Bhagavan Ramana Teachings:
Maulana Mansur al -Hallaj of the Middle East was sent to the gallows by the Orthodoxy for saying 'Ana'l Haqq'.
I am God. That was in the 9th century AD. Centuries earlier than that, two millennia before now, a carpenter's
son of Nazareth in Israel, who said 'I and my Father are one' and 'I am the Truth' was nailed to the Cross at the
instance of Orthodoxy. A few centuries before the Good Shepherd was thus eaten up by the bad wolves of Orthodoxy,
an Athenian sculptor turned philosopher called Socrates was made to dink a deadly cup of hemlock for the 'heinous crime'
of telling the Athenians, 'Gnothi Seauton,' Know Thyself.
Mansur, Jesus and Socrates were all men of Truth, true God-men. What they said was nothing but the Truth. Yet,
why were they killed by their fellow men? Mind you, their killers were all religious people not non believers.
The killers believed that God is out there, up there, beyond there, not within. They thought as men still do, that men and women
with their bodies and minds, were different from one another and that God ruled over their destinies. Mansur, Jesus and Socrates
on the contrary, had lost their individuality and found the ever lasting, limitless, luminous Truth - God - within them, called by
them variously as Haq, Allah, Eli and so on. When they said 'I' they meant the one universal Self within each being, whereas to their
killers 'I' was no more than the person uttering the word.
contd.,
V. Ganesan.
Arunachala Siva.