The Unreality of the World

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Once again AHAM's posting is relevent to our thread on the Unreality of the

World.

 

 

--- On Wed, 17/9/08, AHAM - Association of Happiness for All Mankind

<ahamcntr wrote:

 

> AHAM - Association of Happiness for All Mankind <ahamcntr

> Daily Message for Transforming the Mind #2307

> " Alan Jacobs " <alanadamsjacobs

> Wednesday, 17 September, 2008, 10:13 PM

> Dear Alan Jacobs,

>

> This is Message #2307 for transforming the mind and

> realizing the true

> nature of the Self, or real God, based on the Teachings of

> Bhagavan Sri

> Ramana Maharshi. Please forward it to an interested or

> discerning friend:

> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

>

> Section 1. The Truth About the World

>

> Verse 9. Revelation does describe creation in diverse ways

> (in different

> places); that must not be understood literally; the purpose

> of these

> (passages) is to indicate that which is the Source of the

> world and the

> (individual) soul, not to enjoin a belief in the fact of

> creation.

>

> (1) Revelation always begins by making concessions to

> ignorance treating

> the superstitious notions of the novice as tentatively

> true; but it ends by

> denying them all. The truth is, as explicitly declared by

> the Sage, that

> Self-Realization is not a process of learning something new

> but of

> unlearning--of eliminating all the false knowledge that the

> ego mind has

> gathered in the course of numerous lives.

>

> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

> These quotations are from the book,

> Guru--Ramana--Vachana--Mala by " Who, "

> published by Sri Ramanasramam.