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"I felt, this is not just a clue to return home the way we came, but it subtly indicates, we already in our home, only we peak outside, by putting our heads outside the window."
Dear Sri Nagaraj,
Yes, we are ever what we are looking for. There is One only. Sri Muruganar sings:
In this Kings’s Presence where prevails
Mind-transcending Silence which reveals
One’s own true Self as Siva’s splendour vast,
Seekers of Awareness find at last
Their journey’s end.
Sri Ramana Sannidhi Murai
Again:
What is this “I” that rises from within?
Only a thought that like a bubble floats
Up to the troubled surface of Awareness.
In sleep the sea is still, no bubble rises,
Then too you are and are aware you are.
You are not the “I” that rises and sets,
You are the sole Awareness in the All,
The eternal, uncreated light of Being.
V. 1048, Sri Ramana Sannidhi Murai
Dear Sri Nagaraj, when there is no rise as phenomena, i.e. when there is no rise as jiva or the ego-mind, even then, still, we are aware WE ARE. What is That which remains AWARE ? Why after deep sleep, where no bubble rises, we still feel that our existence is for-ever, we intuitively know that there is no break in our existence? The great clue is there is One Unitary Consciousness and that is the Self-Consciousness.
Dear Sri Nagaraj, it is not for nothing that Sri Bhagwan teaches that one is ever realised. That, in my view, is also a very important clue in Ramana Way.
So, we admit that we exist even in the absence of mind-intellect, say in sleep.
How did we know that we existed even during sleep when there is no rise as the mind-intellect phenomenon, if we have not realised our existence ?
Sri Bhawan says that our very existence is Realisation Itself. We cannot imagine a point of time when we do not exist. Therefore, there is no period of time when Realisation is not.
In my view as in the views of many ardent devotees of Sri Bhagwan, all we need do is not doing anything but ‘Be’. I am already That which we are looking for. Nothing is to be added or gained in Realisation. We need only not put our head outside the widow seeking OURSELVES, as you beautifully said. Just B-E-I-N-G and knowing. There is no question of who and what.
Thank you so much.
Anil