The Wonderous Vigilance by Dr. Sarada

Ramana stresses that unless one consciously destroys the mind through vigilant self-enquiry, one’s mind is bound to be on his trail. This truth is repeatedly dinned in the face of the deafening sound of falsehood and illusion. What do all one’s trivial values add up to? What is one’s balance sheet at the end of each and every day, or should one say each and every moment, which we have lived in vain?

Ramana says, “Can the body, which is insentient as a piece of wood, shine and function as ‘I’? No. Therefore…… enquire keenly within what it is that now shines within the heart as ‘I’. Underlying the unceasing flow of varied thoughts, there arises the continuous, unbroken awareness, silent and spontaneous, as ‘I-I’ in the Heart. If one catches hold of it and remains still, it will completely annihilate the sense of ‘I’ in the body, and will itself disappear as a fire of burning camphor”.

In Sarada’s writings, there is an underlying depth, which pins one to this essence rather than to be content with a sip or two of it.

No. of pages: 117
Price of the book: Rs.150/-