THE WAY TO KNOW THE REALITY

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THE WAY TO KNOW THE REALITY

 

Although the Real is not so easily recognizable, yet it is certainly

knowable. `How to know it?' It is pure awareness, it dwells in the

Heart, nay, it is the Heart itself. [Not the physical heart but the

spiritual heart, on the right side of the chest.] It is the source of

all thoughts, itself being free from thoughts, and so forth. Reality

is not only consciousness, but also changeless. Thoughts emanate from

it, and like shadows cast on it, obstruct our view of it. To have an

immediate understanding of it we have to part from all thoughts and

remain – thought-free. The vichara, or enquiry, is the easiest method

by which one can attain this objective of jnana, or knowledge of the

absolute reality which is one's own Self.(Source: Forty Verses on

Reality by Ramana Maharshi.)

 

prof laxmi narain (prof_narain)

Source and courtesy: Sri Ramana Kendram, Hyderabad

This article was published in Sri Ramana Jyothi,

monthly magazine of the Kendram.