"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, October 7, 2012

To Love or Hate?

Sri Ramana Maharshi

If a person whom we loved dies, grief results. Shall we avoid such grief by either loving all alike or by not loving all?
If one dies, it results in grief for the one who lives. The way to get rid of grief is not to live. Kill the one who grieves. Who will remain then to suffer? The ego must die. That is the only way. The two alternatives amount to the same state. When all have become the one Self, who is there to be loved or hated?


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