Help on the Quest for Self-realization-Reminders-72

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Help on the Quest for Self-realization-Reminders-72

 

The finding of the source and holding on to it is the beginning, end

and purpose of Self-enquiry. The precise method is simple and well

known: When thoughts arise, one does not allow them to develop, one

asks oneself the words, "To whom do these thoughts occur?" and the

answer is "to me," and then the question occurs, "then who am I?"

What is this thing in me which I keep calling I?" By doing this

practice one is shifting attention from the world of thoughts to the

being from where the thought and the thinker first emerged. The

transfer of attention is simply executed, because if one holds on to

the feeling "I am" the initial thought of "I" will gradually give

way to a feeling of "I", and then sooner or later, this feeling "I

am" will merge into being itself, to a state where there is no

longer either a thinker of the thought "I", or a feeler of the

feeling "I am"; there will only be being itself. This the stage

where attention to the feeling "I am" has merged with the being from

where it came, so that there is no longer the dualistic distinction

of a person giving attention to the feeling "I am". There is only

being and awareness of being.

 

Spiritual practice consists of withdrawal into the Self every time

you are disturbed by thought. It is not concentration or

destruction of the mind, but withdrawal into the Self.

 

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

teachings.