"The feeling "I work" is the hindrance. Ask yourself, "Who works?" Remember who you are. Then the work will not bind you; it will go on automatically. Make no effort to either work or renounce; your effort is the bondage. What is destined to happen will happen. If you are destined not to work, work cannot be had even if you hunt for it; if you are destined to work, you will not be able to avoid it; you will be forced to engage yourself in it. So leave it to the Higher Power. You cannot renounce or retain as you choose."
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The mind produces thoughts ceaselessly, even when you do not look at them. When you know what’s going in your mind, you call it consciousness. Your consciousness shifts from sensation to sensation, perception to perception, idea to idea, in endless succession. The mind is like a river flowing ceaselessly in the bed of the body; you identify yourself for a moment with some particular ripple and call it ‘my thought’.
David Godman, a devotee of Ramana Maharishi and a resident of Tiruvannamalai, talks about Mastan Swami, an obscure realised being who Ramana Maharishi said was the most ready to the state of realisation. People come to a guru at various stages, from the immature to the average to the good to the ready. He used to say that wet coal needs more time whereas charcoal catches fire more immediately. "Truth is not a reward for good behaviour, nor a prize for passing some tests. It cannot be brought about. It is the primary, the unborn, the ancient source of all that is. You are eligible because your are. You need not merit truth. It is your own. Just stop running away by running after. Stand still, be quiet." |
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