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The teachings of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi / Re: Bhagavan Ramana Teachings
« on: March 15, 2016, 01:51:37 PM »
CONSCIOUS IMMORTALITY
Self-Enquiry
Q: Is the analytic process merely intellectual or does feeling predominate?
M: The latter. The personal ?I? is a reflection of the real Self in the mind.
Ask yourself the question, 'Who am I?'. The body and its functions are not 'I'. Enquire further. The senses and their functions are not 'I'.
Going deeper, the mind and its functions are not 'I'.
The next step is the question, 'From where do these thoughts arise??
Thoughts are spontaneous, superficial or analytical. Who is aware of them? Their existence and operations become evident to the individual.
Analysis leads to the conclusion that individuality operates as awareness of the existence of thoughts. This is ego. Enquire further, 'Who is this ?I?? and where does it come from?' Do sleep analysis.
'I? am' underlies the three states ? sleep, waking and dreaming.
After discarding all that is not-Self, we find the residue ? the Self Absolute.
Both world and ego are objective and must be eliminated in the analysis. Eliminating the unreal the Real survives. To accomplish this eliminate the mind, which is the creator of the dualistic idea and of ego. Mind is one form of life ?manifestation. The individual cannot exist without the Self, but the Self can exist without the individual.
Q: Is this method quicker than developing qualities thought to be necessary for salvation?
M: All bad qualities are tied up in the ego. When the ego is gone, realization is self-evident.
p. 91
Self-Enquiry
Q: Is the analytic process merely intellectual or does feeling predominate?
M: The latter. The personal ?I? is a reflection of the real Self in the mind.
Ask yourself the question, 'Who am I?'. The body and its functions are not 'I'. Enquire further. The senses and their functions are not 'I'.
Going deeper, the mind and its functions are not 'I'.
The next step is the question, 'From where do these thoughts arise??
Thoughts are spontaneous, superficial or analytical. Who is aware of them? Their existence and operations become evident to the individual.
Analysis leads to the conclusion that individuality operates as awareness of the existence of thoughts. This is ego. Enquire further, 'Who is this ?I?? and where does it come from?' Do sleep analysis.
'I? am' underlies the three states ? sleep, waking and dreaming.
After discarding all that is not-Self, we find the residue ? the Self Absolute.
Both world and ego are objective and must be eliminated in the analysis. Eliminating the unreal the Real survives. To accomplish this eliminate the mind, which is the creator of the dualistic idea and of ego. Mind is one form of life ?manifestation. The individual cannot exist without the Self, but the Self can exist without the individual.
Q: Is this method quicker than developing qualities thought to be necessary for salvation?
M: All bad qualities are tied up in the ego. When the ego is gone, realization is self-evident.
p. 91