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The Mountain Path VOL. 23 No. II APRIL 1986 4 4The inert body will not sa> . The Existence-Consciousness will not rise. The T of the measure < e body rises in-between. This is (called) the knot of the intelligent anc inert, bondage, the individual soul, the subtle body, egoity, transmigi >n, mind. Thus should you know." —Sri Bhagavan's FORTY VERSES ON EXISTENCE, verse 24 (Translation by Dr. T. M. P. Mahadevan) " <jL_6i/L_(g) Qmm^j^j ujii &)}L-$o<on<surT r^nQi^m fQj — L£IGS)L-.U5I<S61§] u$& <SF(Ljf) &nrrn£)<5isT Glutem. —u&GurrsiiT ytfrruxsmftm 2-6TT6(rgl P51T fT)Ug]-24- it- May the Grace of Sri Ramana Maharshi be with 44THE MOUNTAIN PATH" The Spiritual Journal published from Sri Ramanasramam Inserted by the Management WELLINGTON TALKIES, MADRAS THE MOUNTAIN PATH Editorial Board: (A QUARTERLY) Sri K.K. Nambiar Mrs. Lucy Cornelssen "Arunachala! Thou dost root out the ego of those who meditate on Thee in the Smt. Shanta Rungachary heart, Oh Arunachala!" Dr. K. Subrahmaniam — The Marital Garland of Letters, verse 1 Publisher Vol. 23 APRIL 1966 No. 2 T.N. Venkataraman President Board of Trustees, CONTENTS Page Sri Ramanasramam EDITORIAL: Suffering Tiruvannamalai 67 The Boyhood (Chapter III) — Arthur Osborne 69 Managing Editor Swami Ramana Giri: A Tribute V. Canesan - Prof. K.C Sashi 71 The Lila Letters and remittances should — Murdoch Kirby 75 be sent to : Two Decades of The Mountain Path 76 J. Krishnamurti, The Man and His Teachings The Managing Editor, - 'C.N.' 78 "THE MOUNTAIN PATH", J. Krishnamurti: A Tribute Sri Ramanasramam, P.O., Tiruvannamalai—606 603 — S. Jayaraman 81 S India. Vivekachudamani — jagdish Swami 83 Annual Subscription . Apocalpyse of Celestial Freeness — "Anonymous" 84 INDIA Rs. 15 Power of Surrender FOREIGN £4.00 $8.00 — A Parsee Devotee 90 The Dance of Shiva-Nataraja Life Subscription — Honey-Bee 91 Rs.150 £35.00 $70 I Guru's Grace j — Fred Broumond 95 Single Copy Omniscient Ramana | — V. Canesan 97 Rs.4.00 £1.20 $2.50 How I Came to Bhagavan's Fold ! — M. Narasimha Rao 102 | Buddha — the Flower of Hinduism j — Swami Nirmalananda . 103 Some Stray Verses to Bhagavan Arunachala Ramana Unknown to all, stupe - — Honey-Bee . 105 fyi ng me, Who was it that I My Two Visits ravished my soul, Oh, — N. Raghunathan 106 | Arunachala! On Meditation I — Venerable Dharmawara 107 Introducing . Smt & Sri T. Navaratnam 108 The Marital I Letters to the Editor . 110 Garland of Letters | Book Reviews .. 114 Verse 89 | Ashram Bulletin 117 Cover Design by MURALIDHAR HEGDE Stye ^oisttiattt |Jatif Contributors are requested to give the exact data as far as possible for quotation used, i.e. source and page number, (A QUARTERLY) and also the meaning-if from another language. It would simplify matters. Articles should not exceed 10 pages. 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AIR-MAIL SURCHARGE £ $ Contributions are accepted only I Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, on condition that they do not Singapore, Pakistan, Ceylon 2.00 4.00 appear elsewhere before being published in The Mountain Path. II Austria, Australia, Belgium, Denmark, They can be published later else- Czechoslovakia, West Germany, Italy, where but only with acknowledge• Greece, japan, Netherlands, East and South Africa, Egypt, France, Great ment to The Mountain Path. Britain, Sweden 4.00 8.00 • III North, Central and South America, Canada, THE MOUNTAIN PATH New Zealand, Fiji, Hawaii 5.00 10.00 is dedicated to (All the above surcharges are over and above the annual subscription.) Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi <57 WHENEVER SRI Bhagavan was asked about the problem of suffering, he suggested a method to eliminate it. Most others trim the branches; Sri Bhagavan tackled the root of the problem. He said that whatever be the gravity of the suffering, we are not aware of it in deep sleep. When we have a terrible tooth-ache, we can't think of anything except the pain. But the pain is not felt in deep sleep. In deep sleep, we are not conscious of the body and hence there is no pain. When the mind merges in the Self, there is no body-consciousness and therefore there is no pain. Sri Bhagavan says:"Physical pain only follows body- consciousness. It cannot be in the absence of body-conscidusness. Mind being unaware of the body, cannot be aware of its pains or pleasures. Pains are dependent on the ego; they cannot be without the ' I' but the ' I' can remain without them". Even ordinarily, we notice that our pain is related to the attitude of our mind. When we have some acute pain, and a person we like walks in our pain is relieved to some extent. SUFFERING EDITORIAL When a person we dislike walks in, our pain becomes worse. In other words, our pain increases or decreases according to the state of our mind at a particular moment. Sri Bhagavan asks us to remove the mind altogether so that we won't feel thepainatall. Hesays: "Thereforeturn inwards and seek the Self and there will be an end both of the world and its miseries". When body- consciousness goes, suffering goes. On one occasion, Sri Bhagavan said that the body The Mountain Path itself is the disease. When we have a disease, Vol. 23, No. 2, April, 1986 we are not at ease. That is why it is called a disease. We are happy only when the disease disappears. When we arg ill, we take steps to 68 THE MOUNTAIN PATH April become healthy. When we are healthy, we To the charge that those who eliminate don't seek illness because our nature is happi• suffering thus are selfish and do not worry ness, bliss. When we have a disease, we try to about others, Sri Bhagavan says: "The world is become 'whole7 by taking medicine. When not external to you. Because you wrongly iden• the body itself is the disease, we shall be tify yourself with the body, you see the world 'whole' only when the body is removed. outside you and its suffering becomes appa• When the body ceases, there will be death. rent to you; but the world and its sufferings But Sri Bhagavan doesn't mean death of the are not real. Seek the reality and get rid of this body but death of body-consciousness. When unreal feeling." The understanding of oneself the disease of 'body-consciousness' is cured, is the ending of suffering. The question of sel• there will be fullness, wholeness. All suffering, fishness doesn't arise as in that state, only according to Sri Bhagavan, is due to the notion the Self will be seen in everybody and every• 'l-am-the-body'. thing. But Sri Bhagavan doesn't say we should be indifferent to the sufferings of others. So Prayer is good in that it makes us lose our long as we have body-consciousness, we shall mind in the contemplation of the Supreme be conscious of our sufferings and those of Being. When the mind is lost in contemplation, others and would be interested in removing there is considerable reduction in pain. But them. Compassion is really 'your pain in my prayer will not remove suffering totally. The heart'. When we remove the sufferings of individual will feel the suffering when his others, we become less 'me'-centred. But by mind is not at prayer. Pooja, \apa, and prayer are this way we cannot remove all the pain in the all good in that they take our mind off our world. As pain is dependent on the ego, Sri suffering for a while. While they are all good Bhagavan suggests the removal of the ego; as a temporary measure, removal of suffering with the ego, pain will also dissappear. is possible only through elimination of body- consciousness. Sri Bhagavan says: 'If one re• This is not just theory.

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