More on 'The Soul'

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>From our previous post...

 

"Apart from the ego there is neither death nor rebirth.This vicious circle of

deaths and rebirths is sustained only bythe primary ignorance which is the ego.

The ego itself is death,because he is the negation of the Truth, which is Life.

Hemust not only be dethroned, but must be put to death. Forthere is no safety so

long as he survives."

 

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"The ego must become considerably attenuated for the teaching of the Sages

to be understood. This is clear from the following utterance of the Sage. He was

explaining the true inwardness of the current notion that a disciple must, after

finding a Guru, remain with him for a long time, serving him faithfully, and

surrender himself utterly to the Guru, and that the latter would then teach him

the great secret,

 

‘Thou art That.’

The Sage explained it as follows: “The true meaning of what is here called

surrender is the complete wearing away of the ego-sense, which is

individuality. And this is a necessary condition for the disciple being able to

receive the teaching; for if there be no surrender in this sense, the teaching

is sure to be misunderstood. Even with the limited egoism that now exists, man

is liable to outbreaks of fury, to be tyrannical, fanatical and so on. What

will he not do, if he be told that he himself is that Great Being? He would not

understand that teaching in its true sense, but would take it to mean that his

individual soul, the ego, is that Great Being. This is not at all the true

sense of the teaching, because the ego is simply non-existent.”

....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