"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

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Samsara - A Hindrance?

Sri Ramana Maharshi

Samsara is only in your mind. The world does not speak out, saying, 'I am the world'. Otherwise, it must ever be there - not excluding your sleep. Since it is not in sleep it is impermanent. Being impermanent it has no stamina. Having no stamina it is easily subdued by the Self. The Self alone is permanent. Renunciation is non-identification of the Self with the non-Self. On the disappearance of ignorance the non-self ceases to exist. That is true renunciation.

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