Quotes Ramana

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" This is what the Maharshi says,

'There is no alternative for you

but to accept the world as unreal,

if you are seeking the Truth and

the Truth alone.'

Why should it be so?

The simple reason is that you will

never get at Reality if you take

the appearances to be real. The

stock argument of the worldly-

minded, that it is not possible

to deny the reality of the world

which all of us so vividly experience,

does not baffle the Vedantin. The

dream world appears all too real to

us, so long as we are in it; but as soon

as we wake from it, we realize its un-

substantiality.....Our ultimate freedom

lies in shaking off this dream and in our

becoming aware of our Self-hood and

non-duality. "

 

--Dr. T. M. P. Mahadevan, Ph.D.