Help on the Quest for Self-realization-Reminders-71

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Help on the Quest for Self-realization-Reminders-71

 

Who is asking the question? Who is striving to solve the problem?

The Master did not allow anyone to divert his attention from the one

thing necessary, or to waste time on speculations which could do

nothing except flatter vanity and nourish self-centred-ness. He

always led people back relentlessly to the essential, to the basic

question. Simply find out who you are, find out what it is in you

that does not depend on the changing circumstances of your bodily or

mental existence, that kernel of your consciousness which in the

last analysis cannot be identified with any of the external

circumstances in which you find yourself. Do not waste time in

negating the passing identities of which you are momentarily

conscious, for that will only detain and hinder you. Pass beyond;

discover in yourself that which is free and independent of all

around or within you that changes or passes away. In every deed,

every act or will, every thought, ask yourself the essential

question: Who is thinking, willing, acting? Who am I, the actor

behind the action, the thinker behind the thought, the one who wills

behind the act of willing?

 

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

teachings.