Māhātmya-Khaṇḍa 6.5—the Resplendent Self
Channel: Consciousness Research Centre
Date: 26/06/2021

This series is classified Viśiṣṭādvaita-vāda | Bhakti-yoga | Anāhata-cakra

Hearing his words, the great sage Dattātreya uttered auspicious words that pleased Paraśurāma: “O Rāma! Listen carefully to my words. The good desire that has been expressed by you who are pure, is the root of auspiciousness. Truly you have gathered the grace of the Devī. Your good deeds of many past births have borne fruit. This type of grace is never acquired by small deeds. The fruits of your good deeds in the past are really supreme. O Rāma! Listen to me with oneness of mind. Your desire is most comforting. It cannot be realized anytime without wisdom. Truly Paraśiva is the Self of all creatures. The individual soul under the influence of Māyā does not understand the Supreme. It remains small due to the shrinking of all powers. This is the Truth here. Nothing else shines. Other than the shining Self, nothing else even exists! Self-luminance is what is seen as Self. There is no difference between them. The power of the Self is really the illumination. 

"While contemplating the objects of the senses, a person develops attachment for them, and from such attachment lust develops, and from lust anger arises. From anger, complete delusion arises, and from delusion bewilderment of memory. When memory is bewildered, intelligence is lost, and when intelligence is lost one falls down again into the material pool." — Bhagavad-gītā 2.62–63

“The object here is the Universal Being-Consciousness-Bliss, which is all-pervading and therefore immanent in all. It need not be cognized by reflection alone; it is Self-resplendent. Therefore the seeker’s aim must be to drain away the vāsanas from the heart and let no reflection obstruct the Light of Eternal Consciousness. This is achieved by the search for the origin of the ego, and by diving into the heart. This is the direct method of Self-Realization. One who adopts it need not worry about nāḍīs, the brain, the suśumna, the parānāḍī, the Kuṇḍalinī, prāṇāyama or the six cakras. The Self does not come from anywhere else and enter the body through the crown of the head. It is as it is, ever sparkling, ever steady, unmoving and unchanging. The changes which are noticed are not inherent in the Self, which abides in the Heart and is self-luminous like the Sun. The changes are seen in Its Light.” —Rāmaṇa Mahārṣi, Talks 616

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