Upadesa Saram with English Translation

The essence of Bhagavan's teaching—it's the core of his teaching where he decimates like all other margas, all other ways. But like Mar, he upholds the sanctity of inquiry, but he does it like lovingly. He explains why, where the others are faltering. First is like Karma; he takes on the Karma Yoga.

The context is that Bhagavan's foremost devotee, Swami, who was instrumental in quietly prodding Bhagavan into writing many things—Bhagavan had no inclination whatsoever to write, he would prod him into writing. So in the process of writing, I think Ramana Puranam, he was... it is a like legend that in the Daruka forest there were several great sages. They were very great, but they were like Karma in the sense they believed in the supremacy of Karma. They said there is no God; you have... it's action and reaction are endless and you have to endlessly purify yourself and the way to that. And they were believers in heaven, so and they become very arrogant based on that theory and they were invincible also.

So then Shiva came in order to destroy their delusions and he came as this very handsome young man which... and all the Rishi wives were infatuated with him and they started running. So the Rishis were like, they were infuriated and they sent various weapons and all that. And he, to destroy them... the snakes that you see Shiva wearing, they were actually sent by the Rishis. So he simply just put them in his hair. Also the tiger skin, you know, destroyed the tiger. So finally then after that they came to know that this is no ordinary thing and they asked him like, 'Where are we going wrong? Please explain to us.'

So at that point, Swami stopped and he passed on the paper to Bhagavan and said, 'Why don't you write? Why don't you write? Shiva, you are Shiva. Why don't you write the upadesa Shiva gave to those?' This is later translated into Sanskrit. A few...