The Essential Advaitic Knowledge - Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi

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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.

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> From the Collected Works of Ramana Maharshi (Devikalottra, verse 52)*

 

 

 

 

"Love itself is the actual form of God."

 

Sri Ramana

 

In "Letters from Sri Ramanasramam" by Suri Nagamma