Guest guest Posted August 25, 2002 Report Share Posted August 25, 2002 It is false to speak of realisation. What is there to realise? The real is as it is always. We are not creating anything new or achieving something which we did not have before. The illustration given in books is this. We dig a well and create a huge pit. The space in the pit or well has not been created by us. We have just removed the earth which was filling the space there. The space was there then and is also there now. Similarly we have simply to throw out all the age-long samskaras [innate tendencies] which are inside us. When all of them have been given up, the Self will shine alone. ~Sri Ramana Maharshi The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi Edited by David Godman Arkana, 1985 LoveAlways, Mazie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 25, 2002 Report Share Posted August 25, 2002 Mazie: I enjoy your postings. They're nice, short reminders. Mark It is false to speak of realisation. What is there to realise? The real is as it is always. We are not creating anything new or achieving something which we did not have before. The illustration given in books is this. We dig a well and create a huge pit. The space in the pit or well has not been created by us. We have just removed the earth which was filling the space there. The space was there then and is also there now. Similarly we have simply to throw out all the age-long samskaras [innate tendencies] which are inside us. When all of them have been given up, the Self will shine alone. ~Sri Ramana Maharshi The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi Edited by David Godman Arkana, 1985 LoveAlways, Mazie Post message: RamanaMaharshi Subscribe: RamanaMaharshi- Un: RamanaMaharshi- List owner: RamanaMaharshi-owner Shortcut URL to this page: /community/RamanaMaharshi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 25, 2002 Report Share Posted August 25, 2002 RamanaMaharshi, "Mark" <milarepa@a...> wrote: > Mazie: I enjoy your postings. They're nice, short reminders. Mark ^^^Dear Mark, Yes, isn't it so with Sri Ramana - straight to the Heart of Truth. i first became a devotee of Sri Ramana at twelve years of age. It opened my Heart up and began stripping me to the bone. i understood even then without being able to understand at all that he was telling me that he and i were the same. The only difference was in degree of Awareness not in kind. And so it is. So it is. Here is another gemstone from Sri Ramana's infinite necklace of jewels - "If we talk of knowing the Self, there must be two selves, one a knowing self, another the self which is known, and the process of knowing. The state we call realisation is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything. If one has realised, one is that which alone is and which alone has always been. One cannot describe that state. One can only be that. Of course, we loosely talk of Self- realisation, for want of a better term. How to 'real-ise' or make real that which alone is real?" - Sri Ramana Maharshi "Be As You Are" The Teachings of Sri Ramana Marharshi edited by David Godman Arkana, 1985 LoveAlways, Mazie It is false to speak of realisation. What is there to realise? The real is as it is always. We are not creating anything new or achieving something which we did not have before. The illustration given in books is this. We dig a well and create a huge pit. The space in the pit or well has not been created by us. We have just removed the earth which was filling the space there. The space was there then and is also there now. Similarly we have simply to throw out all the age-long samskaras [innate tendencies] which are inside us. When all of them have been given up, the Self will shine alone. ~Sri Ramana Maharshi > > > > > > The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi > Edited by David Godman > Arkana, 1985 > > > LoveAlways, > > Mazie > > > > Post message: RamanaMaharshi@o... > Subscribe: RamanaMaharshi-@o... > Un: RamanaMaharshi-@o... > List owner: RamanaMaharshi-owner@o... > > Shortcut URL to this page: > /community/RamanaMaharshi > > Terms of Service. > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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