Ramana on - Truth - Religions - God - end.

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----- RAMANA ON TRUTH -----

 

 

 

D.: This method seems to be quicker

 

than the usual one of cultivating

 

qualities alleged necessary for

 

salvation (sadhana chatushtaya )?

 

 

 

M : Yes. All bad qualities centre

 

round the ego. When the ego is gone

 

Realization results by itself. There

 

are neither good nor bad qualities in

 

the Self. The Self is free from all

 

qualities. Qualities pertain to the

 

mind only. It is beyond quality. If

 

there is unity, there will also be

 

duality. The numeral one gives rise to

 

other numbers.

 

 

 

THE TRUTH IS NEITHER ONE NOR TWO. IT

 

IS AS IT IS.

 

 

 

 

 

----- RAMANA ON RELIGION -----

 

 

 

D.: For whom are all the sastras then?

 

They cannot be for the real 'I'. They

 

must be for the unreal 'I',. The real

 

one does not require them. It is

 

strange that the unreal should have so

 

many sastras for him.

 

 

 

M: YES. QUITE SO. Death is only a

 

thought and nothing more. He who thinks

 

raises troubles. Let the thinker tell

 

us what happens to him in death. The

 

real 'I', is silent. One should not

 

think' I am this I am not that'. To say

 

'this or that' is wrong. They are also

 

limitations.

 

 

 

ONLY 'I AM' IS THE TRUTH.

 

 

 

Silence is 'I'.

 

 

 

If one thinks 'I am this', another

 

thinks 'I am this' and so on, there is

 

a clash of thoughts and so many

 

religions are the result. The truth

 

remains as it is, not affected by any

 

statements, conflicting or otherwise.

 

 

 

 

 

----- RAMANA ON GOD -----

 

 

 

M: SOUL AND GOD ARE ONLY MENTAL

 

CONCEPTIONS.

 

 

 

D.: Is God only a mental conception?

 

M: YES. Do you think of God in sleep?

 

 

 

D.: Meditation of the God of Immanence

 

is hard to understand.

 

M: Leave God alone. Hold your Self. .

 

 

 

D.: How is God to be seen?

 

M: Within. If the mind is turned

 

inward God manifests as inner

 

consciousness.

 

 

 

D.: God is in all- in all the objects

 

we see around us. They say we should

 

see God in all of them.

 

M: God is in all and in the seer.

 

Where else can God be seen? He cannot

 

be found outside. He should be felt

 

within. To see the objects, mind is

 

necessary. To Conceive God In Them Is A

 

Mental Operation. But that is not real.

 

 

 

THE CONSCIOUSNESS WITHIN, PURGED OF

 

THE MIND, IS FELT AS GOD.