English translation of T. V. Kapali Sastry's commentary on Vasishtha Ganapati Muni's Sat-darshana - sanskrit version of Sri Ramana's 'Ulladu Narpadu' in Tamil.
T. V. Kapali Sastry's Sat-Darshana Bhashya (commentary) on Vasishtha Ganapati Muni's सद्दर्शनम् - a Sanskrit version of Sri Ramana's 'Ulladu Narpadu' in Tamil
In his sixteenth year, the great Acharya Shankara, according to tradition, completed his matchless Bhashya on the Brahma Sutras, and fulfilling the work of the Supreme Teacher, the karana Guru, by establishing the identity of Atman with Brahman rose to the position of Jagad-guru or world-teacher. In his sixteenth year, the great devotee, Saint Jnana Sambandha, an ornament to the famous quartette of Acharyas of Shaivaism, completed his earthly career and reached the abode of the Lord whom he worshipped and recognised as his own Father and whose commission he carried out in his earthly life. Just on the completion of his sixteenth year, the great seer and sage Sri Ramana Maharshi, from fear of death sought in himself the protection of the Conqueror of Death, experiencing his inner being the Self in the Heart, as something distinct from the body; and feeling the urge of a supreme impulse recognised the Father of the universe as his own Father, and by His command quitted the post of his ego-self and reached, here and now in this earthly life, the Abode of his father, which he describes in his hymns as the immutable rock of Peace, the ambrosial ocean of Grace the Supreme Love, the ineffable Delight, the Ananda of the Real. His life throws a flood of illumination on the great mystic teaching of the Upanishad, “Great is your loss if you do not realise; but if you realise it here, then there is Truth for you.” Ever gracious to come down to those in need of help in ways best suited to them, scattering ennobling ideas and radiating uplifting influence constantly shedding all around in external life the splendour and glory of the inner life, here indeed is a divine life incarnate on earth, a Shankara in giving by precept and practice the gift of Self-knowledge to the world of earnest souls aspiring for liberation, a Sambandha in the spirit of devotion to the Father of the universe, a life-celibate unseized by the lure of sex and worldly possession, a soul liberated from Maya, illusion, a son of Maya, the Divine Mother, such is the great seer and sage, Shri Ramana Maharshi.
In his sixteenth year, the great Acharya Shankara, according to tradition, completed his matchless Bhashya on the Brahma Sutras, and fulfilling the work of the Supreme Teacher, the karana Guru, by establishing the identity of Atman with Brahman rose to the position of Jagad-guru or world-teacher.
In his sixteenth year, the great devotee, Saint Jnana Sambandha, an ornament to the famous quartette of Acharyas of Shaivaism, completed his earthly career and reached the abode of the Lord whom he worshipped and recognised as his own Father and whose commission he carried out in his earthly life.
Just on the completion of his sixteenth year, the great seer and sage Sri Ramana Maharshi, from fear of death sought in himself the protection of the Conqueror of Death, experiencing his inner being the Self in the Heart, as something distinct from the body; and feeling the urge of a supreme impulse recognised the Father of the universe as his own Father, and by His command quitted the post of his ego-self and reached, here and now in this earthly life, the Abode of his father, which he describes in his hymns as the immutable rock of Peace, the ambrosial ocean of Grace the Supreme Love, the ineffable Delight, the Ananda of the Real.
His life throws a flood of illumination on the great mystic teaching of the Upanishad, “Great is your loss if you do not realise; but if you realise it here, then there is Truth for you.” Ever gracious to come down to those in need of help in ways best suited to them, scattering ennobling ideas and radiating uplifting influence constantly shedding all around in external life the splendour and glory of the inner life, here indeed is a divine life incarnate on earth, a Shankara in giving by precept and practice the gift of Self-knowledge to the world of earnest souls aspiring for liberation, a Sambandha in the spirit of devotion to the Father of the universe, a life-celibate unseized by the lure of sex and worldly possession, a soul liberated from Maya, illusion, a son of Maya, the Divine Mother, such is the great seer and sage, Shri Ramana Maharshi.
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