Sri Ramana on Happiness

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D. Through poetry, music, japa, bhajana, the sight of

beautiful landscapes, reading the lines of spiritual

verses, etc., one experiences sometimes a true sense

of all-unity. Is that feeling of deep blissful quiet

(wherein the personal self has no place) the same as

the entering into the heart of which Bhagavan speaks?

Will practice thereof lead to a deeper samadhi and so

ultimately to a full vision of the Real?

 

M. There is happiness when agreeable things are

presented to the mind. It is the happiness inherent to

the Self, and there is no other happiness. And it is

not alien and afar. You are diving into the Self on

those occasions which you consider pleasurable; that

diving results in self-existent bliss. But the

association of ideas is responsible for foisting that

bliss on other things or occurrences while, in fact,

that bliss is within you. On these occasions you are

plunging into the Self, though unconsciously. If you

do so consciously, with the conviction that comes of

the experience that you are identical with the

happiness which is verily the Self, the one Reality,

you call it Realization. I want you to dive

consciously into the Self, i.e., into the heart.

~Sri Ramana

 

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