Thus Spake Ramana

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There is a state beyond both effort

and effortlessness.

Until it is realized, effort is necessary.

After tasting such Bliss even once,

one will repeatedly try to regain it.

Having once experienced the Bliss of Peace,

no one would like to be out of it

or engage himself otherwise.

 

No activity of any kind affects a

Self-Realized man.

his mind remains ever in eternal Peace.

He will know it to be his real Being,

and thus be liberated even while alive.

 

[from] Talks with Ramana Maharshi

[recorded Jan 19, 1936]