Ramana's Forty Verses on Reality

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"People ask me how to control the mind. I reply: 'Show me the mind.' The

mind is no more than the series of thoughts. How can it be controlled by one

of those thoughts, namely the desire to control the mind ? It is foolish to

seek to end the mind by the mind itself. The only way is to find the mind's

Source and keep hold of it. Then the mind will fade away of itself. There

are just two ways of controlling the mind. Either seek its Source, or

surrender it to be struck down by the Supreme Power."

 

Ramana Mahrashi

 

 

 

Continuing now with Sri Ramana's 40 verses on Reality (Verses15-18)

 

15. Only with reference to the present can the past and the future exist.

They too, while current, are the present. To try to determine the nature of

the past and the future while ignoring the present is like trying to count

without the unit.

 

 

16. Apart, from us where is time and where is space? If we are bodies, we

are involved in time and space, but are we? We are one and identical now,

then, and forever, here, and everywhere. Therefore we, timeless, and

spaceless Being, alone are.

 

 

17. To those who have not realized the Self, as well as to those who have,

the word 'I' refers to the body, but with this difference, that for those

who have not realized, the 'I' is confined to the body whereas for those who

have realized the Self within the body the 'I' shines as the limitless Self.

 

 

18. To those who have not realized (the Self) as well as to those who have

the world is real. But to those who have not realized, Truth is adapted to

the measure of the world, whereas to those that have, Truth shines as the

Formless Perfection, and as the Substratum of the world. This is all the

difference between them.