Satsangha contd..

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59. When we gain association with a person who knows and abides as

the reality (called a Sat-purusha), we will be able to know very

clearly that real devotion to God, and steadfast discrimination

between the eternal and the ephemeral, are steadily rising up and

increasing in our hearts automatically, and without our own effort.

 

60. We should not believe that we have, by our own efforts and

practice (sadhana), brought about the rising of such pure devotion

and clear discrimination that we are thus able to now experience in

our hearts. This true devotion and discrimination are spontaneously

and naturally kindled in our hearts, not by our own efforts, but only

by the power of the Grace of that Sat-purusha (sage) who is living

close to us, and who appears as if he is someone other than us.

 

61. Just like a mother who feeds her sleeping child even without the

child knowing that he is being fed, the Grace of the Sat-purusha

(sage) enters our hearts in a manner that cannot be known by us, even

if we have the most subtle and powerful of intellects, and thereby

His Grace reforms us and brings about the destruction of our mind.

Ah! His Grace is beyond all limits and cannot be gauged by anyone.

 

-- Ramana Maharshi

 

Hari Aum !!!