The real is as it is, ever.
How to realize it?
All that is required is this: We have realized the unreal, i.e., regarded as Real what
is unreal. We have to give up this attitude. That is all that is required for us to attain Jnana.
We are not creating anything new or achieving something which we did not have before.
The illustration given in the books is this: We dig a well and create a huge pit. The akasa (space) in the pit or well has not
been created by us. We have just removed the earth which was filling the akasa there. The akasa was there, then, and is also there now.
Similarly we have simply to throw out all the age-long samskaras (innate tendencies) which are inside us.
When all of them have been given up, the Self will shine alone.
- GEMS from Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi
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