More on 'The Soul'

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>From our previous post...

 

“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.”*

 

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"The first step in the Quest of the real Self is to understand that Self is not

the body — physical or mental. The reason for this is two-fold. On the one hand

the body is unconscious and hence cannot be the self, finite or otherwise."On

the other hand we are sure that the Self — whatever it may be — can exist

without a body. We know that this is so in sleep. Few people can even imagine

the possibility of the Self ceasing to exist during sleep. Those that do so are

the over sophisticated ones; their perplexity on this point is dealt with in a

long talk given by the Sage to a doubter, which will be given later. Thus the

ego itself is a proof that we exist.

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"We are not the ego; we are That from which the ego takes its rise. That must be

found by seeking the Source of the ego. Revelation tells us that if and when we

find that Source, we shall find not only the Self, but also the Reality that

underlies the world-appearance; and this will be the case, because the Self and

the Reality are one and the same."

 

....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