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Help on the Quest for Self-realization-Reminders-9

 

From Surging Joy

By Dr Sarada Nataragan

 

" The mind, O Arunachala, will not leave its wanderings through the

world. But if it beholds you, it will be silenced. Hence, reveal

your true beauty. " Only if we perceive the true beauty of

Arunachala, of the Self, will the mind cease to pursue other goals.

(15)…Only when thought clouds are dispensed with altogether will

there be the perennial sunshine of the Self.(17)…

 

The desire is but a thought in my mind. How can it hold on to me if

I do not hang on to it?...Desires will never leave us unless we

leave them. And leaving one or two is no solution either for there

are always others waiting to ensnare us.(18)…Tackling desires one by

one will get us nowhere. We must be convinced that joy does not lie

in that direction. Based on that conviction it is we who must root

out all conceptualization, mercilessly, relentlessly by questioning

the validity of the very one to whom these thoughts pertain…The pure

mind, the `mind' if it could be called that, shorn of boundaries, of

separate identity, would reflect the marvel of the Self in

infinitely joyous patterns.(19)

 

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