Saddhu Arunachala (A.W. Chadwick) - self-enquiry.

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The same truth is behind all. What then is thesolution, seeing that everything has no permanency

and is only an appearance? This, Bhagavan taught,

also applies to our bodies and even our egos, which

by us are thought to be all-important, but now we findthem discarded as fleeting shadows.There is, however, no need to be despondent,for

behind even the most fleeting appearance there

must be something to appear. We jump aside

because we think we see a snake only afterwards

to discover that it is but a rope. But even though

the snake is quite unreal the rope is there.

So the obvious solution to our riddle is to search

out and find the permanent behind the impermanent.This was Bhagavan's solution and he taught ushow to do it by his method of Though the ego changes minute by minute,though

we are entirely different people through every

stage of our life, there has always been for us

an "I". Now, this is obviously not the ego,

for we have already seen that the ego changes

every second, while the "I" has been there all

along as the observer. Let us trace it to its

source. And through this method of self-enquiry

we shall eventually realize the Self.--------A Saddhu's Reminiscensesof Ramana MaharshiBy Saddhu Arunachala (A.W. Chadwick)---------