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Thursday, February 4, 2010
Lady's necklace
Sri Ramana Maharshi:
You are already That. Time and space cannot affect the Self. They are in you. So also all that you see around you is in you.
A lady had a precious necklace around her neck. Once, in her excitement, she forgot about it and thought that the necklace was lost. She became anxious and looked for it in her home but could not find it. She asked her friends if they knew anything about it but they did not. At last a kind friend of hers told her to feel the necklace around her neck. She found that it had all along been there and she was happy. She felt that she had recovered a lost jewel.
Now did she lose it at all? It was all along around her neck. But judge her feelings. She was happy as if she recovered a lost jewel. Similarly with us, we imagine that we will realize that Self some time, whereas we are ne'er anything but the Self.
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