Be As You Are: The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi (Compass)

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When this expansion comes, one does not feel that one is running away from home, instead one drops from it like a ripe fruit from a tree. It cannot deny the reality of the dream world while it is dreaming and it cannot deny the reality of the waking world while it is awake. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Similarly, my existence is like the space; though this body speaks like the radio, there is no one inside as a doer. You are the screen, the Self has created the ego, the ego has its accretions of thoughts which are displayed as the world, the trees and the plants of which you are asking.

A careful translation with notes is available in English as 'The Path of Sri Ramana, Part One' by Sri Sadhu Om, one of the direct disciples of Ramana.Self-enquiry should not be regarded as a meditation practice that takes place at certain hours and in certain positions; it should continue throughout one’s waking hours, irrespective of what one is doing. That they all may be one; as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that you have sent me. Although during deep sleep and other states there is no feeling of the ego, that Self remains attributeless, and continues to shine of itself. If you can use the answer to these questions to transport you to the place from where the answer is true for you, you will know it.

Know that the eradication of the identification with the body is charity, spiritual austerity and ritual sacrifice; it is virtue, divine union and devotion; it is heaven, wealth, peace and truth; it is grace; it is the state of divine silence; it is the deathless death; it is jnana, renunciation, final liberation and bliss. I'm an ex-marketing executive turned self-education entrepreneur after an existential crisis in 2015. When the mind perishes in the supreme consciousness of one’s own Self, know that all the various powers beginning with the power of liking (and including the power of doing and the power of knowing) will entirely disappear, being found to be an unreal imagination appearing in one’s own form of consciousness. note 1] The root *ēt-men (breath) is cognate with Old English "æþm", Greek "asthma", German "Atem": "atmen" (to breathe).True surrender is love of God for the sake of love and nothing else, not even for the sake of liberation. Question: When I do this and cling to my self, that is, the ‘I’-thought, other thoughts come and go, but I say to myself ‘Who am I? BAYA can reel you back into the basics (good for keeping 'beginners mind') as well as give you the structure needed to maintain an honest self inquiry. Surrender can never be regarded as complete so long as the devotee wants this or that from the Lord.

If you know that, the three states will not trouble you, just as the pictures which appear on the screen do not stick to it. Sri Ramana saw no conflict between working and self-enquiry and he maintained that with a little practice it could be done under any circumstances.

In the natural sphere, as the parts of a whole organism are mere and more developed, and increasingly resemble individualities in their separation, they are in the same proportion dependent on the whole for the life that is in them. Even if you don't agree with all of Ramana's methods and ways of expressing nondual knowledge, there's no denying that this is an absolute classic in the field. But the ajnani is unable to comprehend this, because for him the standard of reality is the waking state, whereas for the jnani the standard of reality is reality itself.