"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, December 24, 2011

Imperfection In Perfection?

Sri Ramana Maharshi

 Q. Why is there imperfection in Perfection? That is, how did the Absolute become relative?

For whom is this relativity? For whom is this imperfection? The Absolute is not imperfect and cannot ask. The insentient cannot ask the question. Between the two something has risen up which raises these questions and which feels this doubt. Who is it? Is it the one who has now arisen? Or is it the one who is eternal? 

Being perfect, why do you feel yourself imperfect? Such is the teaching of all religions. Whatever maybe the experiences, the experiencer is one and the same.

'I' is purana -  perfection. There is no diversity in sleep. That indicates perfection.

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सर्वभूताधिवासं यद्भूतेषु च वसत्यपि।
सर्वानुग्राहकत्वेन तद्स्म्यहं वासुदेवः॥

That in whom reside all beings and who resides in all beings,
who is the giver of grace to all, the Supreme Soul of the universe, the limitless being:
I AM THAT. -- Amritabindu Upanishad