All talk of surrender is like pinching brown sugar from a brown sugar image of Lord Ganesha and offering it as neivedya to the same Lord Ganesha. You say you offer your body, soul and all possessions to God. Were they yours that you could offer them? At best, you can only say, "I falsely imagined till now that all these which are yours were mine. Now I realize that they are yours. I shall no more act as if they are mine." This knowledge that there is nothing but God or Self exists, is jnana. Thus there is no difference between bhakti and jnana. Bhakti is jnana mata or the mother of jnana.
- Adi Shankara
- Ashtavakra Gita
- Avadhoota Gita
- Be as you are
- Consciousness and the Absolute
- Crumbs From His Table
- Day by Day with Bhagavan
- Ellam Ondre
- Final Talks
- Flashes From Sri Ramakrishna
- I am That
- Kaivalya Navaneetam
- Letters from Sri Ramanasramam
- Living By The Words Of Bhagavan
- Maharshi's Gospel
- Master Of Self-Realization
- Nectar of immortality
- No Mind - I am the Self
- Pointers from NM
- Prior to Consciousness
- Ramana Maharshi
- Ribhu Gita
- Seeds of Consciousness
- Shirdi Saibaba
- Spiritual Instruction
- Talks with RM
- Teachings of RM in His Own Words
- The Experience of Nothingness
- Thus Spake Sri Rama
- Thus Spake The Holy Mother
- Thus Spake The Vedas
- Tripura Rahasya
- Upanishads
- VichArasangraham
- Vidya Gita
- Who Am I?
- Yoga Vasishtha
"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
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