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Help on the Quest for Self-realization-Reminders-33

 

Ignoring the non-Self

 

25 It is the desire to know something other than consciousness

that pushes one into ignorance and delusion.

 

26 To cleave, not to consciousness' form, but to that which is

foreign to it, that is the astonishing stupidity, which is the very

image of intoxication.

 

27 Rather than gaining peace by regarding consciousness as

reality, why do you fret over things that are foreign [to

consciousness], as if they are that reality?

 

28 You should know that the primal origin of peace is within

oneself, and not in the non-Self.

 

29 Unless thoughts about non-Self objects cease, the peace of

one's own authentic Self-nature will not be realized in the Heart.

 

30 Those deluded ones who do not forsake that which is alien

[to the Self] and who do not cleave to their consciousness' form

will become frenzied and be lost.

 

31 Though you may come to know in great detail the false

principles of the non-Self [anatma tattvas], it will be wasted

effort.

 

Question: Is it necessary for one who longs for release to enquire

into the nature of the categories [tattvas]?

 

Bhagavan: Just as one who wants to throw away garbage has no need to

analyze it and see what it is, so one who wants to know the Self has

no need to count the number of categories or enquire into their

characteristics; what he has to do is reject altogether the

categories that hide the Self. The world should be considered like a

dream.

 

32 Do not roam around, putting your attention on the non-Self.

Abide in the fullness that is your own real nature, which is the

bliss of peace.

 

Question: Is renunciation necessary for Self-realization?

 

Bhagavan: Renunciation and realization are the same. They are

different aspects of the same state. Giving up the non-Self is

renunciation. Inhering in the Self is jnana or Self-realization. One

is the negative and the other the positive aspect of the same,

single truth.

 

Question: What is awareness and how can one obtain and cultivate it?

 

Bhagavan: You are awareness. Awareness is another name for you.

Since you are awareness there is no need to obtain or cultivate it.

 

All that you have to do is to give up being aware of other things,

that is, of the not-Self. If one gives up being aware of them, then

pure awareness alone remains, and that is the Self.

 

33 Why, abandoning the Self, the supreme truth, do you dally

with that which is alien [to it].

 

34 Unless the desire for non-Self completely ceases, that

enduring reality will not be attained.

 

35 What can the mind, which knows only the non-Self, do to know

the nature of the Atma-swarupa (the real nature of one's own Self)?

 

Question: How to find the Atman (Self)?

 

Bhagavan: There is no investigation into the Atman. The

investigation can only be into the non-Self. Elimination of the non-

Self is alone possible. The Self, being always self-evident, will

shine forth of itself.

 

36 Do not wander about seeking the non-Self, but undertake the

task of merging with your own nature, jnana.

 

37 Those in whose hearts the light of Padam (Self) has

penetrated will not see the non-Self, the cause of misery.

 

NOTE: TAKEN FROM " PADAMALAI " , EDITED BY DAVID GODMAN, PAGES 233 TO

235

 

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