dd3 mar 21 2022
https://selfdefinition.org/ramana/Ramana-Maharshi-Day-by-Day-with-Bhagavan.pdf
Through bhakti he develops himself, and comes to feel that God alone exists and that he, the bhakta, does not count.
He comes to a stage when he says, ‘Not I, but Thou’. ‘Not my will, but Thy will.’
When that stage is reached,
which is called complete surrender
in the bhakti marga, one finds
Effacement of ego is attainment of Self.
(1) Searching who this ‘I’ was, Soon I found You only standing as the heaven of bliss.
You only, blessed Lord! — (Thayumanavar)
(2) Not knowing who I was, I used to speak of ‘I’ and ‘mine’.
But I am You and mine is You, Lord whom all the gods adore. — (Nammalvar)
That which always IS,
is the reality.
It is peace.
Peace is another name for it.
Question: What is sahaja samadhi?
Answer: It is our svabhava sthiti.
It is being in our natural state.
Nirvikalpa samadhi also means merely giving up our vikalpas.
Samadhi is our natural state, if we give up the vikalpas.
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When you speak of a path, where are you now?
And where do you want to go?
If these are known, then we can talk of the path.
Know first where you are and what you are.
There is nothing to be reached.
You are always as you really are.
But you don’t realise it. That is all.
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'Complete' surrender is another name for jnana or liberation.
Bhagavan said.
“Even that is not correct. For, if we talk of knowing the Self, there must be two Selves, one a knowing Self, another the Self which is known, and the process of knowing.
The state we call realisation is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything.
If one has realised, he is that which alone is and which alone has always been. He cannot describe that state. He can only be that. Of course, we loosely talk of Self realisation, for want of a better term.
How to ‘real-ise’ or make real that which alone is real?
What we are all doing is, we ‘realised’ or regard as real that which is unreal.
This habit of ours has to be given up.
All sadhana under all systems of thought is meant only for this end.
When we give up regarding the unreal as real, then the reality alone will remain and we will be that.”
Through bhakti he develops himself, and comes to feel that God alone exists and that he, the bhakta, does not count.
He comes to a stage when he says, ‘Not I, but Thou’. ‘Not my will, but Thy will.’
When that stage is reached,
which is called complete surrender
in the bhakti marga, one finds
Effacement of ego is attainment of Self.
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Bhagavan further added, “Whatever may be said to suit the different capacities of different men, the truth is,
The state of Self-realisation must be beyond triputis.
The Self is not something of which jnana or ajnana can be predicated.
It is beyond ajnana and jnana.
The Self is the Self.
That is all that can be said of it.”
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Bhagavan:
‘I exist’ is the only permanent, self-evident experience of everyone.
Nothing else is so self-evident (pratyaksha) as ‘I am’.
What people call ‘self-evident’ viz., the experience they get through the senses, is far from self evident.
The Self alone is that.
Pratyaksha is another name for the Self.
So, to do Self-analysis and be ‘I am’ is the only thing to do.
‘I am’ is reality.
I am this or that is unreal.
‘I am’ is truth, another name for Self.
‘I am God’ is not true.
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