Maharshi's Gospel: Self-Inquiry - 5

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Disciple: In this life beset with limitations, can I ever realize the Bliss

of the Self?

 

Maharshi: That Bliss of the Self is always with you, and you will find it

for yourself, if you seek it earnestly.

The cause of your misery is not in the life without; it is in you as the

ego. You impose limitations on yourself and them make a vain struggle to

transcend them. All unhappiness is due to the ego; with it comes all your

trouble. What does it avail you to attribute to the happenings in life the

cause of misery which is really within you? What happiness can you get from

things extraneous to yourself? When you get it, how long will it last?

If you would deny the ego and scorch it by ignoring it, you would be

free. If you accept it, it will impose limitations on you and throw you into

a vain struggle to transcend them. That was how the thief sought to "ruin"

King Janaka.

To be the Self that you really are is the only means to reailize the

Bill that is ever yours.

 

(From Maharshi's Gospel, published by Sri Ramanasramam and available for

download from <http://www.ramana-maharshi.org/>

http://www.ramana-maharshi.org/ )