End of suffering

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process of investigaton with me, it becomes amplyclear that the

investigation process has not beenproperly understood or practiced.

The investigationcertainly has to be done by the ego itself from

hisown experience-no one can effectively do it for you.

The only point is that it is the working mind workingin the present

moment that must do the investigation,and not the thinking mind

always functioning in thepast or the present, trying to prove

something for the

apparent benefit of the egoOnce the flash of total acceptance happens

that therecannot be any individual doer-oneself or the other-butthat

every single apparent action is not done by anyindividual doer but

that it is a happening produced by

the Primal energy, functioning through the body-mindinstrument,

precisely as electricity produces througheach electrical gadget

precisely that which theparticular gadget has been designed to

produce, there

is a corresponding result. There is the personalexperience of the

Buddha's statement, "events happen,deeds are done, but there is no

individual doerthereof", which, in turn, produces an intense,

deepfeeling of total freedom from personal pride or

arrogance, guilt and shame for what was earlierconsidered to be one's

own actions, and also totalfreedom from any hatred or ill will or

malice towardsany one. The deep understanding, is clearly, that if

I am not supposed to get hurt according to my destinyor God's will, no

power on earth can hurt me; on theother hand , if it is my destiny to

be hurt, throughwhich individual body-mind instrument the relevant

action happens is for me tonally irrelevant.The ultimate understanding

works very simply in dailyliving; daily living becomes the going with

the flow,witnessing impersonally whatever happens not asanyone's

doing but a series of happenings according to

a cosmic Law-total freedom personal doer ship, totalfreedom from pride

and arrogance, from gilt and shame,total freedom from hatred and

malice towards any one.That is living one's life as a sage.One point

needs to be very clearly understood. The

Ultimate Understanding of non-doer ship-SelfRealization-does not mean

the total annihilation ofthe ego. This cannot happen for the simple

reason thatthe ego is necessary for the sage to live the rest of

his allotted span of life. The sage responds to hisname being called

and functions as an individualentity in his allotted role in life.

But the ego ofthe sage is without any sting because the sense

ofpersonal doership has been annihilated. In the words

of Ramana Maharshi, the ego of the sage is like the"remnants of burnt

rope" –absolutely helpless andharmless. ( introduction concluded)

Ramana Sarma