"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, June 27, 2012

Sleep & Wakefulness

Sri Ramana Maharshi

The one then in sleep is also now awake. There was happiness in sleep; but misery in wakefulness. There was no 'I' - thought in sleep; but it is now, while awake. The state of happiness and of no 'I'-thought in sleep is without effort. The aim should be to bring about that state even now. That requires effort. 


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That in whom reside all beings and who resides in all beings,
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