1. When the Guru refers to the Atman as a ‘nitya-vastu’, we do not understand it because we have not seen anything that is nityam. Whatever we see is only anityam. That ia why Guru says: The Atman is something which is different from everything that you have seen or known.
2. Ishvara is JnAnam + MayA. But Guru is JnAnam only.
3. Guru has three facets’ He gives the JnAna-janma; He protects jnAnam; and he destroys our ajnAnam. So Guru does the three fundamental duties of Creation, Protection and Destruction.
4. Ramana’s selection from Shivanandalahari: Shloka nos. 61,76, 83, 6, 65, 10, 12, 9, 11, 91.
5. Shankara & Ramana taught the same advaita vedanta. Only their personalities were of two different types. Shankara was dynamic Ramana. Ramana was static Shankara!
6. At the end of Kenopanishad, there is a concluding statement that tapah, damaH, karma are the three pillars that support the entire brahma-vidyA. Swami Chinmayananda’s remark (made in a lecture) on this is remarkable: tapaH is controlling the mind from sense wandering. damaH is controlling the sense organs from sense objects. These two conserve the mental vitality. They must be spent in the karma, - service of the people!
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