Sri Ramana Maharshi
Q. How is all-immanent God said to reside in daharakasa (Ether of the Heart)?
M. Do we not reside in one place? Do you not say that you are in your body? Similarly, God is said to reside in Hritpundarika (the heart-lotus). The heart-lotus is not a place. Some name is mentioned as the place of God because we think we are in the body. This kind of instruction is meant for those who can appreciate only relative knowledge.
Being immanent everywhere there is no particular place for God. Because we think we are in the body we also believe that we are born. However we do not think of the body; of God, or of method of realization in our deep slumber. Yet in our waking state we hold on to the body and think we are in it.
The Supreme Being is that from which the body is born, in which it lives and into which it resolves. We however think that we reside within the body. Hence such instruction is given. The instruction means: 'Look within.'
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