Realization is nothing to be gained a fresh; it is already there. All that is necessary is to get rid of the thought "I have not realized".
Realization is not acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage. The wrong knowledge is the false identification of the self with the body and the limited mind.
"If the mind is happy, not only the body but the whole world will be happy."
The State of Self-Realization is not attaining something new, or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you have always been. All that is needed is that you give up your realization of the "NOT TRUE" as true. All of us are regarding as real that which is not real. We have only to give up this practice on our part.
The ultimate truth is so simple. It is nothing more than being in the pristine state. This is all that need be said.
When you pray for God's grace you are like some one standing neck-deep in water and yet crying for the water.
The reality which shines fully, without misery, and without a body, not only when the world is known but also when the world is not known is your real form.
There is only one state, that of consciousness or awareness or existence. The three states of waking dream and sleep cannot be real. They simply come and go. The real will always exist.
The ego self (separate self) does not exist at all. The ego self appears and disappears and is transitory whereas the real Self is permanent. Though you are actually the true Self you wrongly identify the real Self with the ego self.
There is no goal to be reached. There is nothing to be attained. You are the Self. You exist always. Nothing more can be predicated of the Self than that it exists.
Seeing God or the Self is only being the Self or yourself. seeing is being. you being the Self, want to know how to attain the Self. It is something like a man being at Ramana's ashram asking how many ways there are to reach Ramana's ashram and which is the best way for him. All that is required of you is to give up the thought that you are this body and to give up all thoughts of the external things or the not-self.
Reality is simply the loss of ego. Destroy the ego by seeking its identity Because the ego is no entity it will automatically vanish and reality will shine forth of itself. This is the direct method, whereas all other methods are done only be retaining the ego. in those paths there arise so many doubts and the eternal question: "Who am I?" remains to be tackled finally. But in this method the final question is the only one and it is raised from the beginning. No sadhanas (spiritual practice) are necessary for engaging in this quest.
There is no greater mystery than this - that being the reality we seek to gain reality. We think that there is something hiding our reality and that it must be destroyed before reality is gained. It is ridiculous. A day will dawn when you will yourself laugh at your past efforts. That which will be on the day you laugh is also here and now.
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