Day by Day with Bhagavan 16-3-45 Morning

[Guest guest]

A visitor : Should I give up my business and take to reading books on

Vedanta?

 

Bhagavan: If the objects have an independent existence, i.e., if they

exist anywhere apart from you, then it may be possible for you to go

away from them. But they don't exist apart from you; they owe their

existence to you, your thought. So, where can you go, to escape them?

As for reading books on Vedanta, you may go on reading any number of

them. They can only tell you, 'Realise the Self within you'. the Self

cannot be found in books. You have to find it out for yourself, in

yourself.

[Guest guest]

Thanks for this, Barney.

I find the opening to this book quite stunning, every time I read it.

anbudan

John

RamanaMaharshi, "champbarn" <champbarn

wrote:

>

> A visitor : Should I give up my business and take to reading books on

> Vedanta?

>

> Bhagavan: If the objects have an independent existence, i.e., if they

> exist anywhere apart from you, then it may be possible for you to go

> away from them. But they don't exist apart from you; they owe their

> existence to you, your thought. So, where can you go, to escape them?

> As for reading books on Vedanta, you may go on reading any number of

> them. They can only tell you, 'Realise the Self within you'. the Self

> cannot be found in books. You have to find it out for yourself, in

> yourself.

>

[Guest guest]

This is one of those passages that should be with everyone in the back of the mind, wherever we are, whatever we do. It strikes you with such force, that you are literally dumbstruck. Thank you for sending us these lines.

Yours in Bhagavan,

Sharada

 

 

 

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