Ramana Maharshi talk # 609

[Guest guest]

You do not leave one place for another. You are always stationary. The

scenes go past you. Even from the ordinary point of view you sit in

your cabin and the ship sails but you do not move. It is the picture

that moves on and away.

 

D. : I see, but I can understand it only after I realise the Self.

 

M. : The Self is always realised. Were the Realisation something to be

gained hereafter there is an equal chance of its being lost. It will

thus be only transitory. Transitory bliss brings pain in its train.

It cannot be liberation which is eternal.

 

Were it true that you realise it later it means you are not realised

now. Absence of Realisation of the present moment may be repeated at

any moment in the future, for Time is infinite. So too, such

realisation is impermanent. But that is not true. It is wrong to

consider Realisation to be impermanent. It is the True Eternal State

which cannot change.

 

(from Talk; 609)

 

 

LoveAlways,

 

Mazie & b