"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

Saturday, August 13, 2011

It is in the mind!

Sri Ramana Maharshi


A visitor asked: The path of realization is difficult. Worldly matters are easy of understanding, whereas this is not.

M. Yes. The mind always seeks external knowledge, leaving aside its own inner knowledge.


V. A stay of one day with Sri Bhagavan is good; a stay of two days is better; of three days, more so, and so on. If it is a continuous stay here, how shall we get on with our mundane work?

M. Stay here or elsewhere must be understood to be the same and to have the same effect.

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