THE METHOD OF SELF-ENQUIRY AS SUGGESTED BY A WESTERNER

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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.

 

THE METHOD OF SELF-ENQUIRY AS SUGGESTED BY A WESTERNER: The human

mind has been so engrossed with the task of supplying its intellect

and body with all manner of selfish indulgences that it has never had

time to get acquainted with the real You. You have been so interested

in and affected by the pleasure and sufferings of your body that you

have almost come to believe You are your intellect and body and you

have consequently nearly forgotten me, your Divine Self. You cannot

awaken to this fact until you get away from the consciousness of this

body and intellect, which so long have held you enslaved. You must

feel Me within, before you can know I am there.

Let whatever impressions that come to your mind enter at will – with

or without effort or interference on your part. Note carefully their

import. Then, when somewhat of their vital significance begins to

dawn upon your consciousness, speak the words – I am God – slowly,

imperatively, to every cell of your body, to every faculty of your

mind, with all the conscious power you possess. As these words

reverberate through the caverns of your now empty being, you will

feel the swell of a wondrous strange breath filling you to the

extreme of your mortal members, causing your senses almost to burst

with the ecstasy of it.

There will come surge after surge of a mighty, irresistible power

rising within you, lifting you almost off the earth; then, you will

feel within the Glory, the Holiness, the majesty of My presence.

Then the great realisation will come that you have found the Kingdom

of God, that you are walking in it, that it is right here on earth,

that it is manifesting all around you, that you have been living in

it all the time, you just did not know it. (Source: Joseph Benner

author of The Impersonal Life.)