Help on the Quest for Self-realization-Reminders-52

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Help on the Quest for Self-realization-Reminders-52

 

Reality is simply the loss of ego. Destroy the ego by seeking its

identity. Because the ego is no entity it will automatically vanish

and Reality will shine forth by itself.

 

People are afraid that when the ego or the mind is killed, the

result may be mere blank and not happiness. What really happens is

that the thinker, the object of thought and thinking all merge in

one Source which is Consciousness and Bliss itself, and thus the

state is neither inert or blank. I do not understand why people

should be afraid of a state in which all thought cease to exist and

the mind is killed. They daily experience it in sleep. There is no

mind or thought in sleep. Yet when one rises from sleep one

says, "I slept well". In sleep they surrender the ego in order to

lapse into mere blank, whereas Realization is merging into pure

Consciousness which is the uttermost bliss.

 

Without giving room even to the doubting thought, "Is it possible to

destroy all tendencies (vasanas) and to remain as Self alone?", one

should persistently cling fast to Self-attention.

 

As long as there are tendencies towards sense-objects in the mind,

the enquiry "Who am I?" is necessary. As and when thoughts rise,

one should annihilate all of them through enquiry then and there in

their very place of origin.

 

A man should surrender the personal selfishness which binds him to

the world. Giving up the false self is the true renunciation.

 

You have to ask yourself the question "Who am I?" This

investigation will lead in the end to the discovery of something

within you which is behind the mind. Solve that great problem and

you will solve all other problems.

 

Persist in the enquiry throughout your waking hours. That would be

quite enough.

 

Source: Various reliable publications of / on Sri Ramana Maharshi's

teachings.