Dear I,
Actually, I was scrolling through so many posts here in this forum, which are really of high quality and are really excellent explanations and great Satsang. I was contemplating and then, (without any offence to anybody) I realised, even these discussions, themselves are in a way deviating one from the direct path of Self Enquiry as guided by Sri Ramana Maharshi.
Whatever knowledge we may gain here, whatever we may try to understand, whatever new stories or even for that matter, the life and day by day with Ramana, how he was, what he did, His Talks, his answers to questions posted by devotees, anything for that matter, what it does is, makes us stay put on that. What we fail to do immediately are the following words of Bhagawan, the only thing Bhagawan wanted everyone to do:
"To whom do these thoughts arise?"
"Whence does the 'I' to which these thoughts come, arise?"
"Who am I"
As a matter of fact, any discussion, is only a hinderance be it even discussing any spiritual topic of great importance, or even the life of Sri Ramana Maharshi as well.
This is purely without any offense meant to anybody here. Its just so very very important to see the truth ourselves, how much we are giving room to Vasanas. Vasanas are not just necessarily only on Bad habbits, or etc... Scriptures even say, that Spirituality itself is a very strong Vasana.
It is so important to raise this question to ourselves, whenever we get any thought - "To whom do these thoughts arise?". more specifically, whenever we are so concentrated in spiritual quest.
Each time, a though comes, we need to question the very thought. We should not get carried away by anything, even not allowing oneself to get carried away on very important topics on Self, or Ramana Maharshi itself. Suppose we get carried away, it becomes a fuel for the thought to carry on. It is so important to not let thought get carried away.
Question the every thought - "To who do these thought arise?" by enquiring like this, one will realise that one need not know any answers at all! Why is there any need to clear any doubt or question in our mind? it is of no relevance at all. It is of absolute inconsequence.
Infact, don't you think, that the success of this forum is solely dependent on our thoughts-force? This forums successful performance gives us such clear statistics about our own thoughts-force. our mind is so powerful. The various tens of thousands of posts in this forum reflect the thoughts within ourselves. Have you all ever questioned "to whom do all these thoughts arise?" (Deeply, meaning no offense to anybody)
There is so much noise here, in the forum, so many thoughts, so quickly, such beautiful posts, the thoughts is conquering so many kingdom and is the emperor here. Don't you all think we need to dethrone this emperor (thoughts) and the only way to do that is to only enquire "to whom to these thoughts arise?"
Question the very need to post, the very need to enquire!
The number of posts here in this forum directly reflects the number of thoughts going on at present in our mind.
This is an honest reflection to I. No offenses meant to anybody.
Salutations to Sri Ramana