More on 'The Soul'

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>From our previous post...

 

"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.”

 

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“The true meaning of the teaching is that though the soul as such is a

non-entity, there is in it an element of reality, namely the light of

consciousness proceeding from the real Self, and experienced by us as ‘I am’.

This light of consciousness does not belong to the soul; it belongs to the

Self, the Reality, It must therefore be surrendered to Him. When that surrender

is complete, then that Self alone will remain. And if individuality be thus

lost, it is well lost. For this loss of individuality is not a loss. It is the

loss of the greatest of all losses, the loss of the self; it is therefore the

highest of all possible gains, the gain of the real Self. The effect of this

surrender is thus described in the ancient lore: “As the rivers flowing into

the ocean, and therein losing name and form, become one with the ocean, so does

the Sage, losing name and form, become one with the Supreme Being, who is the

transcendental Reality.”

....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

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Roman"> “The true meaning of the teaching is that though the soul as such is a

non-entity, there is in it an element of reality, namely the light of

consciousness proceeding from the real Self, and experienced by us as ‘I am’.

This light of consciousness does not belong to the soul; it belongs to the

Self, the Reality, It must therefore be surrendered to Him. When that surrender

is complete, then that Self alone will remain. And if individuality be thus

lost, it is well lost. For this loss of individuality is not a loss. It is the

loss of the greatest of all losses, the loss of the self; it is therefore the

highest of all possible gains, the gain of the real Self. The effect of this

surrender is thus described in the ancient lore: “As the rivers flowing into

the ocean, and therein losing name and form, become one with the ocean, so does

the Sage, losing name and form, become one with the Supreme Being, who is the

transcendental Reality.” ...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

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