Crumbs from His Table - Self-realization, 6

[Guest guest]

D. Can I go on thinking " I am God " ? Is that right practice?

 

 

Bhagavan:

 

Why think that? In fact you are God. But who goes on thinking

or saying " I am a man " , " I am a man " ? If any contrary thought,

for instance, that one was a beast had to be put down, then

of course you might say " I am a man. " To the extent of crushing

down the wrong notion that one is this or that, according to one's

erroneous fancies, to that extent the idea that he is not these

but God or Self, may be indulged in, as a matter of practice but

when practice is over, the result is not any thought at all

(such as " I am God " ) but mere Self-realization.

That is beyond conceptual thought.

 

 

~~~ CRUMBS FROM HIS TABLE

By Ramanananda Swarnagiri

Fourth Edition, 1969