Is there anyone who is not realising the Self?

[Guest guest]

[further to our chatroom meeting yesterday]

If there be a goal to be reached it cannot be permanent. The goal must already

be there. We seek to reach the goal with the ego, but the goal exists before

the ego. What is in the goal is even prior to our birth, i.e., to the birth of

the ego. Because we exist the ego appears to exist too.

If we look on the Self as the ego then we become the ego, if as the mind we

become the mind, if as the body we become the body. It is the thought which

builds up sheaths in so many ways. The shadow on the water is found to be

shaking. Can anyone stop the shaking of the shadow? If it should cease to shake

you would not notice the water but only the light. Similarly to take no notice

of the ego and its activities, but see only the light behind. The ego is the

I-thought. The true ' I ' is the Self.

....

Realisation is already there. The state free from thoughts is the only real

state. There is no such action as Realisation. Is there anyone who is not

realising the Self? Does anyone deny his own existence? Speaking of

Realisation, it implies two selves ­­ one to realise, the other to be realised.

What is not already realised, is sought to be realised. Once we admit our

existence, how is it that we do not know our Self?

....

It is the mind that stands between and veils our happiness. How do we know that

we exist? If you say because of the world around us, then how do you know that

you existed in deep sleep?

(from Talks; nr. 146, 26th January, 1936)