Keeping God in your mind becomes Dhyana

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Question: Sri Bhagavan outlines a way to find Krishna in the Heart by

prostrating to all and looking on all as the Lord Himself. Is this

the right path leading to Self-realization? Is it not easier to adore

Bhagavan (God) in whatever meets the mind, than to seek the

supramental through the mental enquiry `Who am I?'

 

Sri Ramana Maharshi: Yes, when you see God in all, do you think of

God or do you not? You must certainly think of God if you want to see

God all round you. Keeping God in your mind in this way becomes

Dhyana (meditation) and Dhyana is the stage before realization.

Realization can only be in and of the Self. It can never be apart

from the Self. Dhyana must precede realization, but whether you make

Dhyana on God or on the Self is immaterial, for the goal is the same.

You cannot, by any means, escape the Self. You want to see God in

all, but not in yourself? If everything is God, are you not included

in that everything? Being God yourself, is it a wonder that all is

God? This is the method advised in Sri Bhagavatam, and elsewhere by

others. But even for this practice there must be the seer or thinker.

Who is he?

 

Hari Aum !!!