More on 'The Soul'

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>From our previous post...

 

“In truth, only Experience of the Self is real, not beliefs about Him, which

imply that He can become an object of thought. Mere theoretical knowledge of

the Self — even that derived from the sacred lore — is ignorance, just like the

dogmas of the devotees"

 

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"What the Sage means is that the Reality transcends the mind, while creeds

are purely mental. Therefore no creed can be a faithful description of the

Reality. The Reality is neither in the creeds, nor in the books in which they

are set forth.

 

"The believer is just the ego, whose nature is to hide or distort the truth. ‘I

believe’ says the believer. To him the Sage says: “Find out the truth of this

I, the ‘believer’; then thou wilt know theTruth that transcends the mind, and

therefore cannot be contained in a creed....”

....from Chapter Six, called "The Soul" in the book Maha Yoga by "WHO", Lakshmana

Sharma, who spent more than twenty years in association with Sri Bhagavan: the

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

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

anbudan

 

John