Arunachala Ashtakam – Verse 6
Eight Verses on Arunachala
By Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi
Verse 6.
You are Yourself the One Being, ever aware as the self-luminous Heart! In You there is a mysterious, wonderful power (shakti) which is not apart from You.
From it proceeds the phantom of the mind, emitting its latent subtle dark mists of memories, which illumined by Your light reflected on them, appear within as though whirling in the vortices, or whirlwinds of Prarabdha.
Later developing into the psychic worlds and reflected like a mirror within, they are then projected externally as the material world and transformed into concrete objects which are magnified by the outgoing senses and move about like pictures in a cinema show.
These pictures, whether they appear or disappear, they are not different from you, Oh Hill of Grace!
Arunachala Ashtakam – Verse 6
