We go round and round in search of atma [Self] saying,
`Where is atma?
Where is it ?
till at last the dawn of jnana drishti [vision of knowledge] is reached, and we say,
`This is atma this is me.'
We should acquire that vision.
When once that vision is reached, there will be no attachments even if one mixes with the world and moves about in it.
When once you put on shoes your feet do not feel the pain of walking on any number of stones or thorns on the way. You walk about without fear or care, even if there are mountains on the way.
In the same way, everything will be natural to those who have attained jnana drishti.
WHAT IS THERE APART FROM ONE'S OWN SELF ?
Q: The natural state can be known only after all this worldly vision Subsides. But how is it to subside ?
A: If the mind subsides, the whole world subsides. Mind is the cause of all this. If that subsides, the natural state presents itself.
The Self proclaims itself at all times as `I, I'.
It is self- luminous.
It is here.
All this is that.
We are in that only.
Being in it, why search for it ?
The ancients say:
`Making the vision absorbed in jnana one sees the world as Brahman.`
~ Be as you are. The teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi edited by David Godman.
