ramana - samadhi - realization .

[Guest guest]

D.: Is there thought in Samadhi? Or is

 

there not?

 

M: There will only be the feeling 'I

 

AM' and no other thoughts.

 

D.: Is not ' I am' a thought?

 

M: The ego less 'I AM' is not thought.

 

It is REALISATION. The meaning or

 

significance of 'I' is God. The

 

experience of 'I AM' is to Be Still.

 

 

 

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D.: In my meditation a blank

 

interposes; I see no figure.

 

M: Of course not.

 

D.: What about the blank?

 

M: WHO SEES THE BLANK? YOU MUST BE

 

THERE. There is consciousness

 

witnessing the blank.

 

D.: Does it mean that I must go deeper

 

and deeper?

 

U: Yes. THERE IS NO MOMENT WHEN YOU

 

ARE NOT.

 

 

 

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[Guest guest]

Yes. THERE IS NO MOMENT WHEN YOU

>

> ARE NOT.

 

 

" Selves " ....just love to hear stuff like that.....then they go back to

sleep....on a full stomach.

 

 

 

toombaru

[Guest guest]

RAMANA ON RELIGION

 

 

 

D.: Bhagavan always speaks from the

 

highest standpoint.

 

 

 

Sri Bhagavan (with a smile): People

 

would not understand the simple and

 

bare truth - the truth of their every

 

day, ever-present and eternal

 

experience. That Truth is that of the

 

Self.

 

 

 

IS THERE ANYONE NOT AWARE OF THE SELF?

 

 

 

They would not even like to hear it

 

(the Self), whereas they are eager to

 

know what lies beyond - heaven, hell,

 

reincarnation. Because they love

 

mystery and not the bare truth,

 

religions pamper them - only to bring

 

them round to the Self.

 

 

 

.......

 

 

 

RAMANA ON MIND

 

 

 

D.: How to search for the mind then?

 

 

 

M: The mind is only a bundle of

 

thoughts. The thoughts have their root

 

in the 'I-thought'.

 

 

 

He quoted; " Whoever

 

investigates the origin of the 'I-

 

thought', for him the ego perishes.

 

This is the true investigation. "

 

 

 

The true " I " is then found shining by

 

itself.

 

 

 

D.: This 'I-thought' rises from me.

 

But I do not know the Self.

 

 

 

M: All these are only mental concepts.

 

You are now identifying yourself with a

 

wrong 'I', which is the 'I-thought'.

 

 

 

THIS 'I-THOUGHT' RISES AND SINKS,

 

WHEREAS THE TRUE SIGNIFICANCE OF 'I' IS

 

BEYOND BOTH.

 

 

 

THERE CANNOT BE A BREAK IN YOUR BEING.

 

 

 

You, who slept, are also now awake.

 

There was not unhappiness in your deep

 

sleep. Whereas it , exists now. What is

 

it that has happened now so that this

 

difference is experienced? There was no

 

'I-thought' in your sleep, whereas it

 

is present now. The true 'I' is not

 

apparent and the false 'I' is parading

 

itself. This false 'I' is the obstacle

 

to your right knowledge.

 

 

 

FIND OUT WHEREFROM THIS FALSE 'I' ARISES.

 

Then it will disappear. You will 'be only

 

what you are - i.e., absolute Being.

 

 

 

 

 

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