[Advaita-l] On the Glory of the Siddhas - Chapter 18 of Sri Ramana Gita (7)

[S Jayanarayanan]

(Continued from previous post)
 
 
eSha yAmi piturantikaM mamAnveShaNaM tu na vidhIyatAmiti |
saMvilikhya gR^ihato vinirgataM shoNashailacharaNaM samAgatam || 24||
 
24. Writing down the message: “This goes to the presence
of the Father. Let no search be made for me,” he left home
and arrived at the foot of Arunachala.
 
 
IdR^ishaM guNagaNairabhirAmaM prashrayeNa ramaNaM bhagavantam |
siddhalokamahimAnamapAraM pR^iShTavAnamR^itanAthayatIndraH || 25||
 
25. Of Bhagavan Ramana, thus happily endowed with a
wealth of auspicious qualities, Amritanatha Yatindra humbly
enquired concerning the boundless glory of the siddhas.
 
 
Aha taM sa bhagavAnagavAsI siddhalokamahimA tu durUhaH |
te shivena sadR^ishAH shivarUpAH shakruvanti cha varANyapi dAtum || 26||
 
26. To him Sri Bhagavan, dweller on the holy hill, replied:
“The glory of the siddhas is beyond imagination. They are
equal to Siva. Indeed, they are the very forms of Siva.
They have the power to grant every prayer.”
 
 
|| iti shrIramaNagItAsu brahmavidyAyAM yogashAstre ramaNAntevAsino
vAsiShThasya gaNapaterupanibandhe siddhamahimAnukIrtanaM
nAma aShTAdasho.adhyAyaH ||
 
 
This is the end of the eighteenth chapter entitled “On the
Glory of Siddhas”, in Sri Ramana Gita, the Science of
Brahman and the Scripture of Yoga, composed by
Bhagavan’s disciple, Vasishta Ganapati.
 
 
(Concluded)