Maharshi-something else

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Maharshi-something else from the depths takes hold of you

 

 

 

 

 

 

Question:

You say one can realize the Self by a search for it.

What is the character of this search?

 

Bhagavan:

You are the mind, or rather you think that you are the mind.

But the mind is nothing but thoughts. Now behind every

particular thought there is a general thought which is

the "I," that is yourself. Let us call this "I" the first

thought. Stick to this I-thought and question it to find out

what it really is. When this question takes strong hold on

you, you cannot think of other thoughts.

 

Questioner:

When I do like this, and cling to my self, i.e., the I-thought,

other thoughts do come and go, but I say to myself "Who am I?"

and there is no answer forthcoming. To be in this condition is

the (right) practice. Is it so?

 

Bhagavan:

This is a mistake that people often make. What happens when

you make a serious quest for the Self is that the

"I"-thought as a thought disappears; something else from the

depths takes hold of you and that is not the "I" which

commenced the quest.

 

Questioner: What is this something else?

 

Bhagavan: That is the real Self, the import of I.

It is not the ego (or mind).

It is the Supreme Being itself.

 

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