Gem's from Bhagavan: Self-Realization

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Of Peter08 March 2006 06:58RamanaMaharshiSubject:

[RamanaMaharshi] Gem's from Bhagavan: Self-RealizationYou may go on reading any

number of books on Vedanta. They can only tellyou 'Realize the Self'. The Self

cannot be found in books. You have tofind it for yourself in yourself.(Gems

from Bhagavan, selected by A. Devaraja Mudaliar)

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Our real nature is Mukti. But we imagine that we are bound and are making

strenuous attempts to become free, while we are all the time free. This

will be understood only when we reach that stage. We will be surprised that

we were frantically trying to attain something which we have always been and

are. An illustration will make this clear: A man goes to sleep in this

hall. He dreams he has gone on a world tour, is roaming over hill and dale,

forest and country, desert and sea, across various continents and, after

many years of weary strenuous travel, returns to this country, reaches

Tiruvanamalai, enters the ashram and walks into the hall. Just at that

moment he wakes ups and finds he has not moved an inch, but was sleeping

where he lay down. He has now returned to the hall, after great efforts,

but is and always has been in the hall. It is exactly like that. If it is

asked, why being free we imagine we are bound, I answer, 'Why being in the

hall did you imagine you were on a world adventure, crossing hill and dale,

desert and sea?' It is all mind or maya.

 

(Gems from Bhagavan, selected by A. Devaraja Mudaliar)