Ramana Maharshi's Hrdaya Verse

hRdayakuharamadhye kevalam brahmamAtraM
hyahamahamiti sAkshAdAtmarUpeNa bhAti  |
hRdi viSa manasA svaM cinvatA majjatA vA
pavanacalanarodhAdAtmanishTho bhava tvam  ||


In the inmost core, the Heart
Shines as Brahman alone,
As ‘I-I’, the Self aware.
Enter deep into the Heart
By searching for Self, or diving deep,
Or with breath under check.
Thus abide ever in Atman.’
(Bhagavan’s English translation as reported by Arthur Osborne in ‘Collected Works’)


A selection of translations


In the Centre of the heart-cave, Brahman alone shines, in the form of the Atman, with direct immediacy as I, as I. Enter into the Heart with questing mind or by diving deep, with breath controlled, and ever abide as the Self! (trans. Me :))



Brahman is glowing lustrously in the middle of the cave of the Heart in the shape of the Self, always proclaiming “I am, I am”. Become an Atmanishtha, a Self-Realised person, either by making the mind absorbed in the search for the Self or by making the mind drown itself through the control of breath. (translation found on p. 232 of ‘Letters...’)



In the centre of the Heart-Cave there shines alone the one Brahman as the 'I-I', the Atman. Reach the Heart by diving deep in quest of the Self, or by controlling the mind with breath, and stay established in the Atman. 
( from Reality in 40 verses supplement; trans. K. Swaminathan)



Inside the cave of the Heart the Pure and Infinite Being Himself shines as the Self, the limitless I. Enter thou the Heart, diving by Quest of the Self or by holding the breath and thus be one with the Self. (from K. Lakshmana Sarma's 'Sri Ramana Hrdayam' Ramanasramam;1991)



In the interior of the Heart-cave there shines alone the One Brahman as ‘I-I’, the self-conscious Atman. Realize that State of steadfast inherence in the Self, entering into the Heart either by diving deep within through Self-enquiry or by the submergence of the mind through breath-control. (from Supplement to the Forty Verses as found in ‘Collected Works’, edit. Arthur Osborne)


" In the Heart's Cavity, the sole Brahman
'as an ever-persisting I 
shines direct in the form of the Self.
Into the Heart enter thyself, with mind in search 
or in deeper plunge
Or by restraint of life-movement 
be firmly poised in the Self." (as found in Sat Darshana Bhashya by K; Bhashya of verse 1; p. 49)



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