The Source of Everything is One´s Own Self.

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Someone inquired of Bhagavan : " People talk on Vaikunta,

Kailasa, Indraloka, Chandraloka, etc. Do they really exist ? "

 

Bhagavan replied:

" Certainly. You can rest assured that they all exist.

There also a Swami like me will be found seated,

and disciples like this also be seated around.

They will ask something and he will say something in reply.

Everything will be more or less like this.

 

What of that ? If one sees Chandraloka, he will ask for

Indraloka, and after Indraloka, Vaikunta and after Vaikunta,

Kailasa, and then this and that, and the mind goes on

wandering. Where is shanti ? If shanti is required,

the one correct method of securing it is by self-enquiry

and through self-enquiry self-realization is possible.

 

If one realizes the Self, one can see all these worlds

within one's self. The source of everything is one's own self,

and if one realizes the Self, One will not find anything

different from the Self. Then this doubt will not arise.

 

There may or may not be a Vaikunta or a Kailasa

but it is a fact that you are here, isn't it ?

How are you here ? Where are you ?

After you know about these things, you can think of all

these worlds.

 

- Letters from Sri Ramanasramam