BHAGAVAN SRI RAMANA'S TALKS

BHAGAVAN SRI RAMANA'S TALKS : - J.K. SIVAN

IT IS NOT DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND BHAGAVAN RAMANA IF YOU READ THE QUESTIONS PUT TO HIM AND THE ANSWERS GIVEN BY HIM, SLOWLY, CONCENTRATING ON EACH WORD ATTENTIVELY WITH INVOLVEMENT AND INTEREST TO LEARN.- It is made simple for you. So you will enjoy profusely. JKs

DEVOTEE: Is it that there are five different divisions of antahkaranas as follows: (1) Ullam, (2) mind, (3) intellect, (4) chittam, (5) ego.

Maharishi Ramana: Four divisions are usual. The fifth item ullam has been brought in to correspond to five tattvas thus:

(1) Ullam (consciousness) is akasa (ether) tattva from the cranium to the brows.

(2) Manas (thinking faculty) is vayu (air) tattva from the brows

to the throat.

(3) Buddhi (intellect) is agni (light) tattva from the throat to the

heart.

(4) Chitta (memory) is jala (water) tattva from the heart to the

navel, and,

(5) Ahankar (ego) is prithvi (earth) tattva from the navel to the

coccyx.

Ullam is thus the pure mind or the mind in its pure being, i.e., mind divested of all thoughts. It is the ether of mind corresponding to the expanse of mind without being crowded by thoughts.

When a person wakes up from sleep the head is raised and

there is the light of awareness. This light was already there in

the heart which is later reflected on the brain and appears as

consciousness. But this is not particularised until ahankar steps in. In the undifferentiated state it is cosmic (cosmic mind or cosmic consciousness). This state lasts usually for a minute interval and passes off unnoticed. It becomes particularised or differentiated by the intrusion of the ego and the person says ‘I’. This is always associated with an entity (here, the body). So the body is identified as ‘I’ and all else follows.

Because ullam is only the reflected light, it is said to be the moon.

The original light is in the heart which is said to be the sun.