More on 'The Soul'

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From our previous post...

 

“...The better sort of student has an instinctive

sense that something is wrong. He is assailed by doubts and

he puts questions to get them cleared."

 

[To continue...}

 

"Such a one asked the Sage: “If I am eternal and perfect why am I ignorant?”

The Sage replied as follows:

 

‘Who is ignorant? The real Self does not complain of ignorance. It is the ego in

you that so complains. It is that which also asks questions. The Self does not

ask any question.

 

‘And this ego is neither the body, nor the real Self, but something arising between the two.

‘In sleep there was no ego, and you had no sense of imperfection or ignorance

then. Thus the ego is itself imperfection and ignorance. If you seek the truth

of the ego and thus find the real Self, you will find that there is no

ignorance.’

 

“What the Sage meant was that if the real Self be found the ego would be

extinguished, and that the ignorance complained of will be extinguished along

with the ego....."

 

....from Chapter Six, called "The Soul" in the book Maha Yoga: the entire book

can be downloaded free-of-charge from the website of Sri

Ramanasramam.http://www.ramana-maharshi.org/anbudan

 

John