Bhagavan: “The
Heart is not physical. Meditation should not be on the right
or the left. It should be on the Self. Everyone knows “I
am”. It is neight within nor without, neither on the right
nor the left: “I am” – that is all”. The first night we came
together here I quoted that (that verse from) particular
verse from the Bagavad Gita, in which it says the life force
should be resolved in the sahasrar and the mind resolved in
the Heart. The epitome of the conscious activity, the
ultimate event of the conscious activity is the resolution
of the consciousness in the Heart, prior to thought, prior
to the reflections in the mind, prior to experience, the
very Self. This is the source or reality of consciousness.
But the force, the manifest force, the Shakti of this Siva
is generated above. So the form of reality, the form of
realization is this Amrita Nadi that is generated between
the true Heart, not just the heart chakra, but the living
Heart of the very Self and its perfect place above, its
perfect extension, above, which purely for convenience, in
order to relate the whole affair to ordinary perception, we
say is in the head, or we relate it to our sense of the
head. But actually it has nothing to do with one’s physical
head, other than the fact that there is certain phenomena
associated with this process that go on relative to one’s
physical head, but the upper terminal of Amrita Nadi is
nowhere in time or space, anymore than its lower terminal,
the very Heart, is in time or space.
Amrita Nadi is eternal. Amrita Nadi the Heart, the absolute Formless existence,
is of course the quality of Amrita Nadi. But so is also its
Infinite, perfect generation. So there is an eternal God world that transcends the
appearance and disappearance of the Cosmos, of the
conditional worlds. The God world does not come and go. The
God world does not appear and then collapse for a period of
time and then reappear. The form of God is eternal. Amrita Nadi is perfect.
Amrita Nadi is the form of consciousness. Amrita Nadi is the
perfect realization.
The Form of Reality is not a a special creation or
condition but the native form Itself. In other words, Amrita
Nadi is not just something temporary while the world exists
and then it disappears. The Heart is then the true foundation, the exclusive
Heart is the true foundation of both manifestation and no
manifestation. The Amrita Nadi is never collapsed. Amrita Nadi is always
perfect. One’s own inner functions are subtle functions relative
to the intuition of Amrita Nadi, the intuition of the Form
of God through Amrita Nadi. These functions may manifest
differently in time, their qualities may change. And any
function that arises in consciousness as a quality of mind
or as a quality of experience, any such things may in
themselves come and go. So in no sense is this life as
Amrita Nadi some form of holding on to phenomena.
The Heart is the Guru. The Amrita Nadi is his Form. The
bliss of unqualified enjoyment is his teaching. The
Knowledge of all this is liberation and freedom. The
enjoyment of all this is Reality. The existence of all this
is Truth. The activity of all this Is understanding. And
understanding is real life. The highest Form of this life. The highest form of
Sadhana, the life of a devotee, In whom Amrita Nadi is the
constant intuition, the constant enjoyment. But for such a
one the human Guru is also Amrita Nadi, alive and literally.
So he lives in relationship to the Guru as a perfect
devotee, while the perfection of his own conscious enjoyment
in more internal ways is also perfected.
The Inner Guru, which is the very Heart and the Form of
Reality, Amrita Nadi, is the same as the human Guru. The
human Guru is that alive and functioning relative to you.
That’s why the life of sadhana relative to the Siddha Guru
is the highest form of spiritual activity, because all of
the virtues of the Truth are already present. They are
already present in the activity that is understanding
because it is the understanding of the heart, and of real
consciousness, but they are also present in the condition of
sadhana itself, in the condition of Satsang, in the very
condition with which you begin your sadhana, you exist in
relationship to this fullness in the Form of the Guru. So
the perfect devotee of the Guru experiences the perfect
communication of the quality of the Guru.
But as in every other case where something arises and
enquiry is generated in the midst of it, such a one in this
case, may find himself falling into the Heart, the root of
the mind. And then he will know only Amrita Nadi, which here
is described as the spire of Sound and Light that stands
forever in the Heart. But Sound and Light capitalized, meant
in perfect terms, not sound and light as simply the lesser
phenomena that you can turn on by yogic concentration but
the perfect Sound and perfect root of Sound, and the perfect
Light and perfect root of all Lights.
S-curve of the Amrita Nadi, the open channel of light
between the Heart and the point at the top of the head at
which the Divine Light is intuited.
The conventional Way of Sages is the Way of exclusive
descent into the Heart, or ego death through descent in
Amrita Nadi (the secret pathway between the sahasrar and the
heart region). The Way of Divine Ignorance, or Radical
Understanding, is the Way of non-strategic dissolution of
the ego-soul in the Heart and simultaneous regeneration, or
expansion and ascent, in, as, and through Amrita Nadi, whose
upper terminal is not truly the sahasrar (subtle crown of
the gross body) but the Unspeakable Condition and Radiance
of the Highest, wherein all worlds arise and fall. (The
Expansion of the Heart is without qualification, Radiant in
all directions to Infinity, losing its center by including
all objects, and losing its boundaries by penetration of all
contraction. The Fullness of this Process is also
experientially communicated in the upper, or subtle, and
lower, or gross, dimensions of the whole body – first to the
subtlest, and descending simultaneously to the lowest.)
What I’ve called Amrita Nadi is realized only in the form
of understanding, in the most radically intense, intuitive
life. Then the true nature of what I’m describing begins to
become obvious, and how it is really deathless,
beginningless, endless and perfect begins to become obvious
Amrita Nadi, in the sense that it is somehow related to
one’s own subtlest function between the Heart and the
sahasrar, in that sense is limited. In that sense Amrita
Nadi is a form, the subtlest form of our own existence, our
individual existence and through it we intuit the Very Form
or God Form. This Amrita Nadi then, is the duplicate or
likeness of God described in the Old Testament. And it looks
like this. The Amrita Nadi is the perfect reflection of the
Perfect Form.
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Devotee:
“Should I meditate on the right chest in order to meditate
on the Heart?”
S.S.
Cohen – Reflections on Talks with Ramana
Maharshi
When enquiry has settled in the heart, awareness develops as
what Ramana, Ramana Maharshi, calls the ‘Amrita Nadi . I
call it the ‘Form of Reality.’ It is the circuit of current
from the heart to the head. As a child I knew it as the
‘bright’. In the unqualified state all identification,
differentiation and desire have ended. There is only
unqualified relationship realized in enquiry to be already
the case. This realization is simply consciousness as the
Amrita Nadi, the form of Reality, and it is experienced as
the ‘bright’, the unconditional bliss of presence, of
perfect knowledge, whose source is the heart, reality
itself. Therefore, the bright is the form of that reality
which is consciousness. It is a true and real, the
birthright of all existence.
