Sri Ramana Maharshi
- To see wrong in another is one's own wrong. The discrimination between right and wrong is the origin of the sin. One's own sin is reflected outside and the individual in ignorance superimpose it on another. The best course for one is to reach the state in which such discrimination does not arise. Do you see wrong or right in your sleep? Did you not exist in sleep? Be asleep even in the wakeful state, abide as the Self and remain uncontaminated by what goes on around. Your silence will have more effect than your words and deeds. That is the development of willpower. Then the world becomes the Kingdom of Heaven, which is within you.
- What is realization? Is it to see God with four hands, bearing conch, wheel, club etc.? Even if God should appear in that form, how is the disciple's ignorance wiped out? Such appearance is phenomenal and illusory. All perceptions are indirect or secondary knowledge. The truth must be eternal realization. The direct perception is ever present Existence. There must be a seer. The present superimposition of the body as 'I' is so deep-rooted that the vision before the eyes is considered pratyaksha but not the seer himself. The seer alone is real and eternal. Abiding in the Self and Being the Self and not seeing the Self is realization.
Thus Spake Ramana
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