"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, June 23, 2013

Thus Spake Ramana

Sri Ramana Maharshi

The One Self, the sole Reality, alone exists eternally. When even the ancient teacher, Dakshinamurti, revealed It through speechless eloquence, who else could have conveyed It by speech?

Reality is at once being and consciousness. To know That is to be That in the Heart, transcending thought. Absolute surrender to the Supreme Lord, whereby the "I" and the "mine" are destroyed, is the one means to realize immortality. The Supreme Being, the one ultimate cause of the universe manifests Himself as many which do not exist apart from Him. To destroy the ego and be as the Self, is the supreme method of attainment.

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सर्वानुग्राहकत्वेन तद्स्म्यहं वासुदेवः॥

That in whom reside all beings and who resides in all beings,
who is the giver of grace to all, the Supreme Soul of the universe, the limitless being:
I AM THAT. -- Amritabindu Upanishad