only a Sadhak

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Hi Allan:

 

RamanaMaharshi, Alan Jacobs

<alanadamsjacobs> wrote:

> Dear Jim , I can make no claims in terms of achieving the Self

Realisation of the Sage who is

> living from the Sahaja state continuously {Jivanmukta}. .I am only

a Sadhak

 

Who is a Sadhak?

[Ramesh S. Balsekar: The question – Who is Gary? The answer – There

is no Gary! Gary, the ego, doesn't exist. If Gary doesn't exist

then what exists? Only the Source. Source is all there is.]

 

 

Ask yourself: who is a Sadhak, who is doing, thinking, feeling,

reacting, questioning, etc. as often as you can and a time may come

when you suddenly know that you are not a person/body/mind/Sadhak and

never was, and that the person/Sadhak, etc. that you took yourself

for does not now or ever did exist - except as an image/concept in

your own mind. When you stop believing in the personal object you

have believed yourself to be since very early childhood, it will

vanish and that which you are will remain. Things will be much

better for you after that blessed remembrance.

 

 

 

good luck,

 

jim

 

 

 

 

who has endeavouref to

> practice according to my understanding,the Maharshi's Teachings for

a number of years. Regards and

> best wishes , Alan

>

>

>

> Alan:

> >

> > I have tons and pounds of accounts such as you mention including

my

> > own......so,

> >

> > What's your own experience?

> >

> > jim

> >

> >

> >

> > RamanaMaharshi, Alan Jacobs

> > <alanadamsjacobs> wrote:

> > > ---Dear Jim ,further to Ben's reply , there are a number of

> > personal accounts by persons directly

> > > Self Realised by the Maharshi given in the three volume work

> > the "Power of the Presence" Edited

> > > by David Godman.One can find out more about this and other

> > literature available from the Ashram

> > > main site and David Godman's own site -linked to this site or

Atma

> > Vichara .Every best wish , in

> > > His Grace, Alan

> > >

> > >

> > > jim37rich <jim37rich> wrote: > Ben:

> > > > I deeply appreciate the personal testimony of a realized

person,

> > > > Mathru, and would like to read of other's awakening

experiences

> > if

> > > > they wish to offer them. I'd imagine a genuinely realized

person

> > > > would not bother to come to a forum and speak openly but I

wish

> > they

> > > > would.

> > > >

> > > > What's your own experience Ben?.....

> > > >

> > > >

> > > > thanks again,

> > > >

> > > > jim

> > > >

> > > >

> > > >

> > > >

> > > > RamanaMaharshi, "Ben Hassine"

> > <ben.hassine@x>

> > > > wrote:

> > > > > Typed from No Mind - I am the Self, chapter 19, The

Experience

> > of

> > > > the Self, page 188

> > > > >

> > > > > Saradamma [Mathru Sri Sarada] frequently stresses that the

Self

> > > > cannot be described in words, but on many occasions she tries

to

> > > > describe the indescribable. The first account in this chapter

was

> > > > written by Saradamma herself in Telugu only ten days after

her

> > > > realisation. It is a glowing account of the jnani's

experience of

> > the

> > > > Self.

> > > > >

> > > > > Saradamma: When I opened my eyes after realisation there

was

> > only

> > > > peace inside and out. I knew that I was the Self and that

when I

> > > > uttered the word 'I', this 'I' meant only the Self.

> > > > > Even though I may see, I am not seeing; even though I may

hear,

> > I

> > > > am not hearing; even though I may talk, I am not talking.

When I

> > wake

> > > > up I am not really waking and when I sleep I am not really

> > sleeping.

> > > > Sleep, waking and dream are passing before the Self but they

> > cannot

> > > > touch it. Whatever I may do I am not doing it. I have no sin

and

> > no

> > > > virtue, no sleep and no waking, for I am always in the state

of

> > > > sahaja samadhi. Whatever I may do I am always in that state.

> > > > > If there is a mind then there is a world. If there is no

mind

> > then

> > > > there is no world and no body. There is nothing except the

Self

> > and

> > > > the Self has no name and no form. It is eternal peace. I am

ever

> > > > content.

> > > > > I have been able to gain the most valuable thing in the

world,

> > for

> > > > all the riches in the world cannot buy or balance the Self.

Even

> > > > though I did not know that it was possible to get it, I

attained

> > it,

> > > > for without my knowing it, the Self killed the 'I'.

> > > > > Everything is the Self and nothing is apart from it; this

is my

> > > > experience and I do not slip from that state. I am shining as

the

> > > > Self and there is no doubt about my experience.

> > > >

> > > >

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