Lucy Cornelssen - Investigation (3)

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Investigation

 

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Ramana Maharshi named it the transitional ‘I’ and stressed

the importance of this experience again and again.

“The ‘I’-thought is only limited ‘I’. The real ‘I’ is unlimited,

universal, beyond time and space. They are absent in sleep. Just

on rising up from sleep, and before seeing the objective world,

there is a state of awareness which is your pure Self. That must

be known.” (Talks, 311).

 

“The Self is pure consciousness in sleep; it evolves as ‘I’

without the ‘this’ in the transition stage; and manifests as ‘I and

this’ in the waking state. The individual’s experience is by means

of ‘I’ only. So he must aim at realisation in the way indicated

(i.e., by means of the transitional ‘I’). Otherwise the sleep

experience does not matter to him. If the transitional ‘I’ be realised

the stratum is found and that leads to the goal.” (Talks, 314).

 

“I’-thought and ‘this’-thought are both emanations from

the same Light. They are related to rajoguna and tamoguna

respectively. In order to have the Reflected Light (pure sattva)

from rajas and tamas, it must shine forth as ‘I’ – I’, unbroken

by ‘this’-thought. This pure state momentarily intervenes between

sleep and waking. If prolonged it is cosmic consciousness. This

is the only passage to the realisation of the Self-shining Supreme

Be-ing.” (Talks, 323)

 

“Why is not that pure ‘I’ realised now or even remembered

by us? Because of want of acquaintance with it. It can be

recognised only if it is consciously attained. Therefore make

the effort and gain it consciously.” (Talks, 314).

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HUNTING THE ‘I’

according to Sri Ramana Maharshi

LUCY CORNELSSEN