silence

You are spirit in truth. However that spirit is wrongly identifying itself with the gross body projected by mind; which itself has originated from spirit. If wrong identification ceases, there will be peace and permanent untellable bliss.

Sri Ramana Maharshi

self yogi

Sri Bhagavan says, 

‘For Him who enjoys the bliss of Self, 

which has risen by destroying the [individual] self [the mind or ego], 

what single thing exists to do? 

He does not know anything other than Self; [therefore] how to [or who can] conceive what His state is?’

Note: The sense of doership, the feeling ‘I am doing this action’, can exist only so long as the mind, whose form is the feeling ‘I am this’ or ‘I am that’, exists. 

Therefore, when the mind is destroyed, the sense of doership is also destroyed. 

Hence the yogi whose mind is dead and who thereby abides as Self, the reality, cannot be the doer of any action. 

Whatever action He may appear to do exists only in the outlook of those who mistake Him to be the body which does the action.

~ Ulladu Narpadu, Verse31

Translation By MICHAEL JAMES.

no mind nothing

A sannyasi asked: It is said that the Self is beyond the mind and yet the realisation is with the mind. 'Mano na manute, Manasa na matam, Manasaivedamaptavyam' (The mind cannot think of it. It cannot be thought of by the mind, and the mind alone can realise it). How are these contradictions to be reconciled?

SRI RAMANA MAHARSHI: Atman is realised with 'mruta manas' (dead mind), i.e., mind devoid of thoughts and turned inward. Then the mind sees its own source and becomes That. It is not as the subject perceiving an object.

When the room is dark a lamp is necessary to illumine and eyes to cognise objects. But when the sun is risen there is no need of a lamp, and the objects are seen; and to see the sun no lamp is necessary, it is enough that 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.

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