"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

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Upadesha

Sri Ramana Maharshi

M: The best is heart to heart speech and heart to heart hearing. That is the best upadesha.

V: Is not guidance from Guru necessary?

M: Are you apart from Guru?

V: Is proximity helpful?

M: Do you mean physical proximity? What is the good of it? The mind alone matters. The mind must be contacted.

V: Lord, how can the grip of the ego be slackened?

M: By not adding new vasanas to it.

V: Any amount of japa has not slackened the grip!

M: How so? It will duly slacken and vanish.

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