Saturday, August 22, 2015

Find that on which all the rest are superimposed and you then remain as the pure Self.

Devotee:  Which is the best of the different yogas, Karma, Jnana, Bhakti or Hatha?

Ramana Maharishi:  See stanza 10 of “Upadesa Sara”. To remain in the Self amounts to all these in their highest sense.  In dreamless sleep there is no world, no ego and no unhappiness. But the Self remains. In the waking state there are all these; yet there is the Self. One has only to remove the transitory happenings in order to realise the ever-present beatitude of the Self. Your nature is Bliss. Find that on which all the rest are superimposed and you then remain as the pure Self.

Devotee:  Yes. It amounts to the removal of alien limitations for discovering the ever-present Self. That is what Sankara says. There is no attainment or loss.

Ramana Maharishi:   Quite so. 

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