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A Succinct Message from Engalazhvan

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Extracted from Newspaper covering Discourse By M.A.Venkatakrishnan

A man goes to Engalazhvan to become his disciple.The prospective sishya knocks at his door."who is there? asks Engalazhvan.The Man replies "It is I".
"Go away and come back after I am dead" Engalazhvan replies.
The man is puzzled by these words.
What Engalazhvan meant was that "I" should die before a man can seek instructions from an Acharya.Our ego,ahankaram our thought that Athma is ours must all vanish.
What a Succinct Message?
 
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Extracted from Newspaper covering Discourse By M.A.Venkatakrishnan

A man goes to Engalazhvan to become his disciple.The prospective sishya knocks at his door."who is there? asks Engalazhvan.The Man replies "It is I".
"Go away and come back after I am dead" Engalazhvan replies.
The man is puzzled by these words.
What Engalazhvan meant was that "I" should die before a man can seek instructions from an Acharya.Our ego,ahankaram our thought that Athma is ours must all vanish.
What a Succinct Message?
Engalazhvan himself says "after I am dead" or did he mean after the I in you is dead?
 
Engalazhavan

Sir :

As a matter of fact, when the ' I ' is dead, there is no need for
any teaching, for he becomes a realised soul with the death of 'I'.

Bhagawan Ramana's teaching is the enquiry - who am I ?.
When the superimposed 'I' dies, then there is only the real ' I'.

Please correct me if i am wrong . Regards,
 
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Sir :

As a matter of fact, when the ' I ' is dead, there is no need for
any teaching, for he becomes a realised soul with the death of 'I'.

Bhagawan Ramana's teaching is the enquiry - who am I ?.
When the superimposed 'I' dies, then there is only the real ' I'.

Please correct me if i am wrong .

Is there a way to tell whether you are wrong or not? If yes, what is it? If no, this whole exercise is just imaginary, no?

The "I" is a product of interaction among the billions of neurons in the head and therefore the "I" will die when the brain dies.


Thx
 
Dear Sir, I have a doubnt for many years. I Think you learned members would guide me properly. Eversince my childhood I have heard of WHO IS I, REMOVE I etcetc.
What I feel is that there is no I . Let us take an example of a car. Tyre, stearing, brake, etc are all parts of car. the carwont move without all these. car can be called a car only with all these esentional ingrediantsonly. car is combination/proper alocation of all these parts. In the same way I or Man is combination of leg, hand, etc etc,
So where is the question of I?
 
who is ' I '

Dear Mr.Kr Subramaniam,

I would suggest you read the books of Bhagawan Ramana
Maharishi. There is a website of sri Ramanashram also.
You can go thru' it. Or even the lectures of sri Paramacharya
on this subject. They have explained this in greater detail and
more lucidly. I cant match their words born out of anubhoothi,
and mine is just theoretical. Regards and best of luck.
 
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