self-enquiry - [10]

[Guest guest]

This is well-said.

Break free of the attempt to

break free.

You are shining everywhere,

and never have not been.

Love,

Dan

Q : Why is self-enquiry more

direct

than other methods?

A: Attention to one's own Self, which is ever

shining as 'I', the one undivided and pure

reality, is the only raft with which the

individual, who is deluded by thinking

'I am the body', can cross the ocean

of unending births.

Reality is simply the loss of ego.

Destroy the ego by seeking its identity.

Because the ego is no entity it will

automatically vanish and reality will shine

forth by itself. This is the direct method,

whereas all other methods are done only by

retaining the ego. In those paths there

arise

so many doubts and the eternal question

'Who am I' remains to be tackled finally.

But in this method the final question is

the only one and it is raised from the

beginning.

No Sadhanas are necessary for engaging

in this quest.

There is no greater mystery than this-

that being the reality we seek to gain reality.

We think that there is something hiding our

reality and that it must be destroyed

before

the reality is gained. It is ridiculous.

A day will dawn when you will yourself

laugh

at your past efforts. That which will be on

the day you laugh is also here and now.

SRI RAMANA MAHARSHI

from Be As You Are