10 2.70 (d) Australia, Denmark, Netherland, THE MOUNTAIN PATH Norway, Poland, Spain, Sweden 1.50 3.60 (e) North, Central and South America, Is dedicated to Fiji, Hawaii, New Zealand 1M 4.50 Bhagavan Sri Ramana Mahai The Mountain Path Vol. 11. No. Ill, July 1974 Editorial TRADITION By Viswanatha Swami J£|Y tradition is meant here the knowledge " He Himself is the Earth and Heaven ". of timeless and transcendent truth " There is nothing other than Him in the handed down by those with direct experience Universe ". of it to seekers fit to receive it. The way to " All this, the past, present and future, it also is meant, as every aspirant has to are the Supreme Person (Purusha). He is experience it anew for himself. This spiritual the Lord of Immortality." tradition, still current and fresh, begins from " He who knows Him becomes immortal pre-historic times. We have a record of it in even here. There is no other way to that the Vedas and Upanishads. It is found state of supreme felicity ". " The Supreme Lord is the Light of the continued in works of a later period, the Universe ". pur anas and other religious literature. We " He who recognises the Dweller in the find its unbroken continuity up to our own Heart gets in tune with Ultimate Reality." time through the works and recorded talks of " He (the Supreme Being) is, really, Rasa, authentic seers. Their very lives shine forth the Essence of all ; only by attaining this as an illustration of and commentary on this Rasa one becomes blissful." perennial tradition. As the head and origin Coming to the Upanishads, the Isa of this tradition stands the youthful figure of Upanishad, begins : Dakshinamurti who elucidated in absolute silence to Sanaka and other elders the truth " That (the unmanifest) is the Absolute and this (the manifest) also is the Absolute, of the One indivisible Self of all. Earnest From that Absolute this got manifested. devotees have had, even in our own times, the The Absolute having manifested This still same experience of speechless revelation in the remains the same ". self-effulgent Presence of the Sage of " Whatever there is in the universe is Arunachala. pervaded by the Lord. Understanding this We find in the Vedas texts like the go through life unattached to anything following : mundane." And we have the four cardinal texts of " It is one Existence, one Reality (Ekam Sat) known by different names ". ultimate Vedantic experience, "He is reflected in every form and even " I AM Brahman ", the reflection assumes a seeming indivi• "That Thou Art", duality. God goes on assuming endless " This Atman (Self) is Brahman ", and forms and endless are His rays ", " Awareness (absolute) is Brahman", 136 THE MOUNTAIN PATH July He who, by the Grace of the Guru, has " No one who has not turned away from understood the import of these Maha Vakyas, evil ways, no one who is not calm, no one is never more distracted by anything for other who is not one-pointed in his quest and free than that Reality nothing else exists. The same from distraction, can reach the Self by truth is expressed by the Upanishadic text : intellectual acumen alone." " He who sees all beings in the Self and " This Self is understood neither by hearing the Self alone in all beings, he is no more lectures, nor by sharp intelligence, nor by disturbed (by the false sense of differentia• vast study ; whomsoever It (the Self) chooses, tion)." he understands It and to him It reveals It• self." We find this tradition of Brahma-Vidya " That which all the Vedas consider as the passing on from Master to disciple when the Supreme State, that which is the aim of all latter is competent to receive it by virtue of austerity, spiritual earnestness and aspiration, his inner purity and one-pointed aspiration, as and that in quest of which Brahmacharya is in the episode of Narada (the seeker) and practised, that I shall tell you in brief. That Sanatkumara (the teacher) in chapter VI of is OM (AUM)." Chhandogya Upanishad. Narada (not the Narada of the Puranas) who had mastered all " This is the immutable Brahman, the relative knowledge, but had not attained Peace Supreme Self. Knowing this, one lives in thereby, goes in search of a Teacher who could glory in the World of Brahman ". reveal to him the Supreme Secret of the Brahman itself is here described as the Infinite Self. Sanatkumara tells him : World of Brahman, as also in the following "Where there is something else seen, heard texts : or known, all that is finite. Where there is " The stainless Brahma-loka is for them nothing else seen, heard or known that is whose quest for Truth is one-pointed and free Bhuma. Bhuma alone is bliss. There is no from all distraction." happiness in the finite". Brahma-Vidya is termed here as Bhuma Vidya (Awareness " It is for them, in whom there is no Absolute).
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