"The very first step in understanding what this is all about is giving up the concept of an active, volitional 'I' as a separate entity and accepting the passive role of perceiving and functioning as a process." - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Sunday, January 10, 2010

I feel unhappy when I'm not in your presence


Sri Ramana Maharshi:

Can the feeling in this place be bliss? When you leave this place you say you are unhappy. Therefore this peace is not permanent, it is mixed with unhappiness which is felt in another place. Therefore you cannot find bliss in places and in periods of time. It must be permanent in order that it may be useful. It is your own being which is permanent. Be the self and that is bliss. You are always that.

Unless you exist you cannot ask questions. So you must admit your own existence. That existence is the Self. It is always realized. Therefore the effort to realize results only in realizing your present mistake - that you have not realized your Self. There is no fresh Self Realization. The Self becomes revealed.

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