"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

Thursday, June 9, 2011

How do saints help?

Sri Ramana Maharshi

Realization of the Self is the greatest help that can be rendered to humanity. Therefore, the saints are said to be helpful, though they remain in forests. But it should not be forgotten that solitude is not in forests only. It can be had even in towns, in the thick of worldly occupations.

The Self alone is the Reality; the world and the rest of it are not. The realized being does not see the world as different from himself. 

A saint helps the whole of humanity, unknown to the latter.

Q. Would it not be better if he mixed with others?

There are no others to mix with. The Self is the one and only Reality.

Please read this post too on Solitude.

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