--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <noozg...@...> wrote:
>
> TurquoiseB wrote:
> > Much is said in traditional Eastern spirituality about
> > realization of the "Self." Capital "S." As opposed to
> > that awful lower-case "s" word, "self." But if you
> > analyze what most of the spiritual teachers you revere
> > actually said, most of them were teaching that self and
> > Self were exactly the same thing.
>
> For those who have realized the "Self" the "self" can be hard to find.
> But it is there as it has to be or one would be unable to communicate
> with the other "selves." IOW, you have to "localize" when dealing with
> the world. One may go a whole week without realizing they have not
> focused on the "self" but then one of these occasions arises when they
> have to. Also an enlightened person may act more like a realist than a
> bliss ninny. The latter is a show that gurus often put on.
>
uddharedAtmanAtmAnaM nAtmAnamavasAdayet.h .
Atmaiva hyAtmano bandhurAtmaiva ripurAtmanaH .. 6\-5..
[without sandhi, a bit different transliteration,
that e.g. A > aa]:
uddharet; aatmanaa aatmaanam; na aatmaanam avasaadayet.
aatmaa; eva hi; aatmanaH; bandhuH; aatmaa; eva ripuH;
aatmanaH .. 6\-5..
Exactly the same word (nom. sing: aatmaa; lemma: aatman)
appears in the above shloka(?) seven times, in different
inflectional forms:
aatmanaa -- instrumental singular (by self)
aatmaanam -- accusative sing. ("self-im", like 'him' from 'he')
aatmaanam -- ditto
aatmaa -- nominative sing. (self)
aatmanaH -- (ablative/)genitive sing. ([from/] of self, self's)
aatmaa -- nom. sing.
aatmanaH -- gen. sing.
Maharishi's translation:
Let a man raise his self by his Self,
let him not debase his Self; he alone,
indeed, is his own friend, he alone
his own enemy.
