The Essential Practice

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All meditative and yogic techniques are

practiced by the use of the mind and the body. It is for this reason

Sri Ramana pointed out that the methods which presuppose the retention

of the mind have a built in limitation. The spiritual experiences stay

within the framework and structure of the mind or the super mind and

only with grace the person goes beyond that to see that Self is the

true being and foundation of all experience.

Therefore, Sri Ramana considered the inquiry into the nature of the

mind itself, the conscious "I" that has all these experiences, mental,

physical, spiritual, to be absolutely direct. To practice this method

of self-inquiry, one should be satisfied that there is nothing to

experience and nothing to gain and nothing worth gaining other than

Self-Knowledge. If one is satisfied that this is so, one will find

delight in turning within, by one's own consciousness upon one's own

consciousness. With the mind, one scans the mind. With the I one looks

at the I. It is simply consciousness manifesting in whatever way

through the mind scanning its own formless nature. To remain conscious

of one's own nature, which is consciousness itself, is the practice.

Sri Ramana used to say that what is practice for the Sadhak is sahaj

for the Siddha. Self-Inquiry can be practiced only when one is

attracted by it and is understood by practice and gradually other

methods and techniques and experiences lose their hold.

Love to all

Harsha

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