Transcend the Seer and the Seen

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Question: When a man realises the Self, what will he see?

 

Sri Ramana Maharshi: There is no seeing. Seeing is only being. The

state of Self-realisation, as we call it, is not attaining something

new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that

which you always are and which you always have been. All that is

needed is that you give up your realisation of the not-true as true.

 

All of us are regarding as real that which is not real. We have only to give up

this practice on our part. Then we shall realise the Self as the Self, in other

words, `Be the Self.´ At one stage you will laugh at yourself for trying to

discover the Self which is not

self-evident. So, what can we say to this question?

 

That stage transcends the seer and the seen. There is no seer there to

see anything. The seer who is seeing all this now ceases to exist and

 

the Self alone remains.

 

http://www.hinduism.co.za/self-.htm

 

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love, Era

 

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, "Era" <n0ndual@w...> wrote:

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> Question: When a man realises the Self, what will he see?

>

> Sri Ramana Maharshi: There is no seeing. Seeing is only being. The

> state of Self-realisation, as we call it, is not attaining something

> new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that

> which you always are and which you always have been. All that is

> needed is that you give up your realisation of the not-true as true.

>

> All of us are regarding as real that which is not real. We have only

to give up this practice on our part. Then we shall realise the Self

as the Self, in other words, `Be the Self.´ At one stage you will

laugh at yourself for trying to discover the Self which is not

> self-evident. So, what can we say to this question?

>

> That stage transcends the seer and the seen. There is no seer there to

> see anything. The seer who is seeing all this now ceases to exist and

>

> the Self alone remains.

>

> http://www.hinduism.co.za/self-.htm

>

> ~~~~~~

> love, Era

>

> .

 

BOOM!!!

 

jai ramana!

 

yosy

 

thanks, era. you sent quite some pearls lately...

it reminds me of a poem by a dear friend, junior everest telfer:

 

how many times

again and again

i dive to the green dragon's cave

at the bottom of the ocean

in search

for the priceless

pearl...