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A Sadhu's Reminiscences of Ramana Maharshi
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Which ever doth within the heart its radiance
unfold. The Adepts by renunciation and one-pointedness Who have become both pure in heart and who
have also known The certainty of that one Truth Vedanta doth
profess, Attain Self-realization; when ignorance has flown From body and its cause Maya they'll gain full
liberty. That only as minute Akash what has eternal
shone, That is within the Lotus Heart, of every sorrow
free, of the Immaculate Supreme, the seat molecular, Within the body's inner core, should meditated
be. He verily is Lord Supreme. He is exalted far Above the Primal Word, which is of Veda first and
last; In which blends the Creative Cause, so merged in
one they are. Bhagavan used to say that the ego-sense arose in the Heart. This Heart is not the physical organ or even one of the Yogic Chakras but a point about one and a half inches to the right from the middle of the chest. Some people pretended that Self-realization was to be found at that point. But how is that possible? Can there be a physical spot where Realization is located? Surely it is all