From Day by day with Bhagavan

July 20, 2007

Question: Should I go on asking, " Who am I? " without answering? Who

asks whom? Which bhavana (attitude) should be in the mind at the time

of enquiry? What is " I, " the Self or the ego?

Answer: In the enquiry, " Who am I? " " I " is the ego. The question

really means, what is the source or origin of this ego?

You need not have any bhavana in the mind. All that is required is

you must give up the bhavana that you are the body, of such and such

a description, with such and such a name, etc. There is no need to

have a bhavana about your real nature. It exists as it always does;

it is real and no bhavana.

Question 2: I cannot be always engaged in this enquiry, for I have

got other work to do; and when I do such work I forget this quest.

Answer: When you do other work, do you cease to exist ?

You always exist, do you not?

Question 3: Without the sense of doership, the sense " I am doing, "

work cannot be done.

Answer: It can be done. Work without attachment. Work will go on even

better than when you worked with the sense that you were the doer.

Question 4: I don't understand what work I should do and what not.

Answer: Don't bother. What is destined as work to be done by you in

this life will be done by you, whether you like it or not.

Question 5: Why should I try to realize ? I will emerge from this

state, as I wake up from a dream. We do not make an attempt to get

out of a dream during sleep.

Answer: " In a dream, you have no inkling that it is a dream, and so

you don't have the duty of trying to get out of it by your effort

But in this life you have some intuition, by your sleep experience,

by reading and hearing, that this life is something like a dream, and

hence the duty is cast on you to make an effort and get out of it.

However, who wants you to realize the Self, if you don't want it ? If

you prefer to be in the dream, stay as you are. "

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Not two,

Richard

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