[RamanaMaharshi] You are not the mind

[Guest guest]

Thank you dear Miles. I will pass this on to Advaitin and HS where there are

many devotees of Bhagavan Ramana.

 

To remain steady in the background of awareness and not mind the mind is a

subtle but a beautiful teaching.

 

In this way, Bhagavan Ramana's teaching is the purest of the pure. The focus

is not on improvement of the mind but on transcendence by seeing the

unreality of the mind and recognizing in its place the reality of awareness

in which the thoughts come and go. It is a shift in awareness to itself in

self watchfulness without judgments.

 

Sri Ramana used to say as I vaguely recall that one need not analyze the

contents of garbage in detail before throwing it away! :-). He was referring

to the mind. This is radical nondualism. The Sage had a wonderful sense of

humor.

 

Love to all

Harsha

 

 

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"Miles" <miles.wright

"Ramana Maharshi" <RamanaMaharshi>

Monday, December 13, 2004 8:20 AM

[RamanaMaharshi] You are not the mind

> It is the nature of the mind to wander. You are not the mind. The mind

> springs up and sinks down. It is impermanent, transitory, whereas you are

> eternal. There is nothing but the Self. To inhere in the Self is the

> thing.

> Never mind the mind. If its source is sought, it will vanish leaving the

> Self unaffected.

> ...

> There is no mind to control if you realise the Self. The mind vanishing,

> the

> Self shines forth. In the realised man the mind may be active or inactive,

> the Self alone remains for him. For the mind, the body and the world are

> not

> separate from the Self. They rise from and sink into the Self. They do not

> remain apart from the Self. Can they be different from the Self? Only be

> aware of the Self. Why worry about these shadows? How do they affect the

> Self?

>

> (Talks; 97)