tamiḷ

om namo bhagavate śrī aruṇāchalaramaṇāya

Sri Ramana Sahasram

by

Sri Sadhu Om

Obeisance to Sri Ramana Satguru
A good mind to be full of fine golden qualities, the power
of having natural peace in actions and words, not
involving in other's activities on any account, attending
only to the Lord and thereby be happy, with the total
objective of attending to the Self and knowing It. Let us
pray and bow to Him for the Grace of our Guru who took
the name as Sri Ramana.

Aim of the Book
1) These venbas were not written that these are to be
printed, or others should approve it or expecting
praise from friends. These are the words of love to
my beloved Lord Ramana who resides in my Heart.
Hence, it is a fault to be listened by others.

2) I do not open my mouth for others. Those who come
to me by Grace are one with me. Therefore,
whatever is said in ‘Ramana Sahasram' is only to
my mind in the presence of His Feet and not for
others.

3) The others who waste their time, let them not get
angry by my telling and scold me as ‘a selfish
fellow'. When their delusion is removed by the
purity of their mind, then they see me as a person
having told rightly.

Why this is written
4) O, my father, I should write one verse daily. In that
way, if You ask what to write today, O, my Satguru
Ramana, just like the cow is unkind to the weeping
of the calf, why are You unkind to me?

Protection
5) To write a venba daily and offer at the Feet of Sri
Ramana, let there not be any hindrance from the
planets etc.. O, the elephant faced Sri Ramana,
please help me.

6) Elephant faced Shiva Ramana! Kindly bestow Your
Grace like 'Amalaka' and protect me so that I may
dive deep in the silent light of the sea of Jnana,
Gurunatha and enjoy the bliss of egoless state.


Contents

Part I .....................................................................  6
  1. Praying for the Gracious Glance ......................................   6
  2. Praying for Your Gracious lke ........................................   6
  3. Praying for the Sacred Dust of the Feet of the Guru ..................   9
  4. Praying for the Eternal Presence (of Ramana)..........................  10
  5. Praying for Association with Devotees ................................  11
  6. Praying for Sweet Words ..............................................  12
  7. Praying for Good Qualities ...........................................  13
  8. Praying for Desirelessness ...........................................  15
  9. Praying for indifference towards fame and blame ......................  16
 10. Prayer for Viveka (Power of discrimination) and Vairagya (DISPASSION)   17
 11. Praying for help in Self-enquiry .....................................  23
 12. Praying for the Conquest of Prarabdha ................................  26
 13. Praying for the Destruction of Inadvertence ..........................  29
 14. Praying to Destroy the Infatuation for Arts ..........................  31
 15. Praying to Grace the Art of Self-knowledge ...........................  33
 16. Praying for the Destruction of Vasanas ...............................  35
 17. Praying for Purification by Your touch of Grace ......................  39
 18. Praying for Grace to Make me Pakva (Mature) ..........................  41
 19. Praying for the Self-ward Turn .......................................  43
 20. Praying for the Annihilation of the Ego ..............................  47
 21. Praying for the Loss of Individuallty ................................  53
 22. Praying for the Non-rising of 'I' ....................................  56
 23. Praying to Graciously Lead me ........................................  59
 24. Praying for Make me Abide ............................................  62
 25. Praying to be Graciously Attracted and Drawn .........................  65
 26. Praying for His Invocation ...........................................  67
 27. Praying to Stop me and Take me as His Own.............................  70
 28: Praying to Take me Back ..............................................  72
 29. Praying for Protection ...............................................  76
 30. Prayer for Refuge ....................................................  79
 31. Praying to be a True Slave ...........................................  82
 32. Praying for the True Love ............................................  86
 33. Praying for the Love to Self (or) Praying for Swatma Bhakti ..........  91
 34. Praying for the Real Renunciation ....................................  95
 35. Praying for the Real Darshan .........................................  96
 36. Praying for the True Knowledge .......................................  97
 37. Praying to Set the Fire of Jnana ..................................... 1O1
 38. Praying for the Dawn of Jnana ........................................ 1O3
 39: Praying for Jnana Nishta ............................................. 1O7
 40. Praying to be More Gracious Than a Mother ............................ 114
 41. Praying for the Life in the Heart .................................... 117
 42. Praying for the Experience of Advaita ................................ 121
 43. Praying to Swallow Me as His Prey .................................... 124

Part 2 .................................................................... 13O
 44. Complete Your Duty ................................................... 130
 45. Give me Your Remembrance.............................................. 135
 46. You Please Think me (?) .............................................. 136
 47. If You Think it Will Be Done ......................................... 139
 48. Does this Fit You? ................................................... 141
 49. Except You Who is Capable? ........................................... 145
 50. You Alone are Capable ................................................ 148
 51. Show Your Valour ..................................................... 154
 52. You Alone who took me as Your own, bestow Your Grace ................. 161
 53. You Alone are my Support ............................................. 165
 54, If Your Grace Alone is the Important Factor .......................... 168
 55. Expressing One's Own Inability ....................................... 174
 56. Declaring One's Own Immaturity (apakva) .............................. 177
 57. Wondering at One's Own Defect ........................................ 181
 58. Pitying for One's Own Defects ...................................... 184
 59. Informing the Inability .............................................. 188
 60. Unable to bear with Your delay any More .............................. 193
 61. The aversion towards living in this body ............................. 201
 62. Being afraid of worldly people ....................................... 202
 63. Should I be a Waste? ................................................. 203
 64. I Depend Only Upon You ............................................... 206
 65. Do not Abandon me .................................................... 209
 66: Arguing with:the Lord ................................................ 212
 67. Bestow Your Grace - Lest Your Glory Get Ill Famed .................... 220
 68. Wondering at Your Mercilessness ...................................... 223
 69. Is this Your Trick to Make Me Sing? .................................. 227
 70. May Your Will Alone Win .............................................. 231
 71. May You alone Exist .................................................. 234
 72. Wondering at the Grace ............................................... 238
 73: Having Consolation ................................................... 242
 74. You Alone Exist ...................................................... 244
 75. Accept Even My Petty Prayer .......................................... 246


Part 1

Praying for the Gracious Glance
1) If even Annamalai, the fire of knowledge cannot devour
me who else can do so? Therefore, You, who appeared as
a column of fire in order to enlighten the two Gods
(Brahma and Vishnu) bestow Your glance on me.

2) O Shonachala Ramana, the perfectly free one, the
almighty embodiment of Grace, the one who
bestows mukthi to anyone who thinks of You,
graciously glance at me, the abandoned.

a) O Shonachala Ramana, the perfectly free one, the
almighty embodiment of Grace, the one who
bestows Mukthi to those whom You wish ,
graciously glance at me, the abandoned

3) O Lord Ramana in the form of Arunachala Hill,
place Your gracious look on me, the outcast, who by
attending to the second and third persons veils
myself with the delusive desire and fear towards
the body and world which do not exist when ‘I am'
not there.

4) O Guru Siva Mangala Sri Ramana who stood as the
great Hill (Arunachala). By Your eye of Jnana see
me, who is ever incapable and remaining here ever
expecting Your divine help.

5) Seeing the objective world as different from the
Seer itself is a great maya. Therefore see me by
Your gracious look so that the seeing (the objective
look) can be turned towards the Seer.

6) Will not Your gracious look become strong on me so
that (my nature of) slipping down from Self-
attention and taking to world-attention can cease?
See my state of unnecessary rising and wandering
for ever so many days externally. Kindly bestow
Your gracious look.

7) O Ramana, the great God of Arunachala, by Your
gracious eyes see me who has vainly spent all my
lifetime by wandering along the way the mind has
dragged me.

8) Bestow the gracious on me, so that I may drown in
the ocean of bliss, subsiding more and more from
where the happiness surges up more and more so
that I may become worthy.


Praying for Your gracious look
9) The gracious look You set on me is the same with
which I can look at self (You). Therefore, bestow
Your final divine look on me, so that I shall see You
deep within.

10) The "True Seeing" means one/s seeing oneself.
"Seeing Other" - can it not be other than blindness?
Therefore, see me so that I shall ever have that
blissful gracious look Self-ward with great love.

11) O Arunachala Ramana, the foremost who shines as
‘Il am' without the rising not allowing the "ego I" by
the rising of which all that is false seemingly raises;
show me Your sweet face to me who is longing for
It.

12) I am not the one to slip away from You as You have
brought me only to destroy my ignorance (worldly
ignorance); will it be proper if You delay to put me
in Your path of safety. Therefore, fix Your gracious
look on me.

Praying for the Sacred Dust of the Feet of the Guru
13) My great desire is to obtain by prayer the sacred
dust of the Feet of mighty Ramana which restores
for me my natural state where I remain alone as
mere "I am" being rid of all thoughts.

14) O Bhagavan, there will be no one who will be as
happy as I shall be, if You give me a small particle
of sacred dust of Your Feet in chit-ananda which
ever shines in the same manner without
undergoing the change of being present once and
absent in another time.


Praying for the Eternal Presence of Ramana
15) By knowing that my own destruction is my
real existence and by having unequal desire for my
own destruction and through the glance let me
attain my real existence by my own destruction.
Bestow upon me thus, the experience of Your
eternal presence.

16) If You give me the unobstructed surging experience
of knowing that Your presence is truly everywhere
and that everything (in the world) is nothing but
Your own form, that alone will be the kind divine
gift Sat-Chit-Ananda lovingly to me.

17) If I am, unforgettably aware of Your presence
within me that You are witnessing every thought of
mine, can any hurdles of maya's vices approach me
(not at all)

18) O, my dearest by Your Grace give me the fool, who
is ever weeping unable to get out of the deep prison
pit of ahankara -- the house of liberation by Your
Grace and give the boon of Your presence not
leaving that state.


Praying for association with devotees
19) Will You not make me to live among Your real
golden devotees instead of wasting my life by living
among worst people, O Lord Sonachala Ramana,
will You not look at my state with Your
compassionate eyes?

20) Help me so that I may sprinkle the dust on me of
the divine Feet of Your disciples who attained Atma
Siddhi by performing tapas at Your Feet discarding
all delusions, the dream of waking and all anxieties
therein.

21) Dissolve and retain me in the experience of Your
devotees who melted away even their bones in You,
who immersed in the Heart by the well ripened
sweet love which has never been seen before.


Praying for Sweet Words
22)  O, great Guru, I pray to You that You should take
my body, speech and mind under Your control
always till the body dies, and handle them in such
that they will never take to useless activities.

23) Give me the flow of wise and sweet speech by
which no one will be offended make me worthy
disciple and as a sign of that give me the boon of
peaceful flow of polite talk from my tongue.

24)  , the one who provides me the non-doer-ship in
such a manner that my tongue and mind will not do
anything to offend the hearts of good people. Give
me, Your son, the ability of conversing only with
useful and impressive (???) words.

25) Though with good intention in the heart, if I say
some words, they give some other meaning and
trouble the heart of virtuous people like a sword
thrust into a wound, bless me that no such
circumstances will happen in future. Give my
tongue such words as to speak free of fear.

26) How can (fault of doing) any sin befall me who live
with this body, speech and mind which are guided
by You in an honest way. However, if harm alone
will befall on others by my body, speech and mind,
order my mouth to be at least silent.


Praying for good qualities
27) Just like a King, before he visits the cottage of a
poor man first sends a boxful of wealth for his good
reception and then goes there. Is it not fit for You to
reform me, the poor by providing me with divine
qualities which are agreeable to You so as to reside
in my heart, do so in the same way.

28) Ordain me so that I move with deep real love,
peaceful mind, humility and polite, sweet words
towards those who are around thus live without any
thing contradicting to my Guru's greatness.

29) Will You not make it my nature to show sweet and
loving face towards others bearing with the poverty
that befalls on me and which is a sign of Grace so
that, none of them can know even a bit of it.

30) Make my eyes glow well with the true heroism even
in the midst of poverty which is the sign of divinity.
For is it not the real fortune for the mind to revel
more and more in the reassure of Grace (rather
than having the worldly wealth?)

31) Seeing at least one good quality superior to me in
every creature I see and thereby giving respect to
every one of them, ever retain in me that good
quality so that it may not leave me.


32)  O, my Lord, is it not by Your Grace that some
people have true love towards me and help me? It
is by Your Grace alone that they help even though I
am unworthy, is it not!

33) Give me the strength not only to forgive those who
do wrong to me but also to forget the wrong. Make
me stand firm in that unequal state where I will
merge in You and will have no existence of my own.

34) I am living here only by the help and protection of
Your Grace. Bestow upon me the golden humility, so
that I shall never forget this and think egotistically
that it is all by my tapas and it is all due to my
merit.


Praying for Desirelessness
35) Oh, the one who took me as Your own, graciously
bestow upon me my prayer that I do not want the
mind (--) which will desire the undesirable
poisonous sense object.

36) I have You, my Lord who provides me place to live,
food to eat and clothes to wear and all other
requirements in my life. Therefore, bless me so that
the poverty in the form of desiring for the needs of
my life go away from me.

37) Let me not go begging behind those who are
already begging (those who are toiling in this world
for wealth). Make me live a fine life of being
channel (or) wealth of Your Grace to those who
come begging to me for any thing.


Praying for indifference towards fame and blame
38) Praise and blame are the two sides of a sheet of
paper, writing on both sides of the destiny, one of
this will not be without the other. O Ramana,
bestow Your Grace so that I will become one with
Your Feet having no destiny at all.

39) O Jnana Guru Ramana, though crores of people
praised You, when some came up even to blame
You, You remained unaffected by these changing
two. Such is Your true gracious Lotus Feet which
alone is my refuge.

40) O Lord Ramana only Your Feet are the shade to be
in an unaffected natural state where I can be free
from pain and pleasure which are the results of
blame and fame created by the words because of
the petty mind seeing the non-existent world as
something real and different from me.

41) Take me to and fix me in the unshakeable state of
sahaja by giving me a bath of Jnana and by
providing me the cessation of all mental agitation
caused by fame and blame.


Prayer for Viveka (Power of discrimination) and Vairagya (Dispassion)
42) Not knowing that abiding in me (self) alone is the
highest happiness. I jump and run towards those
which are in front of me. Why have You not given
me the power of discrimination so that I shall be at
rest by knowing the truth that all these second and
third person objects are not at all existing apart
from me (self)

43) Bestow Your Grace upon me, so that I shall get out
of the deep pit of thoughts, which rise and long
throughout the day for objects, firmly thinking of
the non-existent body life as my real life.

44) Not knowing what is reality and becoming a slave
of the illusory world, the mind becomes weak
forgetting the self, runs outward. So You shine well
destroying this forgetfulness of my stillness of Self.

45) If asked what is true, greatness and supreme bliss,
it is nothing but Your Lotus Feet (self) very close to
me. Will one if fully convinced wander in the world
for happiness and greatness in vain? Hence kindly
bestow Your Grace of this Viveka (discrimination) in
me.

46) This world dream will end one day, this body will
die and vanish. The direct experience of Self
knowledge through discrimination by Self-enquiry
is alone the unending reality. Ah, why do I not
understand this and attain?

47) Let me be prey to Your Grace through the well
settled discrimination that the experience of
abiding as Heart is the real happiness and that all
the sense pleasures are mere mirage. Shine as
Heart destroying me.

48) If You give me such courageous intellect by Your
Grace to firmly determine that any activity except
loving and abiding in the Heart is useless, I will not
request You even a bit (atom) of anything else.

49) 0 father, when will You Grace Your son who took
refuge at Your Feet not being able to do any other
sadhana? Dissolve in the ocean of love of Sat-Chit-
Ananda without seeking for the bodily pleasure.

50) Make me live in the clarity of Vairagya - not
desiring for anything even a bit outside, and always
to live in Your memory; "The Feet of my Guru
Ramana alone is my protection".

51) Make me live at least hereafter to give up the
attention towards the false alien and imaginary
world and to ever merge in the Lotus Feet of my
Guru who blazes up in the heart as the pure real
flame of love.

52) Unite with me so that the strength of my false mind
be destroyed, which does not have love towards
Self (Heart) even though it has heard the real and
golden words of Your teachings. "Except from Your
Feet, the heart, the souls do not get an iota of
pleasure from anything else".

53) Bestow Your Grace upon me so that I shall destroy
the desire towards the false (world) by seeing
through the clear sight of knowledge that all that is
seen is mere imaginary picture like appearances.

54) Just as one who was eating a palm fruit throws it
away as soon as he tastes the sugar candy, make
me give up the innumerable sense pleasures by
bestowing upon me the chance of first tasting the
bliss of liberation.

55) The mean idea, that the seen - subtly the thoughts
and in gross the body and the world etc. - are very
tasteful things is the reason for the mind to wander
more and more. Take the responsibility and destroy
this mean idea from me.

56) I bow before Your exemplified supreme vairagya
which You have shown by living with an only one
old torn loin cloth which was stitched with a thread
from the same rag and with a needle made up of
thorn. I beg You to bestow upon me such vairagya.

57) You are the one who of Your own accord (unasked)
bestows liberation while it was, said by people
(sastras) as if to be unattainable unless it is
strivingly sought for. Then, is it not ridiculous on
my part to ask You to give me the needs of my petty
life?

58) Due to the weakness of my poor mind which does
not possess sufficient faith in Your Grace, I may ask
“these are essential for my petty life." Let it be
according to Your will to give or not to give.

59) Bestow upon me such a grand vairagya that I shall
be glad with whatever becomes available to me of
its own accord instead of thinking about anything
as "I need this one and that one".

60) Is the intellect which You provided me is to merely
nourish the madness of the five senses? Kindly
remove from me such useless activities and give
the work of ever happily abiding at Your Feet (or)
the work of ever happily seeing Self-ward
(attending Self-ward)

61) Even though I have learnt that the pleasurable
experience of any of the five senses is derived only
from self the heart, will not my mind turn within
seeking complete rest instead of trying to feed the
five senses for happiness?

62) Kindly have pity on me so that I shall understand
that the aim of taking this human birth is to gain
the experience of Atma Jnana and that my working
for food, cloth and shelter is only for the soul to
remain in the body by which the above aim is
achieved.

63) Make me to know through a deep viveka, and
thereby to be happy, that I cannot by my present
efforts get even a bit of pleasure or pain more than
what was allotted in my prarabdha and that to
accept and be contented with only that much which
comes to me of its own accord, without myself
jumping externally.

64) Even though You advised me a number of times that
no trouble will befall on me, unless it is destined ,
how is it proper on my part to go against Your
advice, instead of drowning in peace with a mind
completely surrendered to You?

65) Bestow upon me now itself the right knowledge of
not having any hatred towards anyone by knowing
that none (on earth) has any power to harm me
unless Your Grace itself permits them (to do so)

66) Bestow Your Grace upon me so that I shall not be
caught into the deceitful anger, but to subside
within with the mind well controlled by viveka
(discrimination) that except for my prarabdha none
other is in any way responsible for any misery that
comes in my life.

67) Give me Your slave who at all times falls at Your
Feet and prays for the strength to live undisturbed
by moving with unlimited patience (forbearance)
even towards those whose nature is ever to create
troubles.

68) Be gracious to reveal to me bliss of supreme Self
knowledge which survives as the absolute reality,
otherwise (lest) I should be proud of the worldly
knowledge in the form of "This is analysing
knowledge and this is for syntactical knowledge".


Praying for help in Self-enquiry
69) I have found out the cause for my sufferings. It is
nothing but my rising (as the body) instead of
remaining as 'I am'. The proper medicine for it is
Your upadesa "Who am I?". Now You Yourself
graciously feed me this medicine so that I may take
it and rest at peace.

70) What was I before I identified this body as I? How
and as what will I naturally be after the death of
this body which is this I? This confusion is terrible.
Kindly reveal to me.

71) Alas, how did I agree to take this foul smelling
bundle of fleshy, filthy body as I? Though I
somehow have taken it as 'I', now graciously come
and help me at least to enquire and get rid of this
wrong attachment.

72) What is the use of getting me a doubt only at times
when I see this body as 'I Am This'? Give me the
supreme Bhakti to enquire deeply within and to
firmly experience the true ‘I’.

73) Graciously, show me at least an iota of the honey
taste of Selfenquiry by taking to which Your
obedient disciples have attained an ocean of Self
knowledge so that I may also attain it.

74) Except by Your Grace how can I the meek get the
strength to destroy the ego. Therefore, by Your
Grace spring up from within in the form of the
strength of the enquiry about the reality (Self-
enquiry) in the form of love towards the
introversion (Self-love) or (swatma Bhakti) and in
the form of strength to abide in self.

75) Pleasure and pain are the results of love and hatred
towards things which are appearing to the mind as
if existing or non-existing. Therefore, if You give the
mental strength to enquire or attend to "is there an
‘I’ existing" (to whom is this pain and pleasure)?
Then how can there be any pain or pleasure for
me?

76)  Ordain my mind to enquire one-pointed within,
instead of being frightened and extroverted. Make
me by Your Grace one with You, the reality and to
become the ocean of bliss.

77) QO Ramana, who graciously manifested as
Arunachala the Hill of Jnana in front of Brahma and
Vishnu makes me know that which shines as 'I, I' is
the true 'I' by firmly catching hold of You, make me
drown in the heart with well established silence.

78) Not knowing and having no power to do (any
sadhana) I have come to You and surrendered. To
such a person if You ask me to do vichara where is
the strength for me. You who has a true power on
me to do this also (vichara).


Praying for the conquest of prarabdha
79) Make my present life turned out by Your prasad of
Grace to be the one with clarity (Jnana), instead of
its becoming a result of mere good and bad
(karmas according to the dark destiny, prarabdha ).
Why should You take my destiny for consideration?
Graciously set it aside.

80) Shower upon me Your Grace which destroys every
bit of the fruit of the bad prarabdha of those
devotees who go right round the hill Arunachala
praying to be savedfrom the ill effects of the
prarabdha and worships You.

81) Oh, Father, why should You leave Your hold on me
saying ‘You do not have hold upon me '? O gracious
Ramana do not allow my life to go according to my
destiny (prarabdha karma). At least, give me the
boon to die for You.

82) Those Karmas which were done by my desires in
the past have now become the destiny (in this
birth). But my desire at present is nothing but to
reach You. Let my past desires be destroyed by You,
and let my mind have the life of ever abiding in You
with great love towards You, the supreme.

83) Is it a wonder, if an ordinary iron which contacts
the sparsavedi (philosopher's stone) becomes
sparkling gold? In the same way this birth which
came due to prarabdha by coming to You be
converted by Your sparsavedi of Grace into the life
of ever abiding in You with the great love towards
You, the supreme.

84) Though it is a cruel sword which while in the hands
of a murderer will cure and save the life of a
patient if it reaches the hands of a Doctor. So also
even though mine is a worst prarabdha it
willchange itself into the one which will yield Jnana,
if it gets Your touch of Grace.

85) Whatever be a big prarabdha, unless You ordain,
they cannot of its own accord give its fruit. For the
paddy fields to divert water (from the tank) a
mighty person alone can route the channel to water
the field. In the same way oh, the mightiest You
channelise that my karma be coursed as Jnana
prarabdha.

86) Oh, my father the greatest protection I believe and
have is only Your gracious Lotus Feet will not my
prarabdha lose its form even after it is unfailingly
caught in the jaws of the tiger, my Guru's Grace?

87) Oh my Guru Ramana, are You not the gracious Lord
who will never allow anything to raise its head
except You the Self. Crush my prarabdha by Your
divine power who is there to question Your
command as why --?

88) Oh my father, since the giving of the fruit of any
good or bad karma (prarabdha) is within Your hand,
which destiny can do what harm to me in front of
Your Grace, who has taken me as Your own?


Praying for the destruction of inadvertence
89) Oh, the one who bestows Jnana through Your look!
Oh, the Lord Annamalai in human form! Root out
the ghostly tree of inadvertence (pramada) by
bestowing upon me the greatest earnest love is
Self-Attention.

90) I am unable to abide firmly in Self-Attention due to
the wild possession of the ghost "inadvertence"
(pramada). Give me fast, the boon that the missile
of Grace targets the ghost and makes it annihilated
to the root.

91) Turn my life fruitful by making me reject all useless
activities which are in no way beneficial for the
(real) awakening and by making me for for the path
of Your upadesa (vichara). Also, make me act by the
power of Your Grace that idleness, the poverty (of
Grace), should perish.

92) Shower the rain of Your Grace upon me whose
heart is broken and dried (due to the worldly
desires) so that at least from now on it should gain
love to Your gracious Feet and thereby get a great
unceasing interest (for vichara) and enthusiasm to
get rid of the inadvertence.

93) Oh, my lord be gracious to me a little, so that my
mind which slips down and wanders away due to
inadvertence, should have unceasing love, get fixed
firmly at You become one with You and enjoy Your bliss.


Praying to destroy the infatuation for arts
94) Since the gross objective world is nothing but the
enlarged /expanded form of the vasanas which
were already collected within me in tiny seed forms
and not a real one, make me alive (?) in self having
destroyed all knowledge of arts for which I have
taken so much of useless efforts (to achieve)

95) I have understood that the fruit of learning all the
different arts (in this world) is just like the fruit of
wealth acquired in a dream. All those arts (in this
world) which are of no use for the fruit of the real
awakening, instead they are only strong fetters!
Graciously, break these fetters.

96) Achieving the bliss which shines as mere 'I', the
existence is the greatest wealth I long for. That
which prevents me from achieving this wealth is
only the screen of delusion in the form of impurities
of mind acquired from what I had learnt all these
days.

97) When I see the vastness of innumerable arts, my
mind is confused and the senses get tired. Then the
mind wants to attain power (to learn them). Hence
it will jump towards the attainment of occult
powers. Therefore, graciously bestow upon me the
strength to turn my mind within and abide in self,
the reality.

98) All other knowledges are nothing but a jugglery of
one's existence - consciousness (i.e., the knowledge
of ones own existence, 'I am'). Therefore prevent
me from rising and falling into the deep dark pit of
desire for arts and take me back from the pitfall to
learn the knowledge of my own existence and to
abide in it.


Praying to Grace the art of Self-knowledge
99) Guru Ramana, teach me that art which will release
me from the ghostly grip of the mad delusion of
repeatedly undergoing birth and death - and - by
which I shall attain the real experience of Jnana.

100) I know of no other place of refuge except the
wonderful golden Feet of Arunachala Ramana. O
Lord now it is solely Your responsibility to bestow
upon me the art of Self-knowledge within, instead
of showing me the taste towards learning of any art
in extroversion.

101) I now understand that the many different
knowledges I have acquired through seeing,
reading and practising are really remaining and
distracting me for away from Your divine Feet.
Therefore graciously teach me the art of reaching
You.

102) To the first person singular ego, You form a root
cause as first person singular and never take dual
form as world such as ata(?). "supreme"! I, the
meek one let me learn the Self-knowledge so that I
can overcome the multitude of knowledges and
later never rising to say as ‘I learnt’ the Self-
knowledge, by submerging in You. Kindly show me
Your light of Grace.

103) The art which can never be explained (in words)
the Graceful vision which cannot be seen like
worldly objects, consumed totally in silence by
becoming slave to You, please show me in its order
of learning, seeing and feeling the absence of my
self (mind).

104) My rising as 'I' (am so and so) is nothing but the
rising of miseries and the miseries are also only for
the rising I and by the rising I. Therefore,
graciously make me learn the skill of remaining
unswervingly in the supreme Self.

105) If I am given to experience the consciousness in
sleep where there is neither pain nor pleasure,
what more will be needed in the walking state (a)?
Therefore, make me learn the state of unbroken
sleep with consciousness and remain ever "as I is"
(?) (a): other than the experience


Praying for the destruction of Vasanas
106) To withdraw from the beginning-less crowded bad
vasanas oh, my father I have understood that no
human being can gain the strength except through
Your Grace. Therefore take me as Your slave and
protect me from them (vasanas)

107) There is no benefit by the death of this gross body,
provide me the death of the root body chitta (the
group of vasanas) by lighting the fire of Grace. You
once absorbed the great poison (which rose up
during the churning of the ocean of milk to protect
the Devas), but now if You absorb the poison in me,
the beginning-less bad vasanas of chitta then, I
shall have no miseries.

108) Oh, my Lord the vasanas make me suffer by pain
and pleasure. Burn away to ash the vasanas
dwelling within me and thus bestow upon me the
experience of perfect Jnana and bless me. He (Your
slave) has been blossomed into the state
(Ramanayanam) of fullness is Ramana (?)

109) Drive away the wild ghost of vasanas and extricate
my soul from the ghost which has up till (until?)
now tempted me in many different ways through
the external desires, destroyed the clarity of my
mind and all my greatness thereby and has
imprisoned me in the forest of sense pleasures.

110) Bestow upon me the vasana of Grace (sat-vasana)
so that all the worldly vasanas well nourished by
the mind which had fallen, slipped into impure and
filthy lives through thousands of births are
destroyed to its core.

111) Reveal the truth of the self without abandoning me
who fall at Your Feet many times and pray being
tired of the vast dense darkness of delusion caused
by the cover of the crores of bad vasanas over me.

112) By Your nature, You're present (exist) at all places;
With that rule, You are also present (exist) in my
heart;But how is that I do not have peace? Unless
You destroy the tendencies of chitta which creates
attachment and bring me under Your gracious rule,
there cannot be peace in me. Graciously do it.

113) Oh Sonachala Hill, help me so that the delusive
seer of body and world, which is nothing but and
appearance of the vasanas of the ego enlarged and
projected out through the five senses should cease.

114) The vasanas which never allow me to remain is my
state of being (self), take the different forms of
likes and dislikes and make me whirl in the ever
increasing screen of dream - appearance. You, who
alone is fit to put an end to this, be gracious.

115) I being drowned in the pit of the mud of chitta - the
seed - of birth prattle as I and mine to You in my
madness of delusion. Graciously lift me up from the
mud of bondage pit to the shore of liberation and
cleanly wash me by the holy Ganges water of
silence.

116) Bestow Your Grace upon me so that I shall drown
deep in heart by vichara destroying the
accumulated past vasanas which are so strong that
they rise from chittam stealthily all of a sudden and
rob off the strength of even a well balanced mind
and spoil it.

117) Oh my Lord, destroy the root from which all useless
thoughts rise up unceasingly like waves and unite
even with Your Feet so that I may always be worthy
of Your Grace.

118) How can I, the dull minded one be able to remain in
the thoughtless state of Siva? Oh my father, kindly,
come and help me by Your Grace so that all the
vasanas in me will die.

119) Will any vasanas survive without depending upon
an 'I' the form of mind? If You, the Lord destroy
today itself this 'I', the ego which one of the
vasanas can remain anymore?

120) Unless the vasanas which are continuously
obstructing and spoiling all the efforts taken from
my very early days when I took this body are not
destroyed by Your Grace, Oh, Ramanesa, what can I
do further?

121) Oh, my Lord in my heart how can I describe all the
innumerable vasanas in me? Even a little I cannot
do. Therefore, graciously destroy all of them and
make me merge in Your Feet, the True Jnana which
does not know any otherness (bit of differentiation)

122) This world is not a one that exists truly. This is a
mere mental false appearance. This world is only
the form of the five sense-knowledges (?). All the
five senses are nothing but the mind. This thinking
mind is nothing but chittam, a tiny reflection of
Self. Oh, the pure one, destroy the chittam and
shine as self alone.

123) Vasanas the impressions of the past karmas are the
cause for the rising of the ego 'I'. But now I, Your
slave, pray to You and call for Your help. Graciously
protect me from vasanas (henceforth) and You (self)
shine forth.


Praying for purification by Your touch of Grace
124) Turn me into a purified lustrous gold (mind) by
burning me in the fire of Jnana and may that fine of
blissfully cold ocean shine excelling the brightness
of even the millions of Suns.

125) Whatever You touch it becomes Gold! O, the one
who has such illuminating eyes, is not everything
turn (?) into crops of Jnana which is touched by
Your eyesight? Therefore, You bestow Your Grace
on me so that I shall drown in the ocean of bliss
where there is no feeling of bondage.

126) There is no limit to the power of Your Grace which
can squeeze even a stone and turn it into a sweet
fruit. Turn by Your power of Grace, my mind which
is an embodiment of darkness into the rising bright
Sun of Jnana.

127) Oh the Hill of the treasure of Jnana, turn me the
deluded poor fellow who not knowing who I am
takes due toe the darkness of ignorance, the
adjunct, the fleshy body as 'I', into a rich one by
Your gracious giving.

128) Make me shine at Your Lotus Feet as a nice pearl
lying at the bottom of the ocean of Jnana, which will
never come to the hands of arguing people. Let me
be Your possession ever shining at Your Feet.


Praying for Grace to make me Pakva (Mature)
129) Oh my Lord, how and what more can I say to You
and beg at Your Feet about my defects of mind. Oh
the more compassionate than the mother, it is
proper for You alone to provide me maturity.

130) Though I am an immature and useless one who
came to You hoping from Your Grace for my release
from the bondage of Jiva, will You not graciously
make me mature?

131) Since it is a general rule that even a God or Guru
will not give liberation to one who does not like. I
am now praying to You, But I do not have the
requisite strength to strive for that Give me the
strength by taking me as Your own.

132) Are You not the proper doctor who knows well what
is the proper medicine for my poor, weak mind
which repeatedly falls back not able to stand firm
as 'I am that I am'. Give me that medicine.

133) By Your Gracious churn bring out all vasanas stored
in me for ages and destroy them totally while
churning by Your Grace when vasanas rise up, lift
up my level so that I could bear whatever
difficulties I may have to face.

134) Here is this fellow, one 'I', because of his existence
there appears millions of evil and miserable lives on
earth. All these are nothing but the impure nature
of this 'I'. Graciously purify and free him from all
the impurities and reveal the reality that You alone
exist.

135) All Your devotees by being Your real slaves attained
liberation in such a manner that they will never
come back (into this world). But though 'I' the fool
has no love for You. By Your Grace kindly remove
all my mad delusion and let me go into Your home
of liberation.

136) All the past days of my life in this body had become
in vain, like that of a pig eating the filth. O Lord
Ramana, who somehow caught and dragged me
had given me Your darshan. Now, by Your gracious
glance root out all the roots of my rebirth.

137) This fool, have not having the purity of mind, is
begging for Your Grace hoping to get the purity of
mind only through Your Grace. My father, be
merciful even to me (this fool) and protect me.


Praying for the Self-ward turn
138) Though I ask You thousands of boons other than the
boon to turn Self-ward, be gracious not to give me
those boons which will not help to pull back my
mind within and to make me quiet; And do not give
that will only be a hindrance (?)

139) Though all creatures and all the ordinary worldly
people with attachment are having love towards
Self, but in a round about way, while is not the one
who is introverted alone attains liberation the
Bliss? (Therefore be gracious not to give ....inverse
138 (?))

140) Though I was repeatedly weeping and praying to
You from my very early days as, "O my Father,
bestow upon me Your Feet, which is the natural
divine, bliss itself", I have not improved even a bit
due to my insincere and impure devotion.

141) O my Lord Ramana, see my poor state that I cannot
live even a moment without Your Grace will You not
make my mind which springs and wanders over
only the second and third person objects, to turn
inward giving up the external and to be happily
quiet.

142) All my days of the past have gone in vain due to the
mischievous play of the ego. At least from now
onwards kindly remove my desires for this world
and bestow upon me the true love to turn within.

143) Give me in such a way that it will become easy for
me to turn Self-ward without attending to other
things (the world) that seemingly exists because of
my slackness in Self-Attention.

144) The more I allow the mind to go after the senses,
the more the strength of the senses increases and
never decreases. Being tired of them and return.
Therefore, my lord, bestow Your Grace upon me so
that I shall turn Self-ward without running after the
sense of pleasures.

145) Without myself worrying as 'O, is there anyone to
feed my stomach and to provide my body with two
meters of cloth'' Make me put even this
responsibility at Your Feet and remain always
turned Self-ward.

146) Remove my mental delusion in which I live
mistaking this dream as my real life. Are You not
my kind father who is capable of restoring me back
to Self-Attention removing my world attention.
Kindly do so by Your Grace.

147) O Lord, why does my mind instead of getting more
and more liking to firmly remain always Self-ward,
quite contrarily gets taste only to wander
everywhere? Graciously make my mind attached to
You alone.

148) O Ramana, I am begging of You to give me the real
benefit of egolessness. Bless me with immense
wealth of great desire to attend to self, having
rooted out in me the huge tree of worldly desires.

149) O Gracious Lord, who has me as Your slave and
wealth of Jnana, look at me and have a little mercy
upon me here and now, so that the mind of Your
slave will turn inward and remain in peace without
being deluded.

150) I understand that Your shining within as 'I am' (the
sat-cit) is itself Grace. But also do by Your Grace
the act of removing the mind's tendency of going
out and turn it towards Self.

151) Ido not have so much eagerness to turn inward as I
have towards outward. What (tapas) shall I do to
obtain greater love to turn inward (ie., towards
self) than the love I have towards the deluding
attention.

152) Fix me in the grand Self-attention where I cannot
have any liking even in the least to see anyone of
the second/third person objects and where the 'I
and mine' (matured) will never rise at all due to the
very advanced Self-Attention which will grow there
more and more.

153) If You bestow upon me the intense desire to gain
the happy state of being still and to have not even
the least desire towards the external delusion an
thus fix me in the Heart, then all my fear will
vanish. Kindly, give me only this.

154) Enough of all the days I had spent in this life
thinking - 'I should do this, should do that'. At least
from now on graciously make me turn inward and
to be with You my Father, without thinking anything
externally.

155) Ah, what can I do to take my mind, which
unceasingly wanders outside to turn within?
Protect me and keep me within the hand-grip of
Your Grace to be ever inward turned so that my life
of renunciation will shine well.


Praying for the annihilation of the ego
156) O my Satguru, thrice I promise You help me (?) so
that the 'I' should die once for all and be finished in
You. Give me not anything other than this is my
prayer (?)

157) The power (the rising I) which binds me with this
body, the corpse is like a very poisonous snake and
it is very difficult to destroy it. Give me the only
boon that it should be destroyed by Your Grace

158) I do want a boon from You but it is nothing against
Your will. It is this:- In order to prove and establish
as a perfect slave of You, I should not think as 'I' or
‘mine’.

159) O my Lord, an 'I' to know other things should not at
all rise but drown in You and die. This is the one
and only boon I beg to get from Your sacred,
dharmic, blissful gracious Feet.

160) O my Lord, I the mighty demon, who in the past
accumulated vasanas, now, today, pray to You for
my own destruction. Only by Your Grace now I got
this good decision. My only wish is my own
destruction. Be gracious.

161) What else if my desire than to have the complete
annihilation of 'I' the ego? O, Sri Ramana Murthy,
the support of the poor! Your Feet alone is the
refuge to me, this worst fellow (?)

162) Though the jeevas are the forms of ego, whatever
they desire and ask the Lord gives that as his duty.
Myself, one of the forms of the above wishes and
prays that by Your Grace, the form of the ego is
destroyed and quiecened (?). Be gracious.

163) I rise in the body as 'I' and go on functioning my
whole life as if I am the body itself. Without
knowing what is the reason for this rising. Subside
this rising and shone as the true 'I'. Be gracious.

164) The rebellious mind, the more it remains in this
body, the more it is being trapped within the hands
of Maya, gains taste towards the non-existent false
appearance (of this world), thinking as if the world
is the source of happiness, forgets You. Kill this
wicked mind.

165) Sooner, the mind rises (which is a reflection of the
consciousness) a body will appear (as if I), then
rises the world (through the five senses in the
body), then rises (karmas) actions. O the destroyer
of death, protect me destroying the first rising (the
root of the mind) which is the source of all other
things.

166) The rising of the 'I', the ego is itself is a misery.
Therefore, whatever happiness rises from this ego,
will be nothing but a misery. Kindly destroy this
egoistic rising - I, though for whatever reason it is
rising, by bringing it under the sway of Your eternal
bliss.

167) May You alone shine high drowning and destroying
my intellect which rises up from within and knows
the external as this is the world and there are
people in it, this is appreciation and this is their
blaming on me, "this is good and this is bad and so
on."

168) Of all the three vicious desires, the desire for fame
is the most vicious and the strongest to destroy. The
only way to destroy this desire for fame is to
destroy this 'I' which rises in the body (?).
Therefore, be gracious to me and destroy this 'I'.

169) Kindly, listen to my humble request and bestow
upon me Your Grace so that the adjunct (upadhi)
which rises as 'I am the fleshy body' should be
annihilated to its very root by my drowning in the
supreme heart space due to my devotion towards
the holy Feet of my Jnana-Guru who shines as 'I-I'.

170) By getting a life with full of wealth, power, position
and glory among (many) people, the ego does not
subside even a little. It waxes more and more
taking more forms. Therefore destroy this ego by
Your Grace.

171) O Father, if You kindly kill me who now exists as the
ego (rising 'I') not by a violent method but through
Your enchanting sweet way (i.e., devotion in such a
manner) that the ego will drown into its source and
it will never rise up, all my complaints will be over.

172) Permanently, in all states remove in me the 'I' (ego)
which does not exist in sleep and graciously bless
me to have the bliss of the direct experience of Self
ever.

173) O the great giver, how can I become Your slave if
You keep quiet in spite of my begging request to
You as ‘destroy in me the attachment (abhiman)
which rises as an 'I' to the limit of this body. Ah, I
cannot.

174) if You do not bestow Your Grace upon me so that I
shall conquer the ghostly rising of 'I' and ‘mine’
through proper viveka, I shall become a store of all
blames and shall fall into the waste pit of birth and
death. Will it not be so? Therefore, bestow Your
Grace of proper viveka upon me.

175) The foolish mind slipping away from abiding in Self,
first knows a body as 'I' and then a world in front of
me as real. Why does it rise so? This rising is highly
improper for me. Therefore Gracefully destroy it.

176) Destroy my ‘I am this body’ idea which is an
obstacle to attain the priceless supreme divine life
of self, the eternal knowledge where the delusion of
the body awareness ceases to exist.

177) You are the 'Being - I' where the rising ‘I' does not
exist. Bestow Your Grace upon me, who, in all my
days of worshipping You, is weeping before You and
sincerely begging to You so that the rising 'I' should
drown in You, the being 'I'

178) Destroy this chitabasa (the Jiva-hood, the reflection
of chit) who rises here in the form of the present
life, waxing more and more and wanders with the
vasanas of wild lust and anger due to the surging
attachment towards the external objects.

179) Due to the confused and whirling consciousness a
bundle of filth appears to be my body and as if 'I'.
Bestow upon me the boon of the death of such a
worthless life in which the going out through the
five senses is mistaken to be the experience of
happiness.

180) To attain the pure life where You alone are and not
‘I’ is wise. What can then remain as ‘I' or ‘mine’ if
the ghostly ego is annihilated by Your missile of
supreme silence?

181) Guru Ramana, instead of You, my Lord, I the slave
should not rise and say ‘I will do this'. Let this
rising be destroyed and annihilated by the power of
Your Grace with Your cool heart.

182) Oh, the King of Jivan-mukthas, let me be in this
birth, while living by Your Grace the ego dies while
living in the body - will it be anyway against Your
gracious giving? Please note that this is the only
desire of Your slave.


Praying for the loss of Individuality
183) If I get the benefit of the loss of this individual I, it
will be the highest gain of taking this human birth
(purushartha) without this however much You give
me the boon of ruling over the heavens and the
seven worlds, it will be of no use so long as this evil
ego lives.

184) why? Is it necessary that an 'I' the individual should
live? By seeing me as non-existent what loss You
are going to have? By not allowing me to rise once
for all and subside in You, be gracious. If not what
will be of use to anyone (no use)

185) Hereafter bestow upon me that I do not feel any
(beingness of body) conscious of the body separate
from self. Is it not now essential for You to provide
me the life of ever remaining at Your Feet attaining
which one can never have movement of birth and
death.

186) Press me by Your divine Feet which has taken me
as Your own, so that I shall not rise again as 'T' in
this body or in any other bodies and that. I shall be
drowned in the taste of the bliss of being still.

187) Except becoming one with Your permanent
existence-consciousness-bliss losing my
individuality, let me not accept anything as my
separate entity. Bestow upon me such a gracious
gift.

188) Other than attaining naturally the loss of
individuality, what else is my desire here? If You
also agree to give me this boon, what more
happiness is for me in any world?

189) Unlike those want to gain something from You and
enjoy, I beg to You for my own annihilation. I will
never ask You anything else. If You provide me this
boon, then how can anyone survive there to ask You
anything more?

190) Reveal to me who take refuge at Your Feet, the
reality which is the base of all and see that the
delusive individuality will never rise up again.

191) Will it be proper for Your Grace to allow me, the
wicked one to rise as 'I' without (?) You alone exist
as 'I am'? O Arunachala Ramana, my mother, my
father, my guru who took me as Your own, kindly
annihilate me by making me uniting one with You.

192) Crush me to drown fully in You removing my
confusion of rising as an individual 'I' who gives
room for the rising of the false appearance of the
world and see it (as if different from me)

193) Since even the skilful intellect which has learned
the vedas and vedanta is destroyed when Self-
knowledge dawns and thus since even the vedas
become avedas (not at all the knowledge) -
ignorance, kindly swallow all such ignorance as
nivedhana (food offering to You).

194) Is he (the 'I') not an unreal one who knows the non-
existent (world) as existent? Where from this unreal
one (I) gets power to see so except from You, the
really existing one? O my Lord, kindly destroy him
(me) so that I do not exist any more.

195) Take my attachment to this body (I am this body
idea) as the camphor offering to the Hill of fire
(Arunachala) leaving no residue (after burning).
Tell me, is this not the only boon for which I ever
prayed to You?


Praying for the non-rising of 'I'
196) How is it that an 'I' rises first as 'I am so and so'
and this way survive? If You make it not to rise
again and retain me at Your Feet that alone is
sufficient for me, the poor beggar.

197) O my Lord, without the rising and setting of the ego
‘I' (waking and sleep), make me to be still. If I get
this boon from You by praying, weeping and
begging to You, all my fire of desires (tapagni) will
be extinguished and cool bliss will prevail.

198) O Lord, who came on earth to save even the worst
people, kindly prevent and stop this improper rising
of 'I' though it (I) rises for whatever reason.

199) O the one who glanced me in the form Sri Ramana
Guru, and took me as Your own, why did I rise
instead of remaining in You (self) who bestows bliss
more and more when I remain in You. Help me
again to subside in You without rising by showing
me the secret.

200) O Satguru, who shines ever in everyone like the
space, if I rise, all rise. Therefore destroy my rising
as 'I am this body'.

201) Instead of You who shine there alone, why then I
rise? Othe supreme Lord, who shine well when 'T'
am not, destroy me so that I shall not rise again in a
body.

202) Put an end to me who rise up and jump by
drowning and destroying me in You. Enough of the
fortune I had obtained by my rising. Now glance me
and remove all the sins I have accumulated through
such fortune.

203) Apart from You, the only existence, how can
something suddenly springs up as 'I' am this body,
or can a darkness come out of the sun? Then how
and why do You allow me to rise up?

204) By the false mind which comes out from You as if a
separate entity, there appear objects other than 'T'
and then arise a desire in the form of thoughts for
them. Is it not? When will I drown in You without
leaving You?

205) Except during the time when I rise out from self, is
there the knowledge of other things? Therefore,
bestow Your Grace upon me so that my attention
which goes outwards on external objects shall be
focussed on the heart not leaving You.

206) Since I who rose first, myself is a thought, I cannot
hereafter remain without thinking. Therefore, to
fall back and drown in You, is the state of
thoughtlessness. Bestow this worthy boon on me.

207) O my Lord, by Your Grace give me the well
established state of Self-existence without rising to
the first thought from (‘I'). Enough of miseries I had
experienced by the rising of the mischievous
delusive mind because of my not remaining quiet.

208) Until Ia separate entity remain there will be fear,
desire, hatred and so on. When I do not rise as an
individual and You alone exist, to whom will all this
belong? Therefore give the state of non-rising.

209) Why did I rise? Why did I rise? Alas from now at
least, give me the boon of not rising again (as 'I').
Destroy by Your Grace all multitude of vasanas
accumulated in me because of my rising as body.


Praying to graciously lead me
210) I am very poor in learning strength of mind, ability
in remaining in stone like samadhi by vairagya.
Dispel the darkness of my ignorance, encourage me
by Your Grace and make fit in order to prove Your
words declared in in upanishads.[2]

211) Giving up the highest bliss of remaining as mere
existence (self), what a foolish act this that I
mistake this body as 'I' and suffer? O my father,
Lord Arunachala Ramana, the supreme
consciousness of self, Gracefully rectify my above
defect.

212) Why did You allow me to have a desire to rise up
rather than loving the nature of quietly remaining
as the mere existence? You who know the means to
turn me within towards You kindly lead me to abide
in You, the self.

213) Stretching my two hands, I beg You, my master who
ever shine as Turiya (the one in the fourth state).
Help me and lead me to attain the state of Jnana
here itself by quickly providing me all virtues which
are needed for it.

214) O my Lord Sri Ramana Bhagavan, gladly accept my
body and mind as a good instrument at Your hand
and for its movement I should not be made the
doer. To this please do not leave me a second and
You activate them as You please.

215) Let my mind, speech and body function only if it is
driven by Your Grace. Make them act along the line
of Your Grace having no liberty of their own.

216) It is not because of Your Grace I have obtained the
golden desire of reaching You? Tell me my Lord,
then where is the strength to my intellect to
discriminate what is good or what is bad.

217) O my Gurudeva, till this body lives on earth have
me under Your strong grip of Grace so that my
mind, speech and body cannot do anything against
Your will.

218) Now I understand very well that I am unfit to bear
the wealth of Your Grace. But though my mind is
very wicked. I do not know anyone else except You
as my refuge. Therefore kindly You alone guide my
mind.

219) After I had been brought by Your Grace to Your
Feet only to be saved, what is there on my part to
do? (nothing). You Yourself do everything directly.

220) Bestowing upon me the strength (of Jnana) to be
indifferent towards every thing that happens
around me, reform my life and cool down the heat
of desires of my mind in the blissfully cool ocean of
yoga which is the real benefit of renunciation
(sanyasa)

221) Guru Ramana, how did I acquire such a great
power to escape from Your Grace and to run away
without control? Direct, such an improper freedom
of mind by the rudder of Your Grace along Your
way.


Praying for make me abide
222) If You give me the boon that my petty mind and
intellect remains under the control of Your hands of
Grace. What more have I to ask You? What other
benefits are there more for me?

223) When will that day dawn in which You will make me
abide in the state of self (as mere sat)? Make me
remain in the state of mere being consciousness
where I can know neither me as a separate entity
nor any other thing apart from me.

224) Since every thought is nothing but enemy of
happiness, none of them will give any happiness.
Therefore, destroy all thoughts which rise from the
one wicked 'I thought' and drown that root thought
within.

225) The great love towards (self) existence has
somehow taken a wrong turn and turned into desire
on worldly objects and took the form of like and
dislike towards external objects. Kindly by Your
Grace retrieve back and drown it within You.

226) Instead of attaining the inexpressible state where
there will be no other thing but You alone as the
real existing thing, I am deludingly mistaking the
rising of the false mind as the real 'I' and suffer.
Hence, fix me in You as one without the second.

227) Graciously You took a body form in order to lead all
of us to turn towards self. O the invaluable pure
gold, fix me in such a manner that I can never think
anything other than You.

228) Under Your divine rule of all the worlds are moving
with full justice. though I am given to know this,
repeatedly I prattle, (?) this is right, this is wrong.
If You do not fix me the petty go in You where. I will
not rise again, how to overcome this weakness?

229) Fix me in You my real state so that the useless,
petty, mischievous deluded 'I' shall die, which rises
out first in an atom like small size and develop into
the form of wavering thought and experience
crores of births and deaths within a second.

230) “As the seer so is the seen", Hence graciously fix
me as one, the Heart which has no thought and
purna with the eye of self and be one in sahaja by
Your Grace and retain me.

231) Fix me now itself in You so that the delusion will
never again appear in which an imaginary 'I' rise
and identify myself with a body which is bound by
time and pleasant experience innumerable pains
and pleasures.

232) Subside me in Heart as Heart where 'I' will drown
in Self-Attention, the consciousness of bliss and
where no world-attention will rise and thereby all
my miseries will end.

233) Ordain me to be at Your Feet, the self existence
which is never to move a little nor to compare with
anything else nor to become something else, nor
gets tired, nor die, nor rise even a bit due to any
circumstances.


Praying to be graciously attracted and drawn
234) Not attending to objects which are seen let my
attention with love be fixed on me, the seer, who
see them now. This is the correct path of really
loving You! Give me zeal, attract and pull me to this
real path.

235) O Arunachala Ramana, blossom within me, the
beauty of Your Lotus Feet which will enchant me to
abide firmly in You, the light of consciousness
which does not know anything as other.

236) By attracting and pulling my stealthy mind towards
Your divine Feet which is existence consciousness,
the heart, drown and destroy it in the glorious life
of external bliss, where it will shine as self, having
lost all its mischievous activities.

237) My attachment to the body will cease only when
You bless me with Your attachment. What else can
I, the meek one do? You Yourself pull me to You,
destroying my wavering mind. Do not let me down.

238) O the mighty one, who is ruling by the spear of
silence, which has never met with a defeat (or)
failure. Tell me why don't You remove in me all
differences caused by delusion an unite with me by
pulling me forcibly into the heart?

239) O my Lord, who instructs me "Self-Attention by
which the ego does not at all rise is the best path",
all other paths are contained in this, therefore be
still (silent)" (?) Love me with love (?) and embrace
me in the heart.

240) Of all the pictures in the false world appearance, 'I'
the seer is the first false one. The root cause of this
appearance is the slackness in love towards the
self; is it not? O my Satguru, since You are my real
self, graciously pull me to You.

241) The flood of Your power of consciousness showered
by the clouds of Your gracious teachings through
silence is unobstructed (?) empowered in all the
three times (present, past and future) to turn Your
devotees into the ocean of liberation without
getting standard en-route. Is it not? Therefore put
me under Your divine sway.

242) You have taught me in-deceptive(?) truth that
liberation is nothing but the state in which the mind
is completely merged in self so that it will never
rise again. Therefore, attract, pull and keep me
fully pressed within - help me, I beg You.


Praying for His Invocation
243) You exist as supreme Heart without thinking. But I
am a thinking mind which is my defect. Teach me
within through the inner sense to think of You as 'I
am' as it is - without thinking, by diving deep
within.

244) You the sat-cit-ananda, rise up or else I become
maya and with it's delusion thinking myself as mind
and with its delusive darkness a seeming
individuality (Jiva) rises. You may kindly rise to stop
this rising of individuality immediately this moment.

245) Oh the gracious giver, who took me as Your own in
the form of my Guru, in Arunachala, I pay to You to
rise up as the enlightening Jnana Sphurana so that
all the defects in me will be rooted out.

246) Kindly rise as the Sphurana so that all my cheap
mindedness will cease and I shall remain with the
fine golden qualities of peace by making me fit to
be devoured by You through the sat-Bhakti yoga.

247) Graciously rise as 'I-I' so that the worthless ego will
not rise again by Your Grace by holding me who
pray to You, praising You, weeping and begging You
lamenting like a worm with agony. Bind me with Your Feet.

248) How is it that an 'I', the source of all these false
appearances, rose up from You, the unchanging
one? O Lord Ramana, You rise as 'I-I' showing Your
existence in order to destroy my devilish ego rising.

249) You kindly rise up so that the 'I' which rises and
knows good and bad will become non-existent. Give
me the state in which I shall remain as the one
without the wrong knowledge of seeing any multiplicity.

250) An 'I', the worst fellow (?) rises and dances a
meaningless ghostly dance as if he is a doer and
experiencer. He (the ego 'I') can be crushed to
pieces only when You, the divine dancer (Nataraja)
rise and dance as 'I-I', the sphurana.

251) Unless You, the shadowless light of jnana rise up, I -
the shadow will rise very high and thereby will
indulge in the waste (?) endeavours and suffer.
Therefore, bestow Your Grace upon me so that I
shall make effort to drown in You.

252) Because I do not have firm hold in reality (truth of
first person I am) deluded by the sight of second
and third person objects, jump towards it and fall
into them spoiling myself. O Sri Ramana Guru who
is the nearest to me than any nearest thing, rise up
in order to reveal me Your reality.

253) All Your good devotees attained the state of Your
reality, but this child (of Yours) I alone is nearly
longing for it because of the delusive attachment (I
am the body) of my mind. Rise within me so that I
may drown in Your Grace and flourish.

254) Brahman the supreme space devoid of bondage and
liberation is nothing but the revelation of one's own
nature. Who else except You can reveal by Grace
that awareness of self shining in the heart.


Praying to stop me and take me as his own
255) See me with Your cool gracious glance and prevent
me from leaning the inward attention and going
towards the beautiful forms of this external world
which has come into existence merely by thoughts
which are due to the weakness of mind caused by
delusion.

256) Make me experience the divine bliss of sat-cit-
ananda and thus prevent me the foolish minded one
who run after many petty pleasures available in the
external objects due to the attraction caused by the
belief that these imaginary pictures are real.

257) By not turning towards self, I rise out with
ambitions in various directions and crores of ways
arise for my (pravrithi) activities. Alas will You not
prevent me from this by bringing me under Your
hold.

258) Turn me back who without turning towards and
abiding in You who shine in the heart as the real 'I'
project a false appearance of this world run after it
and finally to be disappointed.

259) You alone should prevent and stop the power
(maya) which jumpingly (?) rises up as if it is
something different from the existence -
consciousness binds itself with an attribute in the
form of 'I am this body’ and suffer.

260) Be gracious towards me, the poor one, so tat I,
instead of shooting the arrow of the very subtle
intellect towards worldly aims which is wasteful
effort, but to shoot it inward (selfward) and obtain
great love at Your Lotus Feet.


Praying to take me back
261) From now how can there be a bit of more lofty and
worthy boon which I shall ask from You other than
the love only for dispassion (Nivrithi) by which I
can return back to the source from where I have
run away (?)

262) To the shore of Your Feet (self) rescue me who is
always carried away by the powerful sway of
thoughts, because I believed the false imaginations
projected by the five senses such as eyes etc. as my
life.

263) When the body is sustained by prarabdha, thinking
of it day and night, like catching hold of a crocodile
as a raft why do I lose my path for salvation?
Separate me from this world and hold me.

264) The body, mind and prana all these are given by
You and hence they are Yours. But I, the fool have
stolen them as 'I' and 'mine' due to abhimana. Now
take them back as Yours my saviour.

265) The movements (vritti) of my desires wander
roaring on gold, fame and external objects shown
by senses instead of abiding in self and enjoying
ever the bliss. Graciously turn my above vrittis
(desires) towards self.

266) Fix me in the righteous path with You; free me from
the wicked friendship with the five senses which
good people will never cherish even the least by the
association with which I have lost all in my glory.
(2)

267) Because I forgot the ever open entrance of siva
sayujya. I changed myself into a man and is bound
by the rope of virtues and sins. Severe my bondage
by Your gracious glance and again take me to You.

268) Enough of the (bogas) pleasures of the world given
to me; from non onwards feed me with the bliss of
yoga. Untying the knot with which I was imprisoned
within the doors of the three bodies, free me taking
me as Your own.

269) Mercifully bestow Your gracious glance on me and
retain me permanently at the heart, by preventing
from the waste (?) life due to the rising of the ego,
getting extroverted and running behind the flame
of the fire of desires of this world - swarga
pleasures and getting lost (in suffering).

270) Will You not take me back to driving away the Yama
"the killer of death" in the form of 'I am the body'
which presses me into the mud and make me
suffocate? Will You not help me who worship You
and beg You weeping bitterly for (abhaya)
fearlessness?

271) O the embodiment of Grace, hill of Shiva jnana,
Arunachala Satguru Ramana, who has the power of
knowing the nature of my delusion and to remove
it, redeem me from becoming worse and worse.

272) Take me back redeeming me from the karma due to
which I have taken this body, so that such karma
will not continue again. Gracefully again do not
trap me into the fetters of delusion from which I
was saved by You once.

273) O Lord, having imprisoned in this body for many
births, I am lamenting with attachment in the hell
of I and mine, will You not remove my such
sufferings and release one quickly.

274) Being caught by the dense darkness of delusion, I
am suffocating even to breathe. Now itself kick me
(?) by Your Feet and throw me into the supreme
light and grant me the boon of real life.

275) By mixing up with five senses becoming jeeva and
playing outwardly having confused by who am I, O
Lord, kindly take me back at least by(?) now, the
summer the heat of (Tapasya (?)) desire for earth,
women and gold will end by the shower of Your
Grace and my suffering soul will cool down.

276) O my father, unless Your benign Grace comes, I
cannot be saved by any means from the grip of the
Saturn of invain (?) delusion. The Feet of Sri
Ramana Guru alone has the power of redeeming
me.


Praying for Protection
277) O Bhagavan Ramana Guru, the _ divine
philanthropist (?), who came along with me just at
the time when I was about to be pressed down and
drowned into the rock bottom of the ocean of
samsara, graciously lift me up to life.

278) Protect me who finally came to You my Satguru
bitterly weeping, praying and begging at Your Feet,
forgetting my previous state of eternal natural state
of existence and unable to free myself from the
wrong knowledge that this life of transient dream
which I am having for a very ancient time.

279) Thinking as if I am climbing up actually I am
drowning more and more into the deep mud. O the
mighty one, who is always victorious in battle,
kindly interfere and rescue me giving no sadhana
on my part to do.

280) I am spending my life within Your protecting hands
like that of the Young ones within the wings of its
mother bird. O my mother, Arunachala Ramana,
protect me by the grip of Your Grace or else, I will
be carried away by Maya - the delusion of the
world.

281) O the gracious giver of Jnana, make me spend my
body life (?) awakened within but sleeping in
worldly life like farmers protect the paddy fields
with thorny fence to avoid any intrusion by outsides
(?) (vasanas)

282) Protect me who live in the body having taken
refuge at Your Grace in such a manner that no evil
even the least will come to me, Your son, who is
being brought up within the gracious protection of
the two embracing hands of You, my Guru and the
Hill Sona Shiva.

283) O the supreme thing, who bears the whole burden
of the life of those devotees who love You, even the
burden of my life, though I have only hippocratic
love to You, cannot be an exception. It is also under
Your responsibility.

284) Rather than taking refuge at Your Grace and
remain peaceful, this worldly people out of
ignorance tries to take refuge at (?) money. Remove
this darkness and shower on me a life of bliss
where I can experience no need or misery.

285) O Ramana, who but You will be my saviour in these
days of my bearing the burden of this bodily life?
Place me in a life where there will be no misery, by
making me subside in You peacefully.

286) Since everything in my life is going on only by Your
Grace, how can any wrong befall except right (?).
Why should I be unhappy when You, the one who
had taken a vow to protect me, exist here? (be with
me)

287) O Guru Ramana, who by Your natural Grace never
allows any wrong to come to me, even during the
time when I, the poor drown in the false darkness
of delusion, having lost my discrimination and
thereby forgetting You give me protection.


Praying for refuge
288) O my Guru who is sitting facing south on the
southern slope of Arunachala for the blossoming of
the heart of Your devotees, Gracefully protect me
who has no strength came and fell at Your Feet
praying, “give me refuge, refuge, refuge".

289) O the wish yielding divine tree which bestows jnana
through the eyes, O the most wonderful one, who
appeared on earth as Annamalai for the sake of
Gods - Brahma and Vishnu, O the one who by Your
Grace on souls took the form of Sri Ramana and
has taken me as Your slave, give me refuge, refuge,
refuge!

290) O the one who has sharp eye of supreme jnana by
which (?) burnt the mighty Kama (desire or lust), I
am weeping and praying to You for relieving myself
from the fetters of wavering mind and for the inner
peace give Your divine refuge.

291) O Ramana Murthy, the King of Munis, I bow at Your
Feet in order to escape from the mad mental life
which is being spoilt and is being eaten away by the
poisonous insects of vasanas, give me refuge.

292) O my sadguru, I surrender to You, You should give
me the refuge within the fort of Your Feet, so that I
shall dissolve in You, the deathless and lose myself
completely, that even the least trance of former
existence will never remain.

293) Except the Feet of Ramana which is sweet to good
people, I have no other place of refuge, though I am
surely worse than all people. Graciously turn me
into a pure minded one.

294) Graciously give me the strength to turn and firmly
stand Self-ward. By saying "have no fear", if You do
not give me refuge I shall be disheartened and
drown in the ocean of birth and will perish without
reaching the shore. Please know this.

295) (Even though it is insentient) By delusion taking the
body and the mind as 'I' this sinner trembling with
fear at all times - both during dying and living -
suffer. Graciously glance at me so that I shall
become bold.

296) If You do not remain in my heart unceasingly as a
great divine helper and protect me, this poor fellow
cannot perform tapas, but will perish in distress. Be
merciful who has accepted me as Your own.

297) Will You not by having mercy upon me, though I am
a wicked but the one who is ever worshipping You,
give me the refuge (the state of fearlessness) in the
form of being immersed in the yogic bliss of
oneness with Brahmam who shines as the space of
consciousness which is completely different from
the body.

298) Though whatever means I think and try, I am not
able to annihilate myself (ego). Believing that if I
think of You, You will help me, I pray to and call
You, O mother Arunachala Ramana, take me O my
Guru, give me refuge.


Praying to be a true slave
299) If You graciously bestow upon me the boon of being
a true slave to Your Feet, O my Lord Ramana, what
more a permanent worthy state willl require then?
Then even Brahma has no more business with me
(i.e., no necessity of births)

300) Except the state of unfailing slavery to Your Feet
why should I desire for any other state on earth. O
my Lord Ramana Gurupara, bestow Your Grace
without delaying even a day to go waste.

301) The only existing thing (sat) is You alone. Apart
from You there is no other sakti (i.e. You are the
power). Therefore by Your power if You make me
attain the life of Your slave completely destroying
my ego, will there be any degradation to me? (No)
Therefore, be gracious to me.

302) If my mind becomes a slave to You, how can it
undertake useless endeavours by running fast after
five useless senses? Therefore give me the boon
that I shall stand still in the heart.

303) Graciously give me the state of a good slave to You,
in which there will be no rising of 'I' in the body,
even to the size of the edge of a thin grass, Just as
the darkness disappears in front of the Sun and
becomes non-existent.

304) O my Lord put an end to me by an ordinance. At
least from now, in such a manner that I shall not be
caught by the net of lust, anger and delusion and to
become a sweet slave to You alone forever and
remain introverted.

305) If I am truly a slave to You, care or anxiety of any
kind should not at all rise as though in the mind. If
You allow them to rise in me through either
prarabdha or by agamya (effort) will it be for
Your slave? Please tell?

306) Is it not true that all (virtues or defects) You have
provided in me till now, are only by Your Grace?
Will it not be an injustice If I say now that they are
mine and by me? O Ramanesa, give me also the
slave-hood by Your Grace.

307) From my childhood till I grew up to my senses,
have I not been weeping and grieving at Your Feet
to become a true slave to You and to be relieved
from the jaws of the ghost of wicked mind? Now tell
me when will this grief of mine come to an end?

308) O my father, I have been repeatedly praying and
begging to You through the mind, speech and body
by prostrating and weeping in front of You should
stop me, prevent me (from going towards the
world), make me as Your own, lift me up and unite
me with You (kindly do)

309) You have taken a human form on earth as Guru Ramana,
whose divine Feet will never be attained except to
very virtuous people and also in order to purify even me
the deluded, egoistic fellow and to take me with You.
Is it not? Therefore, select me as Your slave.

310) O the great Mouna Guru murthi, I who has not
discarded the wicked notion that the filthy, inert
body as 'I' - which the great ones will never have - and
to say that I am a slave to You, will it not be shameful?

311) If You allow the whole of my life time to be wasted
like this (as above) how can I become Your slave? O, the
supreme, who clearly came to me as Sri Bhagavan Ramana,
this is my complaint made in front of You.

312) O Ramana Gurupara, give me the slavehood to You
more graciously than the King Kumana[1], I am
submissively waiting prostrating before You as
‘Namo Ramana’. Kindly order, so that Your Grace
alone should win in my life.

313) O Sri Ramana Murthi, the supreme thing residing
on the top of the vedas, which cannot be described
or meditated upon or touch You, who is in the form
of Omkara Jnana and who sees nothing external,
make me as a slave to Your Feet.

314) O Ramanesa, other than finding out that 'I' (the
ego) am a slave to You, what else is my Self-
realisation? Unless You my mother, knowing my
inability, help me, where is any support, where is
any means for me, Your child?

315) Therefore, by Your Grace firmly fix me as Your ever
rightfully owned sweet salve by making me give up
the miserable delusion and obtain the perfect maturity.


Praying for the true love
316) The essence of all my prayers to You is to obtain the
true love to Your Feet and the annihilation of the
ego in the perfect whole love and the abiding as an
atom of love - not as another - in You, the ocean of love.

317) O my Lord, I do not have real love to Your Feet, my
mind is dense with wickedness. Therefore, the
responsibility of removing all my inner delusion and
of protecting me by fixing me in the supreme state
through proper means, is only Yours.

318) Make my life as the one of (Nishtanubhava) the
experience of Self-abidance in which I shall forget
all other activities and love only Your Feet having
my hands raised and clapped on my head (?), the
mind melted and dissolved and the hairs on the
body stirred up.

319) The peerless power which never slips down from
abiding in the existence took a human form and
walked on earth. This is the truth of You! Therefore
give me Your power and help me in order to destroy
all other attachments by the attachment to You my
guru, and destroy my mind.

320) Give me a rising of the true love so that I shall have
a firm determination that heart alone is the spring
of divine bliss and that I shall never give room to
the stealthy rising that 'I am the body' and wander out.

321) If my mind begins to like to obtain the great fortune
of achieving the true love to Your divine beloved
Feet, giving up the in vain (?) external endeavours
of life, all the cruel fruits of my karmas will end.

322) Why does it appear to be very difficult to withdraw
the outgoing mind and to fix it within? If the
unequal (?)true love floods up to Your Feet where
else will that mind fly fast (but to You)?

323) If I am carried away by the flood of true love, then
how can there be any breath or speech? I shall then
cease to exist and shall become limitless having
been drowned and lying at the rock-bottom (?) of
the ocean of bliss.

324) What kind of love If I obtain, the body and the mind
will be completely forgotten and my life in this
world will become a divine life devoid of pains and
pleasures. Give me such love.

325) Will my mind run away towards external objects if
it has a true love to You? Even of it has a true love
towards self, it will not run. Alas, it is because of
the love towards other objects, it is flying, is it not?
Therefore, give me Your true love so that the
wandering of the mind will cease.

326) IfI have a true love to You, can I rise up leaving You
as a false "I am the body" and wander? O my Lord,
rectify my false worship and give me the true love
to Your Feet.

327) What amount of true love, if You give me my mind
will not like to go along the wrong path shown by
the petty five senses but will cling only to self,
abide in it and thus attain the victory of never
coming out externally. Give me only such a true
love.

328) Will it not be very much improper if I claim to be a
slave to You but not having no true love on (?) You?
Is it not wrong? If I do not achieve the true love
ever though I have sought Your refuge, nothing will
be equal to my worthlessness. Ah what shall I say!

329) Why does not a desire rise in me with great
enthusiasm to come into the shade of Your holy
Feet and to remain without any thought? Is it
because my head had not touched and worshipped
Your Feet?

330) O Arunachala Ramana, who has come to take me as
Your own, I am not able to do prolonged meditation
upon You. Therefore, sow in me the seed of true
love to sprout it up with Your water of Grace, reap
it and eat me as Your prey.

331) When the people in the world provide me with kind
heart all my needs is it not my duty to unceasingly
meditate upon You with sincere love? Hence bestow
upon me the true love to You.

332) You have made me understand that nothing can be done
without Guru's Grace and hence mad me meltingly pray to
You, my Guru's Feet for support. Protect at least this
melting love that it will not become hippocritical.

333) Will You not give me the true love in order to think
of You with such a melting heart in which the well-
waxed (?) notion of I am the body will be crushed to
powder, dissolved and destroyed?

334) Unless the pure love sprouts out in my heart, the
ghostly ego will not leave me and the accumulated
vasanas will also not die. O Ramana Guru, be
gracious towards me.

335) Why it is so that only to me, You do not give the
unceasing and non-decreasing (?) true love to Your
Feet . You who is my mother, father, God and
Satguru must give me this. Bestow upon me now
itself.

336) O my Lord, if You give me the true love to flourish
in my heart, Your duty comes to an end. Tell me
what more work is there then either for You or for
me and what is to do after that! Please tell me.

337) The highest wealth I like to get from You by my
repeated asking is only this true love. Other boons
which will provide me the false pleasures, I do not
want. Give me the slavehood with true love to Your
Lotus Feet.

338) O the divine Emperor, give me at least an atom of
the infinite love with which You have taken me as
Your own. What I want from You is this true love
only.

339) Let every other thing happen according to the will
of Your divine Feet. But this obtaining of the true
love alone I always like to beg from You. Graciously
bestow this upon me.


Praying for the love to Self (or) Praying for Swatma Bhakti
340) The perfect love towards self is liberation. It alone
is silence and Bhakti. Instead of scrutinising thus
and clinging to heart, how foolish I am in thinking
that the world and its pleasures are true. Remove
my foolishness so that I shall meditate upon self.

341) The Self-Attention which You have given (taught)
alone is powerful clue and means to return along
the way I came. Graciously remove all the obstacles
of delusion on the way of clinging to Self-Attention
and bestow upon me, the swatma-Bhakti (Self-love)

342) From where the first thought 'I am the body' rises
loving to think of the source is the correct love to
cling to You and that alone is "Who am I? " and
“Whence am I?" forms of enquiry. O my Jnana Guru,
give me this love (Bhakti).

343) My desire is that the love for self should gush forth
and flood, what is the loss for You if You give me
this love? Except You, the Sat-chit-ananda Ramana
Guru, where there can be a separate 'I' who is the
bliss of the self?

344) O Annamalai Ramana, enter into my heart in the
form of the supreme Jnana and graciously bestow
upon me the great liking to dive deep within and to
see self, giving up all other useless thoughts.

345) O Supreme Self, the light of consciousness
whomever sets down in the heart of Your good
devotees, blossom in me the flower of love to revel
in You, the self which removes all miseries of the
false mind.

346) Graciously give me the love to see You within so
that by the strength of knowing the truth that
abiding in self is the best of all the best virtuous
endeavours my useless mind will give up attending
to false things which are alien.

347) If You give me the supreme love of self, then which
thing and what for should I seek? Will even this
state ruling over heaven be equal to that?
Therefore give me the state that You should rule
over me.

348) If my mischievous mind obtains the supreme love
towards You, who shines in the Heart as the reality
'LI' which cannot be expressed by the words or
mind the mind will die. Therefore give me that true
love.

349) Any second person object which appears as dual
one in front of me either within or without cannot
be God abiding within due to the love of self alone
is the real Guru Bhakti. Is it not? Give me indeed
that love.

350) Bestow upon me the great one-pointed love (for
self) so that my mind cannot have love to any single
other thing except You, the gracious Ramana
seated in my heart Lotus only then the annihilation
of the sense, 'I am the body' will take place.

351) Without losing the love towards self due to
inadvertence (pramada). I must firmly abide in self.
If it not (?) only for this I was longing and
lamenting for a very long time. Graciously fulfil my
desire.

352) The firmness with which I merge and dissolve
without a second in You the reality is the supreme
Guru Bhakti. Instead, I push You out to worship as
a second or third person and thereby suffer. O I
cannot bear with this unkindness! Graciously unite
me with You within.

353) Truly worshipping You is to get dissolved in You
once for all by attending to self and by diving deep
within without giving room to the rising of an 'I'. Is
it not? This firm introversion is the best of all
devotion.

354) O Lord Sri Ramana, are You not the non-dual dense
supreme silence who is the one supreme
consciousness? Instead, my worshipping You as an
other entity (as God) is nothing but the crime of
deceiving myself.

355) O Parama Acharya, You should bestow upon me this
kind of Ramana Bhakti, give me the life of Jnana
where I shall ever shine as Sat-chit-ananda devoid
of all thoughts.


Praying for the real renunciation
356) Ican say that the true renunciation is attained only
when the extroversion is completely eliminated.
Make me know the self, remove all my other
knowledges and lift up my life as Yours.

357) It is impossible to renounce the world so long as
one desires for the fame affected by blame coming
from the world. Keeping myself away from this and
making me attending the self is the real
renunciation. Bestow Your gracious glances on me
for this and show me You, the Heart.


Praying for the real Darshan
358) When will You graciously give me the non-dual true
darshan of Your self within so that, as soon as I see,
I shall subside permanently and cease to exist or
else, I turn outside through the delusion of the
senses, happily seeing various names and forms.
359) Ah what a fun it is! I am always praying to You to
conquer the Maya, which is verily a non-existent in
Your clear look of Jnana, but thinking it as my
enemy I want You to win over it (Maya). Well what
else will be the meaning of my prayer but for a real
outlook to see the non-existent as the non-existent.
360) Can I be the one who has seen You unless I get the
auspicious life of a dead mind which cannot see any
other thing. O eternal Ramana who gave me the
darshan as a gracious Guru in human form now,
give me Your real darshan as above.


Praying for the true knowledge
361) You who have already taken me as Your own should
make me know by Your Grace that the mere
knowledge of I am (self) alone is the complete
Jnana and should make me remain ever firm in it.

362) If You make me experience the happiness of the
true love, the delusive dark desires of this false
world will go away without even coming near and
the supreme light of Ramana alone will dawn as the
liberation.

363) Shower Your blessings so that I shall attain the
knowledge in the form of supreme love which is
devoid of forgetting Your divine golden Feet (which
is) self, the pure sat-cit forgetting me who is as
this body.

364) By thinking wrongly that this seeming gross body
etc., as 'I', 1 am bound by time and place. Destroy
my bondage by making me know that the space of
pure consciousness alone is my real nature.

365) If You do not bestow upon me, the boon of knowing
the reality by subsiding me in the heart and by
making me give up the false mental conception -
the life in this world which is nothing but the five
sense knowledge - will my bewilderment cease?

366) The knot of misery will not come to an end unless I
realise my bodiless mindless real nature. Therefore,
immediately give me the experience of reality and
drive away he ghost in the form of the thought of
desire and hated.

367) Since the dualities appear as real as the truth of the
ego, make me abide as the reality surging as ‘I am'
which is the perfect whole, destroying the false
knowledge which rises as "I am this body".

368) All that are seen here will in no time fall a prey into
the mouth of the mighty demon death. "The see I,
who sees all these to know its true existence. I have
got You, who will make me realise the truth in this
waking - my Satguru! Therefore make me realise
that!

369) Bestow upon me the experience of Siva-yoga-jnana
which shines (self-luminous) ever and everywhere
and one as the sun which is You the Heart (self) the
memory of which can never be forgotten.

370) O my own Satguru, unless I realise the truth, I
cannot attain peace in this delusive dream-life full
of likes and dislikes. Therefore teach me by rising
in me as the truth to experience the true
knowledge.

371) If I do not get the true knowledge, the actions
(karma) in this life will bind me, as if I am the doer.
Reveal to me the state of non-doer-ship and
keeping me as a mere instrument in Your safe
hands.

372) I am an (?) ignorant and dull due to the wrong
identification with the mind which always wanders
and unable to reach my imperishable immortality
that I am searching for. Reveal to me the truth by
strongly pulling me within Your Grace.

373) Deluding the intellect here rises the demon ghost
which forcibly pull me into thinking about this false
world showing great confusion and hubbub. O the
divine helper, who can destroy this ghost of
Ahankara, be gracious in revealing the truth.

374) Only when the body and world as seen to be mere
dream objects, the attachment towards them will
end. O the form of God who came in front of me
make me know by Your Grace in this manner.

375) By which power of maya, I have forgotten that 'I
am' self, O my Satguru, remove that power (of
Maya) on me. The one who took me by Your benign
Grace to remove the power of maya, You alone are
my refuge.

376) I the self somehow identified the ego as my self,
confuse the intellect seeing myself in the front as
apart from myself and see as world and the objects
in it with love and hatred. Gracefully destroy this
delusion.

377) O mother Ramana (like a mother bird trains its
Young one's to fly) teach me the art of Self-
knowledge to suppress the mischiefs (?) of the
foolish mind which produces series of thoughts and
to be consciously still.


Praying to Set the Fire of Jnana
378) Quickly set the fire of pure Jnana on the heap of
vasanas accumulated in the dangerous pit of
chittam, burn them to ashes and make me realise
the truth free from all bondages.

379) Set Your fire of Jnana so that the fire of my desires
which blazes forth and subsides only a little when
the worldly pleasures are fulfilled but flares up
again and again fierce-fully (?) will be burnt
completely.

380) By the fire of Jnana eye, burn the fire of desire
which deludes even heaven and destroy to its very
root and apply that cool bright white ash on my
forehead by Your hand and make me blissful.

381) Set Your fire of Grace in the forest of the filthy
impurities of mine accumulated through the
innumerable past births and apply on my forehead
the sacred ash obtained by burning them to their
very root without leaving any unburned residue.

382) You have once burnt to death, the dark form of
Yama, You have burnt the mad fiery lust (Kama) by
Your look of Jnana. You have also burnt the Tripuras
(the three wild demons) by Your third eye. Seeing
the above power of Jnana I seek refuge at Your
Lotus Feet.

383) Burn the rubbish pit of mind in which all rubbish
like lust (?) (anger etc.) were collected through
innumerable ages and fix me ever in that pure
empty space of supreme consciousness to abide in
Jnana Nishta.

384) Until I drown in the beauty of self and experience
it, this present life of mine cannot be understood as
a dream. Set Your fire of Jnana in me in order to
turn me selfward and thus reveal Your formless
divine dance as 'I-I'.


Praying for the dawn of Jnana
385) Instead of obeying Your instruction and thereby
enjoy the bliss of self, I due to laziness, I am
sleeping through the wicked senses and I am
weeping not knowing how to wake up from this
sleep. by Your Grace wake me up.

386) Nothing (no attainment) will be equal to Jnana
awakening; The happiness of Brahma Loka Life
which is experienced like dream is also to be
treated as waste. to get such Jnana awakening
there is only one path the "Who am I?", the Self-
Attention. O my Satguru who has power to wake
me up, Gracefully wake me up.

387) Because You have picked me up (in my childhood)
dragged me to Arunachala, brought me up and
gave me the unmissable (?) refuge at Your Feet, will
You not help me to get rid of this dense dark sleep
of Ajnana and to have the awakening of Siva-Jnana?

388) By tapping (?) me up from the long Ajnana sleep,
removing me from the crores of births and life of
waking dream (Jagra swapna), awakening the self
by Your Grace, make me abide in Sahaja Nishta and
thus rise Your sceptre of Grace.

389) Wake me, Your foolish sleep up who is undergoing a
very long spell of sleep of the (?) forgetfulness of
self in which I am having the dreams of
innumerable births, where the trap of karmas and
karmaphalas are complicatedly increasing more
and more, thereby unable to rise up to Jnana.

390) O the Lord of Jnana who has the fame of never
failed to give, don't You know standing in the
presence, the calling voice of Your slave for the
remedy of miseries as when will be my dawn and
when will be my awakening?

391) I am longing when will dawn the day in which You
will awake me. If You triumphantly shine in the
form of Self-knowledge in me as 'I am here and
now' without the limitations of time or space, my
baseness of when and where will go away.

392) You, the source of all lights should shine forth
brightly as the day light of Jnana tearing away the
five dark sheaths created by the wonderful Maya.

393) Reveal the experience of the natural state of self
ever present sat-cit-ananda by removine my
sleep (of ignorance) and thereby awakening from
my dream (the waking state) and by setting the
dawn of the real awakening, the liberation.

394) By Your intense union within me make firm the
consciousness of self, devoid of pramada
(inadvertence) so that I shall see the activities in
this seeming world as a mere dream, be totally
indifferent towards them and thus remain egoless.

395) Unless I wake up from the long sleep of ignorance,
there is no other way to escape from the miseries
known in this life of mad dream (?). While this is
possible only by the love (Bhakti) to You; You have
not given me that love in fullness to You. Alas! What
shall I do?

396) Dispel the darkness of delusion which is caused by
the dirtiest and the pseudo ego (?) which rises
falsely and temporarily associating with the filthy
ugly body as 'I' because of which I do not know You
the one whole that exist (?) ever and everywhere.

397) Just as the darkness of the sleep, however dense it
was, a second before loses all its strength as soon
as the light of waking comes; Dispel the darkness of
Maya, in me, the immature soul.

398) O my Lord, by Your Grace make me unshakably
understand that whatever happens whether good or
bad is not apart from Your will and Grace and to
have the strength to abide in the consciousness of
the true awakening.

399) My useless activities, thinking that my five sense
(mind) knowledge is my real life is just like an
ignorant fool trodding (?) in a dream. Therefore tap
me and wake me from the worldly life to this real awakening.

400) When really awakened, I who lived in an empty
dream will die and the one who survives then is You,
my Lord who is the only real one in the real waking
of Jnana, where nothing as sleep will creep in Him.


Praying for Jnana Nishta
401) Fixing me by Your Grace in the state of Jnana
Nishta, which though (vedas) proclaim it by many words
such as, Om, life, consciousness, heart. This or that (?),
self, etc. has never been shown as an object but as the
true first person singular 'I' feeling.

402) Be gracious to me so that I shall obtain the great
treasure of tapas, by drowning deep in silence from
which there will be no rising of ego having burnt (?)
the bondage of karmas along with their root the
ego remain as self without any thought.

403) I can no more be able to bear with the longing for
Your eternal and unceasing revelling in the bliss of
samadhi which is the real rest where there is not
even a single activity of the mind. Bestow, me that
immediately.

404) Bestow upon me such a strength of silence which is
the state of Turiya, the sleepless sleep in which I
shall unite as one with You who is the essence of
Om, dissolving and destroying my mind due to ever
increasing true love towards You.

405) All these (?) world scene (?) will appear only when
'I', the seer rises. If You make me still without rising
as the seer, can they exist? Graciously teach me
that Art (of being still)

406) O the form of fire, which will burn the root cause,
the rising of 'I', if You do not graciously make me
remain still within what can I do?

407) Except the state of true Jnana where the ego 'I'
does not rise, I do not want even the life of Gods in
heavens. All such heavens are  delusive
appearances which can be seen only after the rising
of 'I'. Hence what is the use of them?

408) You are the divine elephant. If You make me live
like Vilangani fruit (wood apple) eaten by You that
alone is the real life of mine. On the contrary
though You give me heaps of gold, it will be nothing
but a life of filthy heavy corpse.

409) O Ramanesa, make me live without seeing the
outside world, subsiding more and more. Because
where is the experience of more happiness than by
experiencing, drowning deep in self.

410) Make me reach Your Feet restfully, by subsiding
more and more and by merging as one in You
without rising again and thereby to remain as
neither a doer nor an experiencer (?) of any activity.

411) The desire to achieve other things rises only
because of the self love. Since that desire cannot
rise when one remains in self, graciously make me
ever remain in the self.

412) O Bhagavan, will You not make me have no action
to do to speak or to think? My desire is to remain
ever as one with the reality and to be devoid of all
adjuncts and attributes. Kindly fix me up (?)

413) (a) Feed me with the strength to turn selfward and
ever remain in self, by making me know that
nothing can be done by my thinking and that only
abiding in self drowning in the heart is worthy of
attaining by Jiva Swatantra, having lost the rising
of 'T' and all individual efforts.

414) By repeatedly thinking nothing can be attained; By
realising that the free will that thinks should
submerge in the heart holding the self is the real
Nishta and is alone the real Sat Karya. Please
provide me the strength by Your Grace to turn
within and be still.

415) Bless me now itself so that my suffering mind
should reach Your Feet, attain the supreme Kashta
Samadhi and become Your treasure of Nirvikalpa,
well protected by You and becomes You.

416) Graciously grant me the siddhi of true Jnana by
which I shall know that my individuality, my body-
life in which I see the world, sky and other five
elements of universe are mere unreal mental
pictures.

417) Grant me the love to attain the siddhi of forgetting
the world picture and to ever think (aware) of the
being consciousness (chit). O my Lord I beg Your
Grace to grant me the Bhakti to love self (?).

418) Will You not fix me the worst fellow (?) who loves
this body, the heap of filth permanently within
getting rid of all sense attractions which make me
go outward. Please convert me into the form of the
supreme space of self.

419) It is not sufficient that You have taught me by
words that there is a real unchanging thing meant
by the word 'I', which is other than the wandering
mind. You my Guru must also make ever
established in it, as the one reality by Your Grace.

420) What is life? Is it wandering along with the
thoughts like this? Is it not drowning within,
without the rising of even the trace of a single
thought? Therefore, rescue me by taking me back
from the three states of fixing as me in You, where I
will not get any thought of duality.

421) The five sense desires are like very deep wells of
junk. It is impossible to fill them up (to please
them). Enough of my life spent in search of things
(for the sense pleasures) to feed them and thereby
to fill them up. Make me stand firmly in heart
without duality (any thought) by retrieving me from
the life of junk of three states (?).

422) Fix me to remain very peacefully with the treasure
of Jnana and to witness this dream life of waking
state which is going on by Your Grace according to
prarabdha and thereby to be unattached and
unaffected by the pains and pleasures of that life.

423) By Your Grace fix me on to that which shines as the
wonderful base of consciousness, so that it
becomes my Sahaja Nishta, as 'I-I', as one without a
second (advaita) and subside.

424) Will You not ordain me who bowed as a slave in
Your presence to remain in the form of mere, plain
consciousness, "I am"; which will never rise again
and identify with anything and to remain as a
completely surrendered and thereby permanently
silenced mind?

425) O Jnana Sivam, bestow upon me to turn within
(Ahamukha) which I shall reach quickly without
waste of time and where I shall enjoy undisturbed
peace at Your Feet which is the source shining
within.

426) O my father Sri Ramana, by Your Grace, I have
come to You giving up all bondages caused by
others. Bestow upon me the bliss of consciousness
without leaving me even in the least in future.

427) Make me drown in the ocean of peaceful siva jnana
and enjoy the bliss instead of becoming a blind man
in this life lamenting due to the pains caused by the
innumerable dashing waves of thoughts.

428) When the water surface moves they are called
waves, when the waves become still it is ocean, so
also if the wandering mind becomes still it is self. O
my Lord, why should I wander? Still me by Your
Grace and turn me to the self.

429) The good tapas done by body and mind are limited
and they cannot be Akhanda (unlimited). Therefore,
graciously bestow upon me, the unfit, the tapas
with which I can remain in self as Sahaja Nishta.

430) By depending upon Your powerful divine
protection, the extroverted attention is destroyed, if
I get the darshan of seeing the self, my heart and
be in such experience of nishta by Your Grace, all
my miseries will end.

431) Ordain me to drown completely and _ well
established in the ocean of bliss of the supreme
Self-knowledge where no 'I' different from the
reality will be known and where there is neither
creation not destruction.

432) Ordain me so that I shall fall into the flood of Your
Grace which shines as the reality, the heart and
thereby all the burning desires (delusion) we put
out and to shine as the pure clear crystal of
Shivanubhuthi (the experience of Siva)

433) First give me the supreme nishta (samadhi) without
slipping from heart, destroy the rising 'I' and shine
beautifully in my soul like a gem fixed in gold.

434) O Lord of my soul Sri Ramana, grant me the empire
of fully ripened sahaja nirvikalpa where I shall be
established in siva-yoga-nishta, remaining as the
one existence alone where all other things will
subside.


Praying to be more gracious than a Mother
435) More kindly than a mother who takes her baby
which has covered all over its body with filth
passed by itself, washes it cleanly and keeps it on
her laps (?), graciously purify me by removing the
filthy ego and give me refuge at Your Feet.

436) Born lame, born blind, mischievous, but crossed
even the age of lying quietly in a place, top most in
foolishness - I am such a child to You! Graciously
protect me any way.

437) O Ramanesa, the rare one to get, but available to
me, make me sleep under the shade of Your Feet,
like a Young one of a bird sleeps carefree (?), well
protected within the wings of its mother bird.

438) O my mother Ramana, who has given birth to me,
embrace me with love so that I shall have wakeful
sleep, having lost all my fatigue due to Your Grace
and keeping my head at Your Feet, my mother,
which is unceasingly shining within as the
consciousness ‘I am’.

439) O my Lord, who has taken me as Your slave, kindly
do not decide to punish me who possess unbearable
wickedness. If You also hate me I will be lost in
delusion. forgive me and protect me graciously
more than a mother.

440) Why have You allowed me to fall myself (?) into the
wretched, dirty, muddy pool of five senses, instead
of providing me to take a holy pure bath and swim
in the ocean of the bliss of samadhi! With You
benign Grace, pick and lift me up by Your gracious
hands, wash away the dirt and make me pure.

441) Only if You, my mother graciously feed me with
mouthful milk of Your Jnana, I can grow up as a
child of Jnana destroying the delusive maya. Are
You not the only one to d so by Your Grace? Kindly
do so!

442) I am powerless, I surrender to You, O Siva Ramana,
forgive all wrongs in which I, who has not
discrimination have clone and by removing the root
vasana, not allowing me to do any wrongs further,
giving me 'pakva', You by Your Grace giving
liberation, bring an end to this egoistic life.

443) Rob off my insincere mind take me within and feed
me the surging ocean of ambrosia of the bliss of
Your Self-knowledge, so that my heart will surge
with joy.

444) Having the contagious disease (attachment) of the
ugly, impure body and mind, to be 'I' having
suffered a lot, I have finally come to You, the King
of doctors of Advaitic Jnana for freedom from
disease. Remove the disease by suitable medicine.

445) What can I, the wretched dog, do to attain the
blissful supreme life where there is no need for
anything? O my Lord, who gladly took me as Your
own in order to swallow me completely, is not Your
Grace greater than a mother's compassion towards
a child?


Praying for the life in the Heart
446) Bestow upon me the life to live in the Heart, not
minding this bodily life which are perceived by the
senses. In spite of my having been submerged in
the worldly thoughts, You made me to think of You.
Therefore my duty is only to prostrate at Your Feet
and beg for Your Grace.

447) The enthusiasm which rises in me to think about
other things, I do not have that much to think about
You, the heart (self) (without thinking). O
Annamalai Ramana, make me reach the heart in
Your Grace.

448) O my Lord, if Your benign Grace comes to me, my
mind which wanders all day and night will abide
firmly in the Heart and will never rise up again.
Therefore, give me Your benign Grace.

449) Bestow upon me Your unobstructed Grace so that I
shall give up all tastes towards the external and
abide in nirvikalpa samadhi within, and thus reach
the life in heart which shines gloriously like a Sun.

450) Bestow upon me Jnana so that I shall attain the
wonderful bliss of self by merging the mind into self
as self instead of wandering here and there for the
petty pleasures which falsely appears as many in
the external world.

451) Remove all desires in my mind without deceiving
(2), be gracious towards me who always worship (?)
You so that I shall no more become rising and
taking the body as I, wandering as ego, 'I', but to be
an 'I' ever abiding blissfully in self.

452) Now itself remove my worthless life of identifying a
body the attribute as ‘I am this' and 'this is mine'
and bestow upon me the life of sat-cit-ananda, the
silent consciousness of Self-existence.

453) What is worse than taking the body-consciousness
which is perceived through five senses as my life?
Giving up the body identification and drowning into
the deep sea of blissful Self-consciousness is the
worthy life. Is it not? Bestow this upon me.

454) Establish me in the life of existence in sahaja
samadhi where I will live as a true slave and remain
fit for You, having destroyed the crooked mind and
where I cannot have an individuality.

455) I am the one who suffered a lot due to extroverted
mind. Grant me the boon of turning within
searching for my source and thereby losing the ego
and the weariness and to attain the unequal
liberation, the real Aishwarya (?)

456) O Annamalai Ramana, to me the worst fellow who
is happily wandering in delusion, graciously grant
me the divine life of unchanging bliss in which all
these false appearances will disappear and I will be
well established in self.

457) O the Self shining light (?), who cannot be
objectively shown through mind , body and speech,
grant me Your Grace so that the life of divine bliss
will flourish by the unlimited shower of Your Jnana
without any obstruction.

458) What more happiness is there by the wandering of
the mind than the happiness derived by subsiding
within. Therefore give that happiness to me who
always sing in praise of You and worship You and
beg at Your Feet.

459) I should not be spoilt like a bubble floating on the
ocean of the surface of thoughts. Make me dive
deep and fix me at the rock bottom of the ocean of
Jnana, firmly as a fine pearl and shut me up there
in the blissful silence.

460) O my master, the emperor of Jnana who shines
beyond the five Gods who perform the five
functions (creation, sustenance, destruction, veiling
and Anugraha) Grant me the state of drowning and
abiding in heart without rising again as ‘I am this'
on any cause.

461) Fulfil my ambition that I should merge into the pure
state of self and experience the _ silent
consciousness by the attainment of divine bliss
devoid of the delusion of the mad dual mind,
transcending speech and the to and fro activities
(Le., birth and death)

462) Make the state of the space of the self which cannot
be objectively pointed out, attainable to me by
thinking of You and forgetting the feeling "I am the
body" abide remaining in (self) the natural state
(sahaja)

463) Make my life to be the perfect empty space of
Grace with dense silence where there will rise no
necessity of thinking, speaking and doing
something by destroy (?) the rising of 'I'.

464) Ordain me to be in the life of sat-cit-ananda the
life of the supreme empty space which is devoid of
all delusive happening in this transient life such as
these are good and bad people, these are praise
and blames (?) etc..


Praying for the experience of Advaita
465) Teach me the knowledge of the unique life in which
the dual notion "this is I and this is You" will no
more exist, due to the dense union taken place by
drowning into the silent, still ocean of bliss within.

466) That which exists is only You called 'I-I' no other
thing is really existing on the other hand, if the life
in this world is valued as real, what else can this
mind get but delusion?

467) Make me reach my source, the bliss of silence and
remove my meekness that "I am so and so", the ego
in me by the sahaja-jnana that 'I am that' and
graciously unite me with You as one with You.

468) The true knowledge that You are the only existing
reality - other than You there exists nothing as
world or souls, alone is the state of perfect bliss
which is devoid of miseries. Therefore, be gracious
to bestow upon me this state.

469) If You bestow Your Grace so that this mean 'I' (the
ego) die, then where will be anyone to ask boon
from You? Let that You who then survive alone have
a glorious living and this wicked 'I' who was
troubling You all these days will die.
(Have a gracious living and this I Your son be united
with You subside.)

470) To experience the aparoksha knowledge through
Your Grace that the reality is only one and that is
You. Unite with me in such a manner that I should
now itself be well established without going or
coming in the supreme space of silence which is
devoid of mind and speech.

471) By Your Grace increase my desire to reach to
climax to abide firmly in self, the real state devoid
of the rising of the ego. Give me this bhiksha to
Your son.

472) Though You ever reside within me the nearest and
dearest of all, due to delusion, I think that You, my
God is residing far way from me, You dispel this
delusion and shine as I-I.

473) Give me the strength of conviction that all
wonderful new things which I see here other than
the reality of self, which ever shines as one, are
false and reveal me the truth.

474) I do not know the state of my existence in the
present. Why should I worry about my past and
future? Therefore, grant me the knowledge of my
present, that I exist as sat-cit-ananda and to know
nothing as other.

475) Only when I am surrendered to You and become a
prey to Your Grace I can achieve the fearless life. If
I remain even a little as a separate individual
different from You, certainly there will be fear.
Remove my distress.

476) When will You bestow Your Grace upon me so that
nothing will be known as something other than I? If
at all I have to gain a boon, it is only this boon.
Make me understand that all other achievements
either in this world or in other worlds are mere
dream achievements.

477) If I have to attain the state of detachment nothing
should exist as other than I in order to attach
myself to it. Otherwise can the state of complete
detachment be fulfilled? O my Satguru will Your
Grace come to me and destroy the delusion that 'I
am the body' responsible for external projection.


Praying to Swallow me as His Prey
478) O my father Arunachala Ramana, a great treasure
of Grace who came to me in front of my eyes, my
God in the form of my Guru, I should become a prey
to Your Grace. This is the judgement (?) which I
want from You.

479) By giving me the one boon that I should be
swallowed as a prey to You who rose up in the form
a fiery column in front of Brahma and Vishnu,
Kindly wipe off my tears which is flowing due to the
longing for You.

480) O the one who came as my Guru facing southward,
will You not be gracious to make all my mind and
body swallowed by You and thereby turn into the
sweet bliss of self.

481) O my great God who rose up as a hill of fire in
order to instruct the two great heavenly Gods,
Brahma and Vishnu, You have again come on earth
in a human form and name as my Guru Ramana,
take me as a fuel to You, the fire of Jnana.

482) I, the ego have risen up and come into living
because somehow I lost my Self-awareness. I then
has concepted (?) a body and a world for me and
get attached to whatever I see in front of me and
fear. Kindly swallow me graciously as Your prey.

483) By Your valour of Grace happily make me a prey to
You, so that I may not become a waste by going
through all poisonous paths shown by the egoistic
mind which is stubborn and uncontrollable.

484) So long as there is an apparent existence for me (as
if I am this body) my worries will not cease even a
bit. Instead of that if You have swallowed me then
what worry will come and to whom?

485) O the great giver who gave Your darshan even to
me who had no purity of mind, as per the same
gracious compassion of Yours, now make me turn
within, make me subside and swallow me as Your
prey.

486) Believing the power of Your Feet which is
omnipotent I am living. If You swallow my petty
dark ignorant mind by Your Grace, | will abide in
the egoless state.

487) You have provided me in so many ways the chances
of innumerable favourable circumstances and
environments to dive within. Yet I have wasted
those chances and become extroverted. Destroy me
by swallowing me as Your prey.

488) Will You not surge up and swallow me, the petty
Jiva, giving the real duty of remaining still as the
mere existence 'I am' and not to rise again as an
attribute 'I am so and so' who performs good and
bad karmas.

489) O the one due to great compassion towards me in
my Young age, trapped me and brought me to You,
now grant me the great love to turn within towards
You and swallow me by making me as Your own.

490) You are the almighty, whom no one can disobey, You
are the divine cloud showering Grace upon me, if
these two are true, swallow me now itself and
thereby establish Your philanthropical (?) Grace.

491) O the Achala who resides in the heart of all but
unknown to anyone. O, the reality of the whole
universe, arrest me under Your Feet so that I
cannot rebel.

492) Making me dissolve as a salt doll and to lose my
individuality in the ocean of heart, a house which
will not give room to anyone who does not subside
(with humility) is truly within tour real power.

493) Having my mind calm and clear having no taste in
the world which appears, let me dissolve in You, (by
Your above power), the eternal, natural one and
become the form of supreme love, make me as (?)
Your slave to be so.

494) Except those who firmly stand on the axle (?)
(centre) of the wheel, others if (?) move away even
a little, will have to whirl around on actions
(karmas). Therefore, make me never move away
from You, the axle (?) (centre) (Hill or Self)

495) Do not drive me along the ways where the mind
wants to wander, but make me act as a humble
slave of You. Unite with me in the non-dual state
where no desires but bliss alone will shine.

496) Press Your Lotus Feet strongly upon me, so that I
shall become one with You drowned well at the rock
bottom of the ocean of Your Jnana, having achieved
the complete Self-denial that the foolish pramada
(forgetfulness) will not rise again.

497) By giving me the natural bliss of self in an
undeluded (?) manner and by swallowing my false
Jiva individuality which has a stormy mind, bind me
with Your Feet by Your Grace.

498) Make me reach at Your Feet, my source the state of
perfection with unfailing great effort and
enthusiasm and to completely give up all external
attachments of the mind and to abide within with
unceasing Self-Attention.

499) Because of thinking about the world which has
risen in me by me, but is appearing as if different
from me, I feel I have been separated from You.
Kindly meet me with You as one by Your Grace.

500) The darkness of sleep is the base for the
appearance of dream. So also the ignorance (of not
knowing the self) is the base for the waking state.
Unite me in the heart so that all these mental
modifications (sleep, dream and waking) will cease
(in the unmanifested state)

501) Be gracious to bestow upon me the experience of
Brahma-sakshatkara in the house of divine bliss, so
that I shall shine as the pure consciousness without
the rising of the false ego - I.

502) Take me back released from the wild maya by Your
subtle divine trick 'Who am I' vichara to be still. O
my mother, O my father, Sri Arunachala Ramana, O
my Guru who has taken me as Your own, unite with
me.

503) You are my most lovable one; Since You gave birth
to the thought to think of You, You are my father. As
You never leave me, and protected me from going
towards the path of the world. You are my Satguru.
Therefore, You such a great Guru, make me pakva
and unite me with You.

504) O my father, You should only give me the life of
supreme, Siva Jnana which is devoid of the rising of
the ego - I. Tie the marriage string of liberation
around my neck so that I shall unite You, without
clinging due to attachment to any physical, subtle,
or causal bodies.

505) You kindly allow me, the fool to be in immortal life
with You in the house of supreme silence, which

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shines after renouncing the five sense knowledges
(?)and the mind which works through them.

506) Unite and revel with me so that I shall drown in the
blissful auspicious life which results when the I am
the body idea is destroyed where no knowledge as
life of this world or in the next can exist.


Part 2

Complete Your Duty
507) I assign a duty to You who has transcended all
duties! It is this! Since You have given birth to this
foolish son and brought me up, bestow Your Grace
upon me so that I am not disGraced by the world
and thereby You may not get the blame.

508) That mind which whole-heartedly and directly
believe You or that mind which takes to the enquiry
‘Who am I'? will surely rest immediately in peace.
But I without deeply following either of these
simply (floating on the surface). Yet there lies Your
duty, because You have given birth to me. So be
merciful.

509) To me the petty fellow who had neither learnt nor
tried to observe at least what was learnt but who is
acting egoistically You have given me Your darshan
and have taken me as Your own. Is it not? Then
what is the use of Your repenting now? Now, You
have to bestow upon me the divine life of shining as
Shiva by arresting my desires for the mad
extroversion and by subsiding my mind within the
clarity of Jnana.

510) Since You my Guru having taken me (as slave) that
day, You are indebted to cool down my extroverted
mad desires and settle with full clarity of Jnana,
making my life shine as Shiva.

511) 0, is it because of You (?) know well that I will not
leave You until You clear away all Your dues (debts)
to me that You are driving me away by burning me
with the fire of cruel maya (desires)? I will not
move away from You and I will not go to any one
else.

512) What is indebtedness? Is it only concerning money
or land? Is it not a debt that You have touched me
with Your eyes? O the one, glorified by the verses of
Your devotees, if You try to cheat me, the interest
will increase at the rate of the capital (?)

513) Know that only when the state of Brahma Samadhi,
where there is no speech or thought becomes so
natural to me like that of breathing I shall admit
that Your debt which You have incurred by touching
me through Your eyes is cleared.

514) If You make me reach Your home, the heart why
then shall I need a house to live here? Instead
though You give the whole kingdom of heaven to
rule over, except the shade of Your Feet, it is
nothing but only Your unkindness to me!

515) Other than depending upon the divine Feet of Sri
Ramana even for a moment, I have no existence,
by Your Grace and merging me in the ocean of
self, both are at Your mercy.

516) Whenever I am deluded by the sense pleasures and
forget You, O my Lord, who has taken more care in
my welfare! (?) You have the responsibility to free
me from the bondage of the senses now.

517) Because of me, You have a destiny to set the fire of
Jnana and burn all the rubbish evil vasanas
collected in my chittam (the big pit) and to turn it
into a fresh pure space of Jnana. Kindly do it.

518) When You are ever shining as the real happiness, I
as a blind man seek to taste the poisonous fruits of
worldly pleasures. Therefore, to make me turn
towards self and save me from ruin, is Your fate (?)

519) O Shiva Ramana, who is an embodiment of the
supreme knowledge and supreme compassion
combined together without difference! The duty to
rescue me to the shore who is drowning in the
deep-mud of the dark ego befalls only on You. (?)

520) O Sri Ramana, You are the bright golden Hill of
Jnana, trusting upon whom only I can remain
peaceful. Therefore O father, it is Your
responsibility henceforth to protect me so that I
shall not be drowned in ignorance.

521) O father , those who have surrendered to Your
divine Feet will escape from the cycle of birth and
death (and will not be reborn). Though I do not
have sufficient maturity for that tell me have You
not trapped me once by Your supreme glance?

522) I myself is Your possession. Not knowing this, why
did I steal away the possessions as mine the body
and the worldly objects. You alone have the duty to
remove my ignorance not making me as a
substance apart from You and fix me in the state of
non-duality. Kindly do so.

523) If You abandon me, no other gods have the power
to do anything for me. Your duty which You have
undertaken on that day in which You have taken me
as Your own is still pending and remains unfulfilled.
Therefore, kindly take me back.

524) Ido not know the nature of my existence, I do not
know how I rise as 'I', I do not know the real love. I
do not know the nature of Your shining within as
the sphurana (why so?). Because I have faith in
Your Grace that You, my Lord know how to protect
me, who even though play and perish with the five
senses.

525) You have arranged the four yogas to be performed
only to those who rise up saying "I will do whatever
You prescribe me to do". But in my case, You have
made me understand that I cannot do anything
unless You wish so. Therefore now give me all that
You wish.

526) O Lord Ramanesa from that very day when I came
to Your Feet praying "Lead and protect me", all
good and bad in me as well as that happens comes
under Your responsibility. O Arunachala, root out
my ego.

527) Unless Your Grace induces from within to renounce
the world as unwanted thing, I have no means to
cross the ocean of the samsara and be saved.
Therefore You alone have the responsibility. Kindly
do the needful.


Give me Your Remembrance
528) Forgetting You, I often think of the worldly
pleasures and toil for it. If You also forget me, what
will be my state? I will surely be ruined. But if You
think of me by Your Grace benign Grace that I
should be saved, by Your Grace, I will be Your slave.
Kindly be gracious.

529) O my father, when I am alive in this body, instead of
thinking of any other things, the thought
(attending) of Your gracious Feet alone is the holy
act. The rest of the thoughts are waste. Such
thought of thinking (?) others, unceasingly only
adds up karmas. Therefore ever give me the
thought (attention to) of Your Feet.

530) Will You not graciously think that my mind is totally
turned and fixed on You, the self? From the early
days of my darshan, I have been begging only for
this boon at Your Feet. Is there anything other than
this? (Did I even ask anything?)

531) If You bestow upon me, the mind which will not
know anything but You by totally submerging it in
You, who else is there other than You still to
realise? where am I? Tell me who else is
there to know You but You (You as I) (?)


You Please think me (?)
532) O mother who accepted even me as a slave who is
undergoing sufferings through darkness by
forgetting You! (?) O Arunachala Ramana think me
so that I shall think only about You, leaving the
thinking about the external world and thereby be
saved.

533) Graciously think a little about me to make me as
the supreme knowledge itself, devoid of mind, the
maya by the real awakening from this waking
dream through the enquiry ‘Who am I'?

534) Graciously think a little about me to give me the
great enthusiasm to take to the unbroken Self-
Attention with love and the full conviction that
attending self alone is the highest and the best of
all human endeavours.

535) O Sri Ramana, graciously think a little about me
and make me certainly come and live at Your Lotus
Feet in the pure Turiya in which all the innumerable
and binding worldly arts/desires will be burnt to
ashes like a bundle of cotton in a forest fire.

536) O Annamalai, the great heap of bliss and peace!
Graciously think about me so that I shall live in
Your home of bliss in the form of the supreme heart
space which results, after all the vasanas are swept away.

537) Graciously think of me so that I shall remain
without thoughts in You who is the source of me,
devoid of the rising of the ego, rooting out
victoriously the vasanas rising in the foolish filthy
mind, due to past karmas.

538) O my father, why the waves of thoughts are still
remaining in the mind of this wretched one, though
I have come across Your divine glance? Have You
not yet gladly thought by Your gracious heart to
swallow me and to make me turn inward?

539) I am an utter foolish-minded one escaping the grip
of Grace, running away extroverted and greatly
spoilt. Yet, I always take refuge in You and long for
Your Feet. Is it not? Therefore kindly think of me.

540) Though You have taught me as clear as the daylight
that ones own Selfconsciousness devoid of
objective knowledge alone is Jnana, I am stumbling
and tottering due to being blinded by the 'I am the
body idea'. Therefore, graciously think to save me.

541) Bless me by Your divine words so that I can enjoy
the Shiva-Boga which has no going and coming
such as birth and death, having completely
extinguished the fire of all desires in my heart, ever
abiding at Your Feet who is the embodiment of
Arunachala.



542) If You agree a little all my worldly attachment will
fly away. My mind will turn selfward fully, and will
drown in the heart revelling in bliss.

543) By Your command, when innumerable globes are
moving in the space in their respective paths
without any clash (?), will not my petty mind
disobey Your divine control? Therefore make my
mind still, under Your command.

544) O my father Arunachala, even my mother the
powerful Sarva Shakthi cannot dance against You.
She will stand still subsidising in Nirvikalpa
Samadhi with love. Tell me will not mind which has
no power of its own , will it waver? Please tell

545) If You are gracious towards me I will be saved from
the pitfall of worldly delusion. My Guru's (Your)
Feet alone can do this. No one in any world can
otherwise help me.

546) O my Lord who appeared before me in such a lovely
form as Guru Ramana which cannot be described
either by words or writings, if You firmly think to
take me to the state of birthlessness, it will at once
be accomplished.

547) If You alone wish a little to put me in happiness,
liberation is at the very time be attained (?) all the
vasanas and the three karmas having come to an end.

548) There are ten thousand million tricks and clues in
Your hand to save me and to destroy my mad mind,
though however worst (?) I had fallen into the dark
pit of maya. Therefore save me.

549) Will it be difficult if You wish to offer as clear as day
light swarupa sukhanubhava which cannot be
shown objectively even to me who has done no
tapas, the indefinable bliss of self.

550) Though the beginning of maya cannot be found,
this can be put to end (?) by destroying it with Your
valour. O my Lord, Kindly if You have some
compassion upon me who do not have adequate
vairagya, the salvation is certain.

551) O Ramana Bhagavan, the greatness that can't be
described, the whole! If You decide to be gracious
on me, all my mental sufferings by which I am ever
weeping bitterly will come to an end. Please do
Grace me immediately.

552) I am a big fool who has not learnt the art of
Self-Attention, devoid of world attention and to remain
ever united with You. If Your benign Grace comes
upon me. All my troubles will end and Jnana will shine.


Does this befit You?
553) O Jnana Ramana Guru, who has taken the full
responsibility on me (?), if You now abandon me, on
some reasons, I will take birth again, and undergo
unnecessary sufferings. Will it fit You who has
taken me as Your own (slave)?

554) Are You very fond of hearing from Your devotees,
the words of prayer and lamenting such as , O my
Lord, does this fir You who had taken me as Your
own. ah, what shall I say! Is it good to You that I am
still praying, lamenting again and again. (No it is
not fair). Therefore, establish Your fame of Grace (?)

555) Will it fit You who rose between the two powerful
ego risings - Brahma and Vishnu, as Annamalai and
defeated them, to allow me still to rise as an
individual, different from You, as if 1 am this body?

556) O Guru Ramana, instead of my attaining Your
divine presence which shines as sat-cit-ananda
completely devoid of maya, will it fit You (?) to
allow an 'I' rising (ego-rising) which has the three
gunas (tamas, rajas, and satva)? Does it fit Your
Grace?

557) Instead of meditating upon the greatness of Your
Grace, Alas my mind giving importance to this petty
body-life as a real life, always gets into the net of

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innumerable thoughts! Ah why have You placed me
in such a state of ruin? Will it fit Your nature of
givings? Kindly change this state.

558) Leaving the self getting mad after the worldly
objects with desire and fear, getting spoilt by the
life of the mind, will I not get refuge (abhaya) from
You? Then , now and hereafter is this the way to
guard and protect this slave of Yours? Please tell.

559) O my Father, what will be the loss if You merge me
into You? Will it fit You, my saviour, if I thus long
and lament grow old and die?

560) Hiding Yourself within my heart what are You doing
with me, unknown to me? You have allowed all the
bad vasanas accumulated in me to dance! Does this
fit You who had taken me as Your own?

561) Instead of working hard within to eradicate my past
tendencies which are rising in so many ways in me
You have made me simply to eat, sleep and only the
worldly activities. Is it right?

562) To those who do not possess anything , You will
give. To those who come to You with fear, You will
give refuge by destroying their future births. Thus
You are more gracious than a mother. O Ramana,
therefore wipe off my tears of grief who had come
within Your gracious glance.

563) Instead of clinging to Your Feet, why should it
depend upon the power of my intellect? Is it for
waste (?) that You have given me this birth and
have taken me under Your intense care? Please tell.

564) Is it not that “useful life" means that the mind
should drown into the ocean of heart and lose its
entity in the supreme silence? But You have allowed
my mind to be dragged along by the senses! Is it
only for this that You have given me this body life?

565) I am happy in this life on the belief that You do not
need my begging at Your Feet weeping with any
needs. However if You repeatedly make me
complain and pray, will it fit You, my lord, who has
taken me as Your own?

566) O my Father, forgetting You is it with a mind to run
behind the worldly objects the whole life (?), have
You given Satguru darshan and brought me here?
This looks very pathetic. To whom did I tell and
weep? Will You not graciously see me (my state)
and bestow You Grace. Kindly see me.

567) A mischievous fellow (ego) who did not rise before
the birth of this body, who will not rise after the
death of this body and who is absent during sleep,
now rises and dances as ' I am this body', why did
You allow me to mistake, his false drama as if it is
my real life?

568) Will it fit You that my self identifying with this filthy
body like a ghost as 'I' and lead a ghostly life
thereby be ruined? O Loka Mahaguru, have not You
got any compassion over me to change the state of
Your son?

569) Today I am a living example to Your saying (?) "One
is worse than a pig" (one who identifies with the
body as 'I'). Well does it fit to Your fame of
bestowing - Jnana that I, (?) this worst fellow is
living as 'I am this body'?

570) Is it simply to waste my life as a fool who does not
learn how to drown and subside in You, the
supreme whole that You have given birth to me,
and were feeding me and putting me always under
Your intense care of Your Feet? Tell me.

571) What more gain is there in life than being united
with You losing the difference 'You and I'? If, You
who of Your own accord, once made me think of
You and dragged me to Your Feet, now forget me,
what can I do?


Except You Who is Capable?
572) Make me still and remain ever as the well
established Jnana of Self-consciousness. Except
You, the Satguru who else can kill the ghostly rise
of my mind and make it never rise again?

573) Except Your benign Grace itself, who else if there to
destroy me, the ego - who prevents the functioning
of Your Grace - so that it cannot rise again. So be
gracious.

574) There is no other means except by Your Grace
alone, to redeem this slave's mind from the dark
ignorance. O the one who took the form of my Guru
and who had taken me as Your own! If You, do not
bestow Your Grace, who else will do upon me?

575) Who has that great power except Your gracious
Lotus Feet to look after me, to prevent me from
going extroverted and to drag me into the heart
and dissolve me there not leaving a trace of
individuality.

576) Some great ones will forgive all my wickedness but
will not reform my mind. Some great ones will
reform my mind but will punish me for my
wickedness. but You are the only on who , is my
Satguru can forgive my wickedness but also reform
mu mind.

577) Except for the benign Grace of my Lord Ramana
who else can forgive any amount of my wrongs? It
is impossible ah, (?) impossible to any one, to
redeem my mind which has been already so very
nastily (?) polluted.

578) Be gracious to me, the one who has gone down to
such a hopeless condition that everyone will take
pity on me, unite me with Your divine Feet. No God
other than Guru can reduce all my sins to ashes.
You think and save me.

579) O the unequalled Satguru, I too am unequalled in
wretchedness (?). Except You, no one else can root
out all my wretchedness.

580) O God Annamalai Ramana, who else can save this
wretched one, who though having sharp
intelligence, us it in so many strange new ways to
spoil itself (?)

581) Who is there other than You who can bestow upon
me the power to abide in self? What I wish is the
greatness of destroying the ego and remaining
without duality ever as self.

582) Ah! All my life time is going in vain. The life of
enjoying Your Grace is still to be attained. If even
You, who did not fear to swallow the deadly Alahala
poison, fear in seeing my defects (?). Oh Lord, who
else can save me?


You Alone are Capable
583) By applying to You, the all powerful, what is the use
of complaining to other Gods? Will my miserable
mind die and leave? A light alone can dispel the
darkness. Instead why to try with mantras and
tantras to dispel it?

584) With a loving Grace whatever You show, I see the
same. In that way, close my eyes (submerge my
consciousness), I go to sleep. In the same way, if
You make me sing by songs (?) in praise of You I
sing. Therefore, if You make one dance (to Your
tune) who can stop? (?) In such way, if You, by Your
Grace, embrace me to the Self without another,
who will refuse? Please tell me.

585) I am unable to do any sadhana, therefore You
Yourself lead me without allowing any obstacles
and unite me with Your Feet. Is it impossible for
You? (No it os possible). Even this is admissible for
Your unlimited Grace. Is it not? Therefore, place me
in the fearless state of Self.

586) O Lord, I know Your ability of all powerfullness (?).
Well that You have no impossibility to do anything.
Therefore, however low I am due to the delusion, if
You place Your hand of Grace on me. I will get the
true life that moment itself. So come and shed Your
Grace.

587) If You, who has full freedom to will and act, want to
bestow Your Grace upon me, all obstructions will go
aside, and will not stand on (?) Your way when even
all the seven worlds have no power to prevent You,
will my destiny (prarabdha) be a hindrance for You
to Grace me?

588) Though entire action in my life is under the control
of prarabdha, You have given me freedom to think
of You (the self). In the same way You can be
gracious on me (?) independent of prarabdha.
Therefore, against You or me, who else or which
karma can stop to bestow Your Grace upon me?
Hence bestow Your Grace here and now.

589) Though I am a petty Jiva bound by attachments and
have sinful wretched mind with insufficient
maturity, yet are You not superior to God who
controls five functions (?)? Therefore You ca be
gracious overcoming prarabdha. Kindly be
gracious.

590) Are You not that supreme guru, the absolute
supreme god, by begging to whom this petty
knowledge (the ego) which has risen as I am this
fleshy body! will subside (?) reaching its own
source, therefore bestow me losing its entity, the
biksha of the state I begged for.

591) All the evil karmas accumulated during my past and
present births can be completely destroyed only by
the gracious Ramana Satguru the killer of death
and not by this ego which deludes taking the inert
body as 'I' or by others who have eight fold siddhis.

592) When I complete the experience of the prarabdha
of the present birth will I attain the eternal life not
to be born again with the body (not at all ). Just like
a crocodile drowns its prey the vasanas that drown
me in samsara - the consequent isanchita, agamya
crowd of karmas accumulated - are to be destroyed.
Kindly be gracious than the eswara in destroying
the above.

593) If You make me, who make a hypocritical show (?)
without really having the supreme devotion
recommended by good people and the great ones,
but praise You in verses and thereby get the help to
Your Feet, all my obstacles which arise due to
destiny will cease.

594) Sri Ramana, You alone are the proper guru to save
me, whose heart is hardened more than a stone,
who is more insignificant than the petty grass, and
who has a mind darkened with ajnana more than
darkness itself!

595) Since You are the Almighty, the the jeevas living
in various worlds (such as Devas, humans, birds,
animals etc) Pray to Grace upon them so that their
karmas are redeemed as You are the kartha (ordainer)
to ordain the fruit of karmas. Therefore kindly
remove my miseries out of passion and be gracious to me.

596) Will not my defects surely get drowned into the
unlimited flood of the ocean of Your Grace? Are You
not the saviour, the mighty Ramana whom I saw in
human form? Save me by removing my defects.

597) This is the time (period) to redeem even the most
deluded and wicked mind as mine,. O Lord
Ramana, the flood of Grace that has taken avatar!
With the highly potent power of Grace, can the wild
power of my dark ignorance an obstacle? (No)
Kindly redeem me (?)

598) According to the truly assuring words of great ones
that if one takes refuge at the Feet of a proper
powerful Guru (?), it is easy to cut the chain of
rebirth and attain liberation. O Sri Ramana, the
incarnation of Sri Dakshinamurthi in this kaliyuga, I
have surrendered to Your Feet. Bestow Your
gracious glance on me.

599) Oh the Almighty, who sustains the burdens of the
inner and outer lives of the devotees, who have
surrendered to You. The devotees who have taken
refuge in You, however much they have bad
karmas, by Your gracious cool glance, the three
prone desires getting subdued, giving up the
extroversion and realise the self. Is it not?

600) Can You not untie the knot bound by the rope of
ignorance - What I (mind) know through the five
senses, the five sense knowledges (as true) - I am
tired and weeping, praying You for release. Are You
not capable? (You can). Please tell (?)

601) To dispel the darkness of ignorance in the form of 'I
am the body' attachment, O Ramana You have
incarnated as gracious Sun of Jnana. The ego that
has risen as 'I' is to get destroyed and obtain the
goodness of Jnana at one stroke, will it be
impossible for the power of Grace? No, it is
definitely possible.

602) Though it is a very dense darkness covering many
yugas will it not fly away at the very moment when
a light if brought in? So, also though I have deep
darkness of ignorance. Glance me by Your (?)
gracious eyes so that I attain Jnana in a moment.

603) For reasons not known (maya), with a quality of
Ahankara (I am the body) and mamakara (these are
mine), there raises a first person 'I'. However much
I prevent, it does not stop going towards (pravrithi)
extrovertedness. The power to destroy the above
rising is at Your gracious hands. Is it not? Therefore
You destroy (that rising) and save me.

604) O my Lord, You must bestow Your Grace upon me,
so that I shall attain divine life, free from fear and
desire. This is a big affair which cannot be achieved
simply by me whose mind is mad like a prostitute
who never clings to the one (?)


Show Your Valour
605) O the King of Grace who needs the help of none for
a win with the power of Jnana. Though thousand
million mayas cover up and prevent me, You can
drive them out easily like mosquitoes, removing
them, holding me in Your gracious hand and
protecting me. Are You not such power? Graciously
protect me.

606) To give unceasing work to You who is the most
valiant, it seems I am born. Sri Ramana Siva, the
heroic Lion Guru, conquer me here and now itself!

607) Am 1a slave to You who has taken me as Your own
or to the ghost which is called Ahankara? Who am I
who rises as ‘I am the body'? Who is that which
rises as ego, the root cause of delusion (moha). If
both are one, will there be a delusion that cannot
be controlled by Your power of Grace? Therefore
win immediately the rising of the 'I' (?).

608) Has even this birth taken now becomes in vain? (?)
Are You very much tired in the war of saving me?
Or have You decided to get defeated? (?) O my
Father Sri Ramana, what am I to do? Kindly glance
at me to save me and win in the war.

609) O Guru Ramana, bestow upon me Your Grace of
holy viveka (?), the sharp arrow with which
destroying the ego. I should rise as self. If I do not
have Your Grace in spite of my praying in Your
presence, I will lose my power in the holy war with
Ahankara and become coward and lose the battle.

610) You have given me a life of powerful battle field of
Grace, who is going to win in the war? The long
accumulated batallion of tendencies or Your power
of Grace? The worldly desires in my heart or my
God who is in the form of Jnana? Please tell.

611) O my father Sri Ramana, who came in front of my
eyes in this birth. Is even the unequal inexpressible
power of Your silence - Grace - defeated (?) in front
of me, the fool? O Sri Ramana, be victorious!

612) Is there anything for You which cannot be achieved
by the power of Your supreme silence? Therefore
will not my wicked mind without rebelling then
selfward giving up all attachments towards the
external world?

613) I am living in this body uselessly wasting all my life
time. Hence You have to, by the power of Your
ocean of Grace make me reach the state of Atma
Nishta. What else can I do for my salvation here
after?

614) My mind rises to learn all these worldly arts adn
gets more and more taste. But to get to subsidein
self, the true art, (?) the mind will obey only by Your
power of Grace. It will not subside of it's own
accord.

615) My life - the source of ganges, the ego that
prevents its smooth flow - break open the dam of
ego, to proceed to the ocean of You the self. (?) In
the enroute (?), due to the leela of maya, lots of
wasteful worldly scenes that go on. Make me
proceed faster neglecting those scenes without any
diversion and make me advance faster without
straying from the path.

616) How did this separation happen that I have to take
myself to the attribute (the body as I)? Kindly rise,
Grace forcibly (?) so that I the ego shall die and
become nothing.

617) You should shower Your Grace so that the desire to
attend to self changes to love (losing the form of
ego). Gracefully aim at me the Brahmastra to have
strong vichara of 'Who am I'?

618) O my Lord, instead of helping me direct You, (?)
standing behind make me call for the fight with the
mind (vali). If You do not set Your arrow of Grace on
the mind delaying very much. I will lose my balance
and perish. Therefore help immediately.

619) Make me bold to destroy the rising if the abhimana
of Ahankar, the demon by the sword of Guru Bhakti
and with the shield of vairagya which is the root
cause for success.

620) I am the one who believing the help of Grace of Sri
Ramana but fell defeated repeatedly in the fight
with ahankara, the dreadful yama, not able to stand
equal to him. If You do not lift me up by Your Grace
winning the enemy and give victory. I will be
disappointed in spite of believing You.

621) I fell at Your Feet, taking refuge at Your fet, I live in
this world. O Satguru who will never allow Your
devotees to suffer! Be victorious always in my case.

622) Conquer my by Your Grace so that I shall never rise
again but drown in the heart once for all! To
complete this big task befall on both of us, kindly
look at me graciously at least for a second by Your
gracious eyes.

623) The nature of my mind bird is such that it always
tries to fly away escaping from my hold and to think
about other things only. Kindly throw - spread Your
net of silence where there is no trace of vasanas of
either name or form - catch the bird making it free
from vasanas and keep it within.

624) O the almighty, if You ordain that "Let Your mind be
pure", my mind which has become dirty due to
filthy (attachment) will glow like a diamond and
become sat-cit-swarupa. "Those who reach
Arunachala, however small the creature be, will get
liberation without any effort (sadhana)". Kindly,
prove these words of Yours by making it true in my
case.

625) Mistaking the body as self is the reason for the
appearance of the world-picture. In order to kill
this false notion put Your Feet in my heart and
dance as "I alone Am".

626) What is that "putting Your Feet and dancing in the
heart"? It is nothing but Your Atma-Spurana by the
power of which destroying the mind carried away
by vasanas, a play of power of Grace merging with
You.

627) Instead of ever abiding in self, the liking to know
the objects seen in front rises due to earlier
vasanas or for whatever reason, You, by the power
of Your Grace destroy it (the liking) by winning over
it. Except You, to whom I can pray for this?

628) In spite of my bowing down before You (When You
were with the body as Ramana) (?) and met Your
gracious glance, the spear of Jnana, I have not lost
my vices! Kindly use the next powerful weapon -
Mouna and annihilate me or else it is of no use.
Hence deploy the weapon of Mouna immediately.

629) Unfailingly place ad press Your flawless sceptre of
Grace (judgement stick) (?) which does not know
what is bad on me. If You are kind enough to
provide me this boon, tell me, the fruit of which
karma will remain to affect me?

630) Even though if I have to come across due to my bad
prarabdha, people who are born only to do wicked
actions, Kindly control me completely by Your
valour of Grace which will never give room for my
ego to rise even a little.

631) O Great Guru, who saved many jeevas through
simple but effective words of Grace, will You not
show me Your valour of Grace which has
resurrected innumerable jeevas who were dead
while living as petty jeevas with immortal self.

632) The wrong feeling that 'I am this body' is a very
strong fetters of delusion which cannot be broken
easily. From where can I get the necessary great
strength to destroy this fetters? Therefore kindly
destroy it by the power of Your Grace.

633) Take the sword (Grace of jnana) in Your hand which
will destroy all the vasanas leaving no residue and
which will make me remain as 'I am' (self)
annihilating all the heaps of karmas accumulated
through past births.

634) May the wonderful Grace of Sri Ramana alone be
victorious! Let the strength of the fruit of my
various karmas be doomed! May the one great
sakthi (power) of the weapon of unbroken mouna
(Akhanda - mouna - sakthi) which is shining ever
victoriously be victorious in me! (?)


You Alone Who Took me as Your own, Bestow Your Grace
635) I have no strength of mind to pursue the quest of
the reality, the self. Piercing the heart where the
rising 'I am so and so' subsides and lose my self (?).
I do not know any other sadhana. That day, You had
brought me in Your presence, took over me, what
else You intend to do on me further?

636) What was Your motive that You have brought me
and fixed me in Your presence and thus gave the
Sat Guru Darshan to me who is a worst (?) fool and
who cannot make even one sincere effort to know
the reality?

637) I am tired of running after the five sense
knowledges due to the ignorance of the true
knowledge. But since I was once taken by You as
Your own by Your benign Grace, tell me who else
will do all the needs for me but You?

638) I pray You earnestly day and night to bestow upon
me such a life that I should spend this birth
peacefully at Your Feet being victorious in the war
raged against lust(kama) and having unceasing
meditation upon You who has taken me as Your
own.

639) To think of that which appears as second and third
person objects (anniya) is waste. To find the source
of the 'I', he who attends the above (objects) is
Tapas. O my Lord who dragged me to Your Feet
only to turn my extroverted nature of the mind to
attend inwards (Ahamukha), please help me to turn
inward.

640) Since You are my father and mother who had given
birth to me, You Yourself should make me think of
Your Feet. I am powerless to do any sadhana to
reach You. I have taken You as my refuge and
surrendered to You. All my burden and
responsibilities are only Yours.

641) O my Lord, though the bright lamp of intellect
which Your Grace has lit in me will not get
extinguished , yet if You do not help me further (by
pouring oil, kindling it etc). Sometimes, it may be a
light towards worse. Please protect me by Your
Grace.

642) From the very day of the birth of this body except
from You, I have not received anything from any
human. Now if You the great philanthropist does
not give me whatever that is needed, who else will
give me?

643) In spite of Your knowing thus I am the worst of all
who do not perform any tapas to get the awakening
of Jnana, You have accepted me. Now if even Your
unequaled teaching through silence fails, tell me
where else can my defects be rectified?

644) O the one who dragged me even in my Young age
and gave Guru darshan in order to shower on me
abundant bliss which knows no other thing except
self! Now is it proper to abandon me?

645) You are almighty who can do anything. You are
omniscient. You are all merciful! Is it not? That's
why I never go behind any human for anything. You
alone protect me.

646) You the great Annamalai, the Hill of Siva Jnana took
the form of Sri Ramana Guru which is cooler than
the cool southern breeze and took me as Your own.
Is it not? O my Lord, now bestow (?) Your Grace
upon me.

647) You alone who made me live in the land of
Arunachala, the heart centre of this world! Be
gracious to unite (?) with me in and out throughout
this life without leaving me (not making me to
leave)

648) O my Lord Ramana who from my childhood had
trained me in the habit of worshipping and praying
to You in order to regain my original state (of
Brahman) which I have (seemingly) lost! Who else
but You will do the rest for me?

649) O Satguru, it is very rare to get the darshan of Your
Feet even though one takes crores of births. It is
such a rare great fortune! But somehow You have
come in front of even me, the worst fellow. Is it not?
In the same manner bestow upon me the liberation
too!

650) I am now in a tired condition by worshipping,
praying, weeping to You for a very long time that I
need Your help and support. O Almighty, You have
given me the darshan of the form of Guru Ramana.
Now give me the darshan of the state of
annihilation of the ego.

651) Like an able cunning thief escapes through the
small hole in the wall I escape from You through the
stealthy ways of five senses extrovertedly. Not
allowing me to wander in the worldly activities who
took me as Your slave, I will not ask anything from
anyone. Whatever I am to get, You ordain in such a
way. (?)

652) You are the path, You are the goal and You are the
one who leads me to the goal through the path. O
Lord Sri Ramana, You are the most powerful of all
Hence there is nothing to be done on my part as
sadhana.


You Alone Are My Support
653) By the wild power of attachment losing my
discrimination, wandering mad, You who has been
protecting me from innumerable births, took the
form of Sri Ramana in this birth to totally Grace me
and took over me, I surrender to You.

654) O Annamalai, the Grace in the form of Hill
personified, the Lord I can see to my heart's
content, the Shiva, who made me sing Your glory by
providing words and syllables. O Bhagavan
Ramana, Your refuge is my life's support.

655) In the bright jnana effulgence the three activities
(creation, sustenance, and destruction) and three
imaginations (jeeva, ishwara, jagat) are
transcended and shine as Lord. O my Satguru Sri
Ramana who in a human form appeared before my
eyes and lived Your Feet is my refuge.

656) I am a petty non-existent, mortal and am powerless
to enquire and to be firm in the reality. Therefore O
Ramana, the Lord of my soul, I take refuge in You.
Save me.

657) Since I had the darshan of Your holy Feet, my
Satguru, which cannot be attained even though one
takes any number of births, may Your gracious Feet
give me refuge and amke me not be born anymore,
having nothing more to do in this world.

658) Guru Ramana, I take You as the great divine helper
to my soul, You who is greater help than the eyelids
to the eyes, greater help than the hands to wear the
slipping dhoti (?) and a greater help than a mother
to her daughter (during child birth)

659) In front of the art of Self-enquiry, the sixty four
worldly knowledges become false in this world, and
established that the true Self-knowledge as the
truth, let Your Feet be a true refuge to this fool.

660) O my Lord, where am I now? By making which
efforts where will I go? Where was I before (before
the birth of the body)? Not knowing any thing of
these, I perish in the darkness of the 'I am the body'
delusion. You alone are my refuge.

661) O my Satguru who is holding the sword of Self-
knowledge, by Your Grace the life of 'I am the body'
should leave or else, I will be burnt by the forest
fire of these karmas. Hence I do not have any
refuge except Your Feet.

662) O Sri Ramana, having only Your Grace as my
support and saviour, I am in this bodyy living in this
world. No one else I have as my support. Therefore
You should give me my refuge, the state of
fearlessness adn consolation.

663) O Guru Ramana, the embodiment of supreme
Grace, who have taken me as Your own in
Arunagiri! O the expert in putting an end to the
rebirths of Your devotees! O the one who made me
sing in praise of You! You alone are my refuge!

664) Is it not so clearly true, like an amalaka fruit in the
palm that You in the past protected me many times?
Now am I to beg more and more for Your gracious
protection? Tell me.

665) O Ramana, the supreme silence, who took me by
mauna as Your own at the foot of Arunachala the
Hill of Jnana. You are the only God who has to
bestow Grace upon me either now itself or at a
later date. There is no other God to do it for me.
Therefore You finish Your part by bestowing Grace
now itself.


If Your Grace Alone is the Important Factor
666) I have a life in this body still by Your Grace.
Hereafter Your Grace has to provide the life where
the ego is lost, ever remain in sahaja Self-knowledge.

667) Knowing that nothing can be done by me without
Your Grace and having surrendered completely to
Your gracious heart that ("Let everything happen as
per Your wish"). I am simply rising my clasping (?)
hands of prayer to You without making any effort or
sadhana on my part. Bestow Your Grace upon me.

668) O the supreme gracious Lord, You being my sole
support, driving away all my worldly delusions,
bestow Your Grace easily upon me. Otherwise,
hereafter what can be done by me?

669) Your Grace alone is the essential thing for me to
turn towards the heart and to enjoy the bliss. I beg
You falling flat (?) at Your Feet who took the form of
my Guru, have caught me by Your hands and
dragged me to Arunachala. Be gracious.

670) "To have the darshan of Lord or self" (to see), "to
know, to merge and to unite one with him, to be
established in self, to enjoy the great happiness" -
thus say the elders. Truly what is this? Not allowing
the rising of the false appearance in the form of "I
am the body" is being told in different words. To get
this 'state of losing one's entity' is Your Grace
which is prayed for. Be gracious.

671) If 1am to rise up to the higher states and get Your
Grace, You have not given me that mental strength
and vairagya! What is with me is this fickle mind
which keeps on wavering frequently. Has this mind
so much power to merge in Heart? No, the power of
Your Grace is alone needed. Kindly come and be
gracious.

672) Your Grace alone is essential to experience that
which remains, after the loss of my individuality, 'I'
and 'mine' ceases to exist and to remain firmly fixed
- there (?). Bestow Your Grace upon me.

673) Except by Your gift of Grace, to get the true life of
living established in Heart, to remain as self,
immersed in mouna samadhi (beyond words), fully
detached with the body - there is no other way.

674) Abiding and merging in Heart, not allowing the
rising of the attribute 'I am the body’, You, the
support that does not appear (externally). Be
gracious that I should dissolve and merge in You.
Except Your Grace there is no other go for me.
Hence be Gracious.

675) I am a tender Young plant being dried in the hot
sun. I cannot live and grow without the rain of Your
Grace showering upon me. Have You not come and
stood in front of my eyes like an amalaka fruit on
my palm? Graciously unite with me and remove any
more rebirth.

676) Your Grace alone is essential for me to have true
love for liberation (moksha). Otherwise, will it be
possible for my blunt and unripened mind to find
out, distinguish and otherwise even a bit, the
eternal from the ephemeral?

677) For me, a crazy fool, who has a small limited
intelligence which is nothing but a big ignorance,
will it be possible to learn and attain the supreme
silence, which cannot be gained except by Your
Grace. Therefore, bestow Your Grace upon me.

678) Ido not know to keep my mind, speech and body
quiet by remaining myself in that silence Your
greatness, who came in front of me as an ocean of
supreme silence! Your Grace of jnana itself should
reveal to me the greatness of my Guru's Grace.

679) Can I, Your slave, know without Your Grace Your
supreme nature, who shines as heart in every
being, as the unchanging one at all the three times
and place, as the flood of bliss, but as the one
completely hidden to those who are extroverted?
Kindly have Your gracious glance on me.

680) O the great giver who will never give the beautiful
treasure box of the gem of the non-dual silence to
anyone unless one wishes it! Be gracious by seeing
my nature who beg You in order to get that golden
wish by Your Grace.

681) But for the Grace of compassion of my Lord Guru
Ramana, defects of this slave cannot be got rid of!
In short, this is the essence of my prayer! To do this
prayer, the true love with a melting heart is needed;
You only have the power and responsibility and
hence be kindly be gracious.

682) Without a true knowledge, thinking the world to be
real and living, taking this body as I, to keep the
body fit and strong, having crores of wasteful
thoughts day and night - (weakening day by day)
this poor idiot, Your Grace alone should provide me
true knowledge.

683) I have lost hope and belief that my filthy mind will
become good, irrespective of sadhana for any
number of yugas, O, the almighty! If a cave is
covered with darkness for many number of yugas
when a lamp is brought in and the dnse darkness
disappears totally in the same way if the light of
Grace descends in my heart in a split second all my
dense defects (vasanas) will be destroyed to it's
root and chitam will become shivam.

684) I cannot severe the strong cover of the three fold
impurities (ego, karma, maya) merely by my mind,
except by the sword of Grace in Your hand. All
dense darkness of ignorance in me will vanish in a
second when the light of Your jnana is lit in my
heart.

685) Unless You bestow Your Grace upon me there is no
other way for me to be saved in this life. Will the
power of my false and defective mind which is full
of ignorance be a help to take me to turiya, the
state of reality? No.

686) What is the use by repeatedly thinking that this
world is a mirage, a falsedream or a trivial thing?
Such a thinking is only an effort made only after the
rising of ego 'I'. What benefit will it bring to me,
unless Your Grace is bestowed upon me.

687) Only Your unequa and natural Grace on me should
give me liberation, otherwise either the maturity of
my filthy mind or the sadhanas done by it cannot
give liberation. Therefore please rush towards me
and give me Your unlimited Grace.

688) The clear experience of Jnana is not attained by any
one without Grace. Therefore, O Gurunatha what
else can I do except weeping, melting an praying
for Your Grace?

689) O my Lord who fixed Your Lotus Feet well and
danced in my heart, If I obtain Your compassion on
me that alone is sufficient to remove all miseries
and to obtain all happiness. Then by Your Grace my
mind will become Your sincere slave.


Expressing One's Own Inability
690) (Whatever that has been accumulated so far in my
mind). Destroying the innumerable worldly vasanas
to live like a sahora (?) bird drinking cool moon
rays of self. O my Lord this can happen only by Your
Avyaja (?) Grace (without any expectation in any
form and bestowing Grace) (?) For I do not have
any slightest strength (of my own)

691) My mean human intellect is unbelievable. It does
not have the ability to ean the wealth of Grace.
Therefore, please provide me true love to You by
Your Grace. Remove the unwanted one in the heart
destroying it, and You come in and fill as the space
of light of consciousness.

692) The unshakably (?) strong conviction in me that the
asat (the body) is sat (real existent) does not given
room to realise the truth even a little. Therefore by
Your Grace kindly blossom my heart and reveal the
truth.

693) O my Lord Ramana, bestow Your Grace upon me,
the incapable one. If truly said, what will be
possible for redeeming me who has no freedom at
all? Tell me.

694) I have not perfectly done anything as sadhana, I
have not followed Your instructions, what all I do is,
I always weepingly call You, sing and long for Your

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Grace and make complaints about my agony. I do
nothing more. Kindly be compassionate towards
me.

695) I have become too weak to do any sadhana because
of the great agony I experience which is due to the
fighting against the crowd of my vasanas, Now I fall
at Your Feet as the refuge. Kindly protect me.

696) Fora very long time in the past, I make complaints,
in front of You that I do not have the strength of
tapas or teh skill of relieving my self (?) from the
strong grip of defects and demerits in me. O my
beloved Lord kindly be gracious. O my Dear, did
You forget all of them (ie my complaints) wept and
made me in Your presence?

697) Like every effort taken by a man who is half
drowned into a loose wet mud (?) is only favourable
to be drowned deeper and deeper. Myself with the
desire of fame (of mud) by reading scriptures liking
the flattery of others. I sink deeper and deeper in
the mud. Hence by the effort of reading scriptures
one can get sunk more and more depper (in the
fame mud) and how can I get liberation (sat-gati)?

698) How can I get liberation merely by the sadhanas
done by the intellect except by taking You as my
Jnana Guru, Your Grace obtained by worshipping
Arunachala Ramana as the father and mother. Tell
me.

699) Doing sins by repeatedly taking birth and by
accumulating sins taking birth once again, it seems
not possible that I, the wicked fellow can take any
tapas at any time! Therefore by Your Grace, unless
You take me up as Your slave to be protected by
You, how can I have deliverance?

700) Only by Your almighty Grace I can achieve the
knowledge of oneness of self. For it is impossible to
attain jnana in any birth merely by the effort of my
petty intellect which is identifying the body as 'I'.

701) O the great giver! Even though You keep me in this
condition of weeping for any number of crores of
births in future, I have no power of my own to
attain liberation. You also know this clearly. when if
it is so (?), why should You make me born again?


Declaring One's Own Immaturity (apakva)
702) You have given instructions in so many ways that
the mind, if seeks happiness should go back and
drown in the heart. It is only mistake of apakva,
that those instructions gave no fruit, for I have not
absorbed and observed them. Graciously rectify my
mistake of apakva.

703) I have not learnt to live as You have taught
practising Your instructions, but with the
instructions I am making others showing by the
presentation of words make me think big - and
enchant them, I have not become silent and still.
True greatness lies in sincerely following at least a
little of Your highly great gracious upadesa and be
truly benefitted.

704) O father, now I clearly see that I have no real love
to Your holy Feet. Though my condition is such
instead of offering me Your true love if You still
keep me false (?) and abandon me, how much
worse will I become, I do not know (don't leave
such ) (?)

705) I am the poorest fellow who had lost all virtue, I am
the best of all wickeds (?). But I pretend to be Your
devotee among the good people. Only by Your
Grace, I, the imposter should turn out to be a real
devotee, give me this boon.

706) You are giving so many inexpressible outer
conveniences to me in order to dive deep within.
But I the useless minded one waste my rare human
life without usefully spending within, become
extroverted and roam around. Therefore, destroy
me by swallowing me as Your prey without leaving
any trace of individuality.

707) I have not done any sadhana through proper ways.
I do not know how to adore and worship sages like
the bulls which go round and round pulling the
yoke of the roller of an oil expeller (?) (remain on
the same place even though they walk all day long).
I remain in ignorance in spite of all my toil
throughout the life. Be gracious.

708) I am not ignorant of the path for You have
instructed me. Yet I am not the one who knows it,
because I have not followed Your instruction. This
ego centred crack (?) is like a foolish child who
lights a lamp and burns his own finger in the flame.
No one but You my father, can take pity on this
child and save me.

709) You gave me a sharp intellect, to use it to reach the
self. But instead of using that to achieve the win of
realisation, I have used it vigorously towards the
dark way shown to be by the bad friends, the five
senses. Lo! be gracious (?)

710) I am the worst of all people. I am lying at the
bottom of the ocean of virtueless maya. Hence,
except the Grace of Guru Ramana, who is none but
Shiva himself, how can I attain Jnana?

711) I do not have the strength of good virtuous tapas in
my past births. I do not have the mental strength to
do tapas at least in this present birth. Moreover I
do have bundle of sins accumulated in my past
births and a heavy treasure of unlimited vasanas.
Seeing my pitiable condition please take pity on me
and save me.

712) Ah, Your real devotees are living happily having
removed all hypocrisy from their mind and having
melting their heart and brimming over with love to
Your Feet. But my life which has not a bit of true
love at Your Feet or an aversion towards the
attachment towards to this body, is very worse. (?)

713) Your devotees who have strength spell many million
times Your divine name till their tongue is scarred
and thus their lives are saved. But I the fool,
desiring for the worldly objects fighting for life,
praying loudly, making my mouth soar, getting
tired! What a pitiable state is this?

714) I do not know what will happen to my power of
discrimination if I am born again. Because even
though I have been caught by Your divine eyes in
this birth, my mind is still wandering only outward.
If I, such a one is born again, will certainly never
advance (return inward). This is certain. Be
gracious.

715) To Your Feet accessible to those aspirants who
patiently undergo major difficulties with painful
tapas getting requisite maturity, I the poor fellow
wish to get the union in the heart just by singing a
song! What a fun it is!

716) By the speed of the wild forest fire, rise and taking
possession of my intellect in the dark delusion of
poisonous smoke, with the attachment to the ego,
my intellect is pushed out outwardly only and
refuses to turn inward. By the power of Your Grace,
You bestow upon me the right knowledge to my
intellect and lead me.

717) At Your Feet where so many people of power,
position and growing wealth (?) flock and bow
down with humility, even I , an immature creature
boldly and unceasingly try to beg daily. What a fun
itis!

718) Though there is full bliss within to me, the fool this
life is blindly going in vain because I do not know
the proper path, proper discrimination, proper
strength and proper earnestness which are
essential for maturity. Be gracious.


Wondering at One's Own Defect
719) It is said that "That birth alone will be the
wonderful last birth in which the Satguru is seen by
one's own eyes". But now in spite of my seeing You
the Satguru in my present birth, I am still in this
worse condition! Therefore I am unable to
understand how You are going to put an end to my
future births! However graciously do!

720) O my Guru, the great giver who appeared before
my eyes as my supreme God! What remark shall I
make about me who is a worse animal which is not
yet reformed even after having Your rare darshan?
Be gracious.

721) O the one who has the greatness of being not
accessible even to Brahma and Vishnu, look at my
useless life, even though I am given to live at Your
Feet. Of all who are born in this world, I am the
best of the worst.

722) Like one who himself fixes a stone on earth and fall
down by troding (?) over it, I wander with desire
only outside (being extroverted) and experience a
miserable hell - What so say about my ignorance?
May You have great pity on me and correct my intellect.

723) The spoon, though being immersed in the tasty food
throughout the day, it cannot know the taste of teh
food.So also O Annamalai Ramana, have I become
like the spoon not getting the profit of Grace in
spite of remaining all my life time at Your Feet!

724) By claiming ownership as this world is mine (?),
this is my place, these are my people, this body is
mine, this mind is mine - thus thinking that
everything is mine. I have become a victim to the
sin of the tattapakara (the sin of stealthily taking
back that which was already handed over to You).
Since all these are really Yours, what a delusive
Self cheat I am!

725) Ido not even sleep well peacefully because of the
increasing of the sense of reality on this body and
world. Have You, who had killed innumerable types
of egos (I am this body notion) ever seen any such a
worst deluded fool as me?

726) From the day of the birth of this body, till now I did
not have a single thought of loving You, except the
thoughts of desire for food to eat, clothes to wear
and the place for this body to live and not only to
think of the needs to fulfill the needs of five sense
objects. Alas what a wonder! (?)

727) The idea that I am this filthy skin covered body is
flourishing very well, like the spreading of a banian
tree, like the deeper rooting of the Aruhu grass (?)
and piercing deep like the spear (of Lord
Subrahmanya). Will it fit You, who alone is existing
really? (to allow this ego to flourish like that?)

728) Though You have given me this petty soul so many
favourable environments and other conveniences
which are not available even to those in Heaven in
order to enquire into the source of the ego, I do not
program even a bit in Vichara! Ah! the power of
delusion in me is so great!


Pitying For One's Own Defects
729) This ego-I thinking as if it is really existing as an
individual, wishes to attain all benefits such as
power attain all benefits such as power (shakthi)
and liberation (mukthi) remaining in this body. It
does not know that its own loss (of individuality)
itself is sakthi and mukthi. Ah! What a pity!

730) I rise myself as (?) 'I am this body', then by
functioning as the body as I, making the ego to
grow, see my own self, as the separate world in
front, roaming desirous of getting the worldly
things and suffer greatly! What a pathetic life! O
Shiva Ramana, kindly arrest me (that pathetic
fellow) (?) not allowing to rise.

731) Seeing my own self, the supreme consciousness
through the mind mirror as a big universe and a
jeeva living in it and mistaking me the self to be the
second person objects (?) - the world, I am running
after it with likes and dislikes and suffer a lot.
Kindly take pity on me and be gracious.

732) Not knowing that the accumulated crowd of my
own subtle vasanas in the heart alone are seen
through the five senses outside as this wonderful
picture of the world. Thinking that this world is
real, and by having so many likes and dislikes
towards the world picture. Ah! How much I spoilt
myself, moving away from the happiness, the self.

733) Enough of the worldly benefits which I have asked
You and achieved. All of them became mere
impediments to gain self knowledge why did I ask
You then? Alas, at least now crush such ego rising
so that it will not ask so any more.

734) If my useless life without real love to You is judged,
the result will be undoubtedly a ruin and waste. O
my God who appeared before my eyes as my
Satguru, bestow upon me a fruitful life by Your
Grace.

735) If You say that all defects existing in me as per Your
divine will, what will be the use of my dejection? It
seems as if I may escape little by little even from
the gracious grip of the jaws of the Guru - tiger!
See what a wonder. Please see that this does not
happen.

736) Neither surrendering to You by Bhakti nor attaining
Your Feet by the power of Yoga, nor killing the ego
by enquiry my life in this body is a useless jail life.
Is it not? Please have Your gracious glance on me.

737) The favourable aids, guidances and environments
You have given me in this birth are very rare to get
in any other births. Even though when it so much
given, I am becoming worse and worse! What is the
use of this fool living more and more days here?

738) Like blind donkey, I, this petty minded fool was
roaming along in so many wrong paths getting
wounded and sufferings on the way. O my Lord who
has myself as Your slave. Be merciful a little so that
even I shall enjoy the bliss which Your well matured
(?) devotees are enjoying.

739) Leaving You and by associating with this body and
world what benefit and happiness did I get? Is this
kind of cheating myself wise? Therefore, You
graciously change the course of the foolish state of
mind.

740) I the decitful one, languishing and thinking what
tapas can I do forgetting a life of tapas. Ah! I feat
whether I will spend the rest of my life in the same
useless manner I have spent in the past!

741) Can I, who stealthily run after the five senses
getting away from You whoever resides in the
heart, be accepted by You as a proper slave to Your
Feet? Ah! My behaviour is ridiculable (?) by good
people!

742) Your gracious eyes which ripened devotees into
golden heart, even after falling on me, my mind
which was wounded, poisoned and spoilt by maya
did not reform, what is going to happen to me? Be
compassionate and gracious.

743) Unless You give refuge saying ‘Don't be afraid’,
there is no other way for me to be saved. In case
You reject me I fear What will happen to me, the
petty soul, who has no proper maturity. Hence be
gracious.

744) Alas! Is not my making my efforts for liberation
laughable because my efforts are insincere and also
with a desire for name and fame? So (?) graciously
reform me by blessing me with true love, true
renunciation and true abiding within.

745) If I spend all the days of my life from the time of
waking from sleep to the time of getting sleep
again - only in the useless wandering of thoughts,
in rest of my days what benefit can I get out of this
birth?

746) Having been caught in this body, a prison from
which it is not easy to get release, (?) and wrongly
taking that prison as 'I'. I have become a poor soul.
Alas, O Gracious Ramana, You alone are my mother
who can save me.


Informing the Inability
747) O Arunachala Ramana, the great Lord who came in
front of me as my father, mother, Guru and God and
has taken me by Your gracious eyes! You see the
worst state in which I am today by the same eyes.

748) What have You done with me and what are You
going to do with me in future? Myself, who has
such fearful tendencies (like people fear seeing the
snake) (?) but You are my only refuge. Be gracious.

749) O father, I can no more bear with Your ungracious
nature to me. Bestow upon me Your Grace at least
to die and my vices put to rest. O the great muktha
who came in the form of my Guru Ramana and took
me as Your own! O Aruna Sivam, come and bestow
Your Grace upon me.

750) If You make me live facing You, the self I will have
no more complaints in this life. If You are not
compassionate enough to Grace me, Kindly take my
life to Your Feet and let this body die and go to
earth, by bestowing at least the death.

751) There is nothing more to be done (either tapas or
the sadhana) by my own power. Hereafter whatever
I am to do, You have to make me do that tapas,
without deceiving. Be gracious. In my present weak
state please do not argue. Please do not deceive
this weaker of the weakest (?) and bind me in maya.
Be gracious.

752) If You abandon me, both the heap of my
accumulated karmas and the wicked vasanas will
crush me and will bury me into the mud of birth
and death from which I can never rise up. Will You
be pleased to make me weep and cry? (?) Be gracious.

753) Even after I had prayed to You for the annihilation
of the ego without leaving even a trace of it, if You
without agreeing to it burn me by the fire of
vasanas, what more can I do to overcome the tests
which You put on me?

754) O Guru Ramana, who graciously rose at
Arunachala, when will You graciously think to save
me? I am the one who never went to anyone else
expecting You to ask for any needs. Therefore
graciously remove my unceasing miseries.

755) It has become my daily routine to make endless
complaints to You as, O Lord Gurudeva, not even a
bit of my miseries is reduced till now and thus give
pains to Your gracious Lotus Feet.

756) O my Lor who is more gracious than even a mother
to Your devotees! Will it fit You to make me long for
Your Grace still more? If You reply "Yes", I cannot
bear with it.

757) If I am out in to unbearable distress of many kinds -
even though such is the order of my Lord (You) -
how will it be justice if You allow it till my heart is
broken? Kindly change all my miseries and say
“fear not"!

758) Iused to see my own meanness and weep with pity,
I will feel that Your love is lost. I become like the
one who himself presses a thorn into his own Feet
and weep with pain. Alas, what will I become in
future? Be gracious.

759) Something rises from sleep catching hold of the
body as I, then as 'I am the body' in the form of the
ego, attaching with the body (many births) roam
and wander in the world (with desire) in between
repenting for that state, by thinking of You,
longingly pray facing You, "Oh, my father, Lord
Ramana, when will You withdraw me into the heart"
- thus weeping bitterly - is this the result You have
given? Graciously put and end to this rising.

760) Oh the kind hearted Lord, who will take pity on
those who are weak to improve themselves! I
cannot bear with this dual existence of mine as
something other than You. Be gracious towards me
to reach the shore where no delusion or defects will
cling to me.

761) It will be fit only for You to forgive and reform all
my unequal defects of my mind. I am at peace only
because of this great faith in You. Otherwise what
benefit will be there with whatever effort (sadhana)
I make?

762) Blinding my two eyes, tying both my hands and
legs, providing neither a handful of food nor a drop
of water to drink if You let me lie on the hot sands
of big desert, What a great torture would it be?
Such an inexpressible suffering I am now
experiencing!

763) Having my two hands clasped over my head, I cry
for Your help that Your holy Feet alone is my only
protection, praying to make my mind without
wandering in the world, ever dwelling upon You
who is always inducing my mind and tongue to sing
in praise of You.

764) I am completely exhausted by shedding tears,
lamenting and praying to You. "Be merciful, be
merciful". Even when if You, the greatest power of
Grace, keep quiet without being merciful to me,
who else will bestow Grace upon me?

765) Oh the purest! There is nothing more as new to
pray to You. So, I am again and again repeat the
same prayer which I have already made, and that
is, I cannot live without Your Grace. Therefire,
estow Your Grace by saying "Fear not" and make
me as Your own.


Unable to Bear with Your Delay Any More
766) You are all knowing, almighty and also all merciful
more than anyone. Why then this delay towards me,
who is ever praying and longing for You?

767) When will my prarabdha which is the cause of the
appearance of this dream of a body and world
cease by the blossoming of the knowledge who am
I? And when will the Grace of my Lord Bhagavan
Ramana whose Feet sweeps off death revealing my
real nature be bestowed upon me?

768) Wasting my worldly life, which is the picture
projected by the five senses, being spoilt not taking
up the true and useful who am Self-Attention, when
are You going to give me the love for the Grace and
keep at Your Feet without movement? Please tell.

769) If You give me the power to cling to self
unceasingly, what else is there to beg from You? O
mother, father, O my gracious Guru, when will You
give me this?

770) Tell me, when will I have the eternal unbroken
sleep without rising at the shade of Your Feet,
having lost by Your Grace, the ignorance of
thinking about my body, food for the body and a
shelter for it?

771) O my Guru, the Lord, I do not know when will that
day dawn in which I will have my ego annihilated
by Your Grace? Exactly on which day You will kill
me and eat me - who is expecting You everyday as
"Ah! it will be today, it will be today!"

772) I am waiting, thinking 'Today it will be , within
tomorrow the good will happen" - When will it
happen? What will become of me when death
comes? If this body dies without knowing the
oneness of the reality, even though I have come to
You, how will Your Grace be valued?

773) Since my longing due to the dissapointment that
when will You, who has given me the hope that You
will save me, will save me, is -- more and more, I
am heart broken doubting whether You may
deceive me?

774) Every time I think I will, from now onwards become
a proper vessel to Your Grace, thinking repeatedly,
instead of turning within diving deep, thinking as
above floating on the thought and spoilt - what a
foolish (mad) as it is?

775) Every day the Sun rises and ridicules me asking,
how is Your spiritual progress? And sets in the
evening. The whole of my life passes away like this.
Will You not reveal to me the beauty of the egoless
state?

776) Every season is changing, coming and going one
after the other. Every year is also passing away
changing along the seasons. But I do not see my
ugly mind soaked well in the worldly mud is
changed into a pure mind which can unite with
supreme whole.

777) © Lord, many days and mights have passed this
way very fast. How will it fir You who gave the
fortune of singing in praise of You, but not yet
destoyed my rising (of the births) trumpeting the
valour of Your Grace?

778) If You allow me to wander still like this leaving You
how will I become Your real slave? Tell me when
will You fix me in the Heart removing all these
tastes of mind jugglery in which innumerable
differences appear?

779) O, Chit-Ananda-Rupa, Annamalai, ever shining
(neither day or night) the ancient Lord. Sri Ramana
Satguru, when will I merge, losing I, the ego and
become Gracefully bliss form (?) - in You, the pure
love?

780) Just like magnet attracts iron and retains it, the day
You draw my mind without movement (chalana) by
Your gracious pull, retain in You without getting me
extroverted, is the auspicious day for me.

781) If You decide to fix me firmly without return in the
real state of self, how can any suffering remain
there for me? If You do not do it now itself, then
when will be a beter time for You? Please tell me.

782) IfIspend my whole life like this, how will I become
a proper vessel to Your Grace? Will it be proper for
You by extending the days thus? O my God, who is
ever leading me through the righteous path!

783) Be merciful towards me, who has completely
handed over to You from my very boyhood and
praying to You, having my hands on my head, O, my
Lord supreme, You are my only refuge.

784) Icame for refuge by begging for jnana in my early
hours (Young age), waiting in Your presence till the
evening (the old age). During that period if You
make me lament like sugarcane caught in the
grinder and worm caught in the fire, deluding me in
maya, will it fit to (?) Your great name and fame
that Your devotees are ever protected without fail?

785) Days, months and years come and go in vain
without use. Most of my life has gone waste without
Atma-sadhana. What will become of the rest of this
life? O Lord, save me, save me!

786) Even after I have found that You are my only
saviour , just like the flame burning high, if You
don't put out my worldly desires that rise high, the
old age and death will come to my body. Then what
will I do? Will it fit to Your greatness of Your Grace?
Please tell.

787) O father, many long days have passed after You
have taken me as Your own. This human body may
not last long and will get destroyed. Before that You
should shower the Grace. Is it not?

788) You are seeing this devotees sufferings, but I not
know, when You are going to solve and merge me in
You. My cover, this body life, if wasted waiting like
this, what am I to do further?

789) Ah, I have expressed to You my longings all that
were in my heart for quite a long time without even
feeling shy. The lifetime of this mud pot (body) is
also, day by day, shrinking quickly. Therefore,
graciously complete Your duty to me.(?)

790) O the great philanthropist, tell me when did You fix
the auspicious day to remove my ignorance - by
which I am experiencing scene after scene of life
being born in the world as body after body due to
vasanas - by Self-knowledge?

791) Did You fix that auspicious time and date to give me
the boon of Self-realisation I asked only at the time
of death (of the body) when my body loses all its
strength when the senses lose all their
consciousness and when the intellect (or mind) lose
its power of knowing anything?

792) When will You, if not today, bestow Your Grace upon
me so that my poor mind will be free from delusion,
naturally have great love towards You and will ever
revel at Your Feet without remaining away as a
separate entity.

793) My ego life should come to an end today by Your
blossoming of life of Grace! Please do not delay
further. O Guru Ramana have You not taken me as
Your own by drawing me to Arunachala. Have Your
gracious eyes not seen my meanness?

794) Having been caught by the fire of the five sense
pleasures all my days are going away waste in the
delusion of vasanas experiencing wild miseries
vainly without knowing Your truth. Alas, (?) put an
end to this ego life.

795) It is said that You are present at all times and at all
places. O my gracious father, whoever shines
transcending time and space! For this reason You
are all powerful to Grace me (?) to Grace me who is
calling You praying for protection. Hence please do
Your anugraha here and now.

796) Tell me, when I will walk deep along transcending
time and space, path of selfward way where not
even a single foot print of fate can be implanted
and reach heart, the oneness of the essence of bliss
and atain the loss of all miseries.

797) O my Lord Ramana Guru Deva! When will my heart
blossom by Your Grace like a Lotus? Tell me when
will that glorious day dawn in which You will
destroy me, the ego will install Yourself in the
heart?

798) If You do not like to bestow Your Grace upon me
now who else can do and when? O the most
gracious one, make me attain the divine life now
itself.

799) Will You not concede graciously to me in spite of my
begging to You and falling at Your Feet, praying ,
when will that day of the silence of my mind finally
dawn? (the ego totally destroyed)

800) O my Lord, I am still wishfully longing and trusting
that You will take me as a slave in an inexpressible
way beyond mind and speech. Only on that trust I
am having this body cover. Therefore graciously
reveal Yourself as 'I-I'.

801) Just before the rising of the sun, darkness seems to
get dense and just before the oil lamp extinguishes
it glows more, with the terrible atrocities of the ego
now going on in me, I am wishfully expecting Your
arrival (that the ego is going to die shortly).
Gracefully rise in me.

802) Just before the rising of the sun, darkness seems to
get dense and just before the oil lamp extinguishes
it glows more; with the terrible atrocities of the ego
now going on in me, I am wishfully expecting Your
arrival (that the ego is going to die shortly).
Gracefully rise in me.


The Aversion Towards Living in This Body
803) Have You given me this body, only to live waste,
without having no discrimination (?) of permanent
and false? (Nithya and Anithya). If the body and
mind function against Your wish (teaching)
Gracefully make them die.

804) No benefit is there for You by my living in this body.
I was believing all this time that there will be some
chance for me to destroy the vasanas and hence I
live all the while more in this body. If even that is
impossible kindly kill them at least. (i.e. if this body
and mind is useless for sadhana)

805) There is no necessity that I should live more in this
body. My living will never fit to this world. It is only
a great misery to others and also to me. Therefore
tell me why don't You consider to put an end to this
'T' (ego).

806) Any of my birth here - however high it may appear
to be is nothing but a misery. Therefore I no more
want even one more birth here. Even the present
human life which is going on now, I do not want You
to continue even for a minute. Therefore bestow
Your Grace so that I will merge into Your divine
Feet.


Being afraid of Worldly People
807) Oh Gurudeva! I sued to fear, to hear near even a bit
of the voice of talking of the worldly people. Will it
fit You to make me afraid of the world, even after I
have come to You? Be gracious.

808) My heart trembles to see this world, my body
shrinks and shivers. This world seems to be a
heaven only to wicked people. Tell me, then where
is a place to live for Your devotees.

809) Make me unite and live with You in a place where
the worldly people cannot see me, will You not save
me, in spite of my falling at Your Feet, many times
weeping and praying?


Should I be a Waste?
810) Was it not sufficient for me that not one but many
births have been spent as a Yogabrashta (one who
slipped down from Yoga )? But in this birth You, the
Satguru is attained. Therefore You should bestow
Your Grace upon me so that I will not slip down
again.

811) Did I come to You only to become spiritually poor
and to waste all my life talking nonsense, without
instead of getting rid of all the lowness in me?
Annamalai Ramana, who removes all defects of
devotees, make me ever awake at Your Feet by Your
ever shining within me.

812) Though I was praying to You, many times remaining
alone and aloof from people, being overwhelmed
with a desire for You, with tear shedding eyes, "O
my Lord, make at least this sinful birth of mine into
an useful one". Will You refuse saying, "no
impossible?". (?)

813) See, is it only to become a waste who always think
of the external worldly affairs and spend the whole
life time of this filthy body that You have brought
me that day to see You, who has transcended
karmas?

814) Is it only to become the worst and to die with the
madness of delusions that You have caught me and
brought me to Your Feet? Did You take all my
prayers that You should enable me by Your Grace to
get liberation to be false?

815) It is only to eat, wear good dresses and to spend my
days in waste that I saw You that day prayed and
begged to You weeping bitterly in verses? Will You
not now drag me and unite with me by burning
away all my accumulated past vasanas?

816) Is it only to eat, war good dress (?) and to spend my
days in waste that I saw You that day prayed and
begged to You weeping bitterly in verses? Will You
not now drag me and unite me by burning away all
my accumulated past vasanas?

817) O Ramanesa, my saviour, who removes all my
miseries! Again and again what more can I say? If
You remain quiet without protecting me who came
as a refuge, what will become of me?

818) Tell me, is it in vain that all my prayer to You
begging, weeping bitterly on that day for Jnana, the
great desolation - the annihilation of 'I' - which is
the complete achievement of mouna?

819) Is it my fate to waste all the time of my life and die
without drowning and dissolving in You, the
defectless supreme whole? Is there any scarcity of
the fruit of jnana with You to bestow Your bliss
upon me? (?)

820) All creatures (created by You) are mocking at my
ego life as the biggest fool. Therefore fix me at
least from now onwards in You instead of pityfully
destroying me in a worst life of egoism.

821) Due to the beginningless maya which makes me
wander away from You, all my true bliss of life in
many births have been lost. O the dancer in my
heart, bestow Your Grace upon me so that my
present life will not end as an empty play. (?)


I Depend Only Upon You
822) Instead of believing any human being, devas or any
other thing, I believed You alone and I came here
with the hope that You will make my mind pure and
will bestow upon me the supreme siva-jnana.

823) In this human world, all those who say they are
good, prone to restrict me as useless, You the
almighty and protector of weak - to whose Feet, I
have taken as refuge. Graciously take me as Your
own and protect me.

824) O my father, I believed that Your divine Feet which
always do good, will forgive me all my wrong deeds
and will correct my mischievous mind not liking to
do anymore such deeds and do great help. Hence
graciously do this real help.

825) You are the only Lord who takes great care in
removing all my poisonous defects. I am living with
that Graceful support of You in this world. There is
nothing that I can trust upon (in the world)

826) If at all I am to be saved, it is only by You, on Your
such assurance, I am trusting You ever. O the king
of Grace, my Guru who has taken the form of Sri
Ramana! Hereafter please do not leave me ever not
even for a twinkling of an eye!

827) What can I, the poor minded one do who do not
possess not even a single good quality that is
needed to become a slave to You. O my all merciful
Lord, I completely depend only upon the valour of
Your Grace. Graciously do so!

828) In spite of my bowing to You with my hands clasped
on my head and weeping before You hoping that
You will somehow protect me, if You do not
condescend towards me (?) and cheat like this, tell
me what will happen to this poor fellow.

829) I am the one having the experience of being
cheated many times by human. If my care is the
same even with You, tell me what will become of
me?

830) Having so much confidence in Your valour of Grace
that You will free me from the darkness of birth and
death, I remain here always in hope without doing
any sadhana. O my father be gracious towards me.

831) O Sri Ramana, who can reform me by any way? I
remain with the hope that You will never abandon
me. Therefore do not rise in me that may not be
agreeable to You in words, actions and thoughts
and make me abide to Your rule of Grace. Kindly do
it by Your power of Grace.

832) Graciously and voluntarily make this wicked fellow
to trust the Feet of Sri Ramana, worship, have love
to the Feet, the taps of not getting attached to
other (worldly) things (including the body) make
me reach Your divine Feet forcibly.

833) I am living still with the hope that one day all the
sins of my mind will be removed by Your Grace and
be saved. Be gracious so that You do not bring
harm to teh belief of Your son.


Do Not Abandon Me
834) I, seeing my devotionlessness, heart broken many
times thinking whether the chance of attaining the
goal has dissappeared completely in this birth.
Have You rejected and abandoned me?

835) Will it fot You, the nature of almighty to reject Your
slave who is bitterly weeping and begging at Your
protecting Feet. You the almighty can bestow upon
me all! Is it not?

836) O Lord, do not reject and go away fro me
considering that I have not done great tapas ot I
have not given up all bad qualities. Touc my head
by Your divine hand, pour Your Grace upon me,
keep me always at Your Feet and You live ever in
my heart.

837) I, the mad fellow is like the one who lost his eyes,
who had his legs broken, who is very hungry but
has nothing to eat who does not have even a bit of
cool shade of a tree to take shelter. If You abandon
me, such a one, what will become of me. Please tell.

838) Having thought that whatever the deceptive mind
showed (the worldly path of pleasure) as good with
a rising of desire, having followed it, I have
accumulated so much bad desires in my heart. To
such a fool if Your Grace also foresakes where is my
refuge?

839) O Sri Ramana, You may show crores of reasons to
reject me who do not have bit of purity, but is not
Your Grace causeless (avyaja)? (?) Therefore,
protect me by the nature of Your Grace.

840) O the mysterious one, having swallowed the whole
unreal universe by the power of Your being-
awareness, and shine majestically as the silent
shiva Hill! Clasping the two hands, I am falling at
Your Feet, please do not push me out.

841) Kindly do not reject me with anger and be gracious
on me who is having You alone as my Satguru
having the tow necessary qualifications. 1) the right
to beg and 2) the poverty of virtues to beg.

842) O Arunachala Ramana, if You angrily reject me who
has no other means but praying and begging to You
in tamil verses not knowing any other sadhana to
do, alas! I will be completely burnt by the fire of
longing for You.

843) The (so called) some of the old Ramana devotees
instead of asking for the loss of the individuality
(ahankara nasa) wanted to acquire powers (to the
ego) and siddhis, You drove them from Your presence!
But I am since praying You only for the death of 'I'
and 'mine', please do not abandon me like them (?).

844) O my Lord, if You abandon me who has no freedom
or power showing any one of my defects as a cause,
tell me when will there be the day of my salvation?
(Never) Therefore bestow Your Grace upon me now
itself.

845) O my Lord, if You abandon me, due to my hatred
who has unconditionally surrendered to You, there
is no other refuge for me. Therefore, You should
never abandon me. Please see the necessity.


Arguing with the Lord
846) O father, how is the state of improvement in the
spiritual wisdom of Your son, though he (I am) is a
petty dog but who is always praying to You not going
anywhere; O my mother, O my fahter, praising and
worshipping You, alone by falling at Your Feet?

847) The unreal ego to die as non-existent and the true
thing which exists - not knowing the existence of
other and the ever shining swarupa of Self-bliss - if
You give me this only, You are only my real father
and mother.

848) The highest devotion which I should have towards
You is exactly the limitless love to remain within (ie
in self) without rising. Therefore, it will only then
be true that You are protecting me when You give
me the very great one pointed love towards Self-
existence (?)

849) O the great giver, Ah what a wonder the hearts of
how many pure souls are shining with reality
enlightened their heart with divine sweet smelling
love blossomed into the ocean of bliss! Is it not
true? Bestow Your Grace even upon me, Your slave.

850) Tell me, is it good that I am kept weeping thus,
when many wise good devotees of You are praising
You in sweet tamil verses having worshipped Your
Feet and having killed their identification with the
filthy body?

851) Reveal, show and make me attain the fountain of
the honey-bliss of Your Lotus Feet where clear
eminent good devotees are unceasingly drinking,
enjoying and revelling in it. Kindly offer me the
same who is tired of asking repeatedly.

852) Why did You show Your vengeance thus when all
good people are enjoying the real art of Brahma-
jnana which destroys all attachments, I Your son
alone is to be crushed under the grip of the ghost of
ego. Please tell.

853) Bestow me the bliss of Your jnana which shines as
thousand rising suns and is experienced by many of
Your good devotees, to the worthless who withers
away like a flower which has neither good colour
nor sweet smell.

854) Unless You turn me into You as a Sun of Jnana
removing all the past vasanas in the heart of this
most wicked one than any other wicked in this
world, it is only a word of formality and not the
truth that all the sages praise You as almighty.

855) Not knowing that the world picture shown by the
five senses (eyes, mouth, body, ear, nose) are
nothing but the gross form of th store of vasanas
stocked in chitta, thinking that this true world
existing outside by making it desire and hate,
destroying myself - Is this Your judgement on me
given by the Grace?

856) Often You used to say these (?)true words that
“Without the Grace of Guru, one cannot get
realisation". The cause for my agony is also the
same. Is it not? Leaving this, what other cause is
there? Please tell me.

857) Knowing well that without Guru's Grace I cannot
advance towards self, I am weeping and praying
only to Your Feet. O Sri Ramana Jnana Guru tell me
don't You know my weakness of mind.

858) O dear, will You not help me to experience the
unceasing happiness with in, without sprining
outward and seeing other things. By helping me
thus what loss will come to You.

859) What will be the loss for You if I, the ego the only
one is destroyed by being united at Your gracious
Feet? Don't You have other innumerable jeevas who
want Your play of creation and like living in this
world and other worlds?

860) Meditating on You, renouncing I, the form of ego,
attending to the self shining as 'I-I' and the power
to sink deep in it - Is that Your Grace or my mind?
(As it is only Your Grace - without retaining me
there (?)) I do not agree to Your complaints (of
putting blame on me)

861) Your all knowing Feet know well how much is the
strength of mind You have given me! Is it not?
Therefore if I do not have the proper strength to
live according to Your teaching o the proper way of
living and spoil (as You have not given adequate
strength of intellect earlier) the blame will certainly
fall on You only!

862) Is it that You do not know that short-cut way (?) to
prevent me and take me back in You, the existing
self from rising as ego, I am the body? O Lord
Ramana who has the divine weapon of true jnana
missile that destroy the ego, if I am not saved, the
blame will fall only upon You.

863) Whatever obstacle may it be for Self-knowledge
that is formed on me, who is Your slave, if You
remain without removing it at least from now, it will
be very improper on Your past. Therefore, kindly
bestow Your Grace upon me.

864) If Your Grace decides that I should be saved, is
there any substance to order "No" against Your
wish? If You decide to join with me, will it not
fructify? When truth is such, Why You are still
hesitating?

865) Am I who is afraid of the poison of the ego,
different from the ego? What objection You can
raise now when ego itself prays to You for its own
destruction?

866) Why did You not fix me in my state of natural
existence - consciousness which is devoid of
thoughts. Whatever be the defect, except You who
is powerful in protecting me by removing my
defect, who else are there? Please tell.

867) I do not have sufficient strength to abide as per
Your upadesa. However I pray still You do not seem
to condescend and delay like this; tell me which is
to happen, the marriage first or removal of the
madness first. (ie, unless You being gracious to me,
I cannot abide as You say "Unless I abide , You will
not be gracious") If that be so, which one is o
happen first. Please tell.

868) Untill self is realised it is impossible to conquer
worldly maya by any effort. Hence the first thing to
do is, the showering of Your Grace upon me, the
foremost duty in order to realise the self.

869) Are You not the great giver - unasked? (?) Yet I now
beg You to graciously bestow Your Grace upon me
the existence-consciousness by which the rising of
the ego, which creates the defect of "I am the
body", puts one into repeated birth/death is totally
rooted out.

870) O the Lord who graciously help one (?), if he even
without asking keeps quiet, I, in spite of my
begging "O, mother, please be gracious", my mind
is unable to feel even the shadow of Your Grace.
had the mind felt it, why the ghost mind instead of
being quiet, runs about?

871) By appearing in the form of Arunachala before my
eyes and by Your silence radiating in my heart, O
my father if the Atma Swarupa is ever unchanging
(at all the three times), Why I am ever unable to be
without break (in Atma Nishta) and movement
(chalana)?

872) Are You not such a merciful one that You will never
be unkind towards Your devotees by asking
repeatedly to You and being dissapointed. Oh the
one, praised in verses by true devotees, why are
You so unkind testing me Your son, who is always
praying and weeping to You, heart broken.

873) Tell me, have You not heard even a bit of my
praying, begging, weeping and bowing to Your Feet
in order to have a spotless life from the day of my
birth?

874) You are sending a messenger to me informing the
truth that the sword (of Grace) in Your hand is all
powerful! But the scar of my wickedness has not
yet been erased away from me who is praying and
weeping to You through out the day. Please tell.

875) By the message of truth You sent a little bit of the
fire of miseries in my mind fades away giving some
hope. But there is no way for me to go ahead until
the day in which Your benign Grace will be fully
showered one me to wash away all my longing.

876) Tell me why then shall I make any complaint to You,
if I am by Your Grace able to naturally experience
the bliss of abiding in self without attending any
other thing!

877) If You prove in my case that by great power of
Grace, You could remove my defect, there will be
no necessity for You once again to make You to
proveYour valour (?) at any time or at any place
with this big fool.

878) If You save me from maya Who is excelling all in
uselessness, that alone will be the proof that it is
correct for You to have the name "the helper of the
helpless" (Dheena Bandhu). Graciously do this!

879) How mysterious! The snake and the tiger[3] came to
You with love not only in chidambaram but also in
Arunagiri! Ah, how can I express Your greatness? O
my father, be merciful even on me who is wicked
than the wild animals.

880) If You remain quiet as if You do not see me, I may
live in this world just like a worldly fellow who
never had Your darshan and thereby I will spoil
myself more and more. Therefore bestow Your
Grace so that I may be saved from the sin of Atma-
aparadha.

881) O Lord, will You not graciously make my mind, body
and speech to be quiet and still, by leaving
completely that let everything happen as per my
Lord's wish. Am I who beg and weep to You
expressing teh inability a stranger, Am I not Your
son? Hence be gracious to make me surrender
totally.

882) O Arunachala Ramana, the great giver of Grace, O
Gurunatha who took me that day as Your own! You
only have to Grace me. My tongue and mind have
certainly no strength to argue with You. Instead of
arguing and defeating me please shower Your
Grace.


Bestow Your Grace - Lest Your Glory Get Ill Famed
883) Only if I become non-existent by dissolving in You,
the only real existent and only If 1 am swallowed by
the Ocean of Your Grace, there will be no stain on
the Gurus fame. O my father, annihilate me so that
there will be no disGrace to Your natural abundant
Grace.

884) O father Why do You make me think of anything
and everything but You? You have the name "more
gracious than even a mother". Will it fit You even a
bit in my case?

885) Kill the wild tiger my ego by Your natural silent
existence and establish Your victory which You are
ever having and quench my thirst caused by Your
separation.

886) Anyone and Everyone can abandon me (?), but if
You abandon me saying ‘wicked fellow' and push
me out, the best of Your devotees even will wonder
saying 'Ah! the Lord crossed his own rule".
Therefore bestow You Grace upon me.

887) If those great ones who praised You earlier as Ah 1
our Lord is a great Gurur, the embodiment of mercy
now seeing Your mercilessness which You show
towards me, they will charge an accusation on You
(?), favouring me, with great surprise.

888) If You cheat me, who came surrendering to You, it
will be a great disGrace to Your name. The great
giver of Jnana in Arunachala. Does this fit You?

889) Is it not necessary for You to save Your glory that
nothing will be impossible by the valour of Your
Grace? Will it be proper to allow Your fame to go in
vain in my case? Does it fit Your Grace? Please tell.

890) Though immature when an ego (I) falls at Your Feet
and begs willingly, "Please kill and eat me", if You
do not rise and do samhara to it, will not this world
talk ill of You?

891) By the flood of Your Grace destroy my mind which
wants the likes of dislikes and protect me so that
there will be no wrong to the glory of Guru's Grace
and lead me to the revelation of the state of jnana.

892) Is it not Your nature to wake me up from the
original sleep of the forgetfulness of self in which
the dream of this waking state is experienced by an
individual - 'I' which rises, functions ans sets?
Therefore You do the same to me.

893) IfI do not get the art of Self-Attention in spite of my
staying at the Feet of Annamalai, will not the great
ones ridicule me as a blind fellow even though the
eyes are fully open.

894) Was it to being about a shame on Your fame that
You have brought me that day in front of You?
Bestow upon me the silent peace of sat-cit-ananda
by removing all defects in me at least from now
onwards.

895) If You grant me the non-rising of 'I' at least a bit, all
miseries and anxieties will end. Establish Your fame
of Grace by making this birth of mine, not as a
waste, but to be the best of births for having no
more birth.

896) If I the one who believed only the Feet of Sri
Ramana, worshipping, weeping and praying for
nothing else but for the destruction of all
attachments, become unsuccessful (lose in the war)
it will be an inexpressible shame for Your fame of
Grace (?)


Wondering at Your Mercilessness
897) O father, is it only in this birth that You have
cheated me like this? No through so many past
births, You might have cheated me like this! Is it
not? What can I know about Your trick? Enough of
Your mercilessness which will not fit You. Therefore
reveal Your truth without cheating me any more!

898) O the greatest gracious one who is impartial! Sri
Ramana - Jnana Guru Deva! tell me how long You
were having this vengeance on me, to crush me
under the wicked ego?

899) How are You able to keep quiet like one who does
not know like an ignorant, I am suffering like this?
Will it be possible even for the Lord to have the
merciless heart? who can understand the way (the
secret) in which You will bestow Your Grace upon
me?

900) Does not the begging and praying voice of mine in
verses throughout my life who though having a
desire for liberation, but does not have the strength
to resist the evil power of my prarabdha, reach
Your ears?

901) Have not Your eyes (sight) which shower Jnana and
Grace, see all my tears shed like a flood in a river,
praying to Your Feet turn my mind back without
(without rising again) and push it inwards to enjoy
the bliss.

902) I was begging to You from my Young age praying
"Give me Your attachment so that I shall be
detached from all attachments towards the worldly
objects". But I have not yet known by Your Grace
the detachment with the world (and body), tell me,
why are You making me weep and cry like this!

903) Did Your gracious heart accept my mind to be so
low. Is this Your divine helo? Except You, who are
bound to save me by any means who else can
remove my bewilderment?

904) When I, Your son stretching my hands towards You
beg and weep is like one laughing indifferently and
rejecting when a dried old rice particle beg a
person (who has taken a feast already) to eat. (?)

905) Are You like the Sun which asks ‘What is darkness?'
Do You not know even a bit of my bitterly praying?
Will You not favour me with Your gracious glance
which will bestow jnana?

906) O the great mechanic of human machine (?) who
can easily find out and set right the defective point
in one! Instead of bestowing Your Grace upon me to
remove the obstacles for jnana knowing where and
how it lies in me, why is that You are still allowing
to continue the wrongs in me without correcting?

907) O my Lord, How do Your blissful eyes of Jnana
which cannot see anything but bliss (any suffering
of devotees) are able to see me who is longing for
You, praying to You, weeping to You bitterly and
suffering so much?

908) O Sri Guru Ramana, my father who is simply
residing in the heart as if not seeing or knowing me
who is lamenting bitterly and praying to You! How
and why Your heart has become so merciless to
spoil me and reject me, the helpless, who is
weeping and begging to You?

909) Will not Your gracious glance fall powerfully on me
so that I can get great limitless love to attend to
self? How has Your compassionate nature been
changed in this manner to cheat one, the beggar
who is begging to You for the past so many Years?

910) If You do not reveal of Your own, I cannot see
though I have thus prayed and wept to You both in
person as well as in verses, You do not make my
mind turn introverted towards self. If You are thus
simply seeing and allowing me to wander like this,
does it fit Your gracious eyes?

911) Instead of bestowing Your Grace by controlling my
wicked mind which ever suffers by going
extraordinarily, You are allowing the mind to spring
again and again towards the dark worldly delusion!
O Ramana what is this? Be gracious!

912) Is there no stock of medicine with You which will
kindle a great desire towards self and remain in the
best tapas of remaining as mere existence, with the
rising of 'I' totally destroyed?

913) O my Lord, what have You decided on me, Who is
suffering a lot being unable to cross the path of a
big desert without a shade at all in the midst. Is it
Your intention that I should perish in the worldly
delusion?

914) It is unfair, unfair to Your gracious rule to allow me
to be spolit so much by my wicked mind. If even
Your unfailing mercy towards the devotees abandon
me, minding my wrongs, who else will bestow
Grace upon me?


Is this Your Trick to Make Me Sing?
915) Is it in order to show to the world how Your dear
devotees will lament and pray to You that
deliberately You throw them into the Ocean of
ignorance, that You have done to me like this?

916) Are there no such heart melting verses in tamil
sung with real devotion and sobbing heart? So
many great ones have sung already! When it is so ,
Why then Your divine trick has played upon the
tongue of this poor petty fellow?

917) Tell me, is this also a good prayer when compared
to the holy words of sages who has praised You
with beautiful words with rich meaning and sweet,
tasty, vast flood of devotion surging in all
directions?

918) Will You blossom the flowers of verses in my mouth
only when I am put into miseries? Will You not do
so by giving me the experience of Your bliss? Will I
say "Ah, Amma" (?) only if I am beaten by You? Will
Inot say "Oh, Amma", if You embrace me with joy?

919) Is it not enough for You that You have made the
tamil venbas (verses), come  uninterruptedly
floating only along the flood of miseries, even in the
nights? If You give me the experience of Your bliss
and make me sing, will I not sing in praise of You?

920) You do not allow me even to sleep in the nights. You
are giving me the nice sweet flow of verses and
making me pray and beg to You; Graciously remove
all my defects and destroy my feeling of being
separated from You.

921) O my father, will it fit You to play with me by giving
me this useless human body and a skillful demerits
in verses? Is such divine play Your valour? Is this
Your greatness?

922) Ihave sung to such an extent that no more words of
begging and praying is left in tamil language. Those
which remain are only the words which can be used
only after You have saved me; therefore, when will
You save me and make sing in the joy of bliss using
those remaining words?

923) O father Sri Ramana, I have great desire to sing in
praise of You in direct tamil words (?) with a
brightly blossomed face, after You have bestowed
upon me the divine bliss, having fully immersed in
Your love and fully contented. Grant me this boon.

924) Until the blossoming of supreme silence of sat-cit-
ananda in which state nothing is experienced as
another 'I', this fool (I) is always be praying to You
unceasingly as 'Give me this, fix me in that state,
unite with me' and so on, making complaint (?).

925) If I had sung these verses (venbas) to reach only
Your ears I would have been surely saved by You.
But since I have sung in such a manner that others
heard them and appreciated as very nice verses,
You are not bestowing Your Grace on me! Is it not?

926) As I became slave to the ghost of fame with liking -
the real downfall in tapas - I am praying bitterly to
You as if I do not have Your Grace!

927) In future I will never rise my tongue to sing verses
for the appreciation of the public people. As a prize,
to my verses which will be only to the appreciation
of Your Lotus Feet, may You bestow upon me the
annihilation of the ego and the attainment of Your
Grace.

928) O my Lord, Ah for whatever be the reason You have
given me at least the good habit of praying and
weeping only to You. Further provide me at least
the mind which cannot forget Your love by weeping
and begging to You.

929) Is it not natural, if when on expresses in words his
miseries to another pwoerful man that the former is
relieved by later from his miseries and obtain
happiness? Is there any one poerful other than You?

930) O my Lord who had come on earth as my supreme
Guru Bhagavan Sri Ramana, O the divine helper
who came to destroy my 'I' and 'mine', have mercy
upon me by hearing those words of mine and
choose as Your own.

931) O my Guru, the supreme who has come to remove
the delusion of this ('I') defective fellow! I am
calling You by the help of the intellect (buddhi)
which You have given me. the beneficial boon I
want is to obtain the shade of Your holy Feet.


May Your Will Alone Win
932) Ifa thought rises here (within me) Let it function as
per Your will. Instead of praying to You as, 'this is
my wish, this must be fulfilled’, let Your will alone
be victorious.

933) Believing and depending upon Your Grace, I, fool
am completely indifferent towards the world. O
Guru Ramana, who can surely protect me by any
means, make me act as You please.

934) The Feet of my Guru Ramana which has kicked
(killed) Yama (the death) should accpet me as a
beggar. I have no other help. Whatever is blessed
upon me by Your Grace, that is all the state I am
going to get.

935) O my father, Annamalai Ramana, who is nothing
but a deep ocean of Grace ever surrounding me, as
the protecting divine force! Though there rises an
'l' by prarabdha, graciously make it live along Your
will without disobeying You.

936) If a desire rises in me against Your will, do not
fulfill it on any account. Instead of first allowing
any desire in me and then fulfilling it, destroy all
my desires at root without rising and take me as
Your slave along Your will.

937) All these days, did You not make me clearly
understand that You, my Lord is providing and
feeding me with more than what I was asking You
in verses? Now I beg You that You bestow only what
You wish.

938) No new and better benefit will be there which I can
achieve by thinking about any other worldly things
leaving You. Therefore, be pleased to provide me to
think only about You unceasingly. Concerning all
other rest of the things, You do with me as You
please in my life.

939) O my Lord, who is having me as Your possession I
know nothing. That day itself I had come to You as
a refuge. I am at peace hoping Your protection. I
am unable to do any sadhana on this hope (?).
Therefore it is totally the responsibility of Your
Grace. Is it not? So whatever You wish do it on me.

940) What I the poor fellow, ever believe and depend
upon, is Your holy jnana Feet as my sole refuge. My
Lord therefore whether You do favourably or
unfavourably whatever You act, how can I do
anything against Your will?

941) Graciously do not allow in me an 'I' to rise,
opposing any happenings according to Your will. If I
am bestowed upon a true love towards the life You
provide (whatever You wish) what misery will befall
on me in my life?

942) O Ramana, You have brought me to Your Feet only
by Your great compassion and will. But now You are
crushing me with the difficulties created by ego-
ghost as though You are merciless. You took me as
Your slave by Your gracious thought, whatever You
give either happiness or misery. I take it as my
fortune. Thus You know.

943) O my Lord, who appeared before my eyes in this
birth, as very rare gracious Guru whom one can
never see! O the one who has caught me , this
worst creature, by Your Grace which is far superior
than even mother's! May Your will be done!


May You Alone Exist
944) No time or place can be an obstacle, if You want to
bestow Grace upon me. (?). Therefore, why don't
You decide to swallow me now itself? May You
alone exist by taking away my body and soul as
Your own so that there will be no ‘I’ to think about
anything else.

945) Since my nature is knowing only other things and
not myself. With this I am ruining my self. Make me
experience that my real nature is knowing only self
and not anything else but You ever remaining as my
real nature.

946) The knowledge of my existence is only that I am
this body. This is improper. Destroy this ego
knowledge by Your Grace and You, the one alone
exists as the existence of sahaja nirvikalpa state.

947) If You destroy me in such a manner that an 'I' will
not rise, where and to whom will all these defects
(that I am lamenting) cling to? Therefore You the
ever existing, eternal one alone do exist detroying
my 'I am the body' idea to whom only these defects
are clinging to.

948) With the age old vasana, imagining that there is a
body and at the same time attaching (with desire)
with the body as I am, graciously do not allow the
first person to rise, root it out thoroughly and You
ever shine and be as Jnana.

949) By my thinking only about You and not at all
anything else, what loss will befall in this life?
(nothing). Therefore bestow me the boon of my
ever holding You and abide in self and You do exist
in the heart, conquering all vasanas within.

950) You, the dense supreme experience of self who is
immense and all pervading like the flood of on
ocean without any limit of time and space alone
survive and shine victoriously as 'I'.

951) Ido not wish any more to remain like even a little
bit of ego-shadow, You alone exist and shine as the
real one, by Your Grace in such a manner that the
false 'I' can never rise again.

952) Except You, the one perfect whole (poorna) there is
no other thing existing. Hence, swallow and digest
me, the ego and shine as You alone in such a
manner that the ghostly ego cannot rise at all.

953) (To a luminent object unless it has a specific place
and separate identity of insentient substance (jada),
there can be a shadow). You the self which does not
have insentient substance apart from You and has
no place apart from You and shines at all substance
and places as self, You the blossoming bright light!
Can a shadow rise? Therefore without You, where
am I? Where is a shadow like existence for me?

954) O the supreme who shines without the second as a
whole ever an auspicious thing! Here an 'I' has
risen as if something other than You as Ahankara.
Destroy this false form of him and You rise as
victorious.

955) Within Your divine rule where nothing other than
You exist apart from You, here rises as ‘I' and
‘mine', How can You allow this? Except Your
existence, how a thought form of I the disease can
rise and live? Please tell me.

956) O the one who grew up as the supreme fire of jnana
between Brahma and Vishnu, make me_ turn
towards the source. Submerge in the light of Grace
and destroy my mind which is deluded to the fleshy
body as ‘I' and You ever live as my real life.

957) O my Lord, Your Feet that ever shines as Heart why
‘I’ should not be lost and only You should just shine?
Be gracious that You alone shine (without me)

958) The reason for the apparent existence of the five
elements and their physical form is the rising of 'I
am the filthy body’. Be gracious in destroying the 'I'
- the ego, and let the beginning and endless 'You'
and remain as true 'I' and show my unlimited
(Akhanda) own state of bliss.

959) All otherness disappeared, the one that shines as
true 'I' remaining, the feeling of existence non-
existence not rising, that which existed, exists let
You remain existing.


Wondering at the Grace
960) O my Lord Ramana, the divine tiger who caught me
by Your jaws open (?), Am I dead or still alive or
have I forgotten You? I do not know anything. Tell
me what happened after You caught me in Your
jaws.

961) Even great tapasvis, not knowing that an egoless
life alone is the real Ramana's life used to desire for
a long long life in this fleshy body or for the eight
siddhis or for a heavenly life. But You have made
me understand the truth (egoless life is a true
Ramana's (?) living). This is Your play of Grace.

962) O the one who is sitting on my intellect (buddhi)
threw on me the net of Grace and instructed me
that this (egolessness) alone is the highest life!
Make me do an unfailing complete surrender to You
without any reservation.

963) How many people who had unequal powers and
intellect left away from You not knowing this! But
ah, how gracious You are who made me this mad
fellow drawing to You learn this truth.

964) My mind is not a fit vessel for Bhakti. what it
desires are only the benefit of worldly things, What
can I say about Your Grace who had drawn even
me, this fool to Your presence.

965) The majestic Darshan of taking me as Your slave by
coming before as Guru and God, absolving (?) the
speed of my three karmas looks like the majestic
presence of Annamalai when Brahma and Vishnu
worshipped at Your Feet.

966) I think proudly that I have come to only You and
that I never go to anyone else. Ah, What a fool I
am! Why did I forget that it is only by Your Grace
and that You by dwelling within me, are leading me
towards You?

967) The miracles one performs in this world which is
nothing but a tiny bubble like, will not worth even a
pie. The divine play of Your Grace which You
perform in order to turn me, the petty fellow into
the supreme Self alone is the greatest miracle, the
wonder of the wonders!

968) O the Holy Hill (the top and bottom ) of which even
Brahma and Vishnu were unable to see, but by Your
Grace, which greater even than a mothers, dragged
me in Your presence (the in vain fellow) (?) who as
heaped all karmas and showed me that day Your
human form of Guru.

969) O Annamalai, the Grace consciousness and bliss!
You have facilitated me to be born here, during the
holy days when You have come on earth in the form
of Guru Ramana and pulled me to Your Feet! Ah,
how much I am indebted to You!

970) O, Annamalai Ramana, the King of Grace! If You
once decide, it is certain that all the vasanas of the
bad karmas of even wicked people will fade away
somehow and they will really perform tapas of love
towards You!

971) O my Satguru, shall I tell an example to prove the
power of Your Grace? You have named even all the
wrongs done by my petty ugly mind as Sadhanas
and are (?) venturing forward to give me Self-
realisation Your philanthropic (?) compassion is
very strange!

972) O my Lord when You under take the responsibility
of Your devotees and handle their prarabdha of
those who have complete faith in and surrendered
to You - the results of good or bad karmas -
Whatever they are in their prarabdha, Ah what a
wonder, they, destroying their defects act as such a
good instrument to bring about jnana in this birth
itself.

973) Ah! there is no one on earth who can understand
Your secret play of the power of Grace. There is
nothing equal to Your all powerful Grace which has
undertaken even me, the defectful (?) one, and has
kept me under Your influence and is removing all
my miseries.

974) O the Ocean of Grace, by removing the misery of
birth and death, bestowing silent turiya state, You
have consumed so many rivers (devotees). ah, how
much do I wonder When I hear from them, the
dance You have in their heart as the love of
sphurana melting their bones.

975) O the very powerful one, just like a huge eagle
snatches away the sweetmeat in the hands of a
Young child, You have violently snatched me away
from the hands of others and brought me here. Ah,
what a wonder and how gracious You are.

976) Iwas born somewhere, then I grew up somewhere.
Then believing that the desease of birth and death
will be removed, I stayed somewhere. Yet, Your
great power of Grace, removing me from respective
places, by Your (avyaja) Grace, I am brought to
Your Feet - (which tread on Arunachala) of its own
accord.

977) To keep roaming extrovertedly showing different
paths and Yogas, there are thousands of ways. In
spite of that who does not have knowledge of
sastras You have drawn my mind to the path of Self-
enquiry. The power of Your gracious Feet is really
wonderful.

978) What is this that my wicked mind gets no light to
utter words when I stand in front of You to pray. Is
this the worship done by silence?


Having Consolation
979) 1am absolutely relaxed (care free) by knowing well
that You, my Lord Guru Ramana, the more
indispensable one than anyone , who is the
almighty, all knowing, all knowing, all merciful and
the great giver, You are here as my divine support.

980) Since You my own Lord and Guru know all the
poison and the dangers which will befall due to
excess worldly wealth; It is You, who are to protect,
please save me from such accidents in the future.

981) Though I am devoid of good discrimination, I am
hopeful that You will give me the boon to attain the
bliss of silence which may not be easy to be
achieved by those who have learnt all scriptures
because had I not been taken by You to live at Your
Feet?

982) O the one who have the power to convert a
mountain into an Ocean! What objection will be
there even for my wicked mind to be converted by
jnana into a golden mind (self) of ten thousand
carat?

983) When You are ever here and When I am ever seeing
You, what other thing will exist on earth, making
my mind getting taste (in the worldly things) and
lose the love on You? Can there be a child which
will not come running to his mother when called,
throwing away the toys? Please tell.

984) When You have kept saving so much tapas to the
extent of heaps of all globes put together. Why
should I have a fate to suffer by doing tapas when I,
Your son is enjoying the hereditary wealth (of my
father).

985) Nothing did I renounce; nothing needs to be
renounced; there is no suffering; there is no
happiness; no loss has been ever incurred; because
there is no 'I', Oh my Lord Ramana, When You
embrace and unite with me!


You Alone Exist
986) When I well focus any attention on my rising as to
how do I rise! 'I' the one who thus rise and attend is
dropped down. There, You alone exist,
overpowering me.

987) By attending to me as to who am 'I'? The rising ‘I’
falls down and there You alone stand shining as 'I-I',
and how an another 'I am so and so’ can exist
there? It is not 'I' (the ego) that stands (ie
experienced in Nishta) there, but only You!

988) In that state of Your existence the three states
(sleep, dream, waking) are mere void (ie not
existent), the three gunas are mere void, the three
worlds are mere void. Transcending all these, You
the self, the perfect whole (poorna), alone is the
ever existing one.

989) O my father who shine and attract me as an
exceptional second person object to remind to me
the first personal feeling! When I think of You as
Arunachala, You shine within me as the one great
feeling of 'T’.

990) Thinking You is nothing but thinking of 'I', thinking
of me is nothing but the state of non-thinking. Even
that is nothing but a vigilant attention of not rising
as an 'I'! Why should then be even having an effort
of attention? For my mere existence is itself
knowing myself.

991) Saved! I am saved! I am the one who is happily
saved though I was born with bundle of defects!
Because of the divine touch of the gracious eyes of
my Master, Sri Arunachala Ramana!


Accept Even My Petty Prayer
992) Forgive all my wrongs in these verses such as
scolding You, arguing with You, praising You,
begging to You and glorifying You by thinking of
Your Feet differently. Bestow Your Grace accepting
my prayer.

993) Graciously You have to forgive me for all my
abusing verses which I have said in a heart broken
condition due to the unbearable pain of separation
and due to the right of being Your son and servant.

994) Be merciful to accept even my begging prayers for
Grace with 'I', by Your Grace made with melting
heart, because I knew the great truth, that no jeeva
can perform any tapas without Your Grace.

995) O the great thief who will easily rob away the ego
that hide the existence consciousness which cannot
be ignored and rejected by anyone! O, the almighty
who can easily take me as Your own! By winning
me (the ego), let my prayers be to Your holy Feet.

996) O the one who has abundant Grace and who have
me as Your slave and hence capable of enlightening
me! Let Your ears bear with my prayers which are
composed due to the ignorance of the reality and
bestow Grace.

997) O the beginningless and endless self luminous one
in the form of the sphurana Ramana to Your
devotees who praise You in verses! Let Your ears
which were pleased with the divine prayers of great
sages, also bear with these words of mine who is a
petty fellow.

998) Your Grace is such that even when unasked it will
flow upon Your devotees. Let such a fame of Yours
be not get blemished in my care. Yes! How can it be
my asking, because is it not You, who made me sing
so?

999) Certainly, Your Grace is the sole doer for these
prayers which are sung with an aim to awaken me,
destroying the 'I' and 'mine' as the real 'I'
consciousness which is not other than the absolute
reality. (?)

1000) Let You me (?) ever glorious who give Your helping
hand and take people like me who are unable to do
anything, to the land of jnana which is reserved for
only good and great sadhus and sages.



Om Sri ArunachalaRamanarpanamastu ॐ
 

Footnotes

[1] The philanthropist King Kumana was so generous
that at one time he gave up even his head to a beggar.

[2]
 The sanyasa sukta of the
 kaivalya upanishad
 states the Self can be obtained only by him whom it selects (nayanatma pravachanaya labyo).  Self can never be obtained by vedas, intellect or questions and answers but shows its true form to those whom it chooses by shining as 'I am'.

[3]
 Rishi Patanjali was a snake in form. Rishi
Vyakrapada was tiger in form. Those two attended the divine dance of Sri Nataraja in Chidambaram with great devotion. In Tiruvannamalai also cobras and tigers used to frequently visit Sri Bhagavan Ramana with great love.