"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, March 9, 2011

Why is Self not recognized like other objects?

Sri Ramana Maharshi

Whenever particular objects are known, it is the Self which has known itself in the form of these objects. For what is known as knowledge or awareness is only the potency of the Self (Atma sakti). The Self is the only sentient object. There is nothing apart from the Self. If there are such objects, they are all insentient and therefore cannot either know themselves or mutually know one another. It is because the Self does not know its true nature in this manner that it seems to be immersed and struggling in the ocean of birth (or death) in the form of individual soul.

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