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Nurtureoneslife:

Leave everything to God, your burden will cease and He will take on your burden. He knows what to do.

While God sustains the burden of the world, the spurious ego assumes its burden grimacing like an image on a tower seeming to support it.

Sri Ramana Maharshi

Realization of Atman

Atman is realized with mruta manas(dead mind) i.e. mind devoid of thoughts and turned inward. Then the mind sees it's own source and becomes That. It is not as the subject perceiving the object.

When the room is dark a lamp is necessary to illumined and eyes to cognize objects. But when the sun is risen there is no need for a lamp, and the objects are seen; and to see the sun, no lamp is necessary, it is enough if you turn your eyes towards the self-luminous sun.

Similarly with the mind. To see the objects the reflected light of the mind is necessary. To see the Heart it is enough that the mind is turned towards it. Then the mind loses itself and the Heart shines forth.- Ramana Maharshi ( Talks 99)

Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 2 Verse 1

Sanjaya said: Seeing Arjuna full of compassion, his mind depressed, his eyes full of tears, Madhusudana, Krishna, spoke the following words.

Everything we see is changing, always changing. There must be something unchanging as the basis and source of all this.

(Day by Day with Bhagavan)

FIND THE WITNESS

Q: Is there any genuine difference between dream experience and the waking state?

M: Because you find the dream creations transitory in relation to the waking state, there is said to be a difference. The difference is only apparent and not real.

The states of deep sleep, waking, and dream are accretions of the ego; the Self is the witness of all. The Self transcends them all. This Witness-Consciousness should be found. 

In the Self, there are not three states: no waking, no sleeping, no deep sleep. It is ever there.

In sleep, in trance, in absent-mindedness, there is no differentiation. Is that which was absent then, now present? The difference is only due to mind. The mind is sometimes present and at other times absent; there is no change in the Reality. 

It is the same person who was in sleep who is now awake. Limitation is only in the mind. The Self is the same throughout. The Self exists in the absence of mind also.

- Conscious Immortality