That is, even though we may act as if we are one with Brahma, Vishnu or Siva, whose respective functions are to create, sustain and dissolve this world-illusion, we should never act as if we are one with guru, whose function is to destroy our self-ignorance, which is the root cause of our primal illusion that we are this object-knowing consciousness that we call our ‘mind’, because even though our mind may have the power to create, sustain or dissolve an entire world (as it does in dream), it does not have the power to destroy its own self-ignorance, without which it cannot exist. O son, advaita in the three worlds is acceptable, know that displaying advaita with guru is not acceptable. However, though he was inwardly one with Sri Ramana, outwardly he always behaved as a humble disciple, and thus he exemplified the teaching that Sri Ramana has given us in verse 39 of Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu Anubandham:Īlways experience advaita in heart, do not ever practise advaita in action.

He was truly close to the spirit of Sri Ramana, because he had surrendered himself entirely in the perfect clarity of non-dual self-consciousness, which is the true form of Sri Ramana, and thus he had merged and become one with him. So close was he to Sri Ramana that he came to be known as the ‘shadow of Bhagavan’, but his closeness was not only a closeness in terms of physical proximity. Sri Muruganar first came to Bhagavan Sri Ramana in September 1923, and the next year he settled permanently in Tiruvannamalai.

In this title, the word guru denotes Sri Ramana, who is a human manifestation of the one eternal guru - the non-dual absolute reality, which we usually call ‘God’ or ‘ brahman’ and which always exists and shines within each one of us as our own essential self, our fundamental self-conscious being, ‘I am’ -, the word vācaka means ‘saying’, and the word kōvai is a verbal noun that means ‘threading’, ‘stringing’, ‘filing’ or ‘arranging’, and that by extension denotes a ‘series’, ‘arrangement’ or ‘composition’, and is therefore also used to denote either a string of ornamental beads or a kind of love-poem. The title Guru Vācaka Kōvai can be translated as The Series of Guru’s Sayings, or less precisely but more elegantly as The Garland of Guru’s Sayings. Guru Vācaka Kōvai (குருவாசகக் கோவை: guru-vācaka-k kōvai) is the most profound, comprehensive and reliable collection of the sayings of Sri Ramana, recorded in 1255 Tamil verses composed by Sri Muruganar, with an additional 42 verses composed by Sri Ramana. Printed Version of the English Translation.

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