Sri Annamalai Swami
Q: To whom does this intensity to realize the Self arise? It has to arise to that "I" that ultimately has to disappear.
AS: Who is this "I"? It is neither the body nor the mind. If you remain as the Self, there is neither body nor mind. So what is this "I"? Enquire into it, and find out for yourself. When you see the rope, what happens to the snake? Nothing happens to it because there never was a snake. Similarly, when you remain as the Self, there is a knowing that this "I" never had any existence.
All is the Self. You are not separate from the Self. All is you. Your real state is the Self, and in that Self there is no body and no mind. This is the truth, and you know it being it. This 'I am the body' idea is wrong. This false idea must go and the conviction 'I am the Self' should come to the extent that it becomes constant.
At the moment this 'I am the body' idea seems very natural for you. You should work towards the point where 'I am the Self' becomes natural to you. It happens when the wrong idea of being the body goes, and when you stop believing it to be true, it vanishes as darkness vanishes when the sun appears.
This life is all a dream, a dream within a dream within a dream. We dream this world, we dream that we die and take birth in another body. And in this birth we dream that we have dreams. all kinds of pleasures and suffering alternate in these dreams, but a moment comes when waking up happens. In this moment, which we call realizing the self, there is the understanding that all the births, all the deaths, all the sufferings and all the pleasures were unreal dreams that have finally come to an end.
Everyone has experienced dreams within dreams. One may dream that one has woken up from a dream, but that waking up is still happening within a dream. Our whole lives are dreams. When this dream life ends and a new one begins, there is no knowledge that both dreams are happening in the underlying dream of samsara.
Bhagavan has instructed us in Who am I? to see the whole world as a dream. When realization comes, nothing will affect you because you will have the firm knowledge that all manifestation is an unreal dream.
All is the Self. You are not separate from the Self. All is you. Your real state is the Self, and in that Self there is no body and no mind. This is the truth, and you know it being it. This 'I am the body' idea is wrong. This false idea must go and the conviction 'I am the Self' should come to the extent that it becomes constant.
At the moment this 'I am the body' idea seems very natural for you. You should work towards the point where 'I am the Self' becomes natural to you. It happens when the wrong idea of being the body goes, and when you stop believing it to be true, it vanishes as darkness vanishes when the sun appears.
This life is all a dream, a dream within a dream within a dream. We dream this world, we dream that we die and take birth in another body. And in this birth we dream that we have dreams. all kinds of pleasures and suffering alternate in these dreams, but a moment comes when waking up happens. In this moment, which we call realizing the self, there is the understanding that all the births, all the deaths, all the sufferings and all the pleasures were unreal dreams that have finally come to an end.
Everyone has experienced dreams within dreams. One may dream that one has woken up from a dream, but that waking up is still happening within a dream. Our whole lives are dreams. When this dream life ends and a new one begins, there is no knowledge that both dreams are happening in the underlying dream of samsara.
Bhagavan has instructed us in Who am I? to see the whole world as a dream. When realization comes, nothing will affect you because you will have the firm knowledge that all manifestation is an unreal dream.
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