Liberation is our nature

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Mukti or liberation is our nature. It is another

name for us. Our wanting mukti is a very funny

thing. It is like a man who is in the shade,

voluntarily leaving the shade, going into the sun,

feeling the severity of the heat there, making

great efforts to get back to the shade and then

rejoicing, " How sweet is the shade! I have reached

the shade at last! " We are all doing exactly the

same. We are not different from the reality. We

imagine we are different, that is we create the

bheda bhava [the feeling of difference] and then

undergo great sadhana [spiritual practices] to get

rid of the bheda bhava and realise the oneness. Why

imagine or create bheda bhava and then destroy it?

 

- Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

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" Be As You Are "

The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi

edited by David Godman

Arkana, 1985