Sri Ramakrishna Saranam
Purulia
04/07/1983
Dear,
I’ve come to know your details going through your letter sent in the envelope. I’ve returned here on the 1st of August after two months stay at Janai.
I myself sent you invitation letter of Guru-Purnima. You definitely did not get it. I am writing a poem on Advaita Vedanta. (Meditate upon it):
Only by study or deliberation
In happiness or in dejection
Can thou attain Brahmanjana
Can that be attain by act
Or is the object of intellect
Can be ascertained by inference
Or is Prameya or Praman
What do thy see, hear, and discriminate
Form, taste, sound,light and darkness
Self-conceited of being bounded and deliverance
Thyself on thy doth meditate on thyself.
To attain the Self, means the emancipation of the illusion that the Self cannot be achieved. The Self cannot be achieved or realised-all these are western doctrines such as Spencer’s Agnosticism or unknown and unknowable. Hence Sri Thakur said, “Attainable by through pure mind.”
Know my well-wishes.
Yours,
Father
Purulia
04/07/1983
Dear,
I’ve come to know your details going through your letter sent in the envelope. I’ve returned here on the 1st of August after two months stay at Janai.
I myself sent you invitation letter of Guru-Purnima. You definitely did not get it. I am writing a poem on Advaita Vedanta. (Meditate upon it):
Only by study or deliberation
In happiness or in dejection
Can thou attain Brahmanjana
Can that be attain by act
Or is the object of intellect
Can be ascertained by inference
Or is Prameya or Praman
What do thy see, hear, and discriminate
Form, taste, sound,light and darkness
Self-conceited of being bounded and deliverance
Thyself on thy doth meditate on thyself.
To attain the Self, means the emancipation of the illusion that the Self cannot be achieved. The Self cannot be achieved or realised-all these are western doctrines such as Spencer’s Agnosticism or unknown and unknowable. Hence Sri Thakur said, “Attainable by through pure mind.”
Know my well-wishes.
Yours,
Father
