More on 'The Soul'

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>From our previous post...

 

"Thus it happens that people in the West speak of a dying man as ‘giving up the

ghost’; they do not say that he is giving up the body, which they would say if

they were free from the delusion that the body is the self."

 

[To continue...}

 

But though the ego is itself ignorance and the origin of all sin and

suffering, this ego has very great importance in our inquiry, because it holds

the clue to the finding of the real Self. This we shall see in the course of

the description of the Quest of that Self. Besides, the ego is the proof of the

real Self. These points are brought home to us by the Sage in the following:

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“This insentient body does not say ‘I’; no one ever says ‘I didnot exist in

sleep’; but all this comes into being (only) after therising of the ego; seek

therefore the Source wherefrom the egorises, by concentrating the mind on the

Quest.”*

 

 

....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/

* Ulladu Narpadu, Verse 23.

 

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anbudan

 

John