Documentos de Académico
Documentos de Profesional
Documentos de Cultura
one would but seek God or the Guru, one will find
If
that the while they have been seeking the seeker with
all
Man
thinks that the world can be conquered by his
own When he is frustrated externally and is
effort.
"
driven inwards, he feels Oh there is a Power higher !
Conclusion
THE HEART
11
From the
absolute stand-point the Heart, Self or
Consciousness, can have no particular place assigned to
it Because pure Consciousness is indivisible it is with- ;
seat of the I *.
(Self-Enquiry)
Conclusion
II
SELF-ENQUIRY
1. Self -enquiry is the only direct means to realize
the Truth transcending mind and thought.
'
and no one says that in deep sleep, when the body-am-I '
ego or I-am-the-body
'
idea. When the son of man
is crucifiedon the cross, the ego perishes, and what
survives is the Absolute Being. It is the Resurrection of
the Glorious Self, of Christ, the Son of God.
(Maharshi's Gospel, Bh. I)
(Who am I?)
(Self-Enquiry)
One should by all possible means try ever to be aware
of the Self. Everything is achieved if one succeeds in
this. Let not the mind be diverted to any other object.
One should abide in the Self without the sense of
doership even when engaged in work born of destiny.
(Ibid)
Who am
is the only
'
method of
I ?
just like one who wanders all over the world in a dream.
Realising the Self thereafter would only be like the
waking up from one's dream-wanderings.
(Ekatma PanchaJcam)
Knowledge of the Self, which knows all, is Know-
ledge in perfection. (Ibid)
Conclusion
* I
To see God
in all you must think of God. .Keeping
God in your mind becomes dhyana, and dhyana is a
stage before Realization. Realization can only be in and
of the Self, It can never be apart from the Self; and
dhyana must precede it. Whether you practise dhyana
66 THE TEACHINGS OF SRI RAMANA
on God or on the Self, it is immaterial ; for the result is-
II
Through
Atma-vichara one attains Atmanishtha.
(Spiritual Instruction)
68 THE TEACHINGS OF SRI RAMANA
Anyone may take up Atma*vichara % a Brahmachari,
Grihastha, Vanaprastha or Sannyasi, a Sudra or a
woman or any other person fit for it. Brahmackarya is
really enquiry into the nature of Brahman, that is, the
Atman or Self. The strength gained in Brahmacharya
by means of discipline, study and wisdom manifests later
on in splendour. . (Ibid)
you. But the body and its activities, including the work
you do, are not apart from the Self. ( Ibid)
"
Your duty is TO BE, and not to be this or that. I
AM THAT I AM "
sums up the whole truth the ;
*
And what does mean ? It means Destroy
Stillness
*
*
I I
'
the Self.
is
'
I am this
1
I
1
4 '
In fact, there are no others to be helped. For, the
realized being sees only the Self, just as the goldsmith
WORK AND WISDOM 75
Conclusion
It is within the power of every individual to make
the earnest and incessant endeavour to eradicate
the ego the cause of all misery by cancelling all
mental activity born of the ego.
Can obsessing thought arise without the ego, and
can there be illusion apart from such thought ?
(Self-Enquiry)
VI
THE MIND
4
nature.
There are not two minds, one good and the other
evil. Only the vasanas or tendencies of the mind are of
two kinds, good and favourable, evil and unfavourable.
When the mind is associated with the former, it is called
good ; when it is associated with the latter it is called
evil. (Ibid}
not subsist while the senses and the mind are active. It
cannot, therefore, be the ever-existent, natural State.
Due to prarabdha this state of Kevala Nirvikalpa
Samadhi occurs to some with a limited duration, or may
even subsist until death ,'but in any case it cannot be
;