'SAHAJA-SAMADHI' (PEACE-INHERENT) is the natural state of 'BEING'-
the 'zero' station- transcendental and beyond 'BECOMING'.
~SWAATHMAARAAMAN
THE NATURAL STATE
Pilgrim: You have said here that you know no such period of sAdhanA; you never performed japA or chanted any mantrA; you were in your natural state. I have not done any sAdhanA worth the name. Can I say that I am in my natural state? But my natural state is no different from yours. Does that mean that the natural state of ordinary persons and realized persons are different?
Sri Bhagavan: What you think to be your natural state is your unnatural state. (And this was my second chock that shook me from the slumber of my pet notions). With your intellect and imagination you have constructed the castles of your pet notions and desires. But do you know who has built up these castles, who is the culprit, the real owner? The 'I' who really owns them and the 'I' of your conception are quite different. Is it necessary that you put forth some effort to come into the 'I' who owns these, the 'I' behind all states?
Would you have to walk any distance to walk into the 'I' that is always you? This is what I mean by saying that no sAdhanA is required for Self-Realization. All that is required is to refrain from doing anything, by remaining still and being simply what one really is. You have only to de-hypnotize yourself of your unnatural state. Then you have asked whether there is any difference between the natural state of ordinary persons and realized persons. What have they realized? They can realize only that is real in them. What is real in them is real in you also. SO where is the difference?
Even then, some may ask, where is the conviction that one's Self is sAkshAt all right, that no sAdhanA is required at all for Self-Realization? Well, do you need anybody to come and convince you that you are seated before me and talking to me? You know for certain that you are seated here and talking to me.
When we read a book, for instance, we read the letters on the page. But can we say that we are reading only the letters? Without the page of the book where are the letters. Again we say that we are seeing the picture projected on a canvas. No doubt we are seeing the picture, but without the canvas where is the picture?
You can doubt and question everything but how can you doubt the 'I' that questions everything. That 'I' is your natural state. Would you have to labor or do sAdhanA to come into this natural state?
~RAMANA MAHARSHI
~SWAATHMAARAAMAN
THE NATURAL STATE
Pilgrim: You have said here that you know no such period of sAdhanA; you never performed japA or chanted any mantrA; you were in your natural state. I have not done any sAdhanA worth the name. Can I say that I am in my natural state? But my natural state is no different from yours. Does that mean that the natural state of ordinary persons and realized persons are different?
Sri Bhagavan: What you think to be your natural state is your unnatural state. (And this was my second chock that shook me from the slumber of my pet notions). With your intellect and imagination you have constructed the castles of your pet notions and desires. But do you know who has built up these castles, who is the culprit, the real owner? The 'I' who really owns them and the 'I' of your conception are quite different. Is it necessary that you put forth some effort to come into the 'I' who owns these, the 'I' behind all states?
Would you have to walk any distance to walk into the 'I' that is always you? This is what I mean by saying that no sAdhanA is required for Self-Realization. All that is required is to refrain from doing anything, by remaining still and being simply what one really is. You have only to de-hypnotize yourself of your unnatural state. Then you have asked whether there is any difference between the natural state of ordinary persons and realized persons. What have they realized? They can realize only that is real in them. What is real in them is real in you also. SO where is the difference?
Even then, some may ask, where is the conviction that one's Self is sAkshAt all right, that no sAdhanA is required at all for Self-Realization? Well, do you need anybody to come and convince you that you are seated before me and talking to me? You know for certain that you are seated here and talking to me.
When we read a book, for instance, we read the letters on the page. But can we say that we are reading only the letters? Without the page of the book where are the letters. Again we say that we are seeing the picture projected on a canvas. No doubt we are seeing the picture, but without the canvas where is the picture?
You can doubt and question everything but how can you doubt the 'I' that questions everything. That 'I' is your natural state. Would you have to labor or do sAdhanA to come into this natural state?
~RAMANA MAHARSHI
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