"Be yourself and nothing more!"

[Guest guest]

A gentleman from Bombay said: "I asked mother in Sri Aurobindo asram the

following question: 'I keep my mind blank without thoughts arising so that God

might show Himself in His true Being. But I do not perceive anything.'

The reply was to this effect: 'The attitute is right, the Power will come down

from above. It is a direct experience'."

So he asked what further he should do.

 

Maharshi: "Be what you are. There is nothing to come down or become manifest.

All that is needful is to lose the ego. That what is is always there. Even now

you are That. You are not apart from It. The blank is seen by you. You are there

to see the blank. What do you wait for? The thought, 'I have not seen,' the

expectation to see and the desire of getting something, are all the workings of

the ego. You have fallen into the snares of the ego. The ego says all these and

not you. Be yourself and nothing more!"

 

(Talks with Ramana Maharshi, Talk 183)

 

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