Sri Annamalai Swami
Q: You say that I am the Self, and that I don't even need to look inwards to discover it. I think that grace is needed to experience the truth of this statement since effort of any kind seems to be counterproductive.
AS: Grace is always present, always available, but for it to be effective, one must be in a state to receive it and make full use of it. If you want to take a full cup of water from a lake, you have fully to immerse the cup first. If you want to fill your mind with grace, submerge it fully in the Self. In that place the grace will manifest in you as peace and happiness.
Q: Does the mind die gradually or suddenly?
AS: One answer is: 'When the sun comes up, does darkness disappear suddenly or gradually?'
Bhagavan, speaking on this topic, once remarked: 'Someone mistakes a rope hanging in the darkness for a snake. He then asks how many years it will take for the snake to die.'
This is a better answer: If the mind does not exist, it cannot die either quickly or slowly.
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