Ramana Maharshi Disciple says to end misery is to stop research on World and God

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Sri Bhagavan teaches that the first and foremost need for us is to know

ourself, the first person.

 

From the stone-age to the modern space-age,man, who is filled with so many

questions and doubts,has been using his intellect to make research only upon

second and third person objects.Man’s,questions and doubts are only about

the world and God. Why? Because no man ever raises any questions or doubts

about himself, that is, about his knowledge (chit) of his own existence

(sat), “Do I exist or not?” Since all doubts rise only about the knowledge

which man has of the existence of the world and God, all this time he has

been eagerly making research only about these other two entities and not

about himself.

 

What benefits has mankind derived from the progress in knowledge which it

has made by dividing itself into two large sections and by making research

in the above said two broad directions? The human intellect which started to

make research on the world has now discovered a wonderful material science

which can split even atoms, the fundamental particles of which this world is

said to be composed off. The discoveries made by scientific research are

innumerable.But when we consider the unlimited number of objects in the

world such as the planets and stars in space which still remain unknown to

us, it is clear that there can be no end to scientific research and that the

human intellect can never see the other shore of the vast ocean of

scientific knowledge. By discovering innumerable powers hidden in the nature

such as the power of magnetism, fire, water, steam, wind, petrol,

electricity and atomic energy, and by inventing all kinds of contrivances,

machines and weapons to make use of these powers, scientific research has

resulted in terrible great wars which have made the whole world tremble and

which have caused destruction and bloodshed on the hitherto unprecedented

scale.

 

And what about the research made in the other one of the above said two

directions? The human intellect which started to make research on God has

produced many religions. Each one of these religions has framed and espoused

many different beliefs and dogmas of its own, they have divided the people

amongst themselves into many different sects, and they have tried to

propagate and make all people follow their own dogmas. Since ignorant people

are unable to comprehend the common truth which underlies all religions,

they become victims to religious fanatism and, due to their attachment to

their own religion, they condemn all other religions, they try to convert

people of other religions to their own religion, they even stoop to the

level of becoming entangled in religious wars, and thus, with the help of

the weapons invented by science, they also result in human bloodshed. The

history of the world itself bears testimony to this fact.

 

Should we not try at least now to put an end to all the evils and miseries

which have befallen mankind as a result of our “rising” and using our

intellects to make research upon the world and God, which are second and

third person objects?

 

Source: The Path of Sri Ramana PART TWO By Sri Sadhu Om

 

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Om namo Bhagavate Sri Ramanaya

Prasanth Jalasutram