Monday, November 24, 2014
Saturday, November 22, 2014
*WORDS OF WISDOM* - Ramana Maharshi
"If the root cause of desire is discovered, there won’t be any bondage. That root is the Self. If one knows one’s Self, whatever desires may come or go, they will not worry one,” said Bhagavan.
(From 'Letters from Sri Ramanasramam' 166)
Sunday, November 16, 2014
Saturday, November 15, 2014
Wednesday, November 12, 2014
Wednesday, November 5, 2014
*WORDS OF WISDOM* - Ramana Maharshi
16-9-45 Afternoon
A visitor asked, “What should one, who is an absolute beginner, do in this (i.e., spiritual) line?”
Bhagavan: The very fact that you put this question shows you know what to do. It is because you feel the want of peace, that you are anxious to take some steps to secure peace. Because I have a little pain in my foot, I am applying this ointment.
Visitor: What is the method to be adopted for securing peace?
B: The conception that there is a goal and a path to it, is wrong. We are the goal or peace always. To get rid of the notion that we are not
peace is all that is required.
V: All books say that the guidance of a Guru is necessary.
B: The Guru will say only what I am saying now. He will not give you anything you have not already. It is impossible for anyone to get what he has not got already. Even if he gets any such thing, it will go as it came. What comes will also go. What always is will alone remain. The Guru cannot give you anything new, which you have not already. Removal of the notion that we have not realised the Self is all that is required. We are always the Self. Only, we don’t realize it.
Day by Day
Monday, November 3, 2014
*Points to Ponder* - 'The mind cannot seek the mind' - Ramana Maharshi
D.: How to check the mind?
M.: Will a thief betray himself?
Will the mind find itself?
The mind cannot seek the mind.
You have ignored what is real and are holding on to the mind which is unreal and also trying to find what it is. Was there mind in your sleep? It was not. It is now here. It is therefore impermanent. Can the mind be found by you? The mind is not you. You think you are the mind and therefore ask me how it is checked. If it is there it can be checked. But it is not. Understand this truth by search. Search for unreality is fruitless. Therefore seek the reality , i.e., the Self. That is the way to rule over the mind. There is only one thing Real!
(From TALK 238)
Will the mind find itself?
The mind cannot seek the mind.
You have ignored what is real and are holding on to the mind which is unreal and also trying to find what it is. Was there mind in your sleep? It was not. It is now here. It is therefore impermanent. Can the mind be found by you? The mind is not you. You think you are the mind and therefore ask me how it is checked. If it is there it can be checked. But it is not. Understand this truth by search. Search for unreality is fruitless. Therefore seek the reality , i.e., the Self. That is the way to rule over the mind. There is only one thing Real!
(From TALK 238)
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