Lift Up Your Head And Be Free

 

A devotee at Virupaksha cave wanted to know who Bhagavan really was. He wrote a verse on a piece of paper, “Oh Ramana, who are you? Are you the highest God, Hari, or a rishi, or a celestial being? Who are you?” He then left the note on Bhagavan’s stone couch when Bhagavan had gone out. When Bhagavan returned and saw the note, he wrote behind it, “I am Arunachala Ramanan, dwelling in the Heart of every being, beginning with Lord Hari to the lowest being. If, with devotion, you plunge into the cave of your Heart, your inner eye will be opened and you will see this truth as the fullness of non-dual Awareness.”

This life is a gift, a precious opportunity – do not waste it! 

As long as the ego is intact, you live and die as a body…..again and again and again.

When the ego is destroyed completely, you are forever free from the cycle of birth and death.

Doing inevitably leads to suffering. Non-doing, just being, leads unerringly to bliss. 

Erase the ego-self before this body dies- then, and only then, will you know the perfect peace of immortality.

“Real devotion to Sri Bhagavan is to constantly practice his teachings and find that true stillness in the Heart, even in the midst of all movement. The one who abides in the Self knows nothing of anxiety, stress or suffering.You are that self-effulgent, self-sufficient, self-supporting, blissful Silence. Know this and be free forever.” Ramana Das

Now be still and calm the mind and set your spirit free to fly

Beyond the boundaries of self, beyond the walls of “you”and “ I”;

Here and now, just seize this moment, take Chance by his single hair,

Breathe the breath inside your breath, feel the magic in the air.

Open your eyes wide and see! Lift up your head and be free!

Dive deep within, the mystic sings, for true freedom from the mind:

Break the chains of memory, leave the web of Time behind.

Hear the song that Silence sings, bereft of words or melody,

Know the joy only Love can bring, the ecstasy of harmony.

Open your eyes wide and see! Lift up your head and be free!

“As rivers, flowing down, become indistinguishable on reaching the sea by giving up their names and forms, so also the illumined soul, having become freed from name and form, reaches the self-effulgent supreme Self.” Mundaka Upanishad.