Frank H. Humphreys - #6

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ATTAINMENT

 

One gets no reward for Attainment. When one understands

the idea, one does not want a reward. As Krishna said: "Ye

have the right to work, but not the right to the fruit thereof."

Perfect attainment is simply worship, and worship is attainment.

 

If you sit down and realise that you only think by virtue of the

One Life, and that the mind, animated by the One Life into the

act of thinking is a part of the whole which is God, then you

argue your mind out of existence as a separate entity, and the

result is that mind and body physically (so to speak) disappear

and the only thing that remains is Being, which is at once existence

and non-existence, and not explainable in words or ideas.

 

A Master cannot help being perpetually in this state, with

only this difference, that in some, to us, incomprehensible way,

he can use mind and body and intellect too, without falling

back into the delusion of having a separate consciousness.

 

There is no explaining these things. As Vivekananda said:

"You do not help the world at all by wishing or trying to do

so, but only by helping yourself."

 

 

 

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RELIGION

 

It is useless to speculate, useless to try and take mental or

intellectual grasp and work from that. That is only religion -

a code for children and for social life - a guide to help us to

avoid shocks, so that the inside fire may burn up the nonsense

in us and teach us, a little sooner, commonsense - i.e. a

knowledge of the delusion of separateness.

 

 

Religion, whether it be Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism,

Theosophy, Philosophy, or any other kind of “ism” or “sophy”

or system can only take us to the one point where all religions

meet and no further.

 

 

 

....to be continued

 

 

from

GLIMPSES OF THE LIFE AND TEACHINGS OF BHAGAVAN SRI RAMANA MAHARSHI

As described by FRANK H. HUMPHREYS