The Awareness watching Awareness

[Guest guest]

The Following are quotes from the book " The Garland of Guru's (Sri

Ramana Maharshi's) Sayings " on the subject of turning inward are

compiled by Michael L. at his uarelove1.tripod.com site. I picked

the ones on Awareness:

 

 

The Awareness watching Awareness

approach to Self-inquiry and Self-Abidance:

 

 

638. If, instead of looking outward at objects,

 

you observe that looking,

 

all things now shine as I, the seer.

 

Perception of objects is mere illusion.

 

647. If you refrain from looking at this, that, or any other object,

 

then by that overpowering look into Absolute Being,

 

you become yourself the boundless space of pure Awareness,

 

which alone is real Being.

 

 

418. The only true and full Awareness is

 

Awareness of Awareness.

 

Until Awareness is Awareness of itself,

 

it knows no peace at all.

 

 

432. Is it not because you are yourself Awareness, that you now

 

perceive this universe?

 

If you observe Awareness steadily,

 

this Awareness as Teacher, will reveal the Truth.

 

 

 

If mind turned towards Awareness and concentrating on Awareness,

 

seeks the Self, the world made up of ether and other elements is

 

real, as all things are Awareness,

 

the one sole substance of true Being.

 

 

435. True natural Awareness, which does not go after alien objects,

 

is the Heart.

 

Since actionless Awareness shines as real Being,

 

its joy consists in concentration on itself.

 

 

742. In the Self, he stands firm fixed who dwells and truly

 

meditates on himself as pure awareness.

 

 

389. The method of Self-inquiry is:

 

to turn the outward going mind, back to its source,

 

the Heart, the Self-Awareness, and fix it forever there,

 

preventing the rising of the empty " I " .

 

....

 

1038. Awareness is not a quality of the Self. The Self is without

 

qualities.

 

Awareness is not an action of the Self. The Self does nothing.

 

The Self, our Being, IS Awareness.

 

 

1194. When one refrains from looking out and noting outward objects,

 

and instead abides within the Heart in Self-Awareness,

 

the ego disappears.

 

The pure silence that then shines forth is the goal of Knowledge.

 

 

--Muruganar

 

From the book

" The Garland of Guru's

(Sri Ramana Maharshi's) Sayings "

 

 

reposted from http://uarelove1.tripod.com/TURNING_INWARD.htm

 

Translated from the Tamil by Prof. K. Swaminathan. Muruganar was the

inspired poet laureate of Ramanasramam and his poetry in this book

embodies the most precise, systematic and authoritative exposition of

the Master's teachings. The Maharshi read and approved these verses

and even added twenty-eight of his own. Each verse represents a

finely polished pearl that fell from the Maharshi's lips. The

extensive Index and Table of Contents enhances its use as a practical

source of reference on the Maharshi's teachings.

 

 

http://www.ramana-maharshi.org/books.htm

[Guest guest]

personal comment: the (non) practice of watching awareness of

awareness which often happens by itself is a refreshing reminder of

being, existence, consciousness or whatever you call that (or That).

perhaps the identity shifting nondual poetry should come with the

warning that after reading these sayings we have to watch the

associated belief that serves our desire for permanance and the

desire for the so called enlightenment.

 

hur