FOR SPIRITUAL SEEKERS

Better than hymns of praise

Is repetition of the Name;

Better low-voiced than loud,

But best of all is meditation in the mind.

Better than spells of meditation

Is one continuous current,

Steady as a stream,

Or downward flow of oil.

Better than viewing Him as Other,

Indeed the noblest attitude of all,

Is to hold Him as the ‘I’ within,

The very ‘I’.

Abidance in pure being

Transcending thought through love intense

Is the very essence of supreme devotion.

Absorption in the Heart of being,

Whence we sprang,

Is the path of action, of devotion,

Of union and of knowledge.

- Upadesa Saram. Verses 6-10

The Essence of Instruction.

The Collected Works of Sri Ramana Maharshi.