- A student who is preparing his thesis for the Ph.D. degree asked:
S. God is said to be immanent, how do you justify your confining Him to the heart?
Bh. God is said to reside in the Heart in the same way as you are said to reside in your body. Yet Heart is not a place.
Some place must be named as the dwelling of God for those who take their bodies for themselves and who comprehend only relative knowledge. The fact is neither
God nor we occupy any space. We are bodiless and spaceless in deep sleep, yet in the waking state we appear to be the opposite.
Atman or Paramatman is that from which the body is born, in which it lives, and into which it finally resolves.
🕉 GURU RAMANA
MEMORIES AND NOTES
By S. S. COHEN
Chapter: XIV. HEART, LIBERATION
Is not everything the work of God?
“Without desire, resolve, or effort,
the sun rises; and in its mere presence,
the sun-stone emits fire, the lotus blooms,
water evaporates; people perform their
various functions and then rest. Just as
in the presence of the magnet the needle
moves, it is by virtue of the mere presence
of God that the souls governed by the three
[cosmic]
functions or the four-fold divine
activity perform their actions and then rest,
in accordance with their respective karmas.
God has no resolve; no karma attaches
itself to Him. That is like worldly actions
not affecting the sun, or like the merits and
demerits of the other four elements not
affecting all-pervading space.”
Shri Ramana Maharshi