post 19

You are awareness. Awareness is another name for you.

Since you are awareness there is no need to attain or cultivate it. All that you have to do is to give up being aware of other things, that is of the not-Self. If one gives up being aware of them then pure awareness alone remains, and that is the Self.

Sri Ramana Maharshi 

Be As You Are.

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Nurtureoneslife:

No personal, individual effort can possibly lead to enlightenment.

On the contrary, what is necessary, is to rest helpless in beingness, knowing that we are nothing -- to be in the nothingness of the no-mind state, in which all conceptualizing has subsided into passive witnessing.

In this state whatever happens, will be not our doing, but the pure universal functioning, to which we have relinquished all control.

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It is nothing, but the personalization of the impersonal Consciousness as individual identity, that constitutes the infamous 'ignorance', from which liberation is sought.

And liberation, or true knowledge, is the realization that this identity is merely an illusion, a temporary aberration, like the shadow of a passing cloud.

 

Ramesh Balsekar

30th August

Q: I wish to get sakshatkara [direct realization] of Sri Krishna. What should I do to get it?

Sri Ramana Maharshi : 

What is your idea of Sri Krishna and what do you mean by sakshatkara?

Q: I mean Sri Krishna who lived in Brindavan and I want to see him as the gopis [his female devotees] saw him.

Sri Ramana Maharshi : 

You see, you think he is a human being or one with a human form, the son of so and so, whereas he himself has said, `I am in the Heart of all beings, I am the beginning, the middle and the end of all forms of life.'

He must be within you, as he is within all. He is your Self or the Self of your Self. So if you see this entity [the Self] or have sakshatkara of it, you will have sakshatkara of Krishna. Direct realization of the Self and direct realization of Krishna cannot be different.

However, to go your own way, surrender completely to Krishna and leave it to him to grant the sakshatkara you want.

Be as you are book

The egoless 'I am' is not a thought. It is realisation.

~ Talk 226

The nature of illusion is that, when you see through it, it disappears. ~Mooji

"Atman (the seer) in itself is alone permanent, the seen is

opposed to it (i.e., transient) – such a settled conviction is

truly known as discrimination (viveka)" 

- Adi Shankaracharya  (Aparokshanubhuti, Sloka 5) ❤