Ramana Maharshi says effortless and choiceless awareness is reached only after deliberate meditation

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A young man from Colombo asked Bhagavan,

 

“J. Krishnamurti teaches the method of effortless and choiceless awareness

as distinct from that of deliberate concentration.Would Sri Bhagavan be

pleased to explain how best to practise meditation and what form the object

of meditation should take?”

 

Bhagavan: Effortless and choiceless awareness is our real nature. If we can

attain it or be in that state, it is all right. But one cannot reach it

without effort, the effort of deliberate meditation. All the age-long

vasanas carry the mind outward and turn it to external objects. All such

thoughts have to be given up and the mind turned inward. For that, effort is

necessary for most people. Of course everybody, every book says, “Be quiet

or still”. But it is not easy. That is why all this effort is necessary.

Even if we find one who has at once achieved the mauna or Supreme state,you

may take it that the effort necessary has already been finished in a

previous life. So that, effortless and choiceless awareness is reached only

after deliberate meditation. That meditation can take any form which appeals

to you best. See what helps you to keep away all other thoughts and adopt

that method for your meditation.

 

Source: DAY BY DAY WITH BHAGAVAN From the Diary of A. DEVARAJA MUDALIAR

 

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