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Visitor:
“When a man Realises The Self,
... What will he see?”
Bhagavan:
“There is no seeing.
... 'Seeing', is only 'Being'.
'The State Of Self-Realization' - as we call IT, is not attaining something new, or reaching some goal, which is far away, but simply Being that which 'You' always ARE, and which 'You' always have been.
All that is needed is that you give up your realization of 'the not-true' - as True.
All of us are realizing, i.e.; regarding 'as Real' - that which is 'Not Real'.
We have only to give up this practice, on our part. Then we shall Realize The Self, as The Self - or in other words, ‘BE' The Self.
At one stage, one would laugh at oneself; that one tried to discover The Self, which is so Self-Evident.
So, what can we say to this question?
That stage, Transcends 'the seer and the seen'.
... There is 'no seer' there, 'to see' anything;
'The seer' - who is 'seeing' all this, now ceases to exist, and The Self Alone remains.”
🕉 Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi
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Self-realization is not meant for one, whose intellect has been deadened by a firm belief, in the illusory reality of himself as an entity in the phenomenal world and who thus pursues fulfillment in the illusory pleasures of the senses.
Such a person, who has objectivized the phenomenal world in his own mind, does not realize that it is the same illusory mind which destroys both himself and his world.
He therefore remains subject to, and victim of, his own notions of birth, suffering and death.
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Peace or quietude is always there, until the mind intrudes.
Ramesh Balsekar
23rd February
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Visitor. I am taught that Mantra Japam is very potent in practice.
Bhagavan: The Self is the greatest of all mantras and goes on automatically and eternally. If you are not aware of this
internal mantra, you should take to do it consciously as japam, which is attended with effort, to ward off all other thoughts.
By constant attention to it, you will eventually become aware of the internal mantra, which is the state of
Realisation and is effortless.
Firmness in this awareness will keep you continually and effortlessly in the current,
however much you may be engaged on other activities.
Listening to Veda chanting and mantras has the same result as conscious repetitions of japam – its rhythm is the japam.
- GURU RAMANA.
Chapter XI
MEDITATION
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Nurtureoneslife:
The Jnani (sage) is the Self, and sees nothing apart from himself.
(Day by Day with Bhagavan)
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If you remain free from pain, there will be no pain anywhere. The trouble now is due to your seeing the world externally and also thinking that there is pain there. But both the world and the pain are within you. If you look within there will be no pain.
(Be As You Are, The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi)
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BOOKS
One morning in 1944, a disciple approached Bhagavan with an air of supplication and said, “Bhagavan, I would like to read books and find out a path whereby I can attain mukti, but I do not know how to read. What shall I do? How can I realise mukti?”
Bhagavan said,
“What does it matter if you are illiterate?
It is enough if you know your own Self.”
“All people here are reading books, but I am not able to do that. What shall I do?”
he said.
Stretching out his hand towards the disciple, Bhagavan said,
“What do you think the book is teaching? You see yourself and then see me. It is like asking you to see yourself in a mirror. The mirror shows only what is on the face. If
you see the mirror after washing your face, the face will appear to be clean. Otherwise the mirror will say there is dirt here, come back after washing. A book does the same
thing. If you read the book after realising the Self, everything will be easily understood. If you read it before realising the Self, you will see ever so many defects.
It will say, ‘First set yourself right and then see me.’ That is all. First see your Self. Why do you worry yourself about all that book
learning?”
The disciple was satisfied and went away encouraged.
Another disciple who has the courage to ask questions on such matters, took up the thread of the conversation and said, “Bhagavan, you have given him a peculiar
interpretation.”
Bhagavan replied, “What is peculiar in it?
It is all true. What books did I read when I was young? What did I learn from others?
I was always immersed in meditation. After some time, Palaniswamy used to bring from various people a number of books containing Vedantic literature and used to read them. He used to make many mistakes in reading. He was elderly and was not well-read. He was however anxious to read. He used to read with tenacity and religious faith. Because of that I used to feel happy. So, when I took those books in order to read them myself, and tell him what was in them, I found that what all was written therein had already been experienced by myself.
I was surprised. I wondered, ‘What is all this? It is already written here in these books about myself.’ That was so in every one of those books. As whatever is written there has already been experienced by myself, I used to understand the text in no time. What took him twenty days to read, I
used to finish reading in two days. He used to return the books and bring others. That was how I came to know about what was written in the books.”
One of the disciples said, “That is perhaps why Sivaprakasam Pillai, while writing Bhagavan’s biography, referred to Bhagavan even at the outset as ‘One who is a Brahma Jnani without knowing the name of Brahman’.”
Bhagavan said: “Yes, Yes, that is right. That is why it is said that one should first know about oneself before reading a book. If that is done, it will be known that what is written in the book is only an epitome of what is really experienced by oneself. If one does not see one’s Self but reads a book, one
finds a number of defects.”
“Is it possible for all to become like Bhagavan? The use of a book at least helps one to set right one’s defects,” said the disciple.
“That is so. I did not say that reading is no help. I merely said that there is no need for illiterate people to think they can never attain moksha on that account and thereby feel disheartened. See how depressed he was when he asked me. If the facts are not
explained properly, he will feel still further depressed,” said Bhagavan.
___Letters from Sri Ramanasramam.(34)
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Bhagavan said,
“What does it matter if you are illiterate?
It is enough if you know your own Self.”
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Remain all the time steadfast in the heart.
God will determine the future for you to accomplish the work.
What is to be done will be done at the proper time.
Don't worry.
Abide in the heart.
~Sri Ramana Maharshi
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Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world.
~ Sri Ramana Maharshi
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Remain all the time steadfast in the heart.
God will determine the future for you to accomplish the work.
What is to be done will be done at the proper time.
Don't worry.
Abide in the heart.
~Sri Ramana Maharshi
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The person is merely the result of a misunderstanding.
In reality, there is no such thing.
Feelings, thoughts and actions race before the watcher in endless succession, leaving traces in the brain and creating an illusion of continuity.
A reflection of the watcher in the mind creates the sense of 'I' and the person acquires an apparently independent existence.
In reality there is no person,
only the watcher identifying himself with the 'I' and the 'mine'.
The teacher tells the watcher:
you are not this, there is nothing of yours in this, except the little point of 'I am', which is the bridge between the watcher and his dream. ‘I am this, I am that' is dream, while pure 'I am' has the stamp of reality on it.
You have tasted so many things -- all came to naught. Only the sense 'I am' persisted -- unchanged. Stay with the changeless among the changeful, until you are able to go beyond.
Break the bonds of memory and self-identification and the shell will break by itself.
There is a centre that imparts reality to whatever it perceives.
All you need is to understand that you are the source of reality, that you give reality instead of getting it, that you need no support and no confirmation.
Things are as they are, because you accept them as they are.
Stop accepting them and they will dissolve.
- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Excerpt from “I AM THAT”
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“The best austerity for realizing God is truthfulness. Unite the mind & speech. Truthfulness is the tapasya of Kaliyuga.
You must speak only what u think and feel at heart. Otherwise, where there is deceit - God will never manifest himself. The more the mind becomes pure through spiritual practices, the clearer it will reflect God.”
- Bhagawan Sri Ramakrishna Dev.
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Nothing belongs to you and yet everything is You.
🌿 Mooji
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Nurtureoneslife:
Nothing belongs to you and yet everything is You.
🌿 Mooji
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Q: I want to be further enlightened. Should I try to make no effort at all?
A: Here it is impossible for you to be without effort.
When you go deeper, it is impossible for you to make any effort.
If the mind becomes introverted through enquiry into the source of aham-vritti, the vasanas become extinct.
The light of the Self falls on the vasanas and produces the phenomenon of reflection we call the mind.
Thus, when the vasanas become extinct the mind also disappears, being absorbed into the light of the one reality, the Heart.
This is the sum and substance of all that an aspirant needs to know.
What is imperatively required of him is an earnest and onepointed enquiry into the source of the aham-vritti.
~ Be as you are
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The teachings of Sri Ramana Maharishi edited by David Godman
The essence of mind is only awareness or consciousness. When the ego, however, dominates it, it functions as the reasoning, thinking or sensing faculty. The cosmic mind being not limited by the ego, has nothing separate from itself and is therefore only aware.
This is what the Bible means by “I am that I AM”.
- Sri Ramana Maharshi, Talk 188.
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It is the nature of the mind to wander. You are not the mind. The mind springs up and sinks down. It is impermanent, transitory, whereas you are eternal. There is nothing but the Self. To inhere in the Self is the thing. Never mind the mind. If its source is sought, it will vanish leaving the Self unaffected.
~ Sri Ramana Maharshi (from Talk 79; 19th November, 1935)
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Among those who meditate upon space, only those who then give up that meditation upon vast space [by inquiring ''Who am I who meditates upon space?''] will attain the [true] greatness of birthlessness. Others will fall into the cycle of birth and death.
Garland of Guru's Sayings
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