"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

Sunday, April 8, 2012

Reality is Within

Sri Ramana Maharshi

Q. What about bringing down divine consciousness from above?

As if the same is not already in the Heart? "O Arjuna, I am in the expanse of the Heart," says Sri Krishna. "He who is in the Sun, is also in this man.", says a mantra in the Upanishads. "The Kingdom of God is within.", says the Bible. All are thus agreed that God is within. What is to be brought down? From where? Who is to bring what, and why?

Realization is only the removal of obstacles to the recognition of the eternal, immanent Reality. Reality is. It need not be taken from place to place.


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