What is there to realize?

[Guest guest]

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It is false to speak of realization. What is

there to realize? The real is as it is always.

We are not creating anything new or achieving

something which we did not have before. The

illustration given in books is this. We dig a

well and create a huge pit. The space in the

pit or well has not been created by us. We

have just removed the earth which was filling

the space there. The space was there then and

is also there now. Similarly we have simply

to throw out all the age-long samskaras [innate

tendencies] which are inside us. When all of

them have been given up, the Self will shine alone.

 

- Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

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" Be As You Are "

The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi

Edited by David Godman

Arkana, 1985