ike L/" / Arunachala! Thou dost root^ out the ego of those who meditate on Thee in the heart. Oh Arunachala! vol. vii, ^no.'fa, octblfef 1970 Let me, Thy prey, sur• 3» render unto Thee and be consumed, and so have Peace, Oh Arunachala! — The Marital Garland (A QUARTERLY) of Letters, verse 28 " Arunachala! Thou dost root out the ego of those who meditate on Thee in the heart, Oh Arunachala ! " —The Marital Garland of Letters, verse 1. Publisher : T. N. Venkataraman, Vol. VII OCTOBER 1970 No. 4 President, Board of Trustees, Sri Ramanasramam, Tiruvannamalai. CONTENTS Page EDITORIAL : # What is Death If Scrutinised ? 188 Dear Arthur (Poem) — Harindranath Chattopadhyaya . 193 Editor : Arthur Osborne — Lucia Osborne .. 194 ' Blessed are the pure in Heart . Mrs. Lucia Osborne — Gladys de Meuter .. 201 Sri Ramanasramam, Thank You — G. N. Daley . 203 Tiruvannamalai. A Tremendous Achievement — Marie B. Byles . , 205 The Call of Arunachala — Prof. R. 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They differ only In adjuncts and awareness. — BHAGAVAN SRI RAMANA MAHARSHI v3» (QUARTERLY) Editor: LUCIA OSBORNE Vol. VII OCTOBER, 1970 No. 4 WHAT IS DEATH IF SCRUTINISED? Editorial ^J^HE problem of death has been baffling or middle age ? Each was quite different mankind since time immemorial. from the other. Only the memory of them Death, the great leveller, may come at remains the same as only the memory of any moment with a total demand to those whose bodies have passed away. The leave behind everything one has labour• passing away of our body as a child, youth ed for and cherished in life. Man etc., was gradual, almost imperceptible. The may establish mastery over outer space and finale, this last passing away of the body unprecedented progress in the fields of usually worn out by disease or old age is science and technology but for the individual more dramatic and sudden. Whether the all these achievements are put to nought by transition is for worse or better or the death. What is the secret of death ? One highest good depends on how we have lived moment the body pulsates with life and the and prepared ourselves for the revelation of next moment it is inert like a log. The body the mystery of Being. The last transition dies but are we the body ? When the body can also be watched but not by those who is crippled or mutilated this pertains to its seek to know through reason based on know• dimensions or physical form but it does not ledge derived from sense perceptions. Rishis diminish the man in himself. It may be and adepts in yoga develop awareness trans• just the contrary as portrayed in that most cending the mind by means of concentra• moving story of Robin Drake by his father tion and self-control, by withdrawing the in Thy Son Liveth. The body is a wonder• senses from phenomenal concepts. In a still ful organism which continuously eliminates mind unobscured by thoughts, yet their very used up cells and creates new ones. It is source, the deepest phases of existence or known that after seven years all our cells rather Existence as It is, reveals itself. Life have been completely renewed and for all and death cease to be a mystery on a plane practical purposes we have a new body. In where ' killing does not take away life nor old age where is the body of the child, youth does giving birth add to it \ 188 THE MOUNTAIN PATH October The body and mind subject to incessant knowledge of Brahman in the form of an change — sensations, emotions, images, illustrative story and to prove the Reality of thoughts succeeding one another incessantly, the One Self and the phenomenality or the restlessly — cannot be the real I Am, the true unreality of the universe of names and Self which witnesses them as they come and forms. This Vedic truth cannot be compre• go. In a faint the function of the mind hended easily by the average man or ex• ceases yet we do not cease to be. Both pressed adequately in words. But it can be sleeping and fainting and the loss of con• known intuitively and aided by the Grace sciousness and sensations under an anaesthe• of the Guru ultimately experienced through tic could be called temporary death. Sri one-pointed practice and discipline. Bhagavan actually said that sleep is tempo• To return to the story in the Katha Upani• rary death and death is longer sleep. On shad, Nachiketas eager to save his father waking we know there is continuity or else from the consequences of giving away un• a new person would wake up. Also we would worthy gifts during a sacrifice, asked him to be afraid of falling asleep instead of court• whom he was going to be given since a son ing it as something desirable and revitalising. was also property. Angered by this thrice Some may start watching themselves already repeated question the father replied that he in childhood and adolescence and wondering would give him to Yama, the king of Death. whether there is not some entity in us which Nachiketas obeys his father and goes to the is steady and not in continuous flux subject abode of Yama.