BE THE SELF
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Q: When a man realizes the Self, what will he see?
A: 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 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;
in other words,
`Be the Self'.
At one stage you will laugh at yourself
for trying 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.
Q: How to know this by direct experience?
A: If We talk of knowing the Self, there must be two selves, one a knowing self, another the self which is known, and the
process of knowing. The state we call realization is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything.
If one has realized, one is that which alone is and which alone has always been.
One cannot describe that state.
One can only be that.
Of course, we loosely talk of Self-realization, for want of a better term.
How to `realize' or make real that which alone is real ?
~ Bhagvan Sri Ramana Maharishi
- Be as you are.
