The Essential Advaitic Knowledge - Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi

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Dear Harsha

 

thank you for this clear-cut message.

For every devotee of Sri Ramana this is IT

 

in love in GD

 

michael wrote:

The one infinite Unbroken Whole (plenum) becomes aware of Itself as

'I'. This is the original name. All the other names, e.g., OM, are

later growths. Liberation is only to remain aware of the Self. The

Mahavakya 'I am Brahman' is its authority. Though the 'I' is always

experienced, yet one's attention has to be drawn to it. Then only

knowledge dawns. Thus the need for the instruction of the Upanishads

and of wise sages. (Talks, 92)

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Reality is one only. How can it be realised? Realisation is thus an

illusion. Practice seems to be necessary. Who is to practice? Looking

for the doer, the act and the accessories disappear. Moreover, if

realisation is not present here and now, how can it, newly got, be of

any use? Realise what is present here and now. The sages did so before

and still do that only. Hence they say that it looks as newly got.

Once veiled by ignorance and later revealed, Reality looks as if

newly realised. But it is not new. (Talks, 439)

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Dvaita and Advaita are relative terms. They are based on the sense of

duality. The Self is as It is. There is neither dvaita nor advaita, I

AM THAT I AM. Simple Be-ing is the Self. (Talks, 433)

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One's efforts are directed only to remove one's ignorance. Afterwards

they cease and the real Self is found to be always there. No effort

is needed to remain as the Self. (Talks, 66)

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The Truth is that the Self is constant and unintermittent Awareness.

The object of enquiry is to find the true nature of the Self as

Awareness. Let one practice enquiry so long as separateness is

perceived. Once realisation arises there is no further need for

enquiry. The question will not arise. Can awareness ever think of

questioning who is aware?. Awareness remains pure and simple. (Talks,

454)Harsha wrote: He who is described in the scriptures as the unborn

and the Lord, I am He, the Atman (Self), who is forever without form

and qualities. There is absolutely no doubt about it.From the

Collected Works of Ramana Maharshi (Devikalottra, verse

52) Magazine and Website is

at"Love itself is the actual form of

God."Sri RamanaIn "Letters from Sri Ramanasramam" by Suri

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"Love itself is

the actual form of God."Sri RamanaIn "Letters from Sri Ramanasramam"

by Suri Nagamma

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